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All good things came out at the Columbian Expo – Hershey chocolate, Juicy Fruit gum, Pabst Blue Ribbon… you name it!
Emperor Nero’s Golden Palace had a room with a rotating ceiling that dropped perfume and rose petals down on its inhabitants
Cash in the Attica: Archaeologists discover ancient Athens stored all of its money in the ROOF of the Parthenon
Here’s why men’s and women’s clothes button on different sides
The Hans Island “liquor wars” between Canada and Denmark may be the cutest dispute in history
Vietnamese police confiscate vast gemstone discovered by farmer
Emma Nutt – The world’s first female telephone operator
Back to the future – In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell invented the photophone, the world’s first device for wireless communications
Adrian Carton de Wiart – shot in the head, stomach, face, ankle, hip, leg and ear. He said he enjoyed the war!
The sad life of William Chester Minor – one of the largest contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary who was held in a lunatic asylum for murder at the time
