Science & History
The U.S. President That Died With A Butt Full of Beef And Bourbon
And no, it didn't get there the usual way.
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- By Eli Yudin
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The Bonkers Life of Griffith J. Griffith, California's Wildest Tycoon
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- By Amanda Mannen
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From Poop Plugs to Pills: The History of Birth Control
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- By Amanda Mannen
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An Old Anti-Coffee Experiment Saw Everyone But The Coffee Drinker Die
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- By Ryan Menezes
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
15 Cultural Phenomena That Were Just Marketing Ploys
Even some of the most basic facts of life and institutions we hold most sacred can be traced back to some guy who wanted to sell us something.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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A Terrible Dad Taught His Son Only Klingon
He should be sentenced to a hundred years of be'joy'.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Mongols' Secret Weapon: Alcoholic Horse Milk
Forget a sugary powdered pre-workout, slam a mug of horse juice.
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- By Eli Yudin
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12 Historic Meals (So We Can Taste The Past)
What did Princess Di eat on her wedding day?
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- By Shea
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How Star Trek's Jeri Ryan's Divorce Got Obama Elected
The butterfly effect in action right here.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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12 Ways Life Was Different Before Roe v. Wade
If our future will be a repeat of our history, what can we expect?
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- By Shea
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15 Events in the Shady History of Coca-Cola
The history of Coca-Cola is even more fraught than you’d expect for a product based on cocaine.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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25 Gigantic Facts About Space That Make Us Feel Crazy Small
The final frontier.
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- By Brian C. Miller, Cracked Writers
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The Hero Scientist Who Passed Off A Star Trek Episode As A Scientific Paper
As so exposed the scientific journal as a fraud.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Notorious Cults That Amazingly Still Exist
Sometimes, neither death nor HBO can keep a cult down.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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15 Funniest Ways Serial Killers Were Caught
If you get away with it long enough to earn the title, you’re probably smart enough to evade capture indefinitely.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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