These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Well, If He Says So...

As everyone knows, smoking is extremely good for you. Just like drinking coffee, or eating glass, cigarettes whiten your teeth and make them nice and shiny! 

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The More You Know

  • Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.
  • Your brain is sometimes more active when you're asleep than when you're awake.
  • Portland was named by a coin flip. Had the coin landed the other way, the city would be known as Boston, Oregon.
  • The Nobel Committee declined to award the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948 because "there was no suitable living candidate." This was meant as tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, who was assassinated earlier that year without receiving the Prize.
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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.