Disney's first choice to play Jack Sparrow was Jim Carrey.
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In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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Wyoming has only 2 sets of escalators in the entire state.
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Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne sold his 10% share in 1976 for $800. Today, it’s worth over $58 billion.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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In 2006, a woman was found in her London flat, skeletonized, after 3 years of being dead – with the TV still running.
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