Automotive technology is always advancing. Currently, self-driving vehicles are the latest craze, although they still to iron out some kinks in the tech. This is nothing new, though. Car makers have always tried to come up with new, innovative, and unique ways to make their automobiles stand out from the competition. Those ideas have resulted …
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A great name can do a lot for making your products successful. In the ideal scenario, your brand could even become the product’s common name — think about Kleenex, Q-Tips, or Hoover, which they call vacuum cleaners in England. Not every product can have such a catchy name, though. In fact, sometimes you find things …
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The weirdest things about Japan are pretty different from here in the US. Did you know about these Japan-specific things? Security Assistants On The Platform In The Morning Mornings in the major cities become somewhat of a battlefield when it comes to catching the train. It seems impossible to get in bit an assistant will …
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Do you make Christmas baskets? The best part about them is you can use and decorate any basket, add whatever you like and personalize each and every detail if you really want to! Cookie Basket Of course, a cookie basket at Christmas time is an absolute classic. Bake some traditional Christmas cookies like peanut butter kisses, …
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There are so many toys we love and the grosser the better! Here are the rest of the best gross out toys in America. The mid 1980s was the height of gross out culture especially with movies like Gremlins, Ghostbusters and Ghoulies. The toy industry went from gross out substances to gross out characters and …
Gross out toys have always been popular, and they still are. Even in Ancient Rome, farts were funny. Here’s the grossest toys of America. Gross out toys mean big profits, with whoopee cushions for farting and other substances like poop, pee, puke, and slime. In the middle ages, court jesters turned pig bladders into whoopee …
In 1883, board games were more popular, with conveniences of households and eight hour days. People simply had more time. Also, prices came down and people could afford to buy more. The games tried to reform people or deal with the moral decline by injecting moral truths back into American life through the games. Parker …
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There are hundreds of millions of board games sold every year, with $4 billion in revenue. As common as they are now, they were barely known 150 years ago. 150 years ago they were pretty much unheard of. When it comes to the big players in board games, you have already heard of them. They …
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Peter Piper may have picked a peck of pickled peppers, but he didn’t create them. Ed Currie, however, does. And what peppers they are. The South Carolina pepper wizard is the man responsible for crossbreeding the Carolina Reaper, officially the world’s hottest chili pepper. Well, at least it used to be that. The Reaper has …
Have you heard about the battery-powered whackadoodler that failed horribly? Of course it did — who would ever need a battery-powered whackadoodler? Now, excuse me, let me use my time machine to hop 60 years into the future. What’s this? Everyone has a battery-powered whackadoodler! This is a tale as old as time. Many of …
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