Science & History
7 Lost Bodies of Work (That Would Have Changed Everything)
Here are a few of the most influential works of art, literature and science in histor ...
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Superpowers We All Had as Babies (According to Science)
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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5 Lesser Known (Completely Ridiculous) American Civil Wars
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- By Philip Moon
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The 5 Most Half Assed Apologies for Historic Crimes
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 People You've Never Heard of Who Probably Saved Your Life
Hollywood, and to a certain extent history, likes to glorify those who were great a taking lives. Here are those that saved millions. And one that's friggin' Wolverine.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time
We've all made typos. Fortunately, most of ours don't wind up changing world history. Not everyone is so lucky.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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7 Incredible Scientific Innovations Held Back by Petty Feuds
We would probably all be flying to work on rocket motorcycles by now if history's greatest geniuses hadn't spent their entire careers arguing over who had the biggest Bunsen burner.
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- By Jack Mendoza
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6 Supposedly Ancient Traditions (That Totally Aren't)
Patriotism, sex and money. People will use any reason to create a tradition. Especially the sex part.
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- By Robert Evans, CRACKED Staff
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The 6 Most Important Things Humanity Just Plain Forgot
Turns out some of the most amazing things ever discovered wound up lost or forgotten for centuries, for utterly ridiculous reasons.
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- By David Graham
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6 Mind-Blowing Achievements in Propaganda
When you think 'propaganda' you immediately picture a huge statue of a dictator, or banners stamped with corny slogans. You think of the kind of clumsy brainwashing that only works on uneducated peasants.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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5 Shockingly Powerful Kids Who Make You Look Like a Coward
While we spent our childhoods using our boogers to glue our other boogers into super boogers, these youngsters spent theirs rocking the universe with their flagrant--and often chilling--displays of power.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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5 Ancient Acts of War That Changed the Face of the Earth
Some of the asskickings unleashed by ancient empires were so mind-boggling, the Earth still hasn't recovered.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Historic Figures Who Shaped The World (By Cheating Death)
The most amazing thing about history is how amazingly close things came to turning out differently. An inch here, a second there... that's the only difference between the world we live in now and an alternate universe where everything sucks quite a bit more than it does here.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 7 Most Horrifying Things Ever Discovered in a Human Body
Most experienced surgeons and doctors will say they've seen it all. Most surgery is fairly routine, and it's only occasionally that you slice somebody open and some really crazy shit pops out. But when it does, man, crazy is definitely not an over-exaggeration.
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- By Shelby Fero
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5 Psych Experiments That Sounded Fun (Until They Started)
All these experiments were very real and sounded very awesome. On the surface. The truth was a very different kind of animal.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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