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A Deaf Football Team Invented the Huddle—Then Stopped Using It

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A Deaf Football Team Invented the Huddle—Then Stopped Using It

11 Things You Should Know About Rosh Hashanah

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11 Things You Should Know About Rosh Hashanah

100 Fascinating Facts About Earth

The best Spaceball.

100 Fascinating Facts About Earth

San Pedro, California Is Home to the Country’s Only Volunteer-Run Post Office

A vintage postcard of San Pedro, California.

San Pedro, California Is Home to the Country’s Only Volunteer-Run Post Office

15 Mysterious Facts About Agatha Christie

British mystery author Agatha Christie autographing French editions of her books in 1950.

The Grandson of Warren G. Harding's Mistress Wants to Prove His Presidential Lineage—By Exhuming Harding's Body

Warren G. Harding looking dapper in June 1920.

President John Tyler's Grandsons Are Still Alive

John Tyler by James Reid Lambdin, 1841

The Civil War Beginnings of America’s Absentee Ballots

An 1864 illustration by William Waud of Union soldiers voting in Pennsylvania.

September 11th and the Hospitable People of Gander, Newfoundland

By Shawn from Airdrie, Canada - Gander, Newfoundland, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Columbus Day 2020: What’s Open? What’s Closed?

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Criminal Ring: How Muhammad Ali's 1970 Comeback Led to a Big-Money Heist

Muhammad Ali makes a prediction of how many rounds it will take for him to win an upcoming fight scheduled for June 1963. He was right.

The Making of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

Kurt Cobain performing with Nirvana in Amsterdam in 1991.

Weekend at Errol Flynn’s: When John Barrymore’s Friends Stole His Corpse From the Morgue for One Last Prank

They did what? —John Barrymore

11 Elections Decided by One Vote (Or Fewer)

Every vote really does matter.

19 Podcasts That Will Get You in the Mood for Halloween

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The 1851 Christiana Resistance: The Forgotten First Shots of the Civil War

The 1851 Christiana Riot put the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 on trial.