The idea that there's any letter in the alphabet that most people can't write is pretty insane. We spend an obscene amount of time learning the alphabet, repeating each letter until it's perfect. So what gives? What letter just confuses the heck out of us?
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Sabotage has been a favorite human pastime for millennia, because there's almost nothing more fun than messing with other people. Sabotage has a rich and storied history, and a lot of time it's altered the course of world events. Here are times insane instances of sabotage changed history.
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These presidents all did desperate things to try to help their approval ratings. It almost never worked.
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Perhaps nothing in sports is more enjoyable than a great comeback. Seeing a team come back from behind when it seems like it's all over is a rush, even if it isn't your team doing the winning. Here are the most amazing comebacks in sports history.
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The Catholic Church and its popes have been around a long time, but you know what they say about power. Unfortunately, not every pope has been incorruptible. Here are popes who were actually terrible people.
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We remember the Great Depression as pretty dark times, and some people think nothing good came from the Great Depression. But that's not strictly true — in fact, times of great hardship are often times of great innovation. Here are things invented during the Great Depression.
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The French Revolution, for most people, seems to boil down to a peasant uprising and lots of guillotine action followed by Napoleon. And that's broadly true, but there was a lot more to the French Revolution than that. In fact, the French Revolution was really messed up.
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These photos will change the way you look at history, allowing us to look back on the greatest hits -- and worst horrors -- of our past.
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There are a lot of ways to win an MMA fight. You've got submissions, TKOs, decisions, and even disqualifications. But the most feared and fabled is the knockout, the KO. Land one good shot and it's all over. Here are the most terrifying knockouts in UFC history.
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Look beyond the creepy photos and creaking Ferris wheels, and you'll find many abandoned theme parks hide secrets more chilling than a sweater full of spiders.
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Growing up, we were bombarded with nursery rhymes that we recited happily, oblivious to the fact that a lot of these cutesy poems have really dark meanings.
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It's so nice when a real-life hero emerges. Having someone stand up for what's right and true is great. But people are complex and layered and no one is perfect. These real-life heroes made big waves in the world, but later came out as terrible people.
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Star Wars is confusing, somehow most hated by the people who most love it. That all came to a head in 2017 with Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi. Episode VIII broke a lot of new ground and was quite a romp of a movie. That made it easy to ignore these dumb things in The Last Jedi.
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Lots of kids have dreamed of being archaeologists. Maybe becauuse of Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider, but nothing seemed cooler than digging up the mysteries of the past. But sometimes a prankster gets in the mix. Here are some of the biggest archaeological hoaxes that would have changed history.
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The Industrial Revolution is widely remembered as a time of great innovation. New inventions changed the course of history, but at a high price — lots of people died during the Industrial Revolution. And many deaths were avoidable. Here are messed up things from the Industrial Revolution.
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Mary Mallon should have lived the American dream. But when this chef found typhoid outbreaks following everywhere she went, Typhoid Mary's life changed forever. Here are facts most people don't know about Typhoid Mary, a much-maligned character from early 1900s New York.
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The Star Wars franchise is unlike anything else in pop culture history. While you can't deny just how massive Star Wars has been, it's not all sunshine and Ewoks. Star Wars has had plenty of negative effects on people. Here are lives destroyed by Star Wars.
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Charlie's Angels was an instant smash. Jaclyn Smith, Kate Jackson, and Farrah Fawcett soon became household names. Here's the weird story of Charlie's Angels.
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Sometimes the truth is so odd, it makes imagination feel dull and uninspired. The real world is brimming, in fact, with fake-sounding facts that are 100% true.
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If you ever get lost, it would feel good to know people are ready to mount a search and rescue mission. But what do these search and rescue missions cost? They can be massive, expensive undertakings. Here are some of history's most expensive search and rescue missions.
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To be a famous animal too often means a lifetime of bad things happening to you. Sadly, whether it's Flipper or Willy the whale, Mister Ed or J. Fred Muggs, making it in Hollywood is just about the worst thing that ever happened to these famous animals.
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There are plenty of ways Rick could meet his maker on The Walking Dead, so here's a look at some of our favorite theories.
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The FBI exists to help protect the people of the United States. But the FBI has made some big mistakes in its time. Amazingly, all the FBI's power doesn't help people stop being idiots. Sometimes these screw-ups just make the FBI look dumb, but other times they affect innocent people's lives.
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The USA has seen some crazy elections. Election fraud is vanishingly rare now, but here are the craziest cases of election fraud in U.S. history.
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While the space race certainly led to some amazing discoveries and while getting a man on the Moon is incredible, what happened behind the scenes was more like a messed-up Star Trek episode. Nationalism ran high, pettiness was rampant, and at someone even wanted to nuke the Moon. Pretty messed up.
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Not every airplane is as recognizable as a 747. Some are so bizarre, if you saw them at your local airport you would think it was a movie prop, or maybe a UFO.
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While most thrill ride designers just go a bit bigger or faster with their latest creation, some just have to be different, and not in a good way.
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