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• Category: 1800s
  • More Americans used to vote in midterm elections than presidential elections
  • The First Woman US State Senator Defeated Her Polygamist Husband in the Election
  • Vibrators were Sold in the Sears & Roebuck Catalogue
  • The “States’ Rights” Term Conservatives Frequently Use Has a Dark, Racist Origin
  • The 9th US President Died of a Cold… Which he May Have Caught at His Own Inauguration Ceremony
  • At One Point in Time, up to 50% of US Dollar Bills Were Estimated to be Counterfeit
  • White Supremacists Once Overthrew a US City Government
  • 23 African Americans Were Elected to Congress Before the Civil Rights Movement
• Category: 1900s
• Category: 1910s
  • The Spanish Flu Didn’t Originate in Spain
  • The US Once Stripped American Women of Citizenship if They Married Immigrants
  • The creator of Mother’s Day wished she could un-create it because it became too commercial
  • Tug of War Used to be an Olympic Sport
  • Disobeying Direct Orders, British & German Soldiers Forged Their Own Christmas Truce
• Category: 1920s
  • After Mein Kampf, Hitler Wrote a Second Unpublished Book
  • Lysol Used to be Advertised as a Feminine Hygiene Product and Birth Control
• Category: 1930s
  • Rasputin is the Reason for “Work of Fiction” Disclaimers in Movie Credits
  • Dr. Seuss Wrote an Adult Book with Illustrations of Naked Women
  • The US Senate Once Tried to Ban Dial Telephones From Capitol Hill
• Category: 1940s
  • Disney Made a Cartoon About Menstruation
  • The Official Pledge of Allegiance Salute Used to be a ‘Hitler Salute’
  • Before Rebranding, The US Dept. of Defense Was Called The “Department of War”
• Category: 1950s
  • 1950s American Students Wore Dog Tags to School
  • A Roomba-Like Cleaner was Patented in 1957
  • Disney’s Goofy Was a Chainsmoker Who Couldn’t Kick the Habit
  • The USSR Landed Multiple Probes on Venus in the 1960s
• Category: 1960s
  • We left astronaut poop on the moon
  • Nixon Had a Speech Prepared In Case the Apollo 11 Astronauts Were Stranded in Space
  • FBI Agents Once Secretly Tried to Convince Rev Martin Luther King to Kill Himself
• Category: 1970s
  • The World Trade Center Towers Originally Lacked Lightswitches
  • Kodak Invented the Technology That Later Forced Them Into Bankruptcy
  • Nixon was caught on tape saying of his dying troops in Vietnam: “Screw em”
• Category: 1980s
  • The White House Sported Solar Panels Until Reagan Removed Them in 1986
• Category: 1990s
  • The Publisher of a “Hitman Manual” Was Once Sued for Aiding & Abetting Murder
  • During the 1990s, the Clintons Were a Constant Target of Conservative Hoaxes
  • Republican Leader Dick Armey Was Caught Referring to a Congressman as a “Fag”
• Category: Advertising
  • Coca-Cola’s Secret Ingredient Used to be Cocaine
  • Use of the US Flag in Advertising is Illegal
• Category: Civil Rights
• Category: Congress
• Category: Crime
• Category: Entertainment
  • Movie Trailers Weren’t Always Shown Before Films
• Category: Fashion
  • Pink Wasn’t Always Considered a Feminine Color and Blue Wasn’t Always Masculine
• Category: Food
  • The United States Used to Have More Laws Concerning Margarine than Hate Crimes
• Category: Forgotten History
  • 18 American Presidents Didn’t Have a Vice President For All or Part of Their Terms
  • Members of the Electoral College Have Voted Their Own Way 158 Times
  • I get (hate)mail
  • President Roosevelt Used to Ride Around in Al Capone’s Limousine
  • The First Openly Gay Elected Official in the US Was Shot to Death
  • Color Photography Technology Has Existed For About 150 Years
  • Christopher Columbus Was a Slave Trader
  • Before Becoming President, Ronald Reagan Was a Paid Cigarette Model
  • President Harry S Truman Didn’t Actually Have a Middle Name
• Category: Health
• Category: Holidays
• Category: Money
• Category: Presidents
  • Category: Carter
  • Category: Clinton
  • Category: Nixon
  • Category: Reagan
  • Category: Roosevelt
  • Category: Truman
• Category: Racism
• Category: Sexism
• Category: Space
• Category: Sports
• Category: Technology
• Category: War
  • Category: Cold War
  • Category: US Civil War
  • Category: World War I
  • Category: World War II