Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
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According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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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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There is a town in Pennsylvania named Intercourse.
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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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The U.S. Government spent $277,000 on pickle research in 1993.
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