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The Horrible Truth About Ancient Egyptian Doctors & The Poor
They went out of their way to destroy poor corpses.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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6 George Washington Looooved Ice Cream
He owned dozens of implements just for serving ice cream.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Teen Soldier Who Survived Jumping On Two Grenades
He also survived jumping out of plane, chutes failing.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Real Chef Boyardee Was A Famous Gourmet
He catered President Wilson's wedding.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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How Pizza Became The King Of Junk Food
From trashy food for poor Italians to a (still trashy) billion dollar industry.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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The True Story Of How Batman Stopped A Cannibal Bandit
Batman caught many criminals. Then he put on a mask.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Potatoes Were Pig Feed, Till We Learned How To Cook Them
Bacon and potatoes go great together.
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America's Dystopian '50s Housing Now Looks Utopian
'We're better than this,' said the '70s. As with everything, they were wrong.
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Mounds Candy Had Its Own Anti-Nazi Navy
Germany underestimated them because Mounds is such a lame candybar.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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How Valentine's Day Became All About Candy
$1.8 billion on Valentine's Candy? Really?
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- By Justin Crockett
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The Military Engineered A Special Chocolate That Tasted Horrible
No, not for the enemy. For their own soldiers.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Morons Who Made Disasters Worse
Lifejackets should NOT be stuffed with iron.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Strange, Dark Tale Of The Oxford English Dictionary's Creation
By day, the formerly respected surgeon would comb through sentences and curate quotations for the OED. By night, he would “Home Alone” his room with booby-traps.
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- By Zanandi Botes
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The Wildest Holiday In History: Gwyl Mabsant
The Welsh festival of Gwyl Mabsant was a weeklong party complete with gambling and lots of booze.
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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Bread Stamps Helped Prevent Fraud in Ancient Rome
A simple technology of the time, Roman bakers used special stamps to mark their loaves.
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- By Ethan Tyrrell
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