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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Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
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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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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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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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