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For completely inexplicable linguistic reasons, deep theatrical sorrow is heavily tied to farm animals. The highly emotional genre name stems exactly from a…
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The guy screaming about the British was also identifying corpses by their teeth. As a skilled silversmith, Revere wired false teeth for the elite. After the…
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Paul Dirac was an absolute genius of quantum mechanics, but a total nightmare at dinner parties. He was famously so incredibly introverted that his colleagues…
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Creepy billionaire behavior is not a modern invention. When inventor Thomas Edison was dying in 1931, his good friend Henry Ford supposedly asked Edison's son…
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To prove yellow fever wasn't contagious, this researcher rubbed fresh patient vomit into open wounds and drank it like a smoothie. He was actually right, but…
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