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When he was president, Theodore Roosevelt could fit eight meetings in an hour—that’s 7.5 minutes for each one. By the time he entered office, Roosevelt had had a fair bit of experience racing against time and coming out ahead: From studying unde

Erin McCarthy








Gary Oldman stars in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).

There are good movies, there are bad movies, and there are movies that are so infinitely terrible that it’s hard not to love them just a little bit.

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The sheriff of Orange County, California, dumping bootleg booze during Prohibition

How do you buy alcohol in the United States during prohibition? If you're Winston Churchill, you've got a doctor's note.

Scott Beggs






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Standing tall in the Scandinavian countryside, Viking runestones bear messages from 1000 years ago in an alphabet called the Futhark. Read on for more little-known lore.

Erika Harlitz-Kern
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Unless you want to start a boxing match with kangaroos, don’t steal pebbles from Australia's Uluru formation.

Lucas Reilly