A surfer once sued another surfer for "stealing his wave." The case was thrown out because the court was unable to put a price on "pain and suffering" endured by the surfer watching someone else ride "his" wave.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

In eighteenth-century English gambling dens, there was an employee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

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