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The Monopoly Guy Never Had A Monocle: 4 Lies We All Believe
Our collective memory of pop culture is all a sham.
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- By Stephan Roget
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364 7 WTF Acts Of Madness Committed By History's Worst Dictators
They say that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but they rarely mention that it also gives you some really freaking bizarre hobbies.
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- By Kelly Stone
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5 Coincidences That Made The Modern World
The world as you know it only exists because of a series of staggering, unintuitive, or downright stupid coincidences.
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- By Kian Lastman
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8 Unbelievably WTF Photos Of Famous Places In The Past
A lot of famous landmarks have a certain period in their past where they looked more like a cannibal nightclub than something you'd put on a postcard.
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- By Justin Crockett
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6 Familiar Jobs (That Once Looked Crazy As Hell)
Even in the worst employment circumstances, however, few of us have had to deal with the monstrous outfits our great-grandparents wore to work.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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6 WTF Challenges Soldiers Face (That You Won’t Believe)
Today's modern soldiers have to contend with things you never did when playing with G.I. Joes in your bedroom.
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- By Michael Hossey
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7 Concepts We Totally Take For Granted, Like 'White People'
Possibly the weirdest thing humans do is come up with something and then immediately act like it's always been around.
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- By Nathan Kamal, Jordan Breeding
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5 Amazing Relics (Discovered In The Dumbest Way Possible)
These lucky so-and-so's not only stumbled onto amazing gifts from the universe itself but they found them while sleepwalking through their everyday lives.
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- By Chris Radomile
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Mind-Blowing Celebrity Connections That Seem Impossible
Celebrities being friends is not unusual. What is, however, is how many celebrities from totally different fields (or even time periods) knew each other before they got famous.
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- By Rachel P.
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5 People History Credits With 'Firsts' (Who Weren't First)
The first guy to sail to the New World, the first guy to perform successful heart surgery, and the first guy to have a 20-inch wiener all have something in common: They might be lying.
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- By Zach Sands, PhD, Ivan Farkas
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6 Dark Details History Usually Leaves Out (For Good Reason)
The more you learn about the past, the more you prefer the vague, sterile version of it you were taught in school.
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- By Stephan Roget
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5 WTF Mass Panics You Never Learned About In History Class
Turns out, we LOVE witch hunts. We do them all the time, whether we're freaking out about clowns, the poor, or yes, even vampires.
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- By Justin Crockett
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5 Insane Historical Theories That Make Way Too Much Sense
We're not saying these folks are right -- hell, we're not even saying they're sane. We're just saying what if?
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- By Nathan Williams
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6 Bible Stories Where The Moral Was 'Haha F*ck You, I'm God'
Amidst all the moral lessons and dubious historical accounts, the Bible is chock full of examples of God just messing with people.
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- By Israel SH
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6 Extremely Wrong (But Hilarious) Scientific Beliefs
Here's some stuff about orgasms and poop.
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- By Rachel P.
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