Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
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Sergeant Stubby was the only war dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat in WWI. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him.
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A man sued Bank of America for erroneously foreclosing on his home and won. When they didn’t pay the fees, he foreclosed their bank.
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The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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