In the 1830s, a Greek prime minister tried to spread the potato in Greece but people weren't interested so he put armed guards in front of shipments of potatoes so people would think they were important. People then started stealing these potatoes so much that the crop spread to all of Greece.
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Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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There is a city called "Batman" in Turkey.
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Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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There's a children's book titled "Where Willy Went" detailing the adventures of a sperm.
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In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, some Microsoft employees left a giant "From the IE team... We Love You" on Netscape's lawn.
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