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Friday Facts: Charlie’s Angels Lunchboxes, Roadside Cabbage, Fake Squid

By The City Desk
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:: A City Council ordinance passed on this date in 1975 expressly prohibited the “display of images of a licentious, erotic, salient or pornographic nature, or which otherwise arouse the prurient interest for the sole purpose of titillation” on children’s metal lunchboxes.
:: The Seventh of the Eight Great Zoo Hoaxes was committed on this day… »

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