You wouldn’t think so, but Christmas Day is a big day in Japan. It’s a day that has become an event, not so much for the actual celebration of Christmas, ...

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We may take for granted that a yellow banana greets us at the supermarket, but the journey for that one piece of fruit is a long one, especially for a ...

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You can probably find a flea market close to you where you can pick up any number of random items, but why are they called flea markets, and do they ...

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California’s weather was a major driving force for why the movie industry set up shop in sunny California in the early 1900s. What better place to make a movie without ...

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There was once an airline that wanted to be different, very different. But sometimes being different, no matter how good the idea seems at the time, just doesn’t work out. ...

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You sip it, bite it, bend it, and spit wads of paper out it, but you’ve most likely never thought about when a straw was first used. The simple little ...

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Davidt8/Wikipedia There is a small two-story building in Wilmington, Delaware, that is the registered agent address of at least 285,000 American and foreign businesses operating in the United States. The ...

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Bubble Wrap, those protective sheets that keep things from breaking and are fun to pop, didn’t start its life intended for those uses. Believe it or not, bubble wrap was ...

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Domino’s Pizza is one of the largest pizza chains in the world, and you might be surprised to learn that the dots on their iconic domino do mean something. The ...

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Popcorn, root beer, strawberry, and pizza — those are just some of the familiar smells we remember from scratch and sniff stickers as kids. But there is an interesting technology behind scratch ...

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Great Western Divide, Mineral King, California Walt Disney is known for creating Mickey Mouse, Disneyland, and Walt Disney World, but he also wanted to take the Disney empire into the ...

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