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6 Everyday Things Designed For Ridiculously Sexist Reasons
Sexism brought us a whole lot of bad things, but sometimes people screwed up and they accidentally brought us things that are really nice to have.
- By Amanda Mannen
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- January 21, 2016
It Could Happen Here: 5 Ways Civil War Changes Modern Life
While they were busy getting degrees, raising families and starting careers, a civil war snuck up and slapped the people of Ukraine right in their pants.
- By Robert Evans, Anonymous, Jim Kovpak
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- January 20, 2016
5 Complaints About Modern Life (That Are Secretly Total BS)
The Athenians were so inundated with lawsuits that they had a special term for the sort of person who litigates if you look at them funny.
- By Gregory Maus
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- January 03, 2016
5 Of Hitler's Worst Ideas You Didn't Know Came From America
The Nazi's were like a bad tv-spinoff of America.
- By Melissa Dylan
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- December 07, 2015
The 6 Most Badass Secret Spy Missions America Got Away With
Sometimes stealing a helicopter is as simple as swooping in at night and taking it while no one is looking. Seriously.
- By Michael Hossey
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- November 24, 2015
6 Super Valuable Pieces Of Crap Hiding In People's Homes
There are some lucky bastards out there whose accidental discoveries made their entire lives. The best part? They didn't even have to leave their own homes.
- By Abraham Mireles, Laura H
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- November 22, 2015
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
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