Science & History
6 Facts About The Environment (That Just Aren't True)
It turns out that some of the lessons Captain Planet taught are about as useful as telling people to wipe their butts with recycled uranium fuel rods.
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- By Mark Hill
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7 Plastic Surgeries That Are Both Ghoulish And Unnecessary
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- By E. Reid Ross
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5 Artifacts That Prove Ancients Were Some Sick M'fers
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- By Laura H
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6 Iconic Pieces of Military Tech (That Secretly Sucked)
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- By M. Peter Storino
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
5 Animal Myths Everyone Believes (That Are Total B.S.)
We're here to break what we call the 'Circle Of Dumbass,' wherein one dumbass passes down bunk knowledge to another and then it passes again, and again ...
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- By Sean Curtis
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The 6 Most Ridiculous F***-Ups In The History Of Science
Guess what: scientists are just normal people who get up every morning, drive to work, and occasionally screw up in excruciatingly highfalutin' ways.
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- By Chris Radomile
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The 5 Most Important Things Ever Done While Black Out Drunk
Many historic events were such drunken shitshows that it's hard to imagine what modern civilization would even look like if not for the intervention of booze.
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- By Pat Carnell
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6 Reasons You Can't Trust Science Anymore
Publication is an important way for scientists to share research and advance their careers. Here's how it's destroying science.
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- By Matt J. Michel
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6 Iconic Monuments That Almost Looked Completely Insane
Most monuments are actually pretty crazy. But those ones are tiddlywinks compared to these tributes we almost had.
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- By E. Reid Ross
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23 Insane Science Stories The News Forgot To Tell You
Science is awesome. And science news is the kind of stuff we should really be digesting the most of.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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21 Tiny (Yet History-Bending) Mistakes
Sometimes the smallest misstep can have huge ramifications.
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- By AM Smiley
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5 Insane True Stories That Change How You Picture WWII
The best evidence of how batshit things got is that so many of the weirder stories just became footnotes in your history book.
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- By Zachary Frey
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14 Jokes You Didn't Know Movies & TV Stole From History
Those planks of the wood in the past were too busy dying or running from dinosaurs to have a sense of humor of things. Right?
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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Rat Boners And Drunk Birds: 5 Hilarious Animal Experiments
Remember that for every guy in a lab coat torturing red pandas, there are plenty of hilariously lighthearted experiments.
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- By Ivan Farkas
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6 Historical Myths You've Lapped Up As Fact
From the most pivotal moments of massive wars to fun little factoids about historical figures, a little digging reveals that nothing played out exactly the way your history books claim.
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- By Nathan Williams, Glenn Clayburn
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