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To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created the World’s Worst Sandwich

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(via Atlas Obscura) It was everywhere at the turn of the 20th century. It was also inedible.

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(via Atlas Obscura) A photographer captured their flickers of life.

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(via Uber Facts) King Tut, or Tutankhamun, was only 10 years old when he became Pharaoh of Egypt. His young

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(via mental_floss) In 1933, a student at the University of California named Bob Switzer fell and hit his head. He

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(via Mental Floss) On Tuesday, April 30, actor Peter Mayhew—the actor who played Chewbacca for more than three decades—passed away

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(via Mental Floss) Willie Nelson is one of the world’s most accomplished musicians—and not just in the country music world.

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(via Listverse) Despite people traveling thousands of miles across the world to set eyes on a monument, there might be

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(via Smithsonian) Two decades before the first American woman flew to space, a group of female cosmonauts trained in Star

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(via Mental Floss) Although Progresso is now known for its selection of canned soups, the company got its start by

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(via Listverse) April 1 marks the day when pranksters come out of the woodwork for an annual joke fest. Young

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(via Atlas Obscura) A Byzantine trash heap reveals the slow decline of a desert culture.

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(via Mental Floss) What makes a great TV series finale? It depends on the show, of course. But no matter