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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More than ten people a year are killed by vending machines.
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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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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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McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
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The inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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