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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

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.

Peanuts was not supposed to be named Peanuts according to Schulz who wanted to call it Lil Folks. He also replaced a character early on called Charlotte Braun with Lucy. And there's a society of forensic professionals that meets once a month to try to solve cold cases called the Vidocq Society.

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