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Harriet Tubman has replaced Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

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A scrappy Italian baker gave us one of the world's most beloved desserts 70 years ago. #WorldNutellaDay

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Female activists and artists taking off their clothes used to cause a big stir. Why don't we take them seriously anymore?

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Ted Cruz is hardly original. Folks have been hating on #NewYorkValues for decades, oftentimes using coded words to insidiously denigrate the city’s population of gay people, minorities, and Jews.

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25 years of #OscarsSoWhite (but not you, 2007!)

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According to Maine's governor, the reason his state's heroin epidemic isn't addiction, but "guys with the name D-Money" who "impregnate a young, white girl before they leave" Maine.

Governor Paul LePage has put his foot in his mouth before, comparing the IRS to the Gestapo and telling the NAACP to kiss his butt. However, today's wildly racist remarks hearken back to Maine's past as a Ku Klux Klan hotbed. The Yankee state had the US' largest KKK population in the 1920s, who threatened not just Black Mainers, but also French-speaking Catholics like – say – Paul LePage.

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Beyoncé is reportedly joining Coldplay during the Super Bowl 50 halftime show. While the world's biggest musical acts have headlined the show in recent years, it wasn't always that way.

The first Super Bowl halftime shows featured high school or college marching bands. That changed in 1991 at Super Bowl XXV, when New Kids On The Block took the stage and performed their hit 'Step By Step.' Since then, artists like Janet Jackson, Shania Twain and Paul McCartney have performed at the show.

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President Lyndon Johnson delivered the first prime time State of the Union address on this day in 1965. He moved the televised format to prime time so he could reach as many Americans as possible as he laid out his vision for the Great Society, limiting his remarks to 3,168 words. A prime-time slot on four major networks gave the president even greater power to frame his policies to a wide swath of the American public.

But the setting also helped Johnson’s opponents in Congress. By choosing what parts of the president’s speech to applaud, congressmen sent an implicit message to their constituents about which policies to support. They also made the proceedings drag on insufferably. 

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Here are 10 people who incurred the wrath of the internet in 2015.

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From the Syrian refugee crisis to #BlackLivesMatter, here are some events we will remember from 2015. #YearInReview

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The latest ‘Star Wars’ controversy has its roots in 1970s ‘Star Trek’ fan fiction.

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Rock music has always been a space where conventional gender roles can be malleable. Here are some of the stars who paved the way and made androgyny so normal it’s become passé.

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The numbers are out, and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' is officially a box office hit.

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Dude looks like a lady: Rock’s sexy history of androgyny

No one much cared when Lady Gaga made out with herself as a boy in the video for her 2011 song “Yoü and I.” The racy video featured a few of the singer’s alter egos: the smoking, beer-swilling Jo Calderone, whom Gaga kissed, and Yüyi, a mermaid with PTSD. The pop star told Ellen Degeneres that she wants her fans to know it’s OK to be a “freak.” But more and more, antics like hers don’t seem that freaky.

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Can ‘Star Wars’ get back on track after one good film, one great sequel, and 22 years of crap?

The first live-action Star Wars film in 10 years, The Force Awakens, opens December 18 to wide anticipation from fans — and not a little hand-wringing. Will it be a return to form or another letdown? After the first two “space operas” won critical acclaim, series creator George Lucas disappointed critics and hardcore fans with four sequels featuring teddy bears, computer graphics … and Jar Jar Binks.

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Why does the media love to hate Donald Trump?

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Aviators Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager began their attempt to circumnavigate the globe without touching down or refueling on this day in 1986.

They achieved their goal by loading up an otherwise light aircraft with five times its weight in fuel. 7,000 pounds, to be precise. The extra weight was apparent on takeoff, as the heavy wings of the Rutan Voyager clipped the runway.

The flight was exhausting and full of contentious exchanges between Rutan and ground control, who felt the pilots were wasting fuel with sloppy flying. But the Voyager successfully touched down nine days after takeoff in front of 55,000 spectators.

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