In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The starting price was $0.01 AUD and managed to reach $3000 before eBay closed the auction.
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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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In 2012, a Chinese gamer's father was so concerned about his son's habit, he hired virtual hitmen to kill off his avatar.
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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
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In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing 6mph!
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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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