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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A group of officers is called a mess.
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Students at the John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero, making it the highest grade and thereby getting 100%.
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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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The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
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One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
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There is a village in Ireland called Muff, and they have their own diving club.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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