| | Japanese long-distance runner Kimo Nakajimi entered the London Marathon in 1983 but got confused by a translation of the rules and thought he had to run for 26 days, not 26 miles. He was discovered, after the race was well over, out running in the English countryside. |
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| | The fashion designer Alexander McQueen claims to have written a profanity in pen onto a jacket belonging to Prince Charles when he was working as a Saville Row tailor. |
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| | On the North Atlantic island of San Serriffe, the locals hold the festival of the Well Made Play during which they perform the complete works of playwright William Douglas-Home in English, Caslon, and Ki-flong (languages of the island). |
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| | | True |
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| | Burger King introduced a new a "left-handed Whopper" in the US in 1998 designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. The new burger had the same ingredients as the original but all the condiments were rotated 180 degrees. |
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| | Telescopes belonging to the Chicago Times discovered a penal colony on the moon in 1876. |
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| | It emerged earlier this year that elephants have hitherto unheralded powers to mimic sounds, including birds, and nearby traffic. |
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| | | April fool |
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| | Swiss farmers enjoyed a particularly good spaghetti crop from the country's spaghetti trees in 1957. |
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| | | April fool |
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| | The German architect Albert Speer designed buildings for the Nazis so that they would leave aesthetically pleasing ruins. |
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| | The Wisconsin state capitol building was destroyed in 1933 by a series of mysterious explosions. The Madison Capital-Times reported at the time that the explosions were attributed to "large quantities of gas, generated through many weeks of verbose debate in the Senate and Assembly chambers". |
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| | | April fool |
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