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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In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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Author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A-level English exam about one of his own novels, Enduring Love. The teacher disagreed with his interpretation.
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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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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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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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