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Aug 17, 20244 min read
Facts about superblooms
April showers bring May flowers… and in some cases, many more flowers than expected. Superblooms — aka the massive, all-at-once bloom of...
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Classic City News
Aug 16, 20242 min read
There’s a cheese that can be chewed like gum
The world’s hardest cheese can be chewed for hours It’s frustrating when you buy a block of cheese at the supermarket and it grows mold...
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Classic City News
Aug 15, 20243 min read
Medical mysteries that doctors haven’t been able to solve
It’s hard enough for your doctor to diagnose your mystery rash, but it’s leaps and bounds harder for historians to make sense of...
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Classic City News
Aug 15, 20242 min read
Why did sailors wear bell-bottom pants?
Bell-bottoms have long been synonymous with sailors in the U.S. Navy: Just picture Sailor Jack, the patriotic mascot who first appeared...
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Classic City News
Aug 14, 20242 min read
Hurricanes used to be named only after women
Before the 20th century, there was no uniform method for naming hurricanes in the U.S., though some other parts of the world saw creative...
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Classic City News
Aug 14, 20242 min read
It can take 2 weeks to make 1 jelly bean
The next time you pop some jelly beans into your mouth, you may want to take a moment to appreciate just how much effort goes into...
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Classic City News
Aug 12, 20242 min read
The longest case of hiccups lasted 68 years
No one likes hiccups. Luckily, these involuntary spasmodic interruptions usually last only a few minutes. On rare occasions, hiccups...
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Classic City News
Aug 11, 20241 min read
Hawaii is the first state to have 2 official languages
Most states don’t recognize any language as an official tongue. Yet Hawaii has officially recognized two state languages — English and...
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Classic City News
Aug 10, 20245 min read
Some animals thought in other countries to be lucky
The custom of relying on animals to bring us luck is shared by many cultures. While the roots of these practices often date back...
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Classic City News
Aug 10, 20245 min read
Edison had plans to make the statue talk and other things you mayn’t have known about Lady Liberty
Thomas Edison revolutionized the audio world in 1878 when he obtained a patent for his latest invention, the phonograph. The audio player...
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Classic City News
Aug 10, 20243 min read
Origin of some popular idioms
Idioms are short phrases that often make no literal sense but are nonetheless usually understood by the native speakers of a language....
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Classic City News
Aug 10, 20246 min read
Things you might not have known about the Wild West
The Wild West — sometimes called by the more subdued name of the Old West — is the star of many romanticized American stories. Tales of...
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Classic City News
Aug 10, 20244 min read
Some interesting things about the Prohibition era
As early as the colonial era, the consumption of alcoholic beverages was a contentious issue in America. Drunkenness was generally...
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Classic City News
Aug 9, 20241 min read
Today in History: August 9, 1945 U.S. bombs Nagasaki
376900 09: (FILE PHOTO) A dense column of smoke rises more than 60,000 feet into the air over the Japanese industrial port of Nagasaki,...
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Classic City News
Aug 7, 20244 min read
Interesting things about John Wayne
John Wayne, the shy son of a struggling pharmacist, wasn’t all that much like the characters he played — he wasn’t really a swaggering...
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