Science & History
6 Impossible Escapes Using Impossibler Methods
As we never get tired of pointing out, when you combine desperation, perseverance, ingenuity and giant balls, wonderful things happen. This is proven by these tales of men who found themselves in hostile territory with no chance of escape ... and just fucking escaped anyway
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- By Tony Pilgram, Cornelius Appin, Drew Miller
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6 Terrifying Predators Routinely Owned by Adorable Prey
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- By Tom Hohle
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The 6 Most WTF Moments From Shakespeare Plays
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- By Craig Thomas
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6 Tricks That Let You Control Animals Like The Beast Master
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- By Kevin Forde
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
6 'Wuss' Behaviors That Were Once Badass Survival Instincts
You might not realize it, but some of the behaviors that get you swirlied today were survival strategies that kept you alive thousands of years ago.
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- By Kristi Harrison, Dennis Hong
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6 Uneducated Amateurs Whose Genius Changed the World
Now, we're not telling you not to get an education -- everybody knows employers these days want a degree. But we'd be remiss if we didn't take a moment to celebrate some of the amazing achievements from people who had virtually no education at all.
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- By John Champion
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7 Mind-Blowing Vehicles Built and Driven by Animals
We've already pointed out that animals are capable of building pretty impressive cities, but at least they're not driving around the streets in little beaver sedans and amassing armies of spider war-jets, right? Horribly, we're not too far from that reality, either.
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- By Jonathan Wojcik
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6 Personality Quirks You Didn't Know Were Medical Conditions
Your weird quirks don't make you a quirky snowflake. They make you a medical textbook entry.
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- By Andrew Martin
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The Science Behind Stupidly Hot Peppers [CHART]
The Scoville hotness scale ain't got shit on us.
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- By John Larwood
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The 5 Strangest Ways Your Mind Can Get Your Body Sick
The brain can fool the body into thinking it's sick, complete with physical symptoms. And we're not talking about bullshit symptoms like headaches, either.
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- By Eric Yosomono
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6 Civil War Myths Everyone Believes That Are Total B.S.
We might be going out on a limb here, but we're guessing that most of our readers aren't hardcore Civil War historians. And since VH-1 discontinued their series before they got around to the 1860s, a lot of us are walking around with Civil War misinformation firmly wired in our brains.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes
f you or someone you know refuses to believe that organisms change over time without proof on a monkey-man level, here are some animals in the middle of getting their evolve on.
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- By Kristi Harrison
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6 Intimate Details You Can Tell Just By Looking At Someone
Experts say you can tell a whole lot of intimate details about a person just by looking at them. It's not magic and it's not 100 percent. But it is science.
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- By Kathy Benjamin, Simon Bower
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The 8 Most Disgusting Animal Defenses
Mother Nature: Finding ways to give us nightmares since whenever.
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- By Ezekiel Buchheit, Crystal Beran
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10 Famous Unsolved Mysteries Easily Explained by Science
Science: Ruining campfire stories since 1625.
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- By Pauli Poisuo, M. Asher Cantrell
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