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    • Holding Patterns

      The unusual state of hold music, which works pretty much the opposite way that every other kind of music does, for reasons both technical and psychological.

    • How The Cookie Crumbles

      Why did Hydrox cookies lose out to Oreo despite being the first cookie to market? Long story short: The name seemed like a better idea 100 years ago.

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    • Junk Food’s Happiest Accident

      For more than 50 years, cheese curls have been a staple of the modern junk food diet. You won't believe how we first discovered them.