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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40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
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In Japan, it is completely acceptable to name your child "Buttocks" or "Prostitute".
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Critic Michael Crowley gave such a poor review of one of author Michael Crichton's books that, in his next book, Crichton made a character 'Mick Crowley' who was a child molester with a small penis.
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The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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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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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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