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5 Ways Breweries, Distilleries, and Wineries Outsmarted Prohibition

(via First We Feast) From January 17th, 1920 until December 5th, 1933, the 18th Amendment (a.k.a the Volstead Act) to

(via Atlas Obscura) The Presumpscot River is a 25.8-mile-long waterway that flows through Westbrook, Maine. And it’s now host to

(via Neatorama) Pepsi Cola was originally called “Brad’s Drink” and marketed in Bern, North Carolina in the early 1890’s by

(via Smithsonian) Early motion pictures give us an important window into our collective past.

(via Grunge) Over the centuries, some amazingly talented people have come up with some ridiculously extravagant buildings. They’ve used them

(via Amusing Planet) Shrek was a Merino sheep, belonging to South Island, New Zealand, who gained international fame in 2004

(via Listverse) Considering the enormous size of Greenland, it is surprising how easily most people forget that it even exists.

(via mental_floss) The concrete jungle may be sprinkled with man-made parks and tree-lined streets, but the great outdoors? Not so

(via mental_floss) When King started Carrie, he typed three single-spaced pages, crumpled them up in anger, and dumped them in

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(via Atlas Obscura) Nearly a century after talkies stole the show, composers, musicians, and audiences are still playing along.

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(via Mental Floss) You’ve heard of “con men”—short for confidence men—but what about the con women of the world? Some

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(via Listverse) With the holidays wrapping up here in the Western world, many of us still have our Christmas lights