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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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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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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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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Mary Poppins is one of the most beloved movies of all time, and the movie literally ends with people positively giddy about flying their kites. And yet, there are a number of dark, creepy, and weird things about Mary Poppins that only older, or at least more cynical viewers, will pick up on.
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The White House has been home to some of the most consequential moments in modern human history. Presidents, from the admired to the reviled, have turned its white walls into a beacon of liberty and light for the world. But there are White House secrets most presidential historians won't mention.
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The set of Poltergeist is widely considered to have been cursed, primarily because of what happened to so many of its stars after the movie hit theaters.
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You probably never knew about these messed up things that happened at Super Bowls. Sometimes, things just get downright weird.
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Here are messed up things superheroes did that no one ever talks about.
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Here's everything messed up about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Santa's got some serious explaining to do.
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These messed up things actually happened during witch hunts, and thousands of supposed witches died.
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These messed up things really did happen at SeaWorld. Makes you wonder if we should really be locking animals up so they can entertain us.
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Some really strange things happened on the set of the Wizard of Oz. Judy Garland getting slapped was just the start.
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