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The 5 Most Clearly Cursed Expeditions of All Time
We tend to romanticize the age of exploration, like it was all grand exotic frontiers and tiny people tying sailors down with ropes. What we don't hear about so often is the scurvy and the starvation and the months of endless walking through landscapes full of awfulness. And that's too bad, because it actually makes their stories that much more bad
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- By Eric Yosomono, Dustin Koski
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5 Priceless Works of Art Destroyed by Unintentional Hilarity
Like a slapstick movie where the buffoon main character encounters a priceless work of art, and then accidentally destroys it in some hilarious way, a shocking number of the world's great pieces have in fact been ruined in this fashion.
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- By Siobhan McKeown
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5 Computer Hacks from Movies You Won't Believe Are Possible
When it comes to depicting computer hacking onscreen, it's no surprise that the implausible scenarios Hollywood's tech-challenged screenwriters manage to pull out of their asses don't even come close to resembling the real thing. Except it turns out that, every once in a while, they inadvertently get it right on the money.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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5 Bizarre Ways You Can Brainwash a Courtroom
Some day you might wind up in front of a judge due to a 'hilarious' misunderstanding (or because you had to murder some dudes). If so, there are several things that can tip the scales of justice in your favor that have nothing to do with the law or evidence.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Lillian Marx
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The 7 Biggest Dick Moves in the History of Superheroes
Old-time comics may be less violent and explicit than current ones, but that doesn't mean the heroes weren't sometimes colossal dicks while they saved the universe. If you don't believe us, let us tell you all about it.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, Diana McCallum
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5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women: Update
Go to the front page of any mostly male discussion site like Reddit.com and see how many inches you can browse before finding several thousand men bemoaning how all women are gold-digging whores (7,500 upvotes) and how crazy and irrational women are (9,659 upvotes) and how horrible and gross and fat women are (4,000 upvotes).
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- By Jason Pargin
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The 5 Ballsiest Easter Eggs Hidden in Video Games
If you're reading this, the odds are good that you 1) hate your job and 2) can't really do much about it. But if you, say, were working on a project that would be seen by millions of people, then you could get creative about expressing your displeasure.
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- By Claire G., M. Asher Cantrell
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The 5 Creepiest 'Progressive' Parenting Fads
You don't want to be your old-fashioned, neglectful parents; no, you're the wave of the future, and your kids are the waviest of the future, and you know it. And then that entire line of thinking gets completely out of hand and ridiculous stuff like this starts happening.
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- By Dawn Morrow
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5 Real Judges Who Put the Most Evil Supervillain to Shame
It's one thing for a judge to be corrupt -- we sort of expect that to happen in all public jobs, because we watch the news. It's quite another for judges to be hilarious lunatics, criminally lazy schemers or just impossibly evil.
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- By E. Reid Ross, Tom Rodgers
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6 Nobodies Who Stumbled Into World Changing Discoveries
Some of the greatest historical finds have been stumbled across by random dudes just wandering around the neighborhood.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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6 Insane Roads You Won't Believe People Actually Drive On
None of nature's obstacles can keep man from going where he wants to go. For evidence, you only need to look at where we've chosen to build our highways, oblivious to all obstacles, elements and mortal danger.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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5 Ways to Beat Old-School Games Using Math
We wondered if there were ways to use math to completely ruin all innocent games from our childhood. Guess what? There are!
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- By Karl Smallwood
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6 Unlikely Friendships in Movies (That Make No Damn Sense)
Often the weirdest partnerships are the ones the movies don't seem to think are wacky at all. These are the cohorts and conspirators that, in real life, would have no reason to trust each other with a lunch order, let alone their lives.
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- By Mike Cooney, Dustin Koski
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5 Historic Artifacts You Won't Believe Still Work
Unless you're talking about diamonds, Twinkies or vampires, lasting forever usually isn't in the cards. Yet all over the world -- and universe -- there are machines, engineering feats and pieces of meat that never got the memo that we all have a use-by date.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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6 Psychotic Punishments Doled Out by Famous Superheroes
Sometimes a hero's unwavering moral code results in the meting out of far more cruel and unusual punishments than a quick, clean death.
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- By Drew Anderson
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