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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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 inventor of the Waffle Iron did not like waffles.
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Jeremy Clarkson once published his bank account number and sort code to prove that the information couldn't be used to steal money. Someone used it to set up a monthly direct debit from his bank account to a charity.
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Kampang School in northeastern Thailand is the first school to open a toilet for transvestite pupils.
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In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
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Club Direct, a travel insurance company in Britain, provides insurance plans for protection from falling coconuts.
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