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The 11 Creepiest Unsolved Crimes No One Can Explain (Part 2)
Horror stories are great and all, but around Halloween, we like to focus on the real stuff. You know, the monsters that could in fact be outside your house right now.
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- By Robin Warder, Janel Comeau, Tara Marie
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242 The 11 Creepiest Unsolved Crimes No One Can Explain: Part 1
Lots of you are too old and jaded to be kept awake at night by ghost stories and implausible urban legends. No, this time of year, you need something a little more real.
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- By Robin Warder, Janel Comeau, Tara Marie
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Hiroshima 'Shadows' And 4 Other Haunting Historical Remnants
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. But you know what? Remembering history ain't always so great, either.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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6 Anti-Trans Arguments That Sound Historically Familiar
History repeats itself, which is why we're still trotting out tired old arguments when it comes to transgender issues.
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- By Stephan Roget
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5 Shady Things The USSR Did That You Can't Even Exaggerate
It's a miracle we survived the Cold War.
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- By Christopher Charles Slayter, E.M. Caris
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4 Secretly Brilliant Details Of Art (You Mistook For Errors)
History is fraught with inexplicable artistic trends which seem silly to modern-day people. But if you look into it, sometimes there's are very good explanations for them.
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- By Rachel P.
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6 Fun Activities That Were Horrifying Throughout History
Pick even the tamest weekend activity out of the divorced dad's guidebook, and you'll find that the nearest equivalent in olden days was a horrific, inhuman distortion of what we have today.
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- By Nimby Smith, Carolyn Burke
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5 Epic Bouts of Drunkenness That Made The History Books
Behold, the inebriated shenanigans of a chosen few legendary drinkers, whose stumbling binges squatted in the face of logic, national security, and history, and ripped a wet, beery fart.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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The 5 Pettiest Abuses Of Power In Presidential History
Before you start harshly judging contemporary candidates against the dignified leaders of the good old days, you should keep in mind that all presidents were kind of petty.
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- By Kelly Stone
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6 Evil WW2 Plots That Were Actually Pursued By The Good Guys
It turns out the Allies could be just as deranged as the Axis when it came to thinking of ways to win the war, and no one gives them enough credit for that.
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- By Sergei Korolev
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5 Ways Minorities Were Screwed Out Of The History Books
It may be hard to tell, but America used to have a problem with discrimination -- which led to a bunch of legitimately impressive people of color getting totally screwed out of their rightful place in the annals of Stuff We Wrote Down.
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- By J.C Breen, Nate Yungman
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5 Ways You're Probably Picturing History Wrong
They say you can learn from history, but first you have to understand it. And humanity absolutely does not.
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- By J. Remy von Freeden, E.M. Caris, J.N. Nelson, Chris Janney, yotamnk, Jamie Wyman, Leo Bensman
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5 Religions With Huge Followings (You Had No Clue Existed)
Apparently there are several religions around the world with hundreds of thousands of followers which we can almost guarantee you know nothing about.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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6 Things Everyone Knows About War (That Are Totally Wrong)
Even the basic stuff we think we understand about international conflict is, at best, mostly wrong.
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- By John Preston Ford
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The 5 Most Insane Elections In US History (Before This One)
The 2016 election isn't even close to the dumbest, craziest, most spectacularly corrupt election America has dealt with.
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- By Zachary Frey
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