In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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There's an isolated tribe in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich people'.
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In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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There is a Swedish religion called Kopimism whose sole tenet is that all knowledge should be available to everyone - and thus, using CTRL+C and CTRL+V are sacred acts.
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It would take you a week to watch every episode of "The Simpsons" if each episode ran one after the other without stopping.
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