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5 People Who Changed the World and Got Jack Squat for It
Thanks for inventing the most iconic McDonald’s item of all time, please enjoy this commemorative plaque
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Five Adventurers Who Ended Up As Someone’s Dinner
Sometimes all you’re really discovering is a bunch of cannibals with a taste for human flesh
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- By Mike Rampton
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5 People Who Survived Their Own Executions
These people were bulletproof, nothing to lose. Fire away, fire away
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Historical Figures Who Lived Their Lives in Permanent Goblin Mode
Apparently you can be a sex symbol with a half-finished dinner stuffed in your bedsheets
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Products Named After American Places That Have Nothing to Do with Them
Kinda sucks that no one actually from Arizona is allowed to call their drink ‘Arizona ice tea’
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5 Household Names Who Probably Shouldn’t Be
Way too many people out there rocking polos with a Nazi’s name on them
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Ridiculous Lengths Companies Have Gone to Protect Their Intellectual Property
Your corporate espionage won’t work here, no sir
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Funerals That Went Off the Rails
Sometimes, funerals end with even more people dead
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Fashion Trends That Created Highly Stylish Corpses
You’re positively glowing (in the dark)
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Primitive Predecessors to Today’s Snack Foods
Mmmm... onion nuggets
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 People Who Saved the Day By Sucking at Their Jobs
The Axis forces were undone by a bit of shoddy math
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- By Eli Yudin
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Five Severed Body Parts That Nearly Accomplished More Than the Famous People They Belonged To
At the very least, they certainly saw more of the world
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- By Mike Rampton
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5 Children Who Avenged Their Fathers' Deaths
Happy Father’s Day! Prepare to die
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Four Floods That Were Dangerously Delicious
That tsunami of liquid still might be deadly, but it sure tastes sweeter when it’s made of chocolate
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- By Mike Rampton
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5 Innocent Things Banned as Bad Influences
What’s that, you love lamps? Sorry. Lamps are not allowed
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