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5 Famous Wars That Showed Up in the Last Place You'd Expect
Some should've told these people to get a friggin' map.
- By Evan V. Symon
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- March 23, 2013
The 5 Shadiest Crimes Ever Pulled Off by Famous Corporations
Some of our most recognizable corporations are sitting on more machine gunnings and convoluted criminal conspiracies than you can throw at the last 30 minutes of a Die Hard movie.
- By Evan V. Symon
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- March 21, 2013
6 Inspiring Ways Internet Mobs Have Come to the Rescue
The Internet doesn't usually appear in the media for the most positive of reasons. But it is possible for Internet users to join together for good and not evil.
- By Jeff Sloan
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- March 17, 2013
5 Myths About the Revolutionary War Everyone Believes
Bloody, heroic and seasoned with all kinds of awesome, the entire eight-year period was dripping with fantastic stories and scrappy underdog moments. (Or was it?)
- By J. Wisniewski
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- March 16, 2013
5 Horrific Disasters That Made Human Life Possible
Life as we know it was only able to form because the universe likes to slap us around every few billion years. It's a form of tough love.
- By Sebastien Paquin
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- March 13, 2013
5 Shocking Scenes You Won't Believe Are in the Bible
If many of the most iconic features of Christianity aren't taking up space in the holy book, it makes one wonder just what, in fact, is in there.
- By Jacopo della Quercia , Douglas A. McDonnell
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- March 13, 2013
5 Literary Classics That Put X-Rated Movies to Shame
When people actually sit down and read the books they've always heard about, they find themselves blindsided by the hardcore sexual depravity everyone so often fails to mention.
- By Rich Solomon
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- March 07, 2013
5 Shockingly Advanced Ancient Buildings That Shouldn't Exist
It turns out the engineers of times past were nothing to sneer at, and some of their accomplishments make ours seem slightly embarrassing.
- By Eric Yosomono, Welldone Quibranza, Alaric Penname
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- March 07, 2013
6 Inventors Who Changed the World and Got Screwed in Return
Some inventors get so little credit that we completely forgot about them, and since we really don't like angering the ghosts of people who could probably invent a way to punch us from beyond the grave, here they are.
- By Karl Smallwood, Mike Floorwalker
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- March 03, 2013
5 Miracles Deleted From the Bible For Being Too Awesome
There are whole other books that used to be part of the Bible, until someone took a hard look and said, 'No way.' And it's too bad, because some of the miracles performed in these apocryphal texts are freaking amazing.
- By Brian Thompson
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- February 23, 2013
5 Groundbreaking Firsts That Your History Books Lied About
It turns out that a whole lot of famous firsts are credited to the wrong people, due to politics, bad luck, or outright lies.
- By Chris Radomile, Eddie Rodriguez, Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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- February 17, 2013
5 Hilarious Reasons Publishers Rejected Classic Best-Sellers
It turns out that some of the most-read books in the world were in fact rejected for some really preposterous reasons over the years.
- By Aren Wilborn
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- February 13, 2013
6 Famous Things From History That Didn't Actually Exist
We've really botched some history in the name of so-so television.
- By Matt Martin, Paige Turner
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- February 11, 2013
5 Obsessive Weirdos Who Made the World a Better Place
Whatever your fixation was, you probably outgrew it and moved on to something else. We can't say the same about these guys, because their freakish infatuations changed the world.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- February 09, 2013
The 10 Creepiest Cat Pictures in Art History
I realize that many of you love cats. Sadly, I don't share your zest, as I'm allergic as hell to the animals.
- By Cyriaque Lamar
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- January 29, 2013
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