Arts & Culture
Why Did Sailors Wear Bell-Bottom Pants?
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6 Weird Sandwiches People Used To Eat
According to popular legend, the English aristocrat John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, was engaged in an all-night card game in 1762 when he became distracted by hunger pangs.…
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“LOL” used to be an acronym for “little old lady.”
Long before anyone laughed out loud on the internet, “LOL” was in use by virtue of a different phrase: “little old lady.” The acronym was popularized by San Francisco Chronicle…
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5 Things From “The Jetsons” That Actually Exist Today
When The Jetsons first aired in 1962, it presented a futuristic world filled with imaginative technology that seemed purely fantastical to audiences at the time. Set 100 years in the…
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5 Photos From Greenwich Village in the 1960s
In the 1960s, New York City’s Greenwich Village — the Manhattan neighborhood located roughly between Houston and 14th streets, from the Hudson River to Broadway — was a hub of…