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An Earl Got A Shrine Built To His Own Severed Leg
This was a 19th-century version of Wikifeet.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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2 How White Claw Decapitated The Hard Beverage Market
The skinny can that silently took over the alcohol business.
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- By Eli Yudin
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4 Beliefs About The 'Good' Old Days That Are Full Of Crap
The problem with the ideal past is that it never really existed. That doesn’t stop people from having beliefs about the old days that are full of crap, though.
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- By Michael Dawson
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The Misunderstood History Of Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau
A little more political advisor, a little less Papa Midnite.
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Problems That Used To Be Way More Of A Pain To Deal With
Despite many differences, the one similarity shared thing we humans all have in common is that terrible things will happen, often through no agency of your own.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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Candy Corn: The Complete History of the Worst Halloween Candy
There's no more divisive candy out there, which makes sense because there's no other candy that's based on a grain.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The 15 Scariest Cults You’ve Never Heard Of
Wherever there are lost souls searching for meaning, there are sociopathic swindlers eager to exploit them for their own financial, sexual, or plain old evil gain.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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GUBU, or The Wild Crime Spree That Rocked Ireland In The 1980s
If you're looking for the most wanted criminal in the land, check the attorney general's house first.
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- By Alex Hanton
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The Real Winnie the Pooh (Was a Canadian Army Pet)
There really was a gentle black bear named Winnie that won the hearts of London zoogoers, including Christopher Robin Milne.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Skin Crawling Specifics About Serial Killer Ed Gein
The real-life story of society's worst seamster.
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Bananas Forgotten Scandals From US Political History
Remember that time in the '80s when seven congressmen went to jail?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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A Mystery Man Impersonated Truman To Make Israel A Country
'Somebody called up the President of Haiti and he said that it was I.'
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The 2016 Clown Sightings: Was It All Just a Hoax?
As if 2016 wasn't already weird and miserable enough, remember when people started seeing creepy clowns lurking everywhere and we were all like, "Sure, why not, death in a sewer, here we come"?
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Enlighten Yourself With The History Of The Jack-O-Lantern
From ghost deterrent to world's worst candy bucket.
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- By Eli Yudin
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Famine and Formaldehyde: The Long and Occasionally Gross History of Milk
When you think about it, it's pretty gross that we're all going around slurping bovine breastmilk down with our Frappuccinos and bubble tea.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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