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Top 5 Milkshake Ducks
2Milkshake Duck [noun]: A person who is initially viewed positively by the media but is then discovered to have something questionable about them.
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How The AFL Became Australia’s Most Watched Sport [Infographic]
The mighty Richmond Tigers just thrashed plucky interstate challenger the GWS Giants to take out the AFL 2019 Premiership. But up until 1990, the AFL wasn’t even known as the AFL – it was the Victorian Football League. With the expansion into New South Wales in 1982 and then Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia,…
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Today I Discovered The World At World War: Distilled Into 20 Minutes
The Second World War swallowed up the years between 1939 and 1945, affecting people across the globe and ending as the deadliest conflict in human history. As some of humanity’s darkest days, it’s origins and legacy are taught in schools across the world. It may be easy to understand who attacked who – but it…
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Today I Discovered: The Mystery Epidemic That Wiped Out The Aztecs
In the 16th Century, over the course of five years, almost 80% of the Aztec population were wiped out due to an unknown disease that burnt through their villages, causing high fevers, bleeding from the mouth, nose and eyes and eventually lead to death. Without understanding the epidemic, the Aztecs named the phenomenon ‘cocoliztli‘, their…