After Germany surrendered in WW2, people in Moscow partied until the entire city actually ran out of vodka.
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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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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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As many as 62% of Iceland's population think it is possible that elves may exist.
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According to a 2014 study, 1 in 10 Americans think HTML is a sexually-transmitted disease.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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