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LA police almost let Charles Manson get away with multiple murders. Here's how.
The Tate Murders of August 8, 1969, represented the apex of the Manson murder spree that marked the end of the 1960s.Their investigations were also almost bungled.Los Angeles police officers repeatedly...
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An 8,000-year-old pink pearl, the oldest ever discovered in the world, is...
A priceless 8,000-year-old pearl was found by archaeologists at a dig site on Marawah Island, off Abu Dhabi's coast.The pink-tinted pearl, carbon dated to be from between 5800 B.C. and 5600 B.C., is...
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The dark history behind Halloween is even more chilling than you realized
Halloween draws from both Celtic and Christian traditions.While it's always had a morbid, spooky vibe, the festivities have changed quite a lot over the centuries.Visit Business Insider's homepage for...
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13 photos that show how trick-or-treating has evolved over the last five decades
Scottish and Irish immigrants in the 1840s brought "souling" to the US — the practice became secular and went mainstream by the 1930s with the new name "trick-or-treating."The boom of suburbia in the...
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13 of the most famous last words in history
There's something comforting about poetic, funny, or interesting last words.These quotations give us hope about facing death with dignity or even humor.From an early American patriot to a famous rock...
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Inside the creepy, abandoned villages deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens...
Lore runs thick through the New JerseyPine Barrens.Millions of years ago, southern New Jersey was washed by ocean waves. The sand they deposited indelibly shaped the human culture of the 18th and 19th...
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7 of the world's most haunted castles and mansions — and a look at their dark...
Some of the most haunted castles and mansions in the world are rooted in history, folklore, and fables.Serving as time capsules of a sort, the properties tell the stories of those who came before — and...
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Daylight-saving time ends on Sunday November 3 — here's why we have it and...
At 2 a.m. ET on November 3, Americans will "fall back" by moving their clocks an hour earlier for daylight-saving time. While "falling back" means gaining an hour of sleep, it also means the sun will...
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Daylight-saving time is about to an end. It's one of the world's stupidest...
Daylight-saving time (DST) ends Sunday, November 3 at 2 a.m. in the US. Clocks will move back one hour.In the US, DST started in the early 1900s as a way to cut energy use. Today, many Americans think...
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20 things turning 100 in 2020
The year 2020 marks 100 years since women gained the right to vote in the US.Band-Aids and Baby Ruth candy bars will be turning 100 in 2020 — as will the NFL and the ACLU.It's also been 100 years since...
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Decades after more than 900 cult members died in Jonestown, the jungle...
Jonestown was a remote village in Guyana in South America.In November 1978, Jonestown was the site where 909 members of a cult, the Peoples Temple, died from cyanide poisoning at the direction of...
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People have toyed with the idea of a 4-day workweek for over 80 years. Here's...
Microsoft recently implemented a four-day workweek at a subsidiary in Japan, leading to a 40% productivity increase.A four-day workweek can either mean that employees work a traditional 40 hour week...
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The Berlin Wall has been gone longer than it stood. Here's how the 28-mile...
The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago on November 9, 1989.Many areas where the wall once stood show no vestiges of it today.These photos show how the wall serves as an ever-present reminder of Berlin's...
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Here's what the oldest colleges in America used to look like — and what they...
The history of higher education in America is older than the Declaration of Independence.The oldest known college in the US that still exists today is Harvard University, which was founded in...
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15 photos that show how different life was 100 years ago
It's no secret that people's day-to-day lives in the 1920s were very different than they are now.About 100 years ago, Prohibition went into effect, leading to the rise of speakeasies and impacting...
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From leech collectors to knocker-ups, here are 16 weird jobs that no longer...
Before we had computers, refrigerators, and modern medicine, we had people performing tasks that we now take for granted.Jobs like ice cutters and knocker-ups sound ridiculous to us now, but people...
View ArticleWhy Coca-Cola invented Fanta in Nazi Germany
Fanta is one of the most popular soft drinks in the world. Although Fanta is now well known for its bright colors and bold flavors, it was originally made from food scraps.Coca-Cola's German branch...
View ArticleHow Dr. Bronner’s soap is made | The Making Of
Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps has been around since 1948, when it was founded by Emanuel Bronner. Dr. Bronner's soaps are all organic and sustainably sourced from fair trade facilities around the world...
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29 of the best royal family Christmas cards through the years
For more than a century, members of the royal family have sent Christmas cards to their subjects.Photographs selected for the front of the cards show the growing family and its changing relationships...
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Incredible photos show how the White House has celebrated Christmas through...
December means homes across America are decking the halls, and the nation's most famous address is no exception.The White House halls have been decked for the holidays every December since John and...
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