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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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14 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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Oops, Hamilton Did Own Slaves
He was Venmo-ing his in-laws for people the same way you would for cocktails at brunch.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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One Medieval Royal Assassin Had The World's Crappiest Job
A royal ass-assination.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Thomas Edison Invented Christmas Lights as a Publicity Stunt
... which is to say he took someone else’s design and made it a little better.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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In the '40s, The American Medical Association Blocked U.S. Universal Healthcare?
Thanks, jerks.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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4 Famous Smart People With Little-Known Problems
Stupid, uh, finds a way ...
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- By Mark Hill
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5 People Who Cut Themselves Off From The Modern World
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Times Historical Figures Teamed Up (School Never Taught)
Bill Murray plus Hunter S. Thompson plus shotguns equals this article.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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