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Boss Facts To Supercharge Your Brain

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Older people have better sex. Youth is fetishized when it comes to under-the- sheets business - but research indicates that sexual satisfaction is greMore: 5 Scientific Reasons Life Is Harder When You're Young

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Your car has been fine- tuned to sound just right. You love to hear the door's thunk and the engine's purr, don't you? Well, those have been added forMore: 5 Clever Ways Products Use Sound To Trick Your Brain

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The Olympic torch relay was Nazi Germany's idea. While the Greeks did keep a ritual fire burning during their games, the international relay was invenMore: 5 Everyday Things With (Mostly Forgotten) Nazi Origins

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China has an illegal World of Warcraft theme park. China is famous, among other things, for their bootlegs- games, action figures.... even places now.More: 6 Video Game Cons That Shouldn't Have Fooled Anyone

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Freddy Krueger's crimes were committed by... Charles Manson? In 1987, actor John Saxon (who worked in the franchise) pitched a prequel to A Nightmare More: Iconic Horror Movies (That Nearly Got The Weirdest Sequels)

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What the hell is the Land of Ta? Bits and pieces of the Land of Ta started popping into our reality in 2017, when comedian Nate Fernald tweeted a photMore: 5 Intriguing Internet Mysteries That May Never Be Solved

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A pornographer fooled the world with a fake gospel. XC TAS. Jesus had a wife! it was announced in 2012. The proof was an ancient scrap of papyrus thMore: 6 Totally Bonkers Criminal Plots That Actually Happened

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Werewolf stories are based on Vikings. You probably know about the berserkers, the Viking shock troops who took shrooms and went, well, berserk. And tMore: 5 Legendary Monsters Who Were Based On Real People

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The Jester takes down terrorist websites. Not all heroes wear uncomfortable, bulge-revealing tights. A hacker known only as The Jester has been deMore: 5 Ruthless Trolls Who Used Their Powers For Good

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Your answer to the Trolley Problem is unrelated to what you'd actually do. 0000 OD Would you kill one person to save five? It turns out your answer doMore: 5 Famous Psychological Studies (That Were Hugely Overhyped)

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The inventor of the laser was kicked out of his own project. COM Physicist Gordon Gould took his idea to a private company, wrongly believing that he More: 5 World-Changing Geniuses (Who Got Robbed Of All The Credit)

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The original incels were a support group started by a woman. In 1997, a Canadian woman (known only as Alana) created the Involuntary Celibacy Project,More: 5 Political Insults With WTF Origins You Never Saw Coming

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Mary Jane Jones was forced to be a fake Aretha Franklin. Jones (right) sounded a lot like Franklin (left) - SO Lavell Hardy (a James Brown impersonatoMore: The 6 Most Epically Lazy Ripoffs Of Famous Movies And Shows

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Denmark tried to pimp their women to tourists. Ag In 2009, a video went viral of a Danish woman looking for her baby's father, a foreigner she had a oMore: The 4 Most Misogynistic Marketing Campaigns Of All Time

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Stanley Kubrick tried to buy insurance against aliens. Kubrick was known for thinking of every little detail when making his movies. He thought, for eMore: 5 Stories That Prove Stanley Kubrick Was A Maniac

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H.P. Lovecraft was Harry Houdini's ghostwriter. In the 1920s, Lovecraft was hired to ghostwrite Imprisoned with the Pharaohs. about an adventure HouMore: 5 Surprising Relationships Between Historical Figures

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The U.S. Army tried to get a whistlebower declared insane. In 2003, Sgt. Frank Greg Ford reported to his superior officer that some war-crimey tortuMore: 5 Horrifying Ways Scandals Were Covered Up

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