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Potatoes Were Pig Feed, Till We Learned How To Cook Them
Bacon and potatoes go great together.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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16 America's Dystopian '50s Housing Now Looks Utopian
'We're better than this,' said the '70s. As with everything, they were wrong.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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10 Facts About Black Theater In The 1800s
Set the stage for Black History Month.
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- By Lily Landau
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14 Facts About Valentines Day That We Just Love
Turns out the guy who beheaded 2 of his wives loves love.
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- By Reba C
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Mounds Candy Had Its Own Anti-Nazi Navy
Germany underestimated them because Mounds is such a lame candybar.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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How Valentine's Day Became All About Candy
$1.8 billion on Valentine's Candy? Really?
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- By Justin Crockett
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The Secret Origins of 11 Childhood Things
Kids things come from some very strange places.
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- By Dana Larsen
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The Military Engineered A Special Chocolate That Tasted Horrible
No, not for the enemy. For their own soldiers.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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13 Historical Coincidences That Are Straight Bananas
Babies were just falling out the sky in 1930's Detroit.
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- By JhallComics, Cracked Writers
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15 Embarrassingly Kooky Details From The World Of Organized Crime
With enough money, you can play Fantasy Football for realsies.
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- By Jay L'Ecuyer
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12 Surprising Superlatives (Through History)
What's the most expensive document? The smallest language?
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- By Shea
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5 Morons Who Made Disasters Worse
Lifejackets should NOT be stuffed with iron.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Strange, Dark Tale Of The Oxford English Dictionary's Creation
By day, the formerly respected surgeon would comb through sentences and curate quotations for the OED. By night, he would “Home Alone” his room with booby-traps.
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- By Zanandi Botes
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22 Incredible Things That Happened A Century Ago In 1922
It brings us no joy to report: history repeats itself.
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- By Zanandi Botes
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The Wildest Holiday In History: Gwyl Mabsant
The Welsh festival of Gwyl Mabsant was a weeklong party complete with gambling and lots of booze.
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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