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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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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There is a city called "Batman" in Turkey.
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If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
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In 1964, in Holland's embassy in Moscow, two Siamese cats kept meowing and clawing at the walls of the building. Their owners finally investigated, thinking they would find mice. Instead, they discovered microphones hidden by Russian spies.
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