Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
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In response to the moral panic surrounding violent video games, Penn & Teller released “Desert Bus,” for the Sega Cd. In the game you drive a bus from Tuscon to Las Vegas in a straight line for 8 hours.
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The Yo-Yo originated as a weapon in the Philippine Islands during the sixteenth century.
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Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.
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The U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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