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Before it became the totally universal greeting for highly relaxed surfers, it was an incredibly bitter insult. It was heavily hurled at deeply fastidious,…
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Age had absolutely nothing to do with this term in its earliest usage. It was purely a heavily classist designation thrown at grown men bound to totally…
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Before it described the kid heavily shoving you into a locker, it was actually intensely romantic. It was widely used as a highly affectionate term equivalent…
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Medieval women who brewed beer wore tall pointy hats and kept cats to protect grain, which heavily inspired the modern cultural depiction of evil witches.…
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Ordering a sandwich on this dark rye bread is linguistically hilarious. The dense loaf was considered so incredibly difficult to digest that its Germanic name…
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Having facial hair that simply hung downward was unacceptable for a proper gentleman. They aggressively applied heavy wax to sculpt their mustaches into…
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