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aux The Irish Potato Famine brought Halloween to the States, and candy is spreading it all over the world
By Mike Vago October 28, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux This Chinese feminist died fighting for revolution just before it finally arrived
By Mike Vago October 21, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux In 1798, the U.S. went to war with France—sort of
By Mike Vago October 14, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux America once took 32 tons of shark fins to court
By Mike Vago October 7, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux The only thing worse than dying on stage is actually dying on stage
By Mike Vago September 30, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux The greatest trick this magician ever pulled was convincing 1900s Europe he wasn’t a dick
By Mike Vago September 23, 2018 | 5:30pm
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aux The Muscogee maintained independence against colonizers for 200 years
By Mike Vago September 16, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Meet the man who might have been the real-life Lone Ranger
By Mike Vago September 9, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux In 1862, a slave hijacked a Confederate ship and became a national hero
By Mike Vago September 2, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux 20 years ago, the world lost a singular comic talent in Phil Hartman
By Mike Vago August 26, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Meet the 19th-century female pirate who launched a thousand (pirate) ships
By Mike Vago August 19, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Forget the Bermuda Triangle—legends speak of a lost ship in the California desert
By Mike Vago August 12, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux 17th-century French Opera’s a lot more fun when the singer also sword-fights
By Mike Vago August 5, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Tomato, ToMacco: Farmers are elevating their crops with vertical farming
By Mike Vago July 29, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux From Calisota to Moosylvania, America has a lot of made-up states
By Mike Vago July 22, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Ghosts are haunting Hollywood
By Mike Vago July 15, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux "Till death do us part" is no obstacle to a posthumous marriage
By Mike Vago July 8, 2018 | 6:00pm
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aux This folkloric animal’s only real-life power is cuteness
By Mike Vago July 1, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Greetings from the UFO zealots who say aliens created life on Earth
By Mike Vago June 24, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Hitler goes west: The secret plans for Nazi America
By Mike Vago June 17, 2018 | 3:30pm
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aux Here’s how we’re trying to get to space without rockets
By Mike Vago June 10, 2018 | 2:00pm
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aux In your face, gravity: A look at the most visionary, ridiculously tall structures
By Mike Vago June 3, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Science finds a way to bring back extinct animals
By Mike Vago May 27, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux An invisible warship is at the center of WWII’s greatest urban legend
By Mike Vago May 20, 2018 | 3:00pm
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aux Penis panic and the mysterious case of the retracting phallus
By Mike Vago May 13, 2018 | 3:00pm