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8 Summertime Treats We Should Bring Back

How about some water buffalo milk? Or smoked shoulder clod? Perhaps the best treats to beat the summer heat haven't been around for awhile.

5 Sparkling Facts About Sequins

The fashion staple has ties to King Tut, Leonardo da Vinci, and World War II.

15 Vintage Online Map Collections to Explore

These collections let you explore vintage subway maps, globes from the Enlightenment, and real and imagined worlds.

The Day Jobs of 15 Olympic Athletes

Even sports stars have to pay the bills.

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14 Antique Roller Coasters You Can Still Ride

If you don't mind the creaking and rattling, old-school wooden coasters can still offer a thrill. Here are a few oldies-but-goodies to check out this summer.

15 Obvious Movie Anachronisms

Go home, llamas, you’re on the wrong continent.

15 Lofty Facts About the Sistine Chapel

When Pope Sixtus IV consecrated this chapel on August 15, 1483, Michelangelo's ceiling was still decades away.

10 Soulful Facts About The Commitments

Dublin found its soul 25 years ago with Alan Parker's classic music dramedy.

13 Hitchcock Films That Were Never Made

Even The Master of Suspense didn't always get his way.

10 Things We Learned From a Netflix Employee's AMA

8. Employees get unlimited vacations, but they don't get free Netflix.

11 Heavy Facts About Metallica's 'Black Album'

These facts aren't all sad, but they are all definitely true.

9 Secrets of Coroners and Medical Examiners

No, they don’t work in the middle of the night under a bare, swinging light bulb.

5 People Who Became Famous By Singing Badly

It's more than Florence Foster Jenkins

7 Words That Mean The Opposite Of What They Used To

While 'awesome' was going on its journey from bad to good, 'awful' was going in the opposite direction.

11 Reasons Agatha Christie Was as Interesting as Her Characters

5. In a plot twist worthy of her own novels, Christie disappeared for 11 days in 1926.

11 Stupefying Facts About The Ren & Stimpy Show

Though the series was short-lived by today's standards, it helped usher in a new era for animation in the 1990s and still influences creators to this day.

How 6 of the World's Major Currencies Got Their Names

Why is a dollar called a dollar?

7 Strange Tales From the Wild West

Every time period has its strange stories, and the Wild West is no different—whether it's outlaw corpses or feral camel ghosts.

11 Disappointing Truths About Modern Dating

Presented by Adam Ruins Everything.

The Serial Killer Who Inspired Three Classic Horror Movies

Serial killer Ed Gein was the basis for the villains in three of the horror genre's scariest movies: Psycho (1960), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991).

12 Olympians Who Don't Keep Their Medals in a Sock Drawer

From inside a casket to inside a coffee table, these winners made a different choice.

8 Bizarre Facts About Hieronymous Bosch

The Dutch painter died 500 years ago.

10 Classic Political Insults

The invective and verbal broadsides that have surrounded both the UK’s Brexit referendum and the U.S. Presidential election have grown increasingly harsh as 2016 has gone by—but political insults polemics are nothing new.

8 Facts About Olympic Swimming Icon Rowdy Gaines

Before he was the "Voice of Swimming," Gaines led Team USA to victory.

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