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The hymn Amazing Grace was set to its current tune more than fifty years after it was written. Because it was written in common metre, it can also be sung to Mack the Knife, Sympathy for the Devil, the Pokemon theme, and the Gilligan’s Island theme.
What does an American accent sound like to an Italian? The Italian song Prisencolinensinainciusol will show you.
To win the game Nomic, you need to change the rules so that you can win the game Nomic.
Three American and three German warships spent months in a standoff in Apia Harbour in Samoa. And then a cyclone hit.
Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli once teamed up to steal the Arno river.
In 1850 Jacques-Toussaint Benoît claimed to be able to send messages via telepathically linked snails. He could not.
The Indian mathematician Mādhava was the first to use infinite series to calculate pi, some time around 1400 CE.
In 2006 scientists in Iceland caught a clam that was born eight years after Christopher Columbus sailed to America.
A pendulum clock in Dunedin, New Zealand, has been running for 156 years without being wound.
In the early morning of September 3, 1967, the entire country of Sweden switched from driving on the left to driving on the right.
We all know that Egyptian tombs contained models of servants, boats, and animals to accompany the deceased in the afterlife. But they sometimes also contained model gardens, granaries, bakeries, breweries, stables, and slaughterhouses.
To detect and map enemy planes during World War II, the British Royal Air Force employed a sophisticated network of radar stations, spotters with binoculars, stock market brokers, and a women’s auxiliary with croupier sticks.
You are being followed by a ghost. Put all your valuables in this bag. I’ll bless the bag to banish them. P.S. Don’t open the bag for a month afterwards.
Lewis Carroll’s ninth rule of letter writing was to never cross your letters. But many people did it anyway.
The Austrian dreadnought SMS Viribus Unitis was gifted to Yugoslavia in 1918, and then blown up by an Italian manned torpedo less than a day later.
According to a popular myth, the solution of a 64-piece Tower of Hanoi puzzle will herald the end of the world.
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