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'Doctors Should Wash Their Hands' Used To Be Controversial
You'd think 'Wash your hands for half a minute. Worst-case scenario, you get clean hands' would be a pretty inoffensive suggestion.
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64 The Wild West Was Not As Murder-Filled As You Imagine
Turns out, the Wild West wasn't one big nonstop shootout.
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Cat Bombs: Maybe The Dumbest Idea Of The Middle Ages?
It may look like those animals are wearing jetpacks, but the truth is considerably grimmer.
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7 Dark AF Ways Your Ancestors Had Fun
Back in the day, our ancestors had a lot fewer things around to entertain them. Maybe that's why they came up with all this crazy stuff ...
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Delightfully Crazy Ways People Tried To Contact the Dead
We can't agree on what happens to us after we die. Luckily, there have been plenty of spiritual pioneers who took it upon themselves to ask the only people who know the answer ...
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6 Real Scandals Crazier Than Anything On 'House Of Cards'
Real politicians aren't our there murdering dogs or pushing their enemies to certain death, right? Come on, of course they've done all of that and worse.
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- By Alex Hanton
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The Board Game 'Life' Used To Kill Its Players
The Game of Life used to be much, much darker.
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6 Terrible Stereotypes (That Came From Positive Things)
The world is not fair.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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Henry VIII Wore What Was Basically A Loki Helmet
At one point, Henry really lived up to the supervillain stereotype.
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5 Horrible Dictators Who Had Totally WTF Hobbies
We'd love to say that being in a position of power brings out the best in people...
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- By Kelly Stone
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4 Scary Moments In History That Were Worse Than You Realized
Like a Kinder Surprise, if the chocolate was horror and the surprise was even more horror.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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In The 1950s, America Wanted To Nuke The Moon
Throughout the course of history, the U.S. has at least attempted to put a military base or nuclear weapons in just about any location you can dream up. The moon was no exception.
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4 Dark Easter Eggs In Famous Cities (Hiding In Plain Sight)
Look hard enough, and you'll see that cities and towns are still pockmarked with creepy remnants of wars gone by.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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The Incredible True Christmas Story From WWII's Dark Days
There's a limit to our suspension of disbelief in regards to Christmas miracles, and that limit is Nazis.
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- By John Champion
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5 Hilarious 2017 Twitter Moments You Might've Missed
Twitter is a yawning gyre of GIFs, random maniacs screaming into the endless void in search of a meager morsel of meaning, and dog photos.
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