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5 Horrific Disasters That Made Human Life Possible
Life as we know it was only able to form because the universe likes to slap us around every few billion years. It's a form of tough love.
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- By Sebastien Paquin
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751 5 Shocking Scenes You Won't Believe Are in the Bible
If many of the most iconic features of Christianity aren't taking up space in the holy book, it makes one wonder just what, in fact, is in there.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Douglas A. McDonnell
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5 Literary Classics That Put X-Rated Movies to Shame
When people actually sit down and read the books they've always heard about, they find themselves blindsided by the hardcore sexual depravity everyone so often fails to mention.
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- By Rich Solomon
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5 Shockingly Advanced Ancient Buildings That Shouldn't Exist
It turns out the engineers of times past were nothing to sneer at, and some of their accomplishments make ours seem slightly embarrassing.
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- By Eric Yosomono, Welldone Quibranza, Alaric Penname
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6 Inventors Who Changed the World and Got Screwed in Return
Some inventors get so little credit that we completely forgot about them, and since we really don't like angering the ghosts of people who could probably invent a way to punch us from beyond the grave, here they are.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Mike Floorwalker
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5 Miracles Deleted From the Bible For Being Too Awesome
There are whole other books that used to be part of the Bible, until someone took a hard look and said, 'No way.' And it's too bad, because some of the miracles performed in these apocryphal texts are freaking amazing.
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- By Brian Thompson
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5 Groundbreaking Firsts That Your History Books Lied About
It turns out that a whole lot of famous firsts are credited to the wrong people, due to politics, bad luck, or outright lies.
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- By Chris Radomile, Eddie Rodriguez, Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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5 Hilarious Reasons Publishers Rejected Classic Best-Sellers
It turns out that some of the most-read books in the world were in fact rejected for some really preposterous reasons over the years.
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- By Aren Wilborn
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6 Famous Things From History That Didn't Actually Exist
We've really botched some history in the name of so-so television.
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- By Matt Martin, Paige Turner
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The 5 Most Epic Backfires in the History of Bad Jokes
The problem with sarcasm, is that sometimes you can do it so well (or so poorly) that people don't realize you're joking.
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- By Russell Puntenney
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5 Insane Prison Escapes You Won't Believe Actually Worked
In real life, most prison escapes aren't the result of mind-blowingly complex schemes, but a combination of dumb luck, indifferent guards, and unintentional hilarity.
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- By Rich Solomon
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6 Ridiculous Myths About the Middle Ages Everyone Believes
Ridiculous Myths About the Middle Ages Everyone Believes
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- By Steve Kolenberg
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5 Insane 'What If' Scenarios That Almost Changed Everything
For every terrible tragedy history has handed us, there is an infinitely long list of disasters that we narrowly missed.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Reasons George Washington Was Either Lucky or a Wizard
The first real president of the United States was a Highlander. He thwarted death, fell into the presidency, and succeeded only by the most fortuitous of flukes.
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- By W. Stinnett
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11 Old War Photographs You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
When you start sifting through rare photos of secret projects and behind-the-scenes shenanigans that didn't make into the history books, you get lots of pictures that just look downright fake.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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