Science & History
6 Insane Health Scares You Never Learned About In School
History has played host to a range of terrifying diseases that did their business, crippled some populations and straight-up vanished.
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- By Adam Wears
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6 Historical Deaths That Read Like Crazy Myths (But Aren’t)
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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18 Dumb Gender-Based Assumptions That Need To Stop
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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5 Huge Innovations Held Back By Plain Human Stupidity
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- By John Preston Ford
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
21 Otherworldly-Appearing Science Tricks
We often joke that science is a form of dark magic, but now we're kinda starting to believe it.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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6 Fascinating Works Of Art Made By Our (Horny) Ancestors
Scientist have been digging up depraved artifacts for decades and, yes, all of this is real.
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- By Laura H
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6 Freak Natural Disasters That Were The Stuff Of Nightmares
In an incident taken straight from a Stephen King novel, a lake murdered 1,746 people overnight.
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- By Justin Crockett
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6 Iconic Moments In History You Never Knew Were Utter Messes
The most dangerous place in 2007 wasn't in Iraq; it was an Apple conference room.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Famous Corpses That Ended Up In Totally Random Places
It turns out some historical figures continued to have amazing adventures long after they ceased living -- or parts of them had amazing adventures, at least.
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- By Cedric Voets
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5 Hilariously Ballsy Cons Pulled Off By Historical Figures
The United States congress has actually banned people from space -- and it's all thanks to moon stamps.
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- By Adam Wears
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5 Horrifying Murderers (You Never Knew Got Away With It)
We live in the crapsack regular universe where some of history's greatest monsters have completely gotten away with it.
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- By Adam Wears
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23 Ingenious Food And Cooking Shortcuts
You'll pretty much be the next Gordon Ramsay after reading this -- complete with excessive swearing.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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5 Badass Characters You're Picturing Totally Incorrectly
Pop culture provides us with a convenient shorthand to understand history, but most of the time pop culture is super duper drunk.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Things That Were So Effective They Had To Be Banned
As if the dudes from 'MythBusters' weren't already awesome, their origin story lends them even more street cred.
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- By Dennis Fulton
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5 Fashion Trends That Began With WAY Different Intentions
Sometimes a clothing trend develops outside of the fashion world and catches on with the last people you'd think.
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- By James Kinneen
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