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6 Horrifying Facts That Get Left Out Of History
If you think your future knowledge would help you in the past, we have bad news for you.
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- By Joe Hayes
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5 Huge Marketing Campaigns That Were Complete Catastrophes
Sometimes the brainwashing overlords in charge of telling us what to buy go wildly off the rails, and it's always fun to sit back and soak in their failure.
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- By Chris Rio, Evan V. Symon
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6 Stupid Bets That People Won As Insanely As Possible
Once Eisenhower's chief of staff bet General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery a B-17 Flying Fortress, he was going to get it.
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- By Aaron Short
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5 Things You Say Often With Horrible Historical Origins
It's fascinating to trace the origins of everyday phrases back and find out just how many of them were not only slang, but terms that referenced unspeakable horror.
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- By Steve Shapiro
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5 Artifacts That Prove Ancients Were Some Sick M'fers
When you go sifting through the shockingly explicit artifacts left behind by great civilizations, you find that modern society is pretty tame.
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- By Laura H
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6 Iconic Pieces of Military Tech (That Secretly Sucked)
If you take a closer look at some of the machines we've been fervently drawing on our Trapper Keepers during study hall, you might find them hiding a ludicrous Achilles heel.
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- By M. Peter Storino
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The 5 Most Important Things Ever Done While Black Out Drunk
Many historic events were such drunken shitshows that it's hard to imagine what modern civilization would even look like if not for the intervention of booze.
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- By Pat Carnell
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6 Iconic Monuments That Almost Looked Completely Insane
Most monuments are actually pretty crazy. But those ones are tiddlywinks compared to these tributes we almost had.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Insane True Stories That Change How You Picture WWII
The best evidence of how batshit things got is that so many of the weirder stories just became footnotes in your history book.
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- By Zachary Frey
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6 Historical Myths You've Lapped Up As Fact
From the most pivotal moments of massive wars to fun little factoids about historical figures, a little digging reveals that nothing played out exactly the way your history books claim.
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- By Nathan Williams, Glenn Clayburn
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Hitler's Super Jet: 6 Lost Historical Secrets We've Dug Up
Hey, scientists, cut it out.
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- By Adam Wears
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6 Insane Space Stories You Didn't Learn In History Class
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- By Chris Radomile
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5 Modern Controversies That Have Been Around Forever
If you owned a time machine and took a tour of the past, you'd see the same shit coming up over and over again.
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- By Kasper Kauhanen
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6 Bizarre Armies You Won't Believe Won Real Victories
War ... war never changes. Oh wait, yes it does.
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- By Dimitra Nikolaou
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The 6 Most Embarrassing Historical Artifacts Ever Discovered
WARNING: This articles contains centuries-old mummy wiener and sex toys.
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- By Marina Reimann
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