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A group in Winnipeg threw a fake Nazi invasion to help raise bonds money. Wow.

There was a town in Florida where people were willingly dismembering themselves to collect insurance money....

A county in Alabama tried to secede during the Civil War; lost luggage goes to Alabama to the Unclaimed Baggage Center and is sold Goodwill-style; the Titanic waws found during a Cold War mission for the Navy; two Soviets probably prevented World War 3; the US almost made it look like Cuba attacked on purpose; we had a plan to invade Canada in 1927; we almost went to war over pigs in the San Juan Islands w/Canada

Tripping on LSD actually helped a pitcher named Ellis pitch a great game. and one guy was responsible for 95% of the US supply of LSD till he got arrested in 2000.

There's another UX group - the Urban eXperiment group made up of criminals among others who secretly fixed the Pantheon clock in Paris and then got in trouble for it. And if you need to hide gold from your Nobel Peace Prize from Nazis, just create an acidic solution to dissolve it.

North Korea has women direct traffic under umbrellas, Take Me Out to the Ballgame was written by guys who's never been to one, and redheads have been found to be more susceptible to pain. Huh