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Are snipes real? Discover the truth behind the bird, the bizarre tradition of snipe hunting, and why this classic prank has fooled generations.
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Franklin’s Cure for Injustice
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Lighting Strikes Much More than Twice at This Skyscraper
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How Many Cigarette Butts and Rat Hairs Would you Like With Your Meal?
Read more: How Many Cigarette Butts and Rat Hairs Would you Like With Your Meal?The FDA Defect Levels Handbook might be the most effective diet book in existence. It spells out just how much mold, rot, parasites, bugs, and other contamination can legally be found in the things you eat. What’s that? You’d rather not have any of those things in your food? If that is the case, you might want…
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Does This Look Like the Face of a Guy Who Paid a Wizard $500 to Make Him Invisible So He Could Rob Banks Undetected?
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Edison on Success
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Melodious Meandering Through Mystifying Musical Muses
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The Great Bonsai Kitten Hoax
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Your Body is a Planet for Lots of Life Forms
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Thinking About the Hereafter
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This Just In: Nothing Happening Today
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The Snowflake the Size of a Hubcap
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The Kettle War of 1784: How One Shot Spilled More Soup Than Blood
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Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin
Read more: Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette ColvinIt was 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. The young African-American woman was seated on a segregated bus, when she was told to give up her seat for a white passenger. She refused and was promptly arrested. If this story sounds familiar to you, and you think you are reading about Rosa Parks, think again. This incident…
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The Worst Kind Of Heart Trouble
Read more: The Worst Kind Of Heart Trouble“If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” — Bob Hope Read more fun facts about Bob Hope. Learn how an act of charity led to one of history’s greatest paradoxes.
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A Good Housekeeper Is Worth Her Weight in … Disney Stock
Read more: A Good Housekeeper Is Worth Her Weight in … Disney StockBy all accounts, Thelma Pearl Howard was a woman of modest means. She died on June 10, 1994, just 16 days short of her 80th birthday. Her closest friends and family thought the most interesting thing about Thelma was the thirty years she served as housekeeper to Walt Disney. They never imagined that she was…
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A Buttload is an Actual Unit of MeasurementFebruary 5, 2020
