Messed Up Things That Actually Happened In The Victorian Era
The Victorian era, while modern and advanced compared to some, was seriously nuts. All kinds of messed up things went down in the Victorian era.
Read MoreThe Victorian era, while modern and advanced compared to some, was seriously nuts. All kinds of messed up things went down in the Victorian era.
Read MoreMary 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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Read MorePretty much everyone who grew up in the '90s knows who Pocahontas is. Disney Princess, love interest of the great explorer John Smith, Native American nobility. Yes, Disney taught us many things about the Powhatan heroine, and they're all wrong. Mostly. Here's the truth about Pocahontas.
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Read MoreStar 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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Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreCharlie'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.
Read MoreFor almost 1,500 years, the Roman Empire dominated, well, a lot of the world. And they weren't kind about it. Here are messed up things from the Roman Empire.
Read MoreTo many, the Ancient Greeks' world was progressive, democratic, and peaceful, and there's a lot of truth to all that. But no society is perfect.
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Read MoreWhen you think about bridges, you probably think about those technological wonders of the modern age. But the ancients built technological wonders, too.
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Read MoreAs Americans were rocked by social shifts, the Vietnam War's many faults shook their collective conscience. When its cruelties were known, many were horrified.
Read MoreIf 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.
Read MoreBetween numerous deaths, drugs galore, massive infighting, and celeb marriages, the story of the Allman Brothers is so much more than their records.
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Read MoreDuring the early 1900s Sigmund Freud began rattling off ideas that rattled the public. He also pushed notions about the subconscious and told people to take drugs. Today many people dismiss Sigmund Freud as a creep who pulled nonsense out of his associations. But here's the truth about Freud.
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Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreIn 2009, the History Channel's Ancient Aliens took a far-out concept and blew it up. Here are some fun and interesting facts about Ancient Aliens.
Read MoreThe 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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