stackyFACTSBefore masked vigilantes dominated pop culture, the initial comic book was just a lazy cash grab reprinting Sunday newspaper funnies. They literally just folded broadsheets in half, slapped a price tag on them, and accidentally launched a billion-dollar industry.
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Victor Hugo famously telegraphed his publisher just an exclamation mark to ask about his recent book sales, receiving a single question mark in return.
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Setting a standard for aggressive marketing, a large outdoor poster in 1835 hawked a traveling circus. It proved that if you make a sign large and loud…
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Instead of an urban luxury, wired television began because people living behind large hills couldn't pick up broadcast signals. Local appliance store owners…
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Journalists completely fabricated the legendary Curse of the Pharaohs when Howard Carter discovered the intact tomb of King Tutankhamun in 1922, desperate to…
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The famous 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds supposedly caused massive, nation-wide panic, but what is the incredibly cynical real truth?
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Americans experienced an absolutely massive toilet paper shortage in 1973 directly caused by a joke made by late-night television host Johnny Carson. Humor…
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