There's a flower called "Hooker's Lips" that literally looks like a set of hooker's lips.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
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In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph!
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On April Fool's Day in 1977, the UK newspaper The Guardian ran a 7 page feature on the discovery of the fictitious island nation of "San Seriffe."
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Famous billionaire Howard Hughes stored his own urine in large bottles.
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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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Men who kiss their wives in the morning live five years longer than those who don't.
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