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 US national public health institute, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has an actual plan in case of zombie invasion.
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Evanston Township High School in Illinois played Justin Bieber's 'Baby' as a fundraiser between classes. Students had to pay to stop it. $1,000 was collected in 3 days.
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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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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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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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