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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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25 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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6 Crazy Methods Prisoners Used To Escape Execution
You've been sentenced to die. How do you escape?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Football-Style Concussions Turned Henry VIII Into A Wife-Chopping Tyrant
Not the kind of blows to the head he was looking for.
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- By Cedric Voets
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'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' Loose Ends Finally Got Fixed (On The Radio?)
It ties up every loose end Adams had a maddening habit of leaving to dangle.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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No One Knows Why Romans Had X-Rated Coins
Believe it or not, official Roman currency didn’t bear dicks with wings.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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All Hail Josh, America's First (And Only) Emperor
Make America Imperial Again.
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- By Cedric Voets
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In 19th-Century England, Men Sold Their Unhappy Spouses In Wife Auctions
At these locations, an unwanted wife could be auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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No One Figured Out Who 'Deep Throat' Was ... Except For Romcom Director Nora Ephron
To be fair, the creative mind behind 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'You’ve Got Mail' is probably not the most trustworthy source of political secrets.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Mummies Got Packed With Mummy Snacks
Looks like mummy’s back on the menu.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Behold, A Strong Contender For The Best Headline Ever Written
Sometimes you just gotta go with what you know.
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- By Alex Hanton
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5 FBI Screw-Ups (They'd Really Like Everybody To Forget)
Like the wearers of those T-shirts from the boardwalk, the FBI experience spectacular failures.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Of The Weirdest Ways Toilets Shaped History
Everybody poops, and everybody needs to know these stories.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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Meet The Guys Who Made America's LSD ... In An Ol' Missile Silo
Sometimes you just gotta make an absolutely comical amount of acid in a missile silo, y'know?
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