Jeremy Clarkson once published his bank account number and sort code to prove that the information couldn't be used to steal money. Someone used it to set up a monthly direct debit from his bank account to a charity.
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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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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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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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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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There's a flower called "Hooker's Lips" that literally looks like a set of hooker's lips.
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