McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
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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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To sell your home faster, and for more money, paint it yellow.
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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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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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Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates.
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The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
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