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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Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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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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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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Over 1,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
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