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The Creepiest Dish In French Cuisine (Is Eating A Lil' Bird In One Bite)
The ortolan is a small songbird that’s considered a French delicacy, but it ain’t no chicken.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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9 Anatoly Slivko, the Terrifying Soviet Necrophiliac Serial Killer
He was like a Soviet Hannibal Lecter, though he sucked at it.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Rude Statues That Caused Athens' Democratic Downfall
Classic(al) pranks.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Japan's Urine Gangs And Their 'Pee Scam' Left Victims High And (Not) Dry
They were the original 'Wet Bandits.'
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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The (Accident Riddled) History Of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an absurd helium-filled mess.
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Unkillable People Who Stared Death In The Face And Said "Not Today"
They store down Death. Death blinked.
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- By Nathan Williams
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One Of America's Most Nightmarish Monsters Was A Nice Old Lady
Meet Georgia Tann: adoption advocate, kindly senior, and ghoul who stole 5,000 children.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Eye Rolling Was Your Grandparents' DTF Sign
As comical as that sounds, we scrunch up half of our faces as we close one eye to express the same thing today, so we can’t exactly talk.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Georgia O'Keeffe Hated People Thinking Her Flower Paintings Are 'Vaginas'
Naturally, the person responsible for making sure everyone perverted O’Keeffe’s pretty flowers was a man.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Of The Weirdest Things (That Managed To Happen Twice)
Life is random. Which means some things don't feel random at all.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Meet Crazy Eddie, The Least Boring Grifter In American History
His prices were almost as insane as his, well, decades of corporate malfeasance.
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- By Alex Hanton
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The First Dinosaur Fossil ... Looked Like A Ballsack
There's just no getting around it ...
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Throwing Politicians Out Of Windows: A Prague Historical Tradition
Religious equality spread throughout the nation, all thanks to a few groups of dedicated countrymen ... who tossed their political leaders out a window.
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- By Max Mitchem
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The Tale Of The Bloody Benders: America's Original Serial Killing Family
The family that slays together, stays together.
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- By Willie Muse
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That Time The Emperor Of Russia Went Around Shaving Off Everybody's Beards
Be grateful now that you can enjoy a beard without the president shaving it off of you at a party.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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