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Biological warfare used to be a lot more direct and deeply humiliating. During Kett's Rebellion in Norfolk, a massive army of angry commoners held off King…
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Vienna in 1913 was essentially the worst crossover episode in human history. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, and Josip Broz Tito all lived within a…
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Talk about doing the absolute bare minimum to achieve historical immortality. Vermeer worked at such a hilariously glacial pace that he only managed to finish…
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Erecting a ridiculously massive bronze man straddling a harbor entrance, only for an earthquake to snap him right at the knees a few decades later.
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What deeply horrifying public attraction was still actively operating in multiple European cities well into the 1950s?
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In a terrifying display of mid-western optical illusion, the massive stainless steel monument messes with your brain. Despite appearing like a tall, narrow…
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