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5 Ridiculously Badass Protests Against Oppressive Regimes
When these people fought back against their respective regimes, they did it with style.
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- By Pat Carnell, A.C. Grimes
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479 The 5 Most Blatantly Corrupt Lawyers in History
When lawyers go bad, holy crap do they make the most of it
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- By Rob Nietupski
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5 Insanely Blatant Acts of Plagiarism by Famous People
Ideas are hard, you guys. (At least when you insist on actually coming up with your own.)
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- By A.C. Grimes
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5 Cultures Whose Calendars Would Break Your Concept of Time
Let's sit back and appreciate the fact that we don't have to experience the utter chaos that are these calendars.
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- By Teddem Yee
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5 Attempts at Espionage That Seem Too Dumb to Be Real
All too often, agents are subject to the same human failings as the rest of us, except in their case, the blunders result in international incidents more embarrassing than your high school yearbook.
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- By Alex Hanton, Evan V. Symon
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13 Old-Timey Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped 3
Photos of the past, when viewed out of context, are bizarre and/or terrifying. And in many cases, adding the context just makes them worse.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Innocent Phrases With Surprisingly Dark Origins
Language often takes some pretty bizarre turns on the way to its modern usage. And sometimes a seemingly innocent phrase is the result of one supremely messed-up past.
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- By Brenna Crotty
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5 Presidents Who Were Total Badasses in Their Youth
As it turns out, many presidents spent their younger years going on Hollywood-worthy adventures through history, doling out Old West-style justice and opening casino bars in the South Pacific.
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- By Gavin Jamieson
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5 Famous Pieces of Presidential Trivia (That Are Total BS)
We cling to certain well-known tales that help us easily label and categorize our presidents. There's only one problem with these little nuggets of awesome: Not nearly all of them are true.
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- By Alex Hanton
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6 Legitimate Organizations That Secretly Act Like the Mafia
In every system at every level of society, you're bound to come across at least one group bent on exploiting you with puppy-punching ruthlessness.
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- By A.C. Grimes
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5 Nobodies Who Stumbled into Wars and Kicked Everyone's Ass
No one pictures their sweet grandma strafing the border with an AK-47 in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, raining down death and destruction as epic as her homemade apple pie. But it does happen.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Matthew Moffitt
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6 True Stories From History Creepier Than Any Horror Movie
History books are full of PG-13 violence. Here are the directors' cuts.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Wrongly Convicted People the Legal System Kept on Screwing
It's actually physically impossible for people in authority positions to admit they're wrong, which is why we get situations like these.
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- By Robin Warder
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5 Laws That Made Sense on Paper (And Disasters in Reality)
Government is somebody coming up with a plan that sounds great on paper, only to be hilariously thwarted by human nature within minutes of it passing.
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- By Doron S.
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5 Lost Documents That Shatter Your Image of Famous People
Secrets don't stay buried forever, and occasionally lost documents will turn up that change everything.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Matthew Kohlmorgen
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