It’s almost Halloween but these haunted American landmarks are scary all year around. Do you know of haunted places near you? The Smithsonian Institution Known as “America’s attic” due to the 155 million artifacts within its collections, it turns out it’s haunted, too. In the earlier part of the 20th century, watchman would say they …
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Have you ever used the word “miffed?” There are so many fun sayings to learn and use in your verbiage. Full Monty To say full monty means to say everything that is necessary, appropriate and possible. The phrase is used like “they got a full monty” and then finishing with what what said. Gaff The …
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What do you know about mushrooms? Did you know that we are discovering new varities all the time? We’ve been eating them for thousands of years. Mushrooms will grow almost anywhere. Mushroom growing in the United States is credited to J.B. Swayne as the first to grow them here. He started the shrooms in Kennett …
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National TV dinner day just happened on September 10th but do you know the history and origin of tv dinners? Or who the two groups are that claim they invented them? TV dinners came out as compact multi course meals that took 15 minutes to bake. They were affordable and delicious and the people wanted …
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Here are a bunch of Virginia fun facts like all the famous people that come from the state! Do you know who was born in Virginia? There was a mass escape by prisoners of death row in 1984. Six inmates managed to escape, though all six of them were eventually caught or turned themselves in. …
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Ancient Egypt had a culture that loved cats, tattoos and makeup. Here are more facts about the longest, on-going civilization in the world. Sphinx were used in Ancient Egypt as bodyguards over sacred sites. A sphinx being the mythological creature with both the head of a human and the body of a lion. The most …
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There are plenty of haunted houses and dark forests on land to give you the creeps. But things aren’t much better if you set out on the open sea. Multiple regions of the world’s oceans a notorious for being weird and unsettling. It might be because of the rumored supernatural phenomena, the things lurking beneath …
Sunny summer fun facts, whether you like summer or not because it’s here! Would you pick summer or fall if you could? How many watermelon varieties do you know of? Because there are more than 1,200 types of watermelon in the world. The Watermelon Board says the most popular kinds include seeded, seedless, and mini …
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These wild facts about the summer may surprise you like did you know there is an underwater hotel and only one rather interesting way to get there? Do you know the rest of these facts about summer? There’s a midnight baseball game tradition in Alaska and it’s 100 years old. The world’s longest lazy river …
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Sunny summer fun facts, whether you like summer or not because it’s here! Would you pick summer or fall if you could? How many watermelon varieties do you know of? Because there are more than 1,200 types of watermelon in the world. The Watermelon Board says the most popular kinds include seeded, seedless, and mini …
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