Alex Hanton
Freelance writer
5 Historical Texts That Were Surprisingly Filthy
The authors who wrote these works have been dead for centuries, so we've passed the event horizon from 'prurient' to 'educational.'
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4 Shocking Aspects Of Zoo Animal Robberies Nobody Talks About
Tiger King was but the tip of the iceberg, folks.
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Gather Round, It's Time To Learn About The Floating Pile Of Crap Known As The McBarge
If you must read a story today about the abandoned McBarge they filmed Blade 3 in, let it be this story.
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5 Reasons To Learn Cockney Rhyming Slang, The Weirdest And Best English Slang
If you ever wanted to sound like a character in a Guy Ritchie movie, here's the first step.
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The Con Man So Good, He Had Mind Control Powers (Basically)
Sometimes if you yell
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4 Beautifully Dumb Schemes From America's Weirdest Spy Agency
As World War II loomed, President Franklin Roosevelt decided to found the wackiest spy agency in American history.
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4 Actual Movies That Were Somehow Not Made As Jokes
Real people thought these dumb movies were good ideas, and one of those people was Saddam Hussein.
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The Worst Story Ever Told, In 4 Chapters
This true story involves Chicago, a bridge, an innocent boat tour, the Dave Matthews Band, and 800 pounds of human waste.
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5 Rich People That Wealth Made Weird
Sometimes an excess of money gives you a bad case of brain worms.
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Back In The Day, Pinball Was The Most Dangerous Game In America
At one point in American history, nothing was as rebellious as, uh, pinball?
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One Of America's Most Nightmarish Monsters Was A Nice Old Lady
Meet Georgia Tann: adoption advocate, kindly senior, and ghoul who stole 5,000 children.
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Meet Crazy Eddie, The Least Boring Grifter In American History
His prices were almost as insane as his, well, decades of corporate malfeasance.
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The Year The World Was 'Terrorized' By Scary Clowns (It Was 2016)
How innocent the world was back then.
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A Brief History Of South Korea's Weirdest Urban Legend: Killer Fans
Sometimes urban legends are inspired by the most boring appliance in your house.
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Photos Of The Past That Look Like Trippy Fantasy
Today is the day we'll all look at a guy wearing a pufferfish as a helmet.
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America's Extremely Dumb History Of Falling For Infinite Energy Scams
Perpetual motion machines are as American as baseball and deep-fried cigarettes.
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The California UFO Religion (That Looked Like An LSD Prom)
Meet the UFO worshippers whose style could be boiled down to 'sequins, reincarnation, and more sequins.'
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4 Noble (Yet Goofy) Attempts To Make The English Language Less Of A Trainwreck
The English language was invented by a collection of hairy men with poorly healed axe wounds to the head.
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The Potato Chip That Destroyed The Bowels Of America
If Olestra chips were a thing today, they would last 35 minutes before social media turned on them.
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