Science & History
A President Died Eating A Fourth Of July Dessert
Life is a bowl of cherries. Both end in death.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Popes and Prohibition: The Surprisingly Sinister History of Coffee
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Humans Are Evolving? Not So Fast.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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12 Out-Of-This-World NASA Facts
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- By Shea
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
Why Are We So Scared of Sharks?
It took a few well-publicized serial attacks, along with some help from Hollywood, to turn a species just trying to mind its own business into a national phobia.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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A Museum Accidentally Smashed The Biggest Viking Ship Ever
They were meant to preserve ships, not destroy them.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Cute Lil' Critters That Are Filled With Deadly Poison
The most Instagram-worthy death dealers nature has to offer.
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- By Eli Yudin
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5 Things About Vikings That We Get All Wrong
Unfortunately, thanks to centuries of misinformation in scholarly histories and in popular culture, most people suffer from a variety of misconceptions about the Vikings, from who they were to when they were active to what, exactly, they did.
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- By Jess Nevins
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Cracked's Eatin' Weird - 4 Ways Food And Fitness Culture Overcomplicate Things
As fitness science improves, so does its love of snake oil.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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How Vikings Used Onion Soup To Find Out If People Would Die
The soup tasted so bad, the patient welcomed death.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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5 Bizarre Deaths That Stand As Cautionary Tales
These tips will ensure you never die, or at least don't die these ways.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Vikings Were Fined For Not Brewing Beer
Without beer, you can't enter Val-ale-la.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Cracked's Eatin' Weird - 5 Oddball Ways Food Influenced History
Today we discuss monster chickens, tuberculosis ice cream, and heavy metal wine laxatives.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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The Viking Age Ended Because A Dude Got Stabbed In The Junk
Every Viking warrior had this one weakness.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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