Science & History

6 Creepy Sixth Senses You've Always Had And Never Noticed
Yes, we're aware that we're up to our 16th 'sixth' sense by now.
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- By XJ Selman
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6 Horrible Historical Disasters (We Actually Saw Coming)
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- By Adam Wears
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24 Creepy Places You Can Visit
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- By AM Smiley
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25 'Unsolved' Mysteries (That Have Totally Been Solved)
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- By AM Smiley
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 Horrifying Facts That Get Left Out Of History
If you think your future knowledge would help you in the past, we have bad news for you.
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- By Joe Hayes
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5 Huge Marketing Campaigns That Were Complete Catastrophes
Sometimes the brainwashing overlords in charge of telling us what to buy go wildly off the rails, and it's always fun to sit back and soak in their failure.
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- By Chris Rio, Evan V. Symon
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6 Amazing Inventions That Will Soon Make Your Job Total Hell
Corporations have taken things to new extremes that are going to make work inexplicably even more miserable.
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- By Chris Radomile
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6 Stupid Bets That People Won As Insanely As Possible
Once Eisenhower's chief of staff bet General Bernard "Monty" Montgomery a B-17 Flying Fortress, he was going to get it.
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- By Aaron Short
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The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed
A fool and their dignity are easily parted.
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- By AM Smiley
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21 Absurd Lies Companies Have Used To Sell Products
We like to think the term 'snake oil' is reserved for old-timey traveling salesman and the holistic medicine aisle of Whole Foods, but it turns out it hits closer to home than that.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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5 Baffling Lies Society Told You About Fat People
Almost every aspect of our war against fat is screwed by a slew of misconceptions, mistakes, and dodgy data.
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- By E. Fitzgerald
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5 Awesome Life Hacks Hidden In Your Own Body
Before everybody started calling everyday tips 'Life Hacks,' they were often called folk remedies, and they usually rhymed.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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6 Trendy Health Foods That Are Being Sold (To Idiots)
We've proven that we will shove any random slurry down our throats if we're told it'll miraculously cure our hairy molars or medulla pimples or combustible priapism.
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- By Jim Avery
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5 Things You Say Often With Horrible Historical Origins
It's fascinating to trace the origins of everyday phrases back and find out just how many of them were not only slang, but terms that referenced unspeakable horror.
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- By Steve Shapiro
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6 Facts About The Environment (That Just Aren't True)
It turns out that some of the lessons Captain Planet taught are about as useful as telling people to wipe their butts with recycled uranium fuel rods.
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- By Mark Hill
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