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A

  • Abracadabra
  • Acanthus Leaves
  • Acquired Overbites
  • American Lobsters: From Trash to Treasure
  • Amish “Miracle” Fireplaces
  • Animal Names vs Meat Names
  • Astrology
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Autumn Colors
  • A Beatles Opening & Closing
  • A : turning the Ox upside down
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B

  • Baseball Organs
  • Baseball Rubbing Mud
  • Beyond the Pale
  • Blue Raspberry
  • Bock Beer / Goat Beer
  • Bond … James Bond, ornithologist
  • Brain Freeze
  • Buried Pirate Treasure
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C

  • Cabinet of Curiosities
  • Calvin and Hobbes (the real ones)
  • Carats, Karats, Carets, & Carrots
  • Celtic to Gaelic to Irish
  • Centralia
  • Charles Dickens and the Little Ice Age
  • Christmas Ghost Stories
  • Cicadas & Prime Numbers
  • Cinco de Mayo e Jalisco
  • Cinnamon
  • Cleopatra was Egyptian…ish
  • Cocaine: the Early Years
  • Coffee: Sun-Grown or Shade-Grown?
  • Colonel Sanders … Not A Military Colonel
  • Color Blindness
  • Comic Sans
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • Corporate Jargon
  • Crop Circles
  • Cú Chulainn: Irish Warrior
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D

  • Dante’s Hell
  • Deaf White Cats
  • Desert Storm Trading Cards
  • Diamonds are not forever, but pretty close
  • Dogie, Not Doggy
  • Dog Days of Summer
  • Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
  • Dum Dums Mystery Flavor
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E

  • Egyptian Mummies: From Medicine to Paint
  • Elvis’s Fool’s Gold
  • Empty Winter Gas Tanks
  • Experiences Over Things
  • Eye Color
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F

  • Fade to Black … and Blue
  • Fiji Mermaid
  • First Sleep & Second Sleep
  • Fordlândia
  • Friday the 13th
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G

  • Gemütlichkeit
  • Germanic Gods (and Saturn)
  • Ghosts As Sheets
  • Girl Scout Cookies
  • Googie Architecture
  • Goya’s Black Paintings
  • Grip the Raven
  • Groundhog Day
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H

  • Herbs & Spices (and Salt)
  • Hookworm
  • House Numbers & Chinoiserie
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I

  • Imitation Eyes
  • Indiana Jones and the Letter “J”
  • Indigo & Isaac Newton
  • Inoculation Hair Styles & Early Adopters
  • Irish “Pub In A Box”
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J

  • Jack-o’-Lanterns
  • Janus
  • Jawn
  • Jingle Bells
  • John Snow’s Cholera Map
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K

  • Krampus: Saint Nicholas’s Enforcer
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L

  • Lawns
  • Lightning Bugs
  • Lobster Immortality
  • Lunar Calendars
  • Lyrical Dissonance
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M

  • MacGuffins
  • Marlene Dietrich & Queen
  • Mary Jane’s Last Dance
  • Mayday, May Day, May Day
  • Metal Horns
  • Misirlou
  • Mistakes Happen (Sometimes Intentionally)
  • More on “Less is more”
  • Moses’s Horns
  • Mount Tambora & Frankenstein
  • MSG (Safe to Eat)
  • Muffler Men
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N

  • New England Vampires and Tuberculosis
  • Nkisi Nkondi
  • Norwegian Salmon Sushi
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O

  • Oil’s Origins
  • Orange the fruit, orange the color
  • Our Empty Asteroid Belt
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P

  • Pain Medications: What’s the difference?
  • Pareidolia and Who Is In The Moon
  • Persian Decision Making
  • Pineapples as Status Symbols
  • Poinsettia
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Q

  • Quicksand
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R

  • Real or Plastic Trees?
  • Rednecks & Hillbillies
  • Rock Columns
  • Roman Money
  • Rosanna Arquette’s Two Pop Hits
  • Roses Instead of Cocaine
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S

  • Saddam Hussein’s Romance Novel
  • Saggy Cat Bellies
  • Salamanders & Fire
  • Salvation Mountain
  • Santa’s Reindeer
  • Scam Email Spelling “Mistakes”
  • Sea Monsters on Maps
  • Sign of the Cross
  • Snake Handling
  • Sparkling Wine Sweetness
  • Staircase Wit
  • Starkbierzeit (Strong Beer Season)
  • Sunday B. Morning
  • Sunglasses
  • Survivorship Bias
  • Syrah or Shiraz?
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T

  • Thai Restaurants & Culinary Diplomacy
  • The Ambassadors & Anamorphosis
  • The Amen Break
  • The Art Collection of Dorothy & Herbert Vogel
  • the Barkley Marathons
  • the Birthday Paradox
  • The Butler Did It
  • the Bystander Effect
  • The Caganer
  • The Chuck Yeager pilot voice
  • the Clear Craze & Prison Electronics
  • The Curb Cut Effect
  • the Darlene Love Christmas Tradition
  • the Dharmapalas
  • The Elegant Skull
  • the Fallacy of Relative Privation
  • the First Thanksgiving Menu
  • the Gibson 1959 Les Paul Standard
  • The Headless Horseman
  • The Hedonic Treadmill
  • The Hippos of Pablo Escobar
  • The Human Cannonball
  • the Imp of the Perverse
  • The Mari Lwyd
  • the May 8, 1977 Barton Hall Concert
  • The Missing Children of Hamelin
  • the Molly Maguires
  • The Mummy’s Curse
  • the Myth of 8 Glasses of Water
  • The Necronomicon
  • the Nirvana Fallacy
  • The Pedal Steel & Ralph Mooney
  • The Rod of Asclepius vs the Caduceus
  • the Shamrock Shake & Uncle O’Grimacey
  • the Stanley Cup(s)
  • The Sunk-Cost Fallacy
  • the Vulcan Salute
  • the 1954 Eldorado Bullet Wheel
  • the 1992 Lithuanian Basketball team & the Grateful Dead
  • Thugs
  • Tide for Cash
  • Tippi Hedren’s Nails
  • Typhoid Mary
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U

  • Uchi & Soto
  • Uppercase & Lowercase
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V

  • Vampires & Arithmomania
  • Venomous vs Poisonous
  • Viking Helmets & Wagner
  • V, U, Double U
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W

  • Waterphone
  • When is Christmas?
  • When is Easter?
  • Where is the “Orient”?
  • White Hats & Black Hats
  • Why are barns red?
  • Winter Warmer
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Z

  • Zebra Domestication
  • Zombies: Sadder Than You Think
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#

  • “Back in my day …”
  • 8 months of Oysters
  • “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better”
  • “Haunted” Houses
  • “Pumpkin” Spice
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