Evan V. Symon

The 7 Most Ridiculous Rough Drafts of Famous Brand Logos

Most successful brands have instantly recognizable logos. However, early drafts of some of the most famous logos in the world apparently confused 'recognition' with 'bitter insanity.'

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By Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris

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February 21, 2013

5 Groundbreaking Firsts That Your History Books Lied About

It turns out that a whole lot of famous firsts are credited to the wrong people, due to politics, bad luck, or outright lies.

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By Chris Radomile, Eddie Rodriguez, Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris

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February 17, 2013

The 5 Most Insane Teams in the History of Sports

It turns out that every sport has an 'anything goes' period in its history when insanity was just par for the course.

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By Evan V. Symon

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January 31, 2013

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6 Alternate Album Covers You Won't Believe Almost Happened

Many of these bands almost made history for a different reason -- by producing albums with covers that would have traumatized (or at least confused) a generation.

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By Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris

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January 25, 2013

3 Terrible Stadiums You Won't Believe Were Actually Built

Designing a stadium is an art, though, and the simplest mistakes can lead to absolute chaos for teams on the field.

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By Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris

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January 02, 2013

4 International Incidents Caused By Drunk Boris Yeltsin

From 1991 to 1999, Boris Yeltsin was the first democratically elected President of Russia, leading the way for reforms, rekindling relationships with the West and generally hitting the hooch harder than Ulysses S. Grant and Ernest Hemingway's reanimated corpses sewn together.

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By Evan V. Symon

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December 19, 2012

4 Buildings That Defy the Laws of Gravity

Just looking at the following freaks of modern architecture makes us want to dial up a team of first responders to be at the ready for the disaster that appears to be moments away from happening.

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By Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris

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September 20, 2012

9 Normal Things That Look Trippy Under a Microscope

The world is full of magic, it's just that a lot of it isn't visible without special tools. Fortunately, microscopes exist.

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By Dustin Koski, Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris

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August 05, 2012

5 Iconic Building That Were Barely Saved from Destruction

There is this very elite class of buildings so iconic that they transcend the country that built them. So it's kind of weird how often we almost let the things get destroyed.

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By Evan V. Symon

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July 19, 2012

6 Brilliant Ways Hostages Outwitted Their Captors

Let's face it: As much as we like to pretend that we're all Bruce Willis, if faced with a real-life kidnapper, most of us would react by soiling ourselves. Well, except for these people.

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By Evan V. Symon

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July 12, 2012

The 5 Most Half-Assed Attempts to Take Over a Country

For every inspiring revolution by the oppressed, there are several low-rent slapdick operations where the insurgents trip getting off the boat.

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By Evan V. Symon , Chris J.

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July 05, 2012

5 Famous People Who Secretly Had Awesome Second Careers

Somewhere, there's an alternate reality completely different from ours, where the following people went with their first career choice (for better or worse).

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By Evan V. Symon

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June 18, 2012

The 5 Worst Marketing Ideas Ever Put into Action

Apparently, sometimes marketing people just show up to work drunk and hand over complete creative control to people who actively hate their company.

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By Eric Yosomono, Chris Rio, Evan V. Symon , Jack Hall

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June 07, 2012

The 6 Ballsiest Sports Cheats of All Time

There are cheaters and then then there are the ones who do it with such audacity and creativity that you kind of want to just give them the victory for their effort.

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By Ryan J., Evan V. Symon

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May 05, 2012

5 Supposedly Badass Criminals Caught in Embarrassing Ways

Criminal masterminds do exist; there are bad guys who have gotten away with their deeds for decades without ever leaving enough evidence behind for the cops to make a case. Yet, when these guys eventually get caught, the reason is usually exactly as stupid as that time your neighborhood meth head got nailed for trying to steal a cop car with the co

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By Douglas A. McDonnell, Evan V. Symon

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April 29, 2012

5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong

A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in the field do have their exciting, and even shocking, days at the office.

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By Evan V. Symon

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April 20, 2012

The 5 Creepiest Disappearances That Nobody Can Explain

When people vanish, it usually turns out they were killed or kidnapped, or at least they were very likely to have been. Usually we have some kind of an answer. Usually -- but not always.

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By Evan V. Symon

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April 13, 2012

5 Iconic Pop Culture Moments Improvised at the Last Second

It turns out that some movies and shows that became enduring classics were dangerously close to being terrible, and we probably wouldn't be talking about them today if a few folks hadn't switched gears on the fly.

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By Evan V. Symon

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April 02, 2012

6 Nobodies Who Stumbled Into World Changing Discoveries

Some of the greatest historical finds have been stumbled across by random dudes just wandering around the neighborhood.

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By Evan V. Symon

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March 24, 2012

5 Historic Artifacts You Won't Believe Still Work

Unless you're talking about diamonds, Twinkies or vampires, lasting forever usually isn't in the cards. Yet all over the world -- and universe -- there are machines, engineering feats and pieces of meat that never got the memo that we all have a use-by date.

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By Evan V. Symon

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March 22, 2012