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Spite may not be a productive impulse for emotional well-being, but it's been oddly productive in creating businesses, buildings, and even some new paint pigments.

In this episode of The List Show, Erin shares 17 odd things done out of spite from Connie Mack's Spite Fence to the Ford GT40.

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