Colorado switched mile marker "420" to "419.99" to stop people from stealing it.
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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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Author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A-level English exam about one of his own novels, Enduring Love. The teacher disagreed with his interpretation.
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Take your height and divide by eight. That's how tall your head is!
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One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
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Critic Michael Crowley gave such a poor review of one of author Michael Crichton's books that, in his next book, Crichton made a character 'Mick Crowley' who was a child molester with a small penis.
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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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