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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In Japan, it is tradition for husbands to get a monthly allowance from their wives.
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Over the whole Twilight saga, there are over 24 minutes of just staring.
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In Ancient Greece, small penises were desirable, and big ones were for ‘old men and barbarians’
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When a massive power outage struck southern California in the 1990s, Los Angeles residents reportedly called 911 to express alarm about strange clouds hovering overhead; they were seeing the Milky Way for the first time.
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There is a city called "Batman" in Turkey.
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The handbook issued to US soldiers in Britain during WW2 included the line "The British don't know how to make a good cup of coffee. You don't know how to make a good cup of tea. It's an even swap."
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A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
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