If you got where you are by couping the hell out of the last guy, so what's to stop the people from doing the same to you? Furious, insane crackdowns on irrelevant bullshit, that's what!
No matter how technologically advanced humans become, we'll always spend a good portion of our time pathetically flailing at nature and the various disasters it attempts to grind us down with.
There are little pockets of America that control the rest of the country, from the small town that houses all of your credit cards to the city that determines what your food tastes like.
When you start sifting through rare photos of secret projects and behind-the-scenes shenanigans that didn't make into the history books, you get lots of pictures that just look downright fake.
Sometimes a photo that looks completely boring and mundane at first glance can reveal mind-blowing details once you bother to take a closer look at it. Like two visible areolas.
Some of these traditions came from a time when they afforded real practical benefits, and not just because people decided to do whatever a book told them to do.
We've all seen countless images of the most well-known landmarks in the world. However, the following photos reveal the shocking truth behind some of those landmarks.
War, indeed, is hell. But, man -- all morality and sanctity of human life and blah blah blah aside -- sometimes it just looks plain friggin' crazy, doesn't it?
The laws of physics are weird. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it -- especially considering that these miraculous, one-in-a-million survival stories happen surprisingly often.