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    15 Disastrous Product Launches Companies Would Rather Forget

    Even major companies make costly mistakes. These 15 famous product flops reveal how promising launches turned into embarrassing failures.

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    Discover 12 things that made a 1980s school day completely different from today, from purple ditto worksheets to microfiche readers.

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    17 Things People Recognize In An Instant Growing Up In The ’70s

    If you spent your childhood in the 1970s, a lot of things probably still live rent-free in your memory. Maybe it’s the warm crackle of a record spinning on the…

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    Mugshots of Wealthy People Who Got Busted

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    20 Shrinkflation Fails That Are Cause For Concern

    Prices are rising and consumers are feeling the effects in more ways than one. Shrinkflation is the subtle practice of reducing product sizes while keeping prices the same, and it…

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    25 Photos That Help Sum Up the End of the 20th Century (1997–1999)

    The last years of the 20th century were a remarkable time of profound, rapid change, made up of truly unforgettable moments. Between 1977 and 1999, the world itself was caught…

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    Yearbook Photos of Millionaires Before They Made It

    Before the press releases and paydays, there were the yearbook photos. Uneasy smiles, neat collars, and hairstyles we all thought looked great at the time. They were just kids in…

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    There’s something hauntingly beautiful about seeing real faces from nearly two centuries ago. These 50 authentic photographs from the 1850s capture a world still learning to hold still long enough…

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    19 Photos of Famous Actresses from the 1960s-1980s

    The three decades from the 1960s into the 1980s were a golden age for film and fashion. These varying famous actresses from the 1960s into the 1980s are defined by…