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5 Animals Who Taught Themselves Eerily Human Skills
Monkeys wearing bow ties are always welcome, but as soon as they're hunting with spears and cooking hamburgers, we start worrying about how difficult it will be to learn their language once they take over the world.
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- By Matt Pass, Ivan Farkas, Ruy Platt
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381 The 7 Most Needlessly Terrifying Video Game Covers
Don't you wish game companies would let the designers have a bit of artistic freedom? Yeah? Be careful what you wish for.
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- By Tristan Cooper
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5 Mundane Things That Caused Earth-Shattering Destruction
Much like your significant other, sometimes there is just no predicting what will set off a monumental disaster.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Ivan Farkas, Jordan Rudow
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8 Celebrities Who Are Great at the Last Thing You'd Expect
Jon Stewart is better than you.
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- By Aaron Short, Michael Dawson , Michael Hossey
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The 5 Perviest Scientific Studies Ever Published
Human sexuality is a complicated thing, and in the name of research sometimes you just have to roll up your sleeves and get down and dirty. As in the following ridiculously awkward studies.
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- By Lachlan M., Simen Dalehavn Faaberg
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The 5 Creepiest Death Rituals From Around the World (Part 2)
Given humankind's penchant for handling pretty much everything it encounters with complete and utter insanity, it's no surprise that some of our death rituals have gotten a little ... inspired.
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- By Himanshu Sharma
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5 Old-Timey Movies That'd Be NC-17 Today
It's funny how we rewrite history to make the present look worse. Because that's simply just not the case.
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- By Chris Scott, Elorm Kojo Ntumy
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6 Offensive Messages Hidden in Huge Marketing Campaigns
Nobody involved in these ads likely had anything but the best of intentions, which is why it's all the funnier.
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- By A.C. Grimes
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5 Characters Amazingly Based on Real People
Every story you've ever watched or read includes characters that are, in reality, based on somebody the writer knew. But you'd be surprised to see how totally out of left field the real-life inspirations often are.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Shocking Early Versions of Famous Musicians
If you dig into the past of almost any famous artist, you'll find something radically, hilariously different from what they became famous for.
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- By Michael Hossey
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6 Insane Species Infestations (Caused by Humans)
Mankind is still at least a couple centuries away from figuring out that yanking a species out of its natural habitat and transplanting it somewhere else is a dumb idea.
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- By Jordan Rudow
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The 5 Most Sadistic 'Game Over' Scenes in Video Game History
When a simple handwritten middle finger to the player would have sufficed, these jerks built a laser, carved the letters into the moon, then bombed NASA so nobody could ever erase it.
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- By Gavin Jamieson
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