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An Easily Digestible Timeline Of Taco Bell's Rise To Power
The mad scientist of shame meals grew shockingly fast.
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7 The Terrifying History of Anesthesia
We've thankfully come a long way from the days of biting bullets, but they're harrowingly close behind us.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Tylenol Murders: Why We Have Annoying Pill Bottles
The whole reason it’s a thing is because some madperson killed seven people in 1982 by poisoning random bottles of Tylenol, apparently for madperson reasons.
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Coffee Anarchists Ruled Germany For A Week, And Declared War On Switzerland
They also complained to the Pope that their bathroom key was missing.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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7 Bone Chilling Lesser-Known Facts About Jeffrey Dahmer
Oh good, he worked in food manafacturing.
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The Long and Not Always Tomatoy History of Ketchup
There was once a kaleidoscope of different and often questionable ketchups available.
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5 Historically Baffling Weapons Militaries Actually Made
Even for the insatiable bloodlust of humankind, we went a little overboard with our weapons of war ...
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- By Mac Faber
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The Surprisingly Complicated Case of Typhoid Mary
Typhoid Mary gets a bad rap, considering she, you know, killed people.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Internationally Confusing History of Pizza
Pizza existed in some form for thousands of years before an Italian ever saw a tomato.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Wildest Details of the Lori Vallow 'Doomsday Mom' Murder Case
The story of Lori Vallow, A.K.A. the “Doomsday Mom,” was bonkers even before her children went missing, and it hasn't gotten less weird from there.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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6 Dumbest Old-Timey Workout and Diet Fads People Sold
Back in the day, folks turned to some even wilder, absolutely bs, workout and diet fads than we got now.
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- By Mac Faber
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A Brief Timeline Of Starbucks' Path To World Domination
The company that's had a stranglehold on consumer's caffeine content for decades.
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- By Eli Yudin
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Not So Stockholm: The Patty Hearst Case
There's a few problems with this story, namely that it's probably almost entirely wrong.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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The Time a Horse Bombed Wall Street
It was an all-around confusing time that did not become less so when a horse trotted up to Wall Street and promptly exploded.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Japan Offered Margaret Thatcher Twenty ‘Karate Ladies’
We don't know if that would have been enough karate ladies.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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