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The Wild (Incestuous) Story Of The 'Adam and Eve' Of Hamsters
It involves infanticide, cannibalism, incest, and some combinations thereof.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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20 That Time Tesla Casually Invented The Cattle Prod
Let's go to the circus with Uncle Nikola.
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 WTF Spy Tech Plans That Somehow Worked
James Bond's Q has been putting in too much work.
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- By Nathan Williams
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The Nun Who Who Claimed To Taste Jesus's Foreskin
Even her fellow devotees thought she was weird.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Fun Places in America With Screwed-Up Racist Histories
Do you enjoy being told that things are racist? If not, too bad.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Trans And Non-Conforming Badasses That Never Made It To History Books
Badass doesn't have a gender.
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- By Chris Corlew
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5 Old (And Odd) Origins Of Common Fashions
Sometimes being fashionable wasn't about being frivolous.
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- By Christian Markle
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The Battle Of The Golden Spurs Was Belgium's 'Braveheart' Moment
And not just because Mel Gibson can't do a Flemish accent either.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Joan of Arc's Trusted Bodyguard Turned Out To Be Pedophile Serial Killer
When it came to protecting young bodies, he was 1 - 100.
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- By Cedric Voets
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4 Crazy Forgotten Side Stories From World War II
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- By Mark Hill
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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.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Obituaries Have Never Been A Dying Artform
From poetry to True Crime, obits have tried it all.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Paper Airplanes Existed Long Before Real Ones
Is the answer finally aliens?!
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Colombia Has a Huge Hippo Problem Thanks to Pablo Escobar
They are, in fact, hungry, hungry hippos.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Potato Chip That Destroyed The Bowels Of America
If Olestra chips were a thing today, they would last 35 minutes before social media turned on them.
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- By Alex Hanton
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