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Bonehead Reason Coca-Cola Was Only A Nickel For Over 70 Years
Open Happiness -- it's only empty one out of nine times.
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- By Cedric Voets
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23 The Eyebrow-Arching Tale Of The 'Q' Of 2000, John Titor
Turns out that posting on wild claim on Internet forums of inside knowledge of society inner working and future events and actually being believed isn't new.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Victorian-era England Fought Public Peeing With ... Architecture?
The wonders of geometry, everyone.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Creepshow Unsolved Crimes
All of these true stories are like 30 True Detective episodes rolled into one.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Goofy Ways Designing The Euro Was A Major Pain
The Euro is the perfect symbol of the EU -- the good, the bad and the bureaucratic.
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- By Cedric Voets
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One of the World's Most Prolific Serial Killers Was ... A Yugoslavian Grannie
It’s a real shame that her trial took place before the advent of television.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Preacher Who Tried To End Inequality By Building A Robot Jesus
Have you tried turning your Messiah on and off again?
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Unsolved Mysteries To Stroke Your Chin Over
We know it's our responsibility to investigate every crime, but things have been hectic lately, and we've fallen behind.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Huge Scandals That Now Seem Pretty Dumb In Retrospect
If things are getting back to normal, that means we'll get back to making a huge deal over the dumbest things.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Everyone Wants to Take Credit For Hitler's Dumb Mustache
It was controversial way before it became associated with the ultimate evil.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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4 Shocking Aspects Of Zoo Animal Robberies Nobody Talks About
Tiger King was but the tip of the iceberg, folks.
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- By Alex Hanton
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A Grim Loophole A Korean King Used To Kill His (Serial Killer?) Son
What’s in the box? Nothing -- yet.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Germans Started Solving Secret Soviet Crimes (A Piece At A Time)
Trying to see the bigger picture, one string of paper at a time.
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- By Cedric Voets
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The Halifax Slasher, The Blood-Thirsty Public Menace ... Who Didn't Exist
Plot twist: There never was a Halifax Slasher.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The 4 Racist Defining Moments In Gun Control History
Like a lot of origins of American history, it has roots in crapping on Black people.
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- By Michael Dawson
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