The Weirdest Things You Could Only Find at Your Grandparents House

Handmade Patchwork Quilts

There's nothing that screams "GRANDPARENT" quite like homemade furnishings. Before getting a new blanket was as easy as one tap on the Amazon app, women actually spent weeks, even months, meticulously cutting and sewing handmade quilts, and now they're treasured family heirlooms.

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The More You Know

  • There are castles for sale in France that cost less than a two-bedroom apartment in Australia.
  • The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • The world's oldest operating library is in Morocco.
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