The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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Peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite.
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A group of officers is called a mess.
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Students at the John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero, making it the highest grade and thereby getting 100%.
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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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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