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4 Non-Lawyers Who Actually Successfully Represented Themselves in Court
It’s not recommended, but it’s not impossible either
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- By Eli Yudin
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4 5 Lonely Adventures from History’s Greatest Introverts
These people shut themselves away, without even the internet to keep them company
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Five Ways Life Was Different Before Basic Hygiene
Skid marks were actually a sign of excellent health as opposed to, you know, an inability to wipe yourself correctly
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- By Amanda Mannen
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12 Cordially Trolly Moments in Political History
In Ukraine, an apparently serious politician dressed as Darth Vader and even officially changed his name to match.
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- By Andrea Meno, Andres Diplotti
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11 Weirdly Innocent Codenames For High-Stakes (Or Simply Evil) Things
The British nuclear bomb program was called "Tube Alloys."
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- By JhallComics, Andrea Meno
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4 Ventures the U.S. Government Created by Accident
Some programs were created to do the exact opposite of what they do
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Six Fancy-Pants Authors Who Snuck Filth into Their Work
That Shakespeare is some kind of potty mouth
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- By Mike Rampton
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12 Times Wealthy Turds Screwed Over the Folks Who Built Their Fortunes or Saved Their Asses
When the Meta layoffs happened, the upper ranks somehow got fat bonuses.
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- By JhallComics, Andrea Meno
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5 People Who Changed the World and Got Jack Squat for It
Thanks for inventing the most iconic McDonald’s item of all time, please enjoy this commemorative plaque
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- By Eli Yudin
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Five Adventurers Who Ended Up As Someone’s Dinner
Sometimes all you’re really discovering is a bunch of cannibals with a taste for human flesh
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- By Mike Rampton
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5 People Who Survived Their Own Executions
These people were bulletproof, nothing to lose. Fire away, fire away
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- By Ryan Menezes
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11 Historical Figures Whose Bloodlines Have Stopped Cold
Syphilis ended the de Medicis.
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- By JhallComics, Andrea Meno
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5 Historical Figures Who Lived Their Lives in Permanent Goblin Mode
Apparently you can be a sex symbol with a half-finished dinner stuffed in your bedsheets
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- By Eli Yudin
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13 WWII-era Plans That Sound Like Bond Supervillain Schemes
The U.S. at one point considered releasing bats carrying bombs over Japan.
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- By Andrea Meno, JhallComics
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5 Products Named After American Places That Have Nothing to Do with Them
Kinda sucks that no one actually from Arizona is allowed to call their drink ‘Arizona ice tea’
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- By Ryan Menezes
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