The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
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In response to the moral panic surrounding violent video games, Penn & Teller released “Desert Bus,” for the Sega Cd. In the game you drive a bus from Tuscon to Las Vegas in a straight line for 8 hours.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
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For Valentine's Day 2014, an unnamed man sabotaged a special screening of "Beijing Love Story" at a Shanghai cinema by booking every other seat, subsequently preventing couples from sitting together.
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