Science & History

5 Seemingly Harmless Things That Are Stressing You Out
Ever fly into a rage for no reason? It's almost like you were stressed out and on the verge of snapping for hours before that. Despite how you felt, it turns out that's exactly what was going on.
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- By XJ Selman
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5 Absurd Sci-Fi Scenarios Science is Actually Working On
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- By Joe Oliveto
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5 Scientific Explanations for Your Sexual Perversions
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- By Robert Evans
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13 Old War Photographs You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
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- By Eric Yosomono
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Nazi Plans That Prove They Were Dumber Than You Think
Other websites like to tiptoe around the issue, but we've never hesitated to come out and just say it: The Nazis were bad. We're also going out on a limb with this once: They were stupid.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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6 Terrifying Creatures That Keep Going After They're Dead
If you're anything like us, cutting off a deadly snake's head is your best and only move, and sometimes not even that will work.
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- By K. Montagne, Dagmar Baer
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6 Insane Pet Journeys That Put Disney Movies to Shame
Just FYI: These stories require even more suspension of disbelief than any Pixar movie.
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- By Eddie Rodriguez
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6 Scientific Advances Courtesy of Reckless Self-Endangerment
It turns out that even science isn't always an exact science. There are plenty of white-coated professionals throughout history who spat in the face of empirical research and just injected themselves with shit to see what would happen.
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- By Chris Rio
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The 5 Scariest Things About Life as a Human Test Subject
Human medical test subject is in that category of jobs that kind of seems like free money. Free, horrifying money
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- By Sara Ohlms, Mary Johnson
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The 5 Most Horrifyingly Bad Mothers in the Animal Kingdom
While human mothers certainly deserve all of the flowers and phone calls they get on Mother's Day, we dare say that there are other species where motherhood is an even more trying and/or terrifying ordeal.
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- By Monte Richard
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5 Reasons Being Left-Handed Screws You for Life
Much of the last century or so has been dedicated to alleviating the plight of minorities, from one human rights campaign to the next. But in all this time, one group has consistently fallen through the cracks: left-handed people.
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- By T. Z. Keiser
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The 5 Ballsiest Casino Cheats of All Time
While we're 95 percent sure 'Ocean's 11' wasn't a documentary, there are some real world Danny Oceans using real world Danny Oceanesque cheats. Only they didn't have to risk breaking into a vault to rob the casinos for piles of cash; they did it right from the casino floor, with ingenious tricks.
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- By Benjamin Buso
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6 Mind-Blowing Animal Infestations Straight Out of the Bible
Every once in a while, a completely innocuous animal will look at our quaint neighborhoods and civilized lives and say, 'Oh, that's way better. Let's go live there.'
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- By Erik Germ
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The 6 Most Brutal Infections You Could Have Right Now
These infections would be considered too gross for a Cronenberg movie.
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- By Alex Kendziorski
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5 Ridiculous Origins of Famous Urban Legends
We don't expect our craziest urban legends to exist for good reasons, but we do at least expect their origins to be mysterious. If you can just point to the guy who made up the crazy story in the first place, what are we doing here?
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- By Pauli Poisuo, M. Asher Cantrell
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