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Nothing gathers a crowd faster than a piece of plaster that appears to be crying. While usually explained by condensation or clever hidden sponges, throngs of…
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Because trees were obviously hollowed-out hotels for helpful deities. Anytime you bragged about your good luck, you had to rapidly punch a nearby log to wake…
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When you're tired of being the holy leader of the Catholic Church, just monetize your exit. After getting bored of his supreme religious duties in 1045,…
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Holy communion was evidently slacking, so the papacy turned to hard narcotics for spiritual energy. Vin Mariani was a widely popular 19th-century tonic…
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The meaning of words can devolve drastically over a few centuries. The term 'gossip' comes from the Old English 'godsibb,' which meant a godparent or a deeply…
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Imagine thinking a beverage could send you to hell. When coffee first arrived in Europe, panicked clergymen labeled it the 'bitter invention of Satan' because…
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