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 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The starting price was $0.01 AUD and managed to reach $3000 before eBay closed the auction.
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In 2005, a man named Ronald MacDonald robbed Wendy's.
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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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