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55 Unbelievable Facts About US Presidents
Every president has been bizarre in their own special way.
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- By Cracked Writers, Ryan Menezes
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55 'New England Vampire Panic' Was Even Dumber Than The 'Salem Witch Trials'
At least they could blame a poor understanding of science.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Crazy Real Story Of Wisconsin's Massage Parlor (And Cyanide) Murders
Whodunit? The real answer may be weirder than anyone guessed.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars Traded Sprinkles For Shotguns
Get a cone of ice-cold steel.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Chainsaws Were Originally Invented To Assist With Childbirth
This was regarded as the 'more precise and humane option.'
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- By Amanda Mannen
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4 Stupidly Unlucky Ways People Died
Sometimes Death gets bored and creative.
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- By Christian Markle
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4 Notable Moments From History (That Got Overshadowed By Bigger Ones)
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- By Mark Hill
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That Time Britain's MI5 Employed Boy Scouts As Spies
Be prepared (to garrot enemy infiltrators)
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Real Survival Adventures That Deserve Their Own Movies
These people grew strong, and they learned how to get along.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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6 Inspiring Political Quotes From History (That Today Would Be Mocked Mercilessly)
Nowadays we're not going to fawn over any president's words like we used to.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Bobbing For Apples, Like Most Things, Started For Sex Reasons
Hundreds of years ago, it was a game you played to flirt with your target, like pub trivia today.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Russia's 'GTA Gang' Was As Cartoonishly Violent As They Sound
5 Stars -- the Moscow police.
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- By Cedric Voets
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The Horrific Mystery Of The Arctic's Stupidest Expedition
Over a hundred men died, and it all happened because one Sir John Franklin just couldn't stop pitching a tent for an unbelievably bad idea ...
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- By Mac Faber
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The Sad, Creepy, Tale Of India's Fake Royal Family In A Dead Palace
The royal line of Ouch.
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- By Cedric Voets
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Victorian-Era 'Willy Wonka' Gave Kids Poisoned Candy
Please, sir, can I have some more arsenic?
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- By Cedric Voets
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