Alex Hanton
Freelance writer
New York Was Almost Burned To The Ground In A Shakespeare Riot
Theatergoers of the 1800s were the drunk hockey fans of today.
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Remembering 1980: The Year Cocaine Nazis Conquered Bolivia
Well, this headline seems worth digging into a little further.
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Remembering Beanie Babies: The Bitcoin Of The '90s
It’s impossible to overemphasize how big this thing got.
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Five Facts About Punch Dickins, The Ace Pilot Who Cheated Death Nonstop
Meet Punch Dickins, who explored the Canadian bush in his Fokker biplane. What?
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Four Nightmarish Tech Stories That Didn't Get Enough Press
For every tech advance that improves our lives, another seems to come along to make everything just a little bit worse.
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How Exactly Did Rasputin Die? The Real Answer (And The Weird Theories)
You’ve probably heard the conventional version of the story. But we're here to get the real answer.
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Who Killed The New Coke?
Just what did kill New Coke? A vast sinister plot? Pepsi agents? Or maybe it just was kind of awful?
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4 Ridiculous Lies From People With Even More Ridiculous Lives
The following people are known for their wild lies and wilder lives.
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5 True Stories About The World's Most Cursed Amusement Park
RIP Spreepark, the world's number one abandoned coke-smuggling communist theme park.
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Back In The Day, Everybody Was Talking To Aliens (Thanks To One Scammer)
America's UFO obsession can be traced almost entirely back to one dude who accidentally changed the world while trying to make a quick buck.
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4 Crimes From History That Made Absolutely Zero Sense
Everyone loves a good wacky crime story, which is why we keep accosting you with more of them.
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The Incredible Life Of History's Greatest Golddigger: Death Rays, Yoga Cults, and Mad Science
Meet Ganna Walska, the tabloid superstar who became incredibly rich marrying total weirdos.
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Meet The Soldier Who (Accidentally) Had An Epic Drug Trip ... In The Middle of WWII
As the old saying goes: "Sometimes it's World War II, and you inadvertently do way too much meth."
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The Soda That Outsells Coca Cola In Scotland: The Legend Of Irn-Bru
In Scotland, a rust-themed concoction called Irn-Bru has outsold every other soda since at least 1947.
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6 Innocent Animals Who Are Secretly Nightmare Machines
What we're saying is that even the most normal zoo is secretly the bowels of the underworld.
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Hacking The Vote For Homecoming Queen: 5 Extremely 2021 Crimes
We are living in the golden age of magnificently idiotic crime sprees.
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6 Nightmare Animal Attacks Starring Everyday Creatures
If we teach you anything today, it's that swans are wretched beasts.
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4 Supervillain-Tier Acts Of Evil By Famous Companies
In Michigan, Nestle pays a whopping $200 a year in exchange for siphoning over 400 gallons of water per minute. Yes, that is the correct number of zeroes.
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5 U.S. Big Cities With Underreported Nonsense
America is an incredibly vast and diverse country. Every town has its own problems, which are often completely incomprehensible to people even the next state over.
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4 True Crime Stories That Crank The Crazy
Remember when a surfer robbed the Museum of Natural History?
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