The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
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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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McDonald's did away with its spoon-shaped coffee stirrers because people were using them as cocaine spoons.
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A poll has found that computer 'nerds' make the best lovers, with 82 percent of IT geeks claiming they put their partner's pleasure above their own.
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One in three snake bite victims is drunk. One in five is tatooed.
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The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.
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In 1974, prankster Porky Bickar was so into April Fools, he flew hundreds of tires into a dormant volcano in Alaska and set them on fire - fooling the local populace and coast guard into thinking the volcano was active.
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