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Crying, Cheating, and Croaking - 4 Powerful People Who Died While Cheating on Their Spouses

“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.” ― Lily Tomlin Not all good stories have a happy ending. When people make the ultimate commitment to their significant others, they state their vows and live happily ever after until the very end. Usually. But sometimes those two …

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The Surprising Story of The Satanic Temple and Satanism

Lucien Greaves is by all accounts an honorable and decent man. He donates to charities. He organizes scholarships for young students. He started an organization called the Protect Children Project which aims to eliminate corporal punishment in America’s schools. Yet, he receives death threats almost daily from established groups around the country. Because Lucien Greaves …

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The Fascinating Dark History Behind the Nobel Prize

“Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab.” — David Cronenberg Alf was born in Stockholm, Sweden in the black-and-white years of 1833 to an intelligent but relatively poor family. His father, a generalist, had various occupations of an engineer, inventor, and architect. Some of his genes passed onto his 8 children, as the 4 who …

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3 Insane Serial Killers Who Could Be Sitting Beside You Right Now

Serial killers have become a point of fascination in recent years. From the amazing award-winning Bear Brook podcast to Mindhunter on Netflix, media producers guessed (correctly) the public would become captivated by these outliers of society. So today I wondered, would people also be interested in knowing about several notorious killers who could be sitting …

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3 Hugely Popular Harmful Movements That Are Based on Complete Lies

Money isn’t everything. Unless you’re a high-paid executive in one of the countless unethical modern businesses, that is. Modern society simply values fame, power, and fortune over seemingly everything else these days. And it’s detrimental to our collective well-being. Here are three shocking instances that still heavily affect our world today — for the worse. How 3 …

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The Lone Ranger Would’ve Been Convicted of Genocide if He Was Alive Today

“Hi-Ho, Silver, blast away!” The noble white horse. The characteristic silver bullets. The racist trope of a sidekick. Most of us remember The Lone Ranger as a rule-stretching, right-from-wrong-having, justice-always-prevails Texas cowboy with a badge. But if he was based on reality, he probably would’ve been more famous for his bloodlust, torturous ways, and genocide. The …

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