Science & History
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
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- By Chris Radomile
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6 Stupid Bets That People Won As Insanely As Possible
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- By Aaron Short
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The 27 Weirdest Lies That Everyone Believed
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- By AM Smiley
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
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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7 Plastic Surgeries That Are Both Ghoulish And Unnecessary
If you thought things like chest hair implants were bizarre, then prepare to feast upon this hideousness.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Artifacts That Prove Ancients Were Some Sick M'fers
When you go sifting through the shockingly explicit artifacts left behind by great civilizations, you find that modern society is pretty tame.
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- By Laura H
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6 Iconic Pieces of Military Tech (That Secretly Sucked)
If you take a closer look at some of the machines we've been fervently drawing on our Trapper Keepers during study hall, you might find them hiding a ludicrous Achilles heel.
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- By M. Peter Storino
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5 Animal Myths Everyone Believes (That Are Total B.S.)
We're here to break what we call the 'Circle Of Dumbass,' wherein one dumbass passes down bunk knowledge to another and then it passes again, and again ...
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- By Sean Curtis
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The 6 Most Ridiculous F***-Ups In The History Of Science
Guess what: scientists are just normal people who get up every morning, drive to work, and occasionally screw up in excruciatingly highfalutin' ways.
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- By Chris Radomile
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