Category: HISTORY

May 23, 2022 at 2:16 am

Here’s Why Those Creepy, Long-Beaked Doctor Masks Were Created In The First Place

Here's Why Those Creepy, Long-Beaked Doctor Masks Were Created In The First Place

It all had to do with thinking “bad air” caused sickness.

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May 20, 2022 at 2:32 am

10 Little-Known Facts About The U.S. Postal Service

10 Little-Known Facts About The U.S. Postal Service

I bet you never thought you’d know this about your mail.

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May 6, 2022 at 5:31 pm

10 People Who Literally Didn’t Know the Titanic Was A Real Ship

10 People Who Literally Didn’t Know the Titanic Was A Real Ship

How do these people function?

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May 6, 2022 at 12:15 pm

Meet Benjamin Banneker, The Black Mathematician Who Helped Design Washington D.C.

Meet Benjamin Banneker, The Black Mathematician Who Helped Design Washington D.C.

A variety of parks, schools, awards, streets, businesses, and other facilities in Maryland and Washington D.C. bear his name.

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April 18, 2022 at 4:26 pm

TV Dinners Helped Change How Women Spent Time at Home

TV Dinners Helped Change How Women Spent Time at Home

An invention that had many more implications than anybody ever expected.

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April 12, 2022 at 8:16 am

12 Things Millennials Probably Haven’t Thought About for a While

12 Things Millennials Probably Haven’t Thought About for a While

Remember these?

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March 28, 2022 at 3:19 pm

7 Things Most People Don’t Know About McDonald’s

7 Things Most People Don’t Know About McDonald’s

McDonald’s has been such a big part of the American landscape for so many years that it can be hard to measure its impact. Today we’re going to dive into another aspect of the fast food franchise: the unusual facts that most people don’t know about the iconic company. 1. A different start. McDonald’s is…

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March 14, 2022 at 12:31 am

Take a Look at the Largest Known Early Map of the World

Take a Look at the Largest Known Early Map of the World

When he was in his forties, a 16th-century Italian man named Urbano Monte was determined to make a map of the entire world that was as three-dimensional as possible. Monte originally wanted to have 60 different components stitched together to make one enormous map. Map collector David Rumsey digitized Monte’s project so the whole world…

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January 20, 2022 at 12:59 am

8 Interesting Facts About Money That Are Worth The Read

8 Interesting Facts About Money That Are Worth The Read

Is money the root of all evil? Maybe…but one time I found $20 in my coat at the beginning of winter, and that was pretty awesome. Money brings you facts and buys me food – but it can also totally make things weird. Here are 8 crazy facts related to money. Take a look! 1.…

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January 20, 2022 at 12:28 am

Interesting Theory Proposes the Salem Witch Trials Could Have Been Caused by a Fungus

Interesting Theory Proposes the Salem Witch Trials Could Have Been Caused by a Fungus

The Salem Witch Trials still loom large in American history. They took place in Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than two hundred people were accused of being witches, and 30 of them were found guilty. 19 people were eventually hanged. There are a lot of theories about how the trials came to…

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