Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!
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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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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
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