Science & History
The 6 Most Horrifying Lies The Food Industry is Feeding You
If there's one thing in the world the food industry is dead set against, it's allowing you to actually maintain some level of control over what you eat.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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8 Simple Questions You Won't Believe Science Can't Answer
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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6 Famous Firsts You Learned in History Class (Are Total BS)
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- By Eddie Rodriguez, John Champion
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The 6 Most Badass Families of All-Time
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- By Dan Seitz
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 5 Most Badass War Heroes Who Never Held a Weapon
The pen, they say, is mightier than the sword. What they neglected to tell you is that, more often than you'd think, quite a few things are mightier than the pen. Things like bagpipes, crosses and sometimes just a really magnetic personality.
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- By Tony Pilgram
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5 Things You Do Every Day That Are Actually Addictions
As science gets a better understanding of how addiction works in the brain, suddenly a whole lot of our habits and cultural phenomena make more sense.
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- By Mike Haring
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7 Famous 'Unsolved' Mysteries (Science Solved Years Ago)
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- By Pauli Poisuo, M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Ways Your Sense of Smell Is Secretly Controlling Your Mind
Apparently, the sense of smell can give you powers that would make Professor X jealous.
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- By C. Coville
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5 Major Cities That Are Going to Be Destroyed
'Why don't they move?' is a common question after a recurring natural disaster. Chances are that you may be in the same boat.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 10 Greatest Uses of Trash Talk in the History of War
History records some badass trash talk that would put Schwarzenegger to shame, some spoken in dire circumstances. Of course, it takes a certain type of badass.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Ways the Invention of Pants Shaped the Modern World
What would you say is the single biggest source or symbol of your strength and power as an individual? The answer is easy: just look down. We're talking, of course, about your pants.
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- By Alexia Franklin
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5 Untrained Civilians Who Took On Armies
Regular people get pushed, and sometimes they push back. Hard.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Most Badass Things Done While Conquering a Mountain
Hemingway once noted that bull fighting, motor racing and mountaineering were the only true sports. Meaning, if there wasn't a risk of death, it was just a game. To that end, mountaineering stands above the rest.
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- By Erling Fasting
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5 Embarrassing Failures History Class Turned Into Victories
Sometimes history is written by wishful thinking. When the real event isn't quite inspirational or romantic enough, we just make up a prettier version and call it history.
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- By John Champion
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The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Brain Facts (That Are Total BS)
After millennia of research, experts still don't know very much about the human brain. As such, most of what you have picked up on the subject from pop culture is just laughably wrong.
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- By J.N. Chaney
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