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The Weird Nazi Tiny Tanks You Never Learned About In School
Teeny tanks played an explosive role in WWII until everyone figured out their one dumb weakness.
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52 Native Americans Treated Trans People Better Than We Do Now
Hundreds of years ago, some Native American tribes actually held a deep respect for people who identified themselves as outside the gender binary -- or as they were called, 'two-spirits.'
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5 World Leaders Who Did The Opposite Of What You'd Expect
Sometimes we get the story wrong entirely, and it's not like the biopic is going to correct us.
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5 Cities That Changed Unrecognizably In Only A Few Decades
It takes ages for a city to truly change. But there are exceptions
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5 Famous People Whose Corpses Got Desecrated In Crazy Ways
Powerful people have powerful enemies, and the dead have a hard time fighting back
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- By E. J. Diaz
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The Miraculous Cat That Survived THREE Shipwrecks
It's standard practice for ships to keep station cats aboard for keeping the mice at bay.
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7 WTF Details About Historical Events Everyone Forgets
Sometimes we ignore all of the chaotic insanity that typically accompanies history.
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- By Kelly Stone
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The Nazi Outpost In Canada That No One Noticed
A Nazi U-boat infiltrated Canada and no one figured it out until 1981.
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The Secret History Of The French Horse-Butt Sniper
What’s a better sniping position than shooting through a fake horse’s anus?
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That Time A Nazi Submarine Captain Sank His Ship By Flushing
And you thought pooping in your new date’s bathroom was embarrassing.
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The Gay Bomb: A Real Thing The US Military Considered
How was this an actual plan in the 1990s???
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5 Shocking Laws Modern Countries Had Until A Few Years Ago
Some supposedly modern societies end up ridiculously behind the curve.
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- By Daisy Walters, Andrea Meno, Roman Odarenko
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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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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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