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20 Pink-Collar Jobs That Shaped Women’s Work Before the 1980s
American work culture has come a long way since the gender-exclusionary days of the 1960s and 1970s. And while we still have…
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24 Photos That Capture the Unlikely Rise of McDonald’s
McDonald’s is, by far and without debate, among the most iconic American institutions that have ever been exported to the rest of…
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23 Classic American Pit Stops That Still Deserve Our Attention
The Great American Road Trip has long been ingrained into our nation’s collective psyche. We wax poetic in song lyrics, film scripts,…
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22 Ways Schools Reinforced Gender Roles in the 1950s
While we live in a world where gender roles have entered a cultural forum for conversation and exploration, the 1950s weren’t exactly…
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23 Bizarre Yet Wonderful World Records
The idea of Guinness World Records began as an attempt to settle pub arguments. Before smartphones, friends would sit around debating which…
25 Things With Surprising Prices from the 1960s
It’s a fact of modern-day life that in order to live comfortably and raise a family, we must spend our money to…
10 Disney World Snacks We Loved and Then Lost
Disney isn’t exactly a company we’d describe as a creature of habit. Constantly pivoting, experimenting, and switching up their offerings, if you’ve…
17 Classic Baseball Rituals That Made the Game Feel More Like a Family Tradition Than a Sport
Of all the sports in the history of organized displays of athleticism, baseball seems to have the most quirks, the most rituals,…
21 Things Our Mothers Insisted on Displaying in the China Cabinet
The traditional china cabinet was every matriarch’s own cabinet of curiosities, where they would display their heirloom crystal hand-me-downs, glass menagerie zoo,…
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12 Types of Refrigerator Magnets That Held Up Every Piece of Your Family’s Identity
Every family seemed to have the same random smattering of kitchen magnets bedecked across their refrigerators. Part functional, part story-telling, these magnets…
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24 Random Skills You Learned from Uncle-Led DIY Disasters
If you were lucky enough to have a fun uncle when you were growing up, you probably had countless adventures and misadventures…
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20 Oddly Specific Things About ’70s Split-Level Houses
Split-level houses, also known as tri-levels, emerged in the suburbs during the 1930s and 1940s, reaching their peak in popularity in the…
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19 Everyday Objects That Originated From Outer Space
Necessity is the mother of invention, and when you’re trying to get a massive 6.2 million pound rocket to the moon and…
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14 Disney Side Characters Who Totally Stole the Show
Our most beloved Disney movies suffer no shortage of delightful and inspiring heroes and heroines. We watch with bated breath as they…
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25 Hits from the 1960s That We Couldn’t Forget If We Tried
The 1960s was a truly golden era for music, dominated by legends like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Monkees, and many more…
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27 Random Yet Delightful Trivia Facts About Movies We All Know and Love
We know that movie productions are usually robust and expensive, but there is even more to them than meets the eye. Filmmakers…
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20 Clubs, Restaurants, and Lounges That (Still) Prohibit Women from Joining
We hear the term “boys’ club” thrown around in modern debates about gender equality in society, but did you know that there…
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18 Furniture Items We All Had Had That Were Designed to Injure You
Once upon a time, furniture seemed like it was made to murder us. Sofas didn’t swallow us whole, and chairs didn’t stab…
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14 Books and TV Shows That Quietly Shaped Our Gen X Personalities Without Us Noticing
The books we read and the television shows that we consume constantly bombard us with opinions and ideas. If we reject these…
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22 Songs We All Knew by Heart in the ’80s
Certain aspects of high school don’t really vary from decade to decade. But the music? Oh yeah! The music we listen to…
23 Weird Personality Traits We Didn’t Know Came From Being a Middle Child in the ’70s
As far as family dynamics go, the middle child is in a precarious position that vacillates between being forgotten to being the…
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21 Forgotten “Luxuries” from the 1960s
It’s easy to take the luxuries of our current, modern-day lives for granted. We’re often too busy wishing we had something better…
17 Weird Uses for Pantyhose That Your Mom Swore Were “Life Hacks”
There’s nothing quite as empowering as transforming an everyday pair of pantyhose into whatever it is you might need at that very…
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QUIZ: Can You Guess These 17 Board Games from a Single Playing Piece?
If you grew up before the internet, chances are you spent a lot of rainy days and family nights seated around one…
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20 Most Valuable Baseball Cards That Still Make Us Feel Like Kids
Baseball cards present this magical, tangible way to collect remnants of the game itself without catching a fly ball or getting the…
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17 Problematic Camping Essentials From the 1970s
Camping is a favorite American pastime. The fresh air, the shining stars, and the serenity of nature appeal to those from all…
13 Classic Clothing Items That Have Made a Comeback in 2025
Gen X was coming of age when “mom jeans” were cool, combat boots were a political statement, and flannel shirts signified a…
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11 Things We Left in a Rental Condo in 1987
There was that one summer you and the fam hiked down to Daytona Beach for a two-week-long vacation in a rental condo…
10 Secrets about Walt Disney World That Only Cast Members Know
The Happiest Place on Earth has truly become a world unto itself. With such complex and detail-oriented operations, it’s little wonder that…
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33 Forgotten Snacks from the 1980s We Still Crave
The foods we eat are like the windows into who we are as a culture. If you want to know what the…