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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Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!
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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 Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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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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According to statistics, Australian women are most likely to have sex on the first date.
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Twenty nine percent of women spend more time shopping for shoes than they do looking for a life long mate.
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