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Female Abercrombie and Fitch models are known for being thin and going au naturel (light on the makeup).

Beyond the images on the company’s website and in the catalog, “model” is also the term the brand uses for the chosen employee who stands at the front of the store to do nothing other than greet customers.

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So heavy, the acceleration is slow and it doesn’t reach a very high top speed. The science of this is actually a bit debatable.

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Get “in sync”, as in, synchronize yourself with ‘N Sync. Dance!

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J.C. could care less about end-times prophecies and conspiracy theories. He’s got more pressing matters to attend to–like literal space travel.

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Prophecies about the end of the world occurring in 2000-2001 were plentiful in the late 1990s. Biblically speaking, the “millennial kingdom” occurs after the rapture, as outlined in Revelation 20:1-6. It is the 1000-year reign of Jesus Christ on earth.

The most hyped millennium theory, however, was the phenomenon of Y2K. Y2K involved massive computer shutdowns due to databases that only recognized years in two digits.

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This album was released in early 2000. The start of the new millennium was January 2001, only a few months away.

The hype of the approaching new millennium became a pop culture staple, and appeared in many songs during this time. The Backstreet Boys even named an entire album after it!

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This is a reference to the Beastie Boys' 1986 song “Paul Revere.”

Or frontman Richard Cronin just has mad love for the Boston area of his upbringing, Paul being a local historical figure.

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She’s actually referring to her period, aka, her menstrual cycle!

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In Family Ties (1982-89), Michael J. Fox played the main character, Alex P. Keaton.

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William Shakespeare wrote at least 160 sonnets
154 published collectively and 6 scattered throughout his surviving plays. Sonnet 18 is one of his most famous.

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