According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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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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In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
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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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