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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In the Philippines there's a boy named "Lord Voldemort".
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The male seahorse carries babies and 'gives birth' to them instead of the female.
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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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In Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.
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In 1992, 29,000 rubber ducks washed off a ship. They were found thousands of miles away 8 years later.
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