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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Gary Kremen, founder of match.com, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.
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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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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 U.S. has more bagpipe bands than Scotland does.
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40% of women have hurled footwear at a man.
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Each year, there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.
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The dildo was invented at least 22,000 years before the wheel.
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