Memorial Day travel: Worst times to hit the road, top destinations for Southern Californians

Despite soaring gas prices and unrelenting inflation, more Southern Californians are expected to travel this Memorial Day weekend compared to last year. An estimated 3.1 million people in the Southland are expected to take trips this holiday — a robust increase from the previous year, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California. The increase is…

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The world’s most dangerous road

In the US state of Georgia, the success of products like Vin Mariani inspired pharmacist and former Confederate soldier John Pemberton to create Pemberton’s French Wine Coca, which originally included a mix of cocaine and alcohol, as well as caffeine-rich kola nut extract. It later developed into Coca-Cola: while cocaine and alcohol have long since…

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