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General Ne Win of Myanmar changed the country from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right-hand side, due to fears the nation had moved politically too far left.

In 1977, a woman named Maria Rubio in New Mexico saw a burn mark in her tortilla that looked like the face of Jesus. She then built and ran the "Shrine of the Miracle Tortilla" until 2006 when the tortilla was dropped and broken during show-and-tell at a local elementary school.

Ruth Graves Wakefield, the woman who invented chocolate chip cookies sold the idea to Nestlé in return for a lifetime supply of chocolate.

The parliament of Iceland, the Althing, is the oldest surviving parliament in the world, having been founded in 930.

There is a soccer team named Athletic Bilbao in Spain that since 1912 has only signed players who were born or raised in the Basque Country (where less than 7% of Spain's population live). Despite that, the team is one of the most successful teams in Spain and is one of the only teams never to be relegated.

About 70,000 years ago, a nomadic star came within 1 light-year of the Sun and research suggests this close pass sent dozens of comets and asteroids tumbling out of our solar system.

By the 12th Century, 21 different churches claimed to possess Jesus Christ's foreskin. The Pope was eventually called upon to decide which one was authentic.

British Parliament had an official discussion where they condemned the historical inaccuracies of the film U-571 and the rewriting of history to paint the Americans as heroes in an event they never even took part in. They felt it was unfair on the British sailors that lost their lives.

Expensive "crystal" from prestigious brands like Waterford, Swarovski, and Lalique is basically merely lead oxide-based glass. Depending on the year and manufacturer of your crystal, lead ingestion is a possibility.

After childbirth, some mothers choose to consume the placenta, using methods like consuming it raw in a smoothie, incorporating it into dishes like lasagna, stew, spaghetti, or pizza, or dehydrating it and making it into a pill.