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Some of these folks clawed their way up from mundanity simply by having immense balls.

• By David Rheinhart
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• August 28, 2014

These the most famous artificially created languages around.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• August 26, 2014

Things we assume were left in the distant past have a way of lingering on, decades or centuries longer than you'd have thought.

• By Xavier Jackson, Evan V. Symon , Aaron Granger
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• August 21, 2014

People have been noticing the deceitfulness of the world for a long time now, and history is littered with examples of people who have tried to do something about it. And they all failed.

• By Chris Bucholz
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• August 19, 2014

Turns out you never know who's selling you that bottle of Evan green label.

• By Alex Hanton, Virgil Texas
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• August 17, 2014

Given humankind's penchant for handling pretty much everything it encounters with complete and utter insanity, it's no surprise that some of our death rituals have gotten a little ... inspired.

• By Himanshu Sharma
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• August 09, 2014

You can rest assured that many of the 'modern' problems we deal with today were around in Grandpa's time, too.

• By Adam Wears, John Martin, Ruy Platt
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• July 30, 2014

These are men who know that wars aren't won by the side with the best gear and the coolest-looking toys. Wars are won by the side with the soldiers who want it hardest.

• By Robert Evans
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• July 29, 2014

When the robots finally take over and start sifting through the rubble that was Earth, they're going to come to the conclusion that ours was a mercy killing. Why? Because of ads like these.

• By Kristi Harrison
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• July 14, 2014

We're not sure where you run when you rob a whole nation.

• By Dave Snyder, John Martin
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• July 13, 2014

These artists beat the odds and achieved their dreams ... however stupid those dreams turned out to be.

• By Brendan McGinley
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• July 12, 2014

There's a reason Hollywood makes more movies about war than, say, wine tasting competitions.

• By Jacopo della Quercia , B.A. van Hecke, John Martin
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• July 12, 2014

War is a wacky, bizarre kind of hell.

• By Eric Yosomono
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• July 06, 2014

These awesome finds are still unclaimed after centuries ... or at least they were, before we posted this article.

• By Alex Sinclair Lack
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• July 04, 2014

Believe it or not, the Internet didn't invent having bad opinions. To demonstrate, let me present a selection of jerks who eventually had to eat their own terrible words.

• By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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• June 26, 2014