Science & History
The 5 Saddest Attempts to Take Over a Country
When we hear about a rebellion in Egypt or Libya or elsewhere, we instinctively want to root for the scrappy kids trying to fight back against The Man. Of course, a lot of coup attempts aren't all that inspirational. Some, in fact, border on slapstick comedy.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Most Insane Rescue Missions That Actually Worked
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- By Eric Yosomono
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The 5 Most Unintentionally Creepy Gifts Given to Presidents
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- By Julien Blower
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5 Ridiculous Archaeological Frauds (That Fooled the World)
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- By Josie Moore
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
The 6 Worst Attempts at Damage Control in Political Scandals
Embattled politicians will either fess up and resign, or deny and fight charges levelled against them. Some politicians, however, choose a different course.
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- By Steve Keller
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7 Species That Got Screwed Over by Mother Nature
Evolution is the art of producing the deadliest, meanest, most efficient beasts possible. But it's not a perfect process: There's just a slew of animals rolling fatly around the reject pile, just waiting to be killed and eaten (and if you don't hurry, some of them will even do it themselves).
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- By Al and Bruce Paton
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The 5 Most Embarrassing Architectural Failures Ever
Even architects, foremen and chief engineers come in to work hungover once in a while, and that's when we get failures like these.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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The 5 Craziest War Stories (All Happened on the Same Ship)
When we say that this ship's service played out in exactly the way it would if it had been a hastily-scripted Adam Sandler comedy, we're not exaggerating.
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- By Xavier Jackson
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7 Horrifying Historical Origins of Famous Corporate Logos
Nobody holds the copyright on ancient myths. So why make up a new name for your company when you can just call it Trojan? A word of advice, though. Before you go sticking a mythological figure on your logo, take a few minutes to look up its story. Otherwise you get some downright hilarious unintentional results.
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- By J.F. Sargent
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6 Surprisingly Advanced Ways Animals Use Medicine
We humans think we're so smart. Sure, animals are good for a laugh or two, but if one of them gets sick, who's going to take care of it? Either it's some sympathetic human or nobody. It's not like animals have doctors and medicine. Right?
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- By Dagmar Baer
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6 Real Planets That Put Science Fiction to Shame
As space exploration advances and we start to learn what's really on the surface of those distant worlds, it becomes increasingly clear that our imagination has no chance of competing with the jaw-dropping, pants-peeing craziness outer space is capable of cooking up.
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- By Nick Dobkin
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7 Theories on Time That Would Make Doc Brown's Head Explode
There are a few things in this world that we can always rely on as constants: The sun will always rise and time will inevitably march forward. Except that the sun doesn't rise and time ... well, time is tricky, too.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Counterintuitive Tricks to Beating Popular Game Shows
Deal or No Deal went to great lengths to hide the fact there was a simple equation behind the whole thing.
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- By Matt Culkin, Michael Voll
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7 Reasons Ants Will Inherit the Earth
When the empires of men finally fall and the memory of our hubris has faded to dust, ants will still be here, running shit.
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- By Monte Richard
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6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers: Update
We've all dreamed of having superpowers at some point (today), and these are the rare cases where people actually got them.
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- By Karl Smallwood, Kier Harris
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