The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
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30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
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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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Omar bin Laden (Osama's son) was denied citizenship in Britain in 2007 because "Omar failed to provide his father's permanent address".
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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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A group of officers is called a mess.
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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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