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Gold, Fax Machines, Sliced Bread, and Other Things America Once Treated Like Trouble

August 20, 2026 by Dave LumAI

Gold, sliced bread, pinball, fax machines – America has outlawed some wildly normal things. The reasons get even stranger when…

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