The Man Who Was Killed By His Own Beard

A 16th-century Dutch mayor named Hans Staininger had the most magnificent face full of whiskers the world had ever seen — a hirsute magnificence that ultimately proved to be his undoing

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27 Awesome (Now Sadly Gone) Things From When You Were A Kid

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27 Awesome (Now Sadly Gone) Things From When You Were A Kid

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Everyone's in a rush to grow up, but what you don't realize is that there are a ton of things that you have to leave behind, when you do. Let's face it, we're all nostalgic for things from our childhood that we miss, and wish were still around. There are activities, entertainment, or actual physical things that are just no longer available to us as adults.

Things like...

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