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Trans And Non-Conforming Badasses That Never Made It To History Books
Badass doesn't have a gender.
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- By Chris Corlew
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48 5 Old (And Odd) Origins Of Common Fashions
Sometimes being fashionable wasn't about being frivolous.
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- By Christian Markle
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The Battle Of The Golden Spurs Was Belgium's 'Braveheart' Moment
And not just because Mel Gibson can't do a Flemish accent either.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Joan of Arc's Trusted Bodyguard Turned Out To Be Pedophile Serial Killer
When it came to protecting young bodies, he was 1 - 100.
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- By Cedric Voets
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4 Crazy Forgotten Side Stories From World War II
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- By Mark Hill
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4 Noble (Yet Goofy) Attempts To Make The English Language Less Of A Trainwreck
The English language was invented by a collection of hairy men with poorly healed axe wounds to the head.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Obituaries Have Never Been A Dying Artform
From poetry to True Crime, obits have tried it all.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Paper Airplanes Existed Long Before Real Ones
Is the answer finally aliens?!
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Colombia Has a Huge Hippo Problem Thanks to Pablo Escobar
They are, in fact, hungry, hungry hippos.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Potato Chip That Destroyed The Bowels Of America
If Olestra chips were a thing today, they would last 35 minutes before social media turned on them.
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- By Alex Hanton
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6 Crazy Methods Prisoners Used To Escape Execution
You've been sentenced to die. How do you escape?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Football-Style Concussions Turned Henry VIII Into A Wife-Chopping Tyrant
Not the kind of blows to the head he was looking for.
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- By Cedric Voets
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'Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy' Loose Ends Finally Got Fixed (On The Radio?)
It ties up every loose end Adams had a maddening habit of leaving to dangle.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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No One Knows Why Romans Had X-Rated Coins
Believe it or not, official Roman currency didn’t bear dicks with wings.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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All Hail Josh, America's First (And Only) Emperor
Make America Imperial Again.
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- By Cedric Voets
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