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18 Airports Named After People (Including a Cartoonist)

If you're doing any air travel this winter, chances are you'll end up spending quite a bit of time sitting in airports. During those layovers, your mind may wander.

10 Infamous Womanizers

From Casanova to ... Castro? These ten men really knew how to charm the ladies.. Some are quite obvious, some quite not.. Check them out!

Some Boxy Facts for Boxing Day!

Happy Boxing Day to those Flossers who celebrate it! On a more generic box-ing note, we've packaged a few boxy facts for your consideration: Crate

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11 Laws Named After People

Whether it's by writing the law yourself or by falling victim to tragic circumstances that result in a law being created to save others from your fate, it takes a lot for a person to get their name on a piece of legislation. With that in mind, let's take

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4 Utopian Communities That Didn't Pan Out

Here are four "perfect" communities that whizzed and sputtered thanks to human nature.

10 Famous Color Blind People

In Little Miss Sunshine, Dwayne finds out he's color-blind and can't achieve his lifelong dream of becoming a jet pilot. However, here's 10 people that were able to still achieve their dreams despite being color-blind.

Belladonna or deadly nightshade: Pretty but poisonous

5 Classic Poisons and the People Who Used Them

Long before modern industries developed the cleaning products, industrial solvents, and drugs that can kill when misused, people used simple plants to murder each other.

7 Famous Hoarders

Thought you had trouble letting things go? For these people, it's more than just trouble, it is life consuming

10 Smurfy Facts About The Smurfs

Though most people tend to think of the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon series or the later live action films when they hear "The Smurfs," those little blue characters were first introduced in 1958, in a Belgian comic book series created by the famed artis

The Quick 10: 10 of America's Most Haunted Cemeteries

I live just across the street from a cemetery, and this time of year it's certainly not hard to creep myself out a little bit when walking the dogs after work - especially in the evening when the sun is sinking below the horizon, giving everything an eeri

11 Offbeat College Essay Topics

As high school seniors across the country are hard at work on their college applications, let's take a look at some of the stranger questions those wacky admissions officers have

9 Famous College Dropouts

Conventional wisdom tells us that a college degree will get you much further than only a high school diploma. But what about those who choose to cut out while pursuing their higher educations and go it alone, free from the constraints of academia?

18 Memorable Ad Questions

Ad slogans and taglines generally come to us in the form of a declaration. But seriously, what would you do for a Klondike bar?

4 People With Super Memory

What if you finished reading this article and remembered every detail of it for the rest of your life?

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11 Colleges That Changed Their Mascots

It seems anything, including trees, can become a mascot. With the start of college football season, we thought it might be interesting to take a look back at a few colleges who have changed their nicknames or mascots.

5 Unusual Drive-Through Spots

A burger and fries aren't the only items you can find on the go.

10 Secret Menu Items From Fast Food Restaurants

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to seek out covert items at fast food chains around the country. Be warned, this mission includes very real dangers such as hardening arteries and skyrocketing cholesterol. But we know you won't let us down.

5 Fascinating Facts About Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov, the author of such masterpieces as 'Lolita' and 'Pale Fire,' was also an expert on butterflies who inadvertently helped give Luciano Pavarotti a career boost.

13 Bizarre Stipulations in Wills

News outlets reported this week that legendary broadcaster Walter Cronkite never amended his will to include Joanna Simon, who had been his girlfriend for the last four years of his life. Cronkite's daughter said the newsman never planned to leave Simon,

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The Top 20 Jewish Comedians of All-Time

It was hard to pick just 20.

5 Things You Didn't Know About Johnny Unitas

The NFL preseason's in full swing, but instead of handicapping battles for backup QB jobs, let's take a look at five things you might not know about one of the greatest signal callers of all time: Johnny Unitas.

6 Famous Folk Who Once Drove Taxis

In some cities, driving a taxi is considered an important, valued, even elevated vocation. Sometimes those cabbies become famous.

13 Former Ad Men Who Found Fame in Other Fields

Let's take a look at some real life Don Drapers who went on to find fame in other fields. Here are a few famous folks who got their starts penning slogans and writing jingles.

9 People Who Made a Fortune During the Depression

Even during the worst economic downturn in modern U.S. history, some folks still knew how to make a buck—many bucks, in fact.

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