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WARNING: This articles contains centuries-old mummy wiener and sex toys.
- By Marina Reimann
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- June 05, 2015
Sometimes, people who have near-death experiences report going in a different direction.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- May 21, 2015
You probably think The Cold War was a sort of well-orchestrated military balancing act. But frankly the more you read about it the less it seems like the work of adults.
- By Winston Rowntree
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- May 18, 2015
The Cold War was a 40-year pissing contest in which the entire world's population kept a constant eye on the news, with a never-ending fear that one side or the other would whap their big, red Armageddon button first.
- By Nathan Williams
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- May 13, 2015
You can actually make yourself feel a whole lot better about your life today merely by reminding yourself of a few key things about the past.
- By Chris Fox
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- May 05, 2015
Most of our assumptions about what marriage was like back in the day are complete bullshit.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- April 29, 2015
We want to emphasize the word 'theories' here -- none of these have been proven, and probably never will be.
- By Nathan Williams
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- April 29, 2015
The pages of history are littered with characters with incredible powers, insane origin stories, and armies of faceless goons to deploy them on. Here are five of the fist-fistingest.
- By Chris Bucholz
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- April 23, 2015
Frolic with me through these stories of historical, murderous strangeness.
- By Pauli Poisuo
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- April 16, 2015
When future archaeologists look back at our era thousands of years from now, they'll reach two major conclusions: 1) our subway system was very inefficient and bizarrely sandwich-centric, and 2) we were morons.
- By Adam Wears
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- April 10, 2015
When we recently heard from a man who managed to escape from one of these places -- by trekking through the desert, on foot -- we had to hear his story.
- By Robert Evans, Dylon Peven
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- April 08, 2015
We sent a writer out to Vietnam to speak with Nguyen Hoa Giai. He fought as a Viet Cong from the late 1950s to the end of the war in the mid-'70s. Here's what he told us.
- By Evan V. Symon , Nguyen Hoa Giai
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- March 27, 2015
A Transalantic discussion of our global holiday
- By Luke McKinney, Brendan McGinley
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- March 17, 2015
Prior to 9/11, we could scarcely believe such a thing was even possible. But that's only because our memories totally suck.
- By Zachary Frey
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- March 17, 2015
Not even famous geniuses make great stuff all the time.
- By Kathy Benjamin
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- March 12, 2015
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