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Wait -- Leprechauns Are Actually Italian?
A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, a pot of mama's bolognese at its origin.
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36 Missouri's Bizarre Modern-Day Lovecraftian Beauty Pageant
The eldritch spirit of St. Louis
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Very Unlikely Things We Got Thanks To Religion
What has religion given us, anyway? Quite a lot, actually.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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4 Scams That Are Older Than You Think
That scam email you received this morning might've been written a few hours ago, but it's been centuries in the making.
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- By Adam Wears
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Saying Aliens Built Ancient Monuments Isn't Only Crazy, It's Racist
Choosing the alien over the other.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Shocking Times First Responders Made Everything Worse
If your job is 'rescuing people,' you sorta need to do it right the first time.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Annoying 'Modern' Debates That Have Been Around Forever
Your grandparents were arguing about the same things.
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- By Nathan Williams
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Old-Timey Political Scandals (That Turned Completely Insane)
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- By Alex Hanton
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Finland's Military Finally Got Rid Of Its Swastikas
Turns out those things have a pretty sketchy history.
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- By Cedric Voets
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4 Famous Crimes Everybody Gets Wrong
Yeah, you're definitely remembering these incorrectly.
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- By Adam Wears
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A Brief History of Giant Rock, America's Most Bonkers Landmark
This is a story about time machines, aliens, a lot of dynamite, hermits, and a giant rock.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Insane Crimes IRL That Seem Like Fever Dreams
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- By Alex Hanton
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4 Very 2020 Hobbies Of Old-School Celebs
It's reassuring to know when we hear the news talk about how our hobbies are dumb bullshit, several icons of history did the exact same stuff during their downtime.
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- By Adam Wears
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6 Normal Places People Claimed Were The Sites Of Ancient Legends
Sometimes people just roll up to a random island and scream, 'This is the REAL Garden of Eden!'
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 Famous 2000s Things (That Were Actually Awful)
When one looks back at that decade, we were all complete morons.
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- By Nathan Williams
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