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Today, November 3rd, is National Sandwich Day, because it’s the birthday of the man who created the food item, John Montagu (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (seriously). Supposedly, Montagu invented the food during a marathon 24-hour gambling session during which he wanted to be able to eat with only one hand. The solution he [...]

Prior to embarking on the writing of this listicle we thought we knew just how cruel people could be to animals (what with the factory farming, habitat depletion and extinction-causing), but oh how we were wrong. In many cases, apparently, that cruelty comes with a copious helping of humiliation, which is how we get mental_floss’s [...]

Amidst all the terror in the face of the barely advancing tide of occasionally deadly swine flu, few have asked what’s happening with the pigs themselves. Slate has the answers, though, and the pigs appear to be doing just fine, not freaking out like us silly humans. That’s great news, too, because now we don’t [...]

In all the madness over swine flu that has swirled into a veritable apocalyptic storm of disaster predictions, nobody seems to be thinking of small-scale, simple yet universally applicable solutions. Nobody, that is, except Listicles. For a flu strain that leaps borders, cultures and languages, what could be clearer than pig-shaped soap? Now, right after [...]