There is a village in Ireland called Muff, and they have their own diving club.
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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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The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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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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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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For Valentine's Day 2014, an unnamed man sabotaged a special screening of "Beijing Love Story" at a Shanghai cinema by booking every other seat, subsequently preventing couples from sitting together.
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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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