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- ...that the waterways of Oslo, Norway are much like Venice, except that they are open sewers? (pictured)
- ...that while laughter is the best medicine, many cancer patients prefer chemotherapy?
- ...that making a band usually involves frantically begging family and strangers to join?
- ...that bestiality just got 15 percent more legal?
- ...that the Japanese have a saying: "A man cannot read the same Wikipedia page twice"? The pages are constantly being edited, and the act of reading it will make you a different person. Therefore, when a man goes back to re-read it, both the text and the man have been changed.
- ...that the first use of "LOL" is in Shakespeare's play, As You Like It, and that the first use of "OMG" may be found in Macbeth?
- ...that abstinence is only 99.999% effective?
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On this day...
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June 4: International Deserved Child Abuse Victim Day and International Celebrate Yesterday Day
- 1452 – Christopher Columbus outvoted on naming the Santa Maria, "The Shitbag."
- 1776 – Thomas Jefferson asks for first two-week extension on the Declaration of Independence.
- 1863 – Rain causes International Celebrate Yesterday day to be put off until next day; mass confusion results.
- 1900 – John Jefferson of Oak Ridge, PA awakes from forty-year sleep. Dies of asphyxiation inside coffin.
- 1942 – The Battle of Midway begins with a surprise attack on Konami. (pictured)
- 1976 – Americans celebrate bicentennial of Thomas Jefferson asking for his first two-week extension on the declaration of Independence.
- 1980 – Every child abuse offender was released in Texas due to prison overcrowding and a decline in child abuse.
- 1989 – Many young people are gleefully beaten, killed, and abused in the Tiananmen Square massacre.
- 2006 – June 3rd, 2006 is celebrated despite being International Celebrate Tomorrow Day.
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