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How A $40 Million Lotto Heist Changed Philosophy History
You don't get into philosophy for the money, but that doesn't mean you can't beat the odds.
- By Cedric Voets
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- October 05, 2020
How A Roman Emperor's Enemies Accidentally Turned Them Into A Trans Icon
How is making them extra awesome going to erase them from history?
- By Cedric Voets
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- October 04, 2020
The Wild (Incestuous) Story Of The 'Adam and Eve' Of Hamsters
It involves infanticide, cannibalism, incest, and some combinations thereof.
- By Amanda Mannen
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- October 04, 2020
That Time Tesla Casually Invented The Cattle Prod
Let's go to the circus with Uncle Nikola.
- By Cedric Voets
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- October 04, 2020
6 WTF Spy Tech Plans That Somehow Worked
James Bond's Q has been putting in too much work.
- By Nathan Williams
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- October 04, 2020
The Nun Who Who Claimed To Taste Jesus's Foreskin
Even her fellow devotees thought she was weird.
- By Amanda Mannen
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- October 03, 2020
5 Fun Places in America With Screwed-Up Racist Histories
Do you enjoy being told that things are racist? If not, too bad.
- By Ryan Menezes
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- October 03, 2020
Trans And Non-Conforming Badasses That Never Made It To History Books
Badass doesn't have a gender.
- By Chris Corlew
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- September 30, 2020
5 Old (And Odd) Origins Of Common Fashions
Sometimes being fashionable wasn't about being frivolous.
- By Christian Markle
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- September 30, 2020
The Battle Of The Golden Spurs Was Belgium's 'Braveheart' Moment
And not just because Mel Gibson can't do a Flemish accent either.
- By Cedric Voets
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- September 29, 2020
Joan of Arc's Trusted Bodyguard Turned Out To Be Pedophile Serial Killer
When it came to protecting young bodies, he was 1 - 100.
- By Cedric Voets
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- September 29, 2020
4 Noble (Yet Goofy) Attempts To Make The English Language Less Of A Trainwreck
The English language was invented by a collection of hairy men with poorly healed axe wounds to the head.
- By Alex Hanton
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- September 28, 2020
Obituaries Have Never Been A Dying Artform
From poetry to True Crime, obits have tried it all.
- By Cedric Voets
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- September 27, 2020
Paper Airplanes Existed Long Before Real Ones
Is the answer finally aliens?!
- By Amanda Mannen
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- September 27, 2020
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