April 2011
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Neuticles →
Neuticles are prosthetic testicular implants for neutered dogs and other domestic animals. As of September 2007, more than 240,000 pairs of the patented product had been sold, in all 50 U.S. states and 49 countries.
Apr 29th
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CSX 8888 incident →
The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, involved an unmanned runaway train led by CSX Transportation locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, that was pulling a freight train consisting of 47 cars, some of them loaded with Molten Phenol, a highly explosive and largely toxic chemical. The train ran uncontrolled for two hours at speeds up to 51 miles per hour (82 km/h) through...
Apr 27th
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Apr 22nd
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Pimp tax →
Pimp Tax is an informal but widespread term for a piece of United States Congress tax legislation introduced to the Senate Finance Committee on June 28, 2006 by Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa. According to Grassley, the bill is intended to curb sex trafficking and sex slavery in the United States by means of strict enforcement of tax laws, for example by requiring a W-2 form be filed...
Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 19th
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions →
Apr 18th
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List of Lists of Lists →
(submitted by Fruit Of The Loin)
Apr 14th
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Apr 13th
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Apr 12th
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List of Possibly Living People →
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 10th
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List of Internet phenomena →
Apr 9th
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Apr 8th
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Last meal requests by notable prisoners →
Clarence Ray Allen requested buffalo steak, Kentucky Fried Chicken, sugar-free pecan pie and sugar-free black walnut ice cream. Donald Snyder gained over 150 pounds in an unsuccessful bid to be unable to fit in the electric chair. He requested pork chops and eggs “and plenty of ‘em!”. James Edward Smith requested a lump of dirt, which was denied. He settled for a small cup...
Apr 8th
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Taco Liberty Bell →
The Taco Liberty Bell was an April Fool’s Day joke played by fast food restaurant chain Taco Bell. On April 1, 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in seven leading U.S. newspapers announcing that they had purchased the Liberty Bell to “reduce the country’s debt” and renamed it the “Taco Liberty Bell”. Thousands of people protested before it was...
Apr 1st
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Google's April Fool's Day hoaxes →
2000: Google announced a new “MentalPlex” search technology that supposedly read the user’s mind to determine what the user wanted to search for, thus eliminating the step of actually typing in the search query. 2004: Fictitious job opportunities for a research center on the moon. 2006: Google Romance was announced on the main Google search page with the introduction,...
Apr 1st
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