TONGUE-IN-CHEEK MOMENTS
Added on: 22nd Jan 2016
WHEN JONATHAN LEE RICHES HEARD THAT THE
GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS WAS GOING
TO LIST HIM AS THE "MOST LITIGIOUS INDIVIDUAL
IN HISTORY" HE SUED THEM. THE LAWSUIT HAS
SINCE BEEN DISMISSED.
NOBODY KNOWS WHO INVENTED THE FIRE HYDRANT
BECAUSE THE BUILDING HOLDING THE PATENT
BURNED DOWN IN 1836
IN 2007 A BOSNIAN COUPLE DIVORCED AFTER THEY
DISCOVERED THAT THEY WERE BOTH HAVING A
SECRET ONLINE AFFAIR WITH EACH OTHER
IN WEBSTER'S 1996 DICTIONARY, 315 ENTRIES
WERE MISSPELT
WAL-MART HAS A LOWER RATE OF ACCEPTANCE
FOR EMPLOYMENT (2.6%) THAN HARVARD UNIVERSITY
FOR UNDERGRADUATES (8.9%)
LEO FENDER, THE INVENTOR OF THE FAMOUS
TELECASTER AND STRATOCASTER GUITARS,
NEVER ACTUALLY LEARNED HOW TO PLAY THE GUITAR
MODERN MATCHES (NOT JUST FLAMMABLE STICKS)
WERE INVENTED AFTER LIGHTERS. JOHN WALKER
INVENTED THE MODERN MATCH IN 1826 WHILE
JOHANN WOLFGANG DOBEREINER INVENTED THE
FIRST LIGHTER IN 1823
SAINT PATRICK, THE PATRON SAINT OF IRELAND,
WAS WELSH
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