In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was a free box of cereal!)
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In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
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The longest Monopoly game in a bathtub lasted 99 hours!
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Vanilla flavoring is sometimes made with an ingredient from beaver pee.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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