These People Followed Instructions A Bit Too Literally

That Was Easy

Wow, no one said how simple this essay test would be! Really, though, this teacher was cruising for a bruising with this sentence. There wasn't even a prompt attached to this demand! I hope the student kept it.

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The More You Know

  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
  • A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body.
  • The "Like" button on Facebook was supposed to be the "Awesome" button.
  • "E" is the most common letter and appears in 11 percent of all english words.
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