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TIL of Mary Tofts who successfully tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. OK, the year was 1726, and it was in the darker regions of England, but even the surgeon to the Royal Household of King George I fell for it. Nonetheless, rabbit stew was off most tables for a time

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XDn8 TIL of Michael Cameron, a student of Greenbrier High School (in 1998) who was suspended for wearing a Pepsi shirt on Coke day.
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