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5 Horrifying Things Parents Used To Do To Babies
We can now add 'caring for the young of our own species' to the list of things humanity has managed to screw up.
- By C. Coville
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- November 18, 2015
5 Common Insults That Reveal Dark Things About Society
'Slut' or something much worse is currently tops to degrade a female perceived as promiscuous, but 'hussy' is a close relative and once the preferred a-bomb of past a-holes.
- By Karen Baxter
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- November 12, 2015
6 Deadly Serious Cold War Moments (That Now Look Hilarious)
Wars aren't wacky. But wars are fought by people, and people -- if the feces-wracked flow of the stagnant fjord of human history has taught us anything -- are truly, deeply stupid.
- By Amanda Mannen
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- November 11, 2015
Your Neighbors Try To Murder You: 6 Realities In A Genocide
We sat down with a survivor of the Bosnian genocide to try to get some small hint of what it's like, and to try to understand how this even happens.
- By Robert Evans, Sudbin
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- November 10, 2015
5 Dark Secrets You Never Noticed About Sesame Street
If you grew up with Sesame Street, you learned about a whole bunch of different disorders without even knowing it.
- By Matt Cowan
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- November 03, 2015
6 Horrible Historical Disasters (We Actually Saw Coming)
We've got some finger pointing to do.
- By Adam Wears
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- November 01, 2015
16 Early Photographs That Prove History Was Evil
The past contained a lot more mind-numbing terror than history class was comfortable revealing to you.
- By Mark Hill
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- October 28, 2015
6 Horrifying Facts That Get Left Out Of History
If you think your future knowledge would help you in the past, we have bad news for you.
- By Joe Hayes
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- October 21, 2015
5 Huge Marketing Campaigns That Were Complete Catastrophes
Sometimes the brainwashing overlords in charge of telling us what to buy go wildly off the rails, and it's always fun to sit back and soak in their failure.
- By Chris Rio, Evan V. Symon
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- October 18, 2015
6 Shockingly Badass People Who Lived In The 19th Century
When you think of the Victorian era you probably picture sexually repressed spinsters and sad little orphans. Not so fast though.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- October 16, 2015
6 Stupid Bets That People Won As Insanely As Possible
Once Eisenhower's chief of staff bet General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery a B-17 Flying Fortress, he was going to get it.
- By Aaron Short
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- October 13, 2015
5 Women From History Who Were Basically Magic At Sex
Here are some historical women whose creative sexual resumes stand up to any man's.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- September 23, 2015
4 Terrifying Historical Crimes No One Can Explain
Quick, friend, grab your trusty magnifying glass and put on your best research pants.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- September 21, 2015
5 Things You Say Often With Horrible Historical Origins
It's fascinating to trace the origins of everyday phrases back and find out just how many of them were not only slang, but terms that referenced unspeakable horror.
- By Steve Shapiro
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- September 14, 2015
5 Artifacts That Prove Ancients Were Some Sick M'fers
When you go sifting through the shockingly explicit artifacts left behind by great civilizations, you find that modern society is pretty tame.
- By Laura H
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- August 30, 2015
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