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Woolly mammoths were still roaming the earth when the Egyptians were actively building the Great Pyramids at Giza.
Woolly mammoths were still roaming the earth when the Egyptians were actively building the Great Pyramids at Giza. A small isolated population of these…
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DNA analysis of ancient Egyptian mummies revealed that King Tutankhamun's parents were biological brother and sister, which perfectly explains his terrible health and physical deformities.
DNA analysis of ancient Egyptian mummies revealed that King Tutankhamun's parents were biological brother and sister, which perfectly explains his terrible…
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Eleventh-century English monk Eilmer of Malmesbury strapped a pair of homemade wings to his hands and feet, jumped off a tall abbey tower, and actually managed to glide for a short distance before violently crashing.
Eleventh-century English monk Eilmer of Malmesbury strapped a pair of homemade wings to his hands and feet, jumped off a tall abbey tower, and actually…
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Vandal King Genseric captured and sacked the city of Rome in 455 CE without having to fight a single major battle by simply negotiating a relatively polite pillaging schedule with the Pope.
Vandal King Genseric captured and sacked the city of Rome in 455 CE without having to fight a single major battle by simply negotiating a relatively polite…
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Legendary Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe kept a fully domesticated, remarkably thirsty pet elk that met a deeply tragic end after getting aggressively blackout drunk at a fancy aristocratic party.
Legendary Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe kept a fully domesticated, remarkably thirsty pet elk that met a deeply tragic end after getting aggressively blackout…
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Benjamin Franklin invented a rudimentary odometer in the eighteenth century simply because he wanted to figure out the most efficient routes for delivering the mail across the…
Benjamin Franklin invented a rudimentary odometer in the eighteenth century simply because he wanted to figure out the most efficient routes for delivering…
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Farmers from the rural village of West Pennard decided to honor Queen Victoria's royal wedding in 1840 by pooling the milk of over seven hundred local cows to create a wildly…
Farmers from the rural village of West Pennard decided to honor Queen Victoria's royal wedding in 1840 by pooling the milk of over seven hundred local cows to…
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British colonial efforts to build a railway bridge in Kenya were completely halted in 1898 by two massive, man-eating lions that systematically hunted the construction crews.
British colonial efforts to build a railway bridge in Kenya were completely halted in 1898 by two massive, man-eating lions that systematically hunted the…
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King Henry VIII employed an official known as the Groom of the Stool whose primary job was to assist the monarch with his bowel movements and wipe his royal backside.
King Henry VIII employed an official known as the Groom of the Stool whose primary job was to assist the monarch with his bowel movements and wipe his royal…
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Alexander the Great suffered from such an astronomical case of clinical narcissism that he literally named over seventy different cities after himself during his brutal conquest of the ancient world.
Alexander the Great suffered from such an astronomical case of clinical narcissism that he literally named over seventy different cities after himself during…
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Roman emperor Elagabalus was an aggressively weird teenager who loved to play elaborate and deeply terrifying practical jokes on his wealthy patrician dinner guests.
Roman emperor Elagabalus was an aggressively weird teenager who loved to play elaborate and deeply terrifying practical jokes on his wealthy patrician dinner…
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Founding Father Benjamin Franklin confidently decided the English language was deeply flawed in 1768 and invented his own phonetic alphabet, removing the letters C, J, Q, W, X, and Y entirely.
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin confidently decided the English language was deeply flawed in 1768 and invented his own phonetic alphabet, removing the…
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Sir Walter Raleigh stumbled upon a massive, naturally occurring lake of liquid asphalt on the island of Trinidad in 1595 and immediately realized it was the perfect substance for caulking his leaky wooden ships.
Sir Walter Raleigh stumbled upon a massive, naturally occurring lake of liquid asphalt on the island of Trinidad in 1595 and immediately realized it was the…
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Inventor Thomas Edison obsessively tried to solve the affordable housing crisis in 1908 by patenting a massive cast-iron mold to pour entire, seamless concrete houses in a single day.
Inventor Thomas Edison obsessively tried to solve the affordable housing crisis in 1908 by patenting a massive cast-iron mold to pour entire, seamless…
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Roman dictator Julius Caesar forced the year 46 BC to last an excruciating 445 days to align the heavily screwed-up Roman calendar with the solar year, creating what is known as…
Roman dictator Julius Caesar forced the year 46 BC to last an excruciating 445 days to align the heavily screwed-up Roman calendar with the solar year,…
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Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in ancient Greece using nothing but a stick, some shadows, and basic geometry, proving the planet was round thousands of years ago.
Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth in ancient Greece using nothing but a stick, some shadows, and basic geometry, proving the planet was…
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Edgar Allan Poe purchased the Broadway Journal in 1845 and basically turned it into his own personal platform for cyberbullying other writers before the internet even existed.
Edgar Allan Poe purchased the Broadway Journal in 1845 and basically turned it into his own personal platform for cyberbullying other writers before the…
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Victorian society in the nineteenth century developed a lethal obsession with a stunning new dye called Scheele's Green, deliberately wearing beautiful dresses completely soaked in toxic arsenic.
Victorian society in the nineteenth century developed a lethal obsession with a stunning new dye called Scheele's Green, deliberately wearing beautiful…
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Psychologist William Moulton Marston helped invent the early polygraph lie detector test in the 1920s before eventually using his obsession with truth and bondage to create the comic book hero Wonder Woman.
Psychologist William Moulton Marston helped invent the early polygraph lie detector test in the 1920s before eventually using his obsession with truth and…
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President Theodore Roosevelt, universally remembered as a hyper-masculine rough rider who hunted bears and survived assassination attempts, surprisingly kept his personal…
President Theodore Roosevelt, universally remembered as a hyper-masculine rough rider who hunted bears and survived assassination attempts, surprisingly kept…
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Ea-Nasir was a copper merchant in ancient Mesopotamia whose business practices were so notoriously terrible that his angry customers carved their complaints into clay tablets that survived for nearly four thousand years.
Ea-Nasir was a copper merchant in ancient Mesopotamia whose business practices were so notoriously terrible that his angry customers carved their complaints…
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Princeton researchers Ernest Wever and Charles Bray successfully turned a living, unconscious cat into a fully functional telephone in 1930 to study how the auditory nerve processes sound.
Princeton researchers Ernest Wever and Charles Bray successfully turned a living, unconscious cat into a fully functional telephone in 1930 to study how the…
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German engineers during World War II created a bizarre hybrid vehicle called the Kettenkrad, which was essentially the front half of a standard motorcycle welded onto the back half of a miniature tank.
German engineers during World War II created a bizarre hybrid vehicle called the Kettenkrad, which was essentially the front half of a standard motorcycle…
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Russian researchers investigating the massive Tunguska Event of 1908 found an area in Siberia where eighty million trees were flattened in a radial pattern over eight hundred square miles, yet there was no impact crater.
Russian researchers investigating the massive Tunguska Event of 1908 found an area in Siberia where eighty million trees were flattened in a radial pattern…
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