Science & History
The 5 Ballsiest Ways Anyone Has Ever Switched Sides Mid-War
You can brand them traitors, you can curse their names, you can execute them, but you can't say they didn't have balls.
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- By Zachary Frey
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5 Horror Scenes Deleted From History For Being Too Creepy
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Ways Society Is Designed To Screw Teenagers Every Day
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- By Carolyn Burke
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5 Painfully Accurate Human Behaviors In The Primate World
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- By Nathan Williams
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
Modern-Day America Summed Up In One Photo (From 1957)
This will change how you think of America forever. Or, you know, at least for a little while.
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- By Alyssa Feller
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22 Weird Medical Facts That’ll Bring Conversations To A Halt
If your nosey aunt starts asking why you didn't go to med school, show her this.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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20 Ways Your Perception Gets Screwed Up By Your Brain
Don't trust anybody. Especially yourself.
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- By AM Smiley
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5 Great Women Ignored By History For Absurdly Sexist Reasons
Most history books have been written by men, and wouldn't you know it? Those darn, sneaky ladies are nowhere to be found.
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- By Tiago Svn, Justin Crockett, CJ Rigdon, Luke Miller
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5 Real Historic Purges That Prove Life Used To Be Horrifying
Every once in a while, huge crowds of ordinary people came together in epic demonstrations of collective mayhem, and suffered no consequences whatsoever for it.
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- By Joe Hayes
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7 Species That Will Rule The Earth When We're All Dead
Plenty of species are just waiting for us to extinct ourselves as hard as humanly possible -- and some of them might be getting a bit impatient.
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 Badass Unsung Heroes From History's Darkest Hours
Even humanity's biggest disasters have life-affirming moments hidden within, courtesy of regular people stepping up to help others.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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6 Science Breakthroughs Of 2016 That Might Save Humanity
Even in a year as garbage as 2016, science just keeps right on trudging through the sludge of human misery to bring us incredible advances.
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- By Ivan Farkas, Norbert Gehardt, Luke Miller
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6 Medical Conditions That’ll Give You Endless Nightmares
Spoiler Alert: Our bodies are alarmingly disgusting and frightening.
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- By Adam Wears, Marina Reimann
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21 Holiday Traditions With Shockingly Bizarre Origins
Holiday traditions don't actually originate from elves and Krampus.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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6 Horrifying Bugs That Forgot To Follow The Rules Of Nature
Bugs are made of equal parts nightmares and hell-dimension rage.
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- By Cracked Writers
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