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5 of the Strangest Days in History
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There have been 91,310 days in the last 250 years, but only a few of them stand out as singularly odd. Unexplained phenomena, surprising coincidences, and, in some cases, a strange quiet, don’t happen every day — especially on a massive scale. From the day an entire region thought the apocalypse was coming, to the day apparently nothing of note happened at all, some days really stand out.. Next time you’re having an eerie day, put it in perspective with these five dates. Photo credit: duncan1890/ iStock May 19, 1780: New England’s Dark Day This ...Read More
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World HistoryArticle0When Did People Start Eating Sweets for Dessert?
Most of us don’t give a whole lot of thought to the habit of finishing a satisfying meal with a dessert of something sweet — we’re too busy savoring the…
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World HistoryFact14Divers recently found a long-lost shipwreck that sank in a hit-and-run.
More than 160 years after vanishing beneath the waves of the Atlantic, the wreck of French steamship Le Lyonnais was discovered off the coast of Massachusetts. The ship’s demise in…
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World HistoryFact5The first New Year’s resolutions may date back 4,000 years.
Perhaps because of the universally uplifting feeling of starting anew, you can find similarities between the lively New Year’s celebrations found in many countries today and those of the oldest…
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World HistoryFact15The global population in the year 1 CE was around only 200 million.
There are currently around 8 billion people living on Earth — more than quadruple the global population in 1920. But before the planet hit its first billion people at the…
