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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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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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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The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
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There's a flower called "Hooker's Lips" that literally looks like a set of hooker's lips.
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One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
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