There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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If you put two straws in your mouth, one inside a drink and one outside it, you won't be able to drink through either straw.
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In Poland, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has just been granted permission to register as a religion.
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Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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