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6 Slang Terms With Surprisingly Badass Origins

By JD Niemand
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The 6 Most Baffling Nobel Prizes Ever Awarded

By Fernando Espino
1,055,212 views |

7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World

By Jacopo della Quercia
6,676,295 views |

6 Rulers Who Abused Their Power In Hilariously Insane Ways

By J. L. Coffman
2,173,320 views |

6 Assassination Attempts that Almost F#@cked the World

By Jacopo della Quercia
3,044,369 views |

6 Insanely Awesome Things The 1900s Thought We'd Have by Now

By Daniel O'Brien, Robert Brockway
2,366,511 views |

5 Real Buried Treasures That Can Make You Rich (Or Kill You)

By Kathy Benjamin
1,878,307 views |

The Top 10 Decades of the Century: How The 2000s Compared

By Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts
1,073,678 views |

The Top 5 Appropriately Great/Awful Everything of the Decade

By CRACKED Staff
10,009,512 views |

The 6 Stupidest Things Ever Done With Historic Treasures

By Kathy Benjamin
2,146,242 views |
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