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In many cases, you can predict the color of an egg based not on the hen's feather coloring, but by their earlobe coloring.

Kate Horowitz








Santa with a NORAD escort.

On December 24, 1955, the red telephone at the Continental Air Defense Command Operations Center started to ring. When they picked up the phone, a little girl asked an unexpected question: “Are you really Santa Claus?”

Matt Soniak














On this week's episode of 'Misconceptions,' Elliott debunks some commonly-held notions about the Greek and Roman gods.

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