Of course there's a term for it. There is always a term.

Did you ever repeat a word so many times that it lost all meaning? Of course you have. Everyone has. Anyway, that's called semantic satiation (or any one of a dozen other terms, my favorite of which is word decrement).

In my experience, the most easily-decremented word in English is 'bottle'.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe

200 years ago, if you fell into the water and nearly drowned, you were liable to wake up and find someone blowing smoke up your ass. Literally.

Familial Tragedies

Of the tens (hundreds?) of thousands of British soldiers serving in World War I who had a brother or brothers serving concurrently, there were 267 pairs of brothers who died on the same day as each other.

Fruit Machine

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police were pretty hard on homosexuals back then, eh?

You can't get there (easily) from here.

Unlike most states which draw their waterway-based borders straight down the middle of the river, Delaware owns the entire Delaware River on the uppermost portion of its border with New Jersey. This demarcation was set in 1682, and deeds all territory west of the surveyed low-water mark to belong to Delaware. What makes this interesting is that, due to infill dumped by the Army Corp of Engineers on the Jersey side of the river that extended the beach past the boundary, Delaware now possesses a strip of land 1 km wide that's contiguous with New Jersey. (This interesting phenomenon is known as an exclave.)

Imagine the possibilities. New Jersey has the most expensive car insurance in the country, while Delaware is in ninth place. On the other hand, Delaware has the 7th highest tax per capita, while NJ is 23rd. Here's what you do: First, purchase some waterfront land within the 12 Mile Circle. Then, order a bargeload of gravel. Dump it on the edge of your property. Congratulations! You can now live in New Jersey while parking your car in Delaware!