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People In Different Countries Can Have Very Different Dreams

There Was A Time When Some People Thought Being Understood On The Phone Was Feminine

Before She Became The Most Famous Gal In Malibu, Barbie Grew Up In Wisconsin

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Saturday Night Live Did A Special In New Orleans, And It Got Complicated

Anything can happen on live TV - sometimes anything can NOT happen too.

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Joe Frazier Was A Legendary Athlete, But A TV Athletic Competition Didn’t Go Swimmingly Well For Him

This was a very different version of “down goes Frazier!”

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Elm Farm Ollie, The Cow Who Once Flew Over St. Louis

This is why people use the phrase “when pigs fly,” not “when cows fly.”

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One Tournament Chess Game, Twenty Hours, No Winner

Today in 1989, two players in a chess tournament faced off… and set a record for the longest tournament chess match of all time.

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There’s A Set Of Giant President Heads In Virginia And They’ve Been Through Some Stuff

Those heads have definitely had a rough go of it.

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A Painting Chimpanzee Posed As A Modern Artist Named Pierre Brassau

The talk of the art world was an exciting avant garde painter named Pierre Brassau, except that Pierre Brassau was a big old hoax.

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Drummer Hal Blaine Literally Left His Stamp On Popular Music

One drummer played on over 350 of the biggest hit records of the 1960s and 70s.

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Shock Rocker Alice Cooper Was Good Friends With Comedy Legend Groucho Marx

They were two celebs from two different generations, but actually had a lot in common.

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Fred The Cat Went Undercover To Catch A Fake Veterinarian In Brooklyn

He made headlines all over the world for the first ever cat-based sting operation.

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Rosa Slade Gragg Outsmarted Detroit’s Racial Housing Rules, With A Workaround On A Corner Lot

A Black leader in Detroit found a way around housing rules that tried to keep her from using her own property.

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