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15 Famous Ghosts To Get Freaked Out By
The who's who of famous boos.
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- By Eli Yudin
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9 The Ripper Crew: The Scariest Cult You've Never Heard Of
It turns out the satanic panic wasn't THAT overblown.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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That One Time An Evil Baron Stole A Ton Of Arizona
How do you steal 20,000 square miles? With history's most complex ARG.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Shakespeare Got Rich Price Gouging The Hungry During A Famine
Meet Bill Shakespeare, tax evader.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Mind Piercing Facts About The Real Dracula, Vlad The Impaler
Fact 6? He was weirdly good at Boggle!
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- By Eli Yudin
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Rode A Barrel Down Niagara Falls, Then Lost It All Trying To Retrieve The Barrel
This is a tragic love story about a woman and her barrel.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Edgar Allan Poe Murder Conspiracy
As the original goth boi, it's only fitting that Edgar Allan Poe's death was as mysterious and haunting as one of his stories.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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An Easily Digestible Timeline Of Taco Bell's Rise To Power
The mad scientist of shame meals grew shockingly fast.
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- By Eli Yudin
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The Terrifying History of Anesthesia
We've thankfully come a long way from the days of biting bullets, but they're harrowingly close behind us.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Tylenol Murders: Why We Have Annoying Pill Bottles
The whole reason it’s a thing is because some madperson killed seven people in 1982 by poisoning random bottles of Tylenol, apparently for madperson reasons.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Coffee Anarchists Ruled Germany For A Week, And Declared War On Switzerland
They also complained to the Pope that their bathroom key was missing.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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7 Bone Chilling Lesser-Known Facts About Jeffrey Dahmer
Oh good, he worked in food manafacturing.
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- By Eli Yudin
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The Long and Not Always Tomatoy History of Ketchup
There was once a kaleidoscope of different and often questionable ketchups available.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Historically Baffling Weapons Militaries Actually Made
Even for the insatiable bloodlust of humankind, we went a little overboard with our weapons of war ...
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- By Mac Faber
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The Surprisingly Complicated Case of Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Mary gets a bad rap, considering she, you know, killed people.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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