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Carlos Castaneda faked an anthropology classic, then built a cult

Carlos Castaneda's 1968 don Juan books sold as anthropology and fooled Lennon and Lucas. Time exposed the hoax in 1973.

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In 1985, a Japanese woman wrote a letter about bookstores making her need to use the bathroom. It became a phenomenon

In 1985, Mariko Aoki wrote to a Japanese magazine about her bookstore bathroom problem. The magazine got so many responses that they named the phenomenon after her.

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A new book, Poking the Squid, tells the scandalous, salacious truth about animal sex, in comics form

In colorful, funny, and appealing comics, Perrin Roosevelt Ireland's new book Poking the Squid describes the incredible, diverse array of sexual behaviors and anatomies in the animal kingdom.

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