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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The average person spends three years of his or her life on a toilet.
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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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Donkeys are commonly used by the Iraqi Rebels to launch rockets!
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Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.
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More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
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A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
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