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  Some interesting numbers

  April 11, 2022 · 1 min read

  * $53 billion – the amount of money commercial casinos collected in 2021, their best year on record. * 10.19 ounces – the weight of the world’s heaviest strawberry (grown in Israel). * 161,692 – the estimated…

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  Ben Franklin's Clever Solution To Eyeglass Frustration

  February 11, 2019 · 1 min read

  Bifocals were invented by Ben Franklin to end his frustration with constantly having to switch between two pairs of glasses.

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  Is The Twist Better Than Pulp Fiction's Dance?

  April 27, 2019 · 1 min read

  Twisting the Night Away video with this intro: Twisting... better than Travolta and Thurman? 

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  Bernard Lewin's Hidden Mexican Art Masterpiece Collection

  March 16, 2022 · 1 min read

  About Bernard Lewin The Lewins (on the left) with Rufino Tamayo Bernard Lewin was born in Germany in 1906. In 1938, he fled the Nazis with his wife Edith, immigrated to the United States, and became a US…

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  The Gunfighter

  July 24, 2019 · 1 min read

  Just days after writing the above essay, a friend sent me the link to this hilarious short film. Besides poking fun at a cliché of cowboy movies, it actually advances the idea I was writing about – that the…

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