Selects: Flagpole Sitting: A Real Fad

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Aug 29, 202650:18Society & Culture

The 1920s were just absolutely nuts. People got into weird fads really intensely and one of the strangest of all was flagpole sitting. It's just what it sounds like – sitting on top of a flagpole for as long as you...

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