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Snack-sized vegetables are a total marketing fabrication. Baby carrots do not grow like tiny perfect cylinders; they are aggressively whittled down from…
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When extreme wealth meets extreme boredom. The French aristocrat decided his pet turtle's shell was too basic, so he had it violently crusted in gold and…
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How did ultra-wealthy Europeans use pineapples in the 1700s to flex on their neighbors?
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Writing about epic journeys is a lot easier when you refuse to actually go on them. He used his massive book royalties to buy three successive luxury yachts,…
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What extremely weird human accessory did wealthy 18th-century landowners hire for their gardens?
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