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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Chainsaws were derived from a tool originally intended to help deliver babies
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Obsessive nose picking is called Rhinotillexomania.
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For most people, no matter how hard you pinch the skin on your elbow with your fingers it doesn't hurt.
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It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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When you shave a guinea pig it looks like a little hippo.
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In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her adulterous husband, but may only do so with her bare hands. (The husband's lover, on the other hand, may be killed in any manner desired.)
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On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
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