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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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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In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The starting price was $0.01 AUD and managed to reach $3000 before eBay closed the auction.
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Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.
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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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The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99 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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