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Mummies Got Packed With Mummy Snacks
Looks like mummy’s back on the menu.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Behold, A Strong Contender For The Best Headline Ever Written
Sometimes you just gotta go with what you know.
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- By Alex Hanton
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5 FBI Screw-Ups (They'd Really Like Everybody To Forget)
Like the wearers of those T-shirts from the boardwalk, the FBI experience spectacular failures.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Of The Weirdest Ways Toilets Shaped History
Everybody poops, and everybody needs to know these stories.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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Meet The Guys Who Made America's LSD ... In An Ol' Missile Silo
Sometimes you just gotta make an absolutely comical amount of acid in a missile silo, y'know?
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- By Alex Hanton
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5 Awkward Footnotes Hidden In History's Biggest Moments
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- By Nathan Williams
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'Coffee Shop Liberals' Goes Back to the 17th Century
Basically, they were trying to brand coffee drinkers as that era’s soy boys.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Immortality Potions Killed So Many Chinese Emperors
In a row...
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- By Cedric Voets
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The Trentonian, The Newspaper With The Most WTF Headlines In America
For years, New Jersey has been home to America's classiest newspaper.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Unsung War Heroes Who Deserve Their Own Movies
Some war heroes never get their moment in the spotlight. Let's change that, eh?
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- By Adam Wears
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An English Town is Known as 'Monkey Hangers' Because of the Stupidest War Legend
How on Earth is such a nickname earned? Some kind of unfortunate zoo shenanigans?
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 More Insane Facts That Will Change How You View Christianity
Yeah, there are some gaps and plot holes here ...
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- By Nathan Williams
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4 Everyday Foods With WTF Dark Histories
The stuff you shovel into your mouth has a darker history than you know ...
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- By Adam Wears
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America Wanted To Stop The Earth's Rotation To Trick Soviet Nukes
Money makes the world go round. Rockets make the earth go stop.
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 Status Symbols From The Past (That Now Seem Totally Ridiculous)
How were pineapples once worth more than gold?
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- By Ryan Menezes
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