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Did the Mastermind of the James Bond Cinematic Universe Really Kill the Creator of the Three Stooges?
According to Hollywood lore, Ted Healy, the man behind Moe, Larry and Curly, was beaten to death by three men, including 007 producer Albert Broccoli. But is the tale based in fact or fiction?
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- By Brian VanHooker
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3 6 of the Craziest Adventures Ever All Happened to the Same Guy
Meet Robert Bartlett who shipwrecked over and over and kept saving people’s lives
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Parts of Everyday Life We Owe to the Energy Crisis
Speed limits aren’t about safety. They were a failed government plan to save on gas
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Great Dublin Whiskey Fire: Zero Deaths from Fire, Several from Booze
Despite the harrowing flames, instead of running to safety, many Irish boozehounds chose instead to drink the industrial-strength whiskey that filled the streets and set the city ablaze in the first place
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- By Mike Rampton
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The Dead Man Who Won A Horse Race
In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes began his first-ever steeplechase alive and well. He placed first, his horse winning by a head, but unfortunately, he didn’t live long enough to see the winner’s circle, perishing sometime before he crossed the finish line
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- By Mike Rampton
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How the Letter X Became the Sexiest Letter in the Alphabet
What is it about these two crossed lines that brings connotations of hotness?
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- By Mike Rampton
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Ironic Things 5 Famous People Were Doing the Very Morning of Their Assassination
If you saw any of these in a movie, you’d roll your eyes in disbelief
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- By Ryan Menezes
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3 Problems That Just Disappeared (That Actually Didn’t)
You know who remembers Y2K? A whole lot of IT professionals
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- By Eli Yudin
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The Grossest, Weirdest Things Done By Brilliant People
Hey Einstein, you gonna finish that grasshopper?
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Endeavors That Took So Long, They Turned Out to Be Pointless
Time makes fools of us all, but especially of these people
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The World’s Most Catastrophic Parties
It’s not a real party unless several people die
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Revered Historical Figures Who Were Certified Numbnuts
Pythagoras might have me beat on math, but I’ve got him beat on knowing about beans
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- By Eli Yudin
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4 Defunct Historical Companies Worth More Than Any Modern Megacorporation
There’s a lot of money in the trade of oil, spices and people
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Historical Fashion Trends Caused By Gross Diseases
Skirts got shorter and shoes became more important because of tuberculosis, codpieces became popular because of syphilis and hats became mainstreamed because of smallpox
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Humble Last Wishes of Famous Figures That We Completed Ignored
Some people die and demand a pyramid. Not these guys
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- By Ryan Menezes
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