White Coke was a colorless, unlabeled variant of Coca-Cola developed to look like vodka for Soviet Marshall Zhukov, who was introduced to Coke by Dwight Eisenhower during WWII but did not want to be seen drinking a symbol of American imperialism during the Cold War.
2903 Engagement ring-The “tradition” of spending several months’ salary on an engagement ring was a marketing campaign created by De Beers in the 1930's. Before WWII, only 10% of engagement rings contained diamonds. By the end of the 20th Century, 80% did.
3456 Spain Paralympic Cheating-Spain cheated in the 2000 Summer Paralympics. 10 of the 12 players on their roster “were encouraged to pretend to be stupid” and had no mental disability.
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3044 Wisdom Albatross-Wisdom, a 64 year old Albatross has flown over 3 million miles since being tagged. She continues to lay eggs and, despite belonging to a monogamous species, has more than likely had to find a new mate due to her unusual longevity.
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1121 Piru Singh
3567 Einstein-When Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”
The day after 9-11, the Queen broke a 200 year old tradition and ordered the US National Anthem to be played during the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace.
2873 Wanksy-A man in the United Kingdom was so fed up that his city wasn’t repairing potholes that he went and spray painted penises on them, earning him the nickname “Wanksy.”
