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15 Sadistic Facts About the Marquis de Sade, the OG King of Smut
The censorship of his work raised important questions about freedom of speech, but he was absolutely not the kind of guy you wanted to hang out with.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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15 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About the Lizzie Borden Hatchet Murders
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Bananas Things Apes Do In The Wild
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- By Chris Corlew
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Bug Eyes Hold A Weird Secret
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- By Ryan Menezes
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
Poppies and Politics: The History of Memorial Day
It wasn’t always barbecue and booze.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Nutty Moments From The Lives (And Deaths) Of America's First Leaders
They died as they lived: weirdly.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Weirdest Food Trends of the ‘80s
Over the course of this decade that was mostly fueled by cocaine and hairspray, food companies apparently figured that what we actually ate didn’t much matter.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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26 Food Products From The 80s (That Should Stay In The Past)
It's easy to forget that not everything from the past is worth remembering...
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- By Cracked Readers, Shea
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Reagan And Gorbachev Agreed To Team Up Against Aliens
See, this is why Reagan tried to build Star Wars.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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The Epic War For Sealand: The World's Realest Fake Country
What if you could find a loophole so good that it effectively lets you start your own country, free from the rule of law? Well, that’s happened exactly once in modern memory, and oh boy, did it get weird.
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- By Alex Hanton
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Turning LEDs Blue Was So Hard, The Guys Who Did It Won A Nobel Prize
And yet blue raspberry Jolly Ranchers won nothing.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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13 Eyebrow-Arching Numbers About Higher Education
Outstanding American student loan debt? $1.75 trillion. Canada's GDP? $1.643 trillion.
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- By Shea
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From Miners to Hipsters: A Complete History of Jeans
The story of jeans is really the story of America: the powerful stealing from the less fortunate.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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15 Facts About Scam Pioneer And Scheme Namesake Charles Ponzi
As always, don't invest in anything that you don't understand (cough, NFTs).
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- By Eli Yudin
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15 Disgusting Realities of Medieval Food
Despite what your local theme restaurant and jousting arena might lead you to believe, it wasn’t all turkey legs and pints of ale in medieval times.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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