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One New Hampshire county tried being its own separate country

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Anarchists took over Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War

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King James IV’s love of language led to a shocking experiment

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One deserted island in Brazil was turned into its own principality

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Lisa Frank’s long-lasting technicolor popularity

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A literal riot broke out over the first top hat ever worn, and the reasons why are absolutely ridiculous

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The busiest hitman in mafia history: The ‘Iceman’

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Meet the most beautiful women of the last century

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This 1950s science kit for kids came with real uranium

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Emmett Till was brutally murdered 63 years ago— here’s why it’s still relevant today

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How Portugal’s first serial killer wound up with his head in a jar

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How the movie “Troy” doesn’t even come close to history’s real events

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“Would you be my neighbor?” How Mr. Rogers’s show helped a generation of children

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Someone managed to miss Andrew Jackson twice during an assassination attempt

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One time there were three popes…and they all excommunicated each other

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Pepsi once became the 6th most powerful military in the world

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Nixon managed to nearly cripple the economy with a 90-day freeze in 1971

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Someone entered a horse in a race against trains

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King Charles II made sure three people died… twice

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John Quincy Adams once had an alligator roam the White House

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Criminal bad boy John Dillinger makes prison break with wooden gun

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That time the US dropped a nuke on North Carolina

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One tough man walked through life with a knife for a hand

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‘Cast Away’ becomes real for this brave man who survived 14 months lost at sea

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Ridiculous Cold War combat vehicles

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