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The Russian word for "nightmare" (Кошмар) looks like "kowmap" to the eye untrained to read Cyrillic.
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The word ‘oxymoron’ is itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek where ‘oxy’ means ‘sharp’ and ‘moros’ means ‘stupid’.
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The guy who played Michael Myers in Halloween is also the Director of The Last Starfighter.
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Fun fact: Harold Faltermeyer composed the soundtrack to the '80s.
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These guys helped:

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Roald Dahl's "The Witches" is banned in many American libraries...... on the grounds that it promotes sexism.
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It's not banned in Alabama. Because, well, you know.
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The children there really do smell of dogs mess?
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Making cornflakes is highly dangerous as corn is explosive!
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The Danish word for tax is skat.

Skat in Danish can also mean honey.

The Danish phrase for taxman translates literally as Tax Daddy.

So when you are paying your taxes in Denmark, you are giving your honey to the skat daddy.
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This continues to be my go-to image for that joke:

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It's the one I considered buying a few times while I was in Germany for the 2006/2007 academic year. I like that it's "Ass," and I like that it's "2.0."
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Those crazy German mofo's!!!
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George Crum claims to have invented the 'crisp' - but a recipe in a UK cook book from 50 years before Crum claimed the invention says this is bullshit.
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That guy sounds like a real Skat-Ass.
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(I decided to edit my original post. What you see above is Version 2.0.)
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He's a honey ass? Or a tax ass?
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I'm not sure. I do know, however, that if you're gonna play in Tax Ass, you gotta have a fiddle in the band. That lead guitar is hot, but not for a Louisiana man.
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You want to fiddle my skat ass like the tax daddy? How dare you!
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Which country is the highest user / consumer (per capita) of gay pornography?

The home of modern pr0n, the USA? Very liberal Holland? Notoriously uptight and repressed Britain?

No - it is fundamentalist Islamic state of Pakistan, where homosexuality gets you locked up for life or worse!!

Well, well, well!!!!
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Source?
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Presentation I was at today on digital stuff. Some amusing internet facts before we got down to the nitty gritty.
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Only three countries in the world don't use the metric system. Liberia, Myanmar and the USA. And Myanmar is converting.
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In Iceland they give each other clothes at Xmas because clothes stop you getting eaten by the Yule Cat.
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