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517 - Incredible Facts About US Special Operation Forces Jun 07, 2020

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The United States government has tried their best to keep the facts about their Special Forces and what they do as secretive as possible. However, in a country that is so proud of its military and their lore, quite a bit has managed to leak out anyway. More recently, the Navy SEALs have been very much in the spotlight due to the raid on the compound holding Osama Bin Laden, as well as the subsequent movies and books about it. However, much of what you have heard recently about the SEALs may not be the whole truth, and there are many other equally interesting Special Forces that have fallen under the radar in recent years.

516 - Top 10 of the Biggest WHAT IF Scenarios in History Jun 06, 2020

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The world is full of “what ifs?” What if JFK hadn’t decided to go cruising through Dallas in an open-top car? What if Gandhi had never got teed-off with the British Empire? What if we’d been wearing pants that time the cops pulled us over? That’s the nature of things: we can never truly know. But we sure as heck can speculate. And, thankfully, Earth’s long, long history has given us plenty to speculate about.

515 - Little Known People Who Changed the World Jun 06, 2020

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For many different reasons, the people on this list aren’t household names, but they had a major impact on the world. In some cases, there is something physically unique that is found only in them. Others have done something that has had a massive, rippling effect throughout history that we still feel today.

514 - Top 10 INNOCENT Things That Wound Up Getting CENSORED Jun 05, 2020

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Spend enough time online and you’ll eventually encounter a person mockingly talking about overly PC, censor-happy snowflakes who’re triggered by mean words. This, as it happens, isn’t a new phenomenon, or even one limited to one specific end of the political spectrum (who’d have thought it?). Here are 10 examples of the most innocent things busybodies of the era tried to censor, starting with…

513 - Top 10 Fascinating Facts About ALEXANDER HAMILTON Jun 05, 2020

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Alexander Hamilton came from humble beginnings, but eventually became one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first Secretary of the Treasury. While he never became President, he was an incredibly influential figure in the formation of America and an indelible part of its history. Here are 10 things about Lin-Manuel Miranda’s muse you may not know…

512 - Top 10 CHEAPEST Big American Cities Jun 04, 2020

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We’ve all been there. It’s the last Thursday of the month, you’re slowly looking from your paycheck to the stack of bills beside the fridge, and feeling your soul curl up and weep at how financially screwed you are. Yup, it’s a common feeling for many of us, especially if our postal address happens to include an NYC, San Fran, or LA zip code. But fear not, there are plenty of other, cheaper cities out there. The best part? You won’t even have to move abroad to find them!

511 - The Places Germany Could Have Invaded, but Didnt.. Jun 04, 2020

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On June 25, 1940, France surrendered to the military might of Germany after being crushed in the Blitzkrieg. Almost immediately, Adolf Hitler and his gang of thugs began planning their next attack that respected no treaties, no borders, and no decency, the proposed invasion of neutral Switzerland. The Germans never did invade Switzerland during World War II, as they did not invade several other notable places they certainly considered invading or would have greatly benefited from invading. Here we list 10 of those places. What other places would you include on this list?

510 - The Archaeological Discoveries That Changed Our View of History Jun 03, 2020

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History is far more complicated that we would like to believe. Even in our schools today, different versions of events are being taught to students, depending on the country they’re in and how those events in history affected that country. “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” right? Nevertheless, we also have archaeology, which sometimes helps us to better understand what happened regardless of what was written down in centuries past. And sometimes, some such discoveries turn the way we saw history right on its head.

509 - Moments in History that CHANGED EVERYTHING Jun 03, 2020

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Like the moment when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was taken out because his assassin stopped for a sandwich, some small moments in history can have absolutely incredible impact. While most things in the world take place because of boring and tedious work done over decades, there are those times when things hang in the balance, and the wrong move can alter the course of history forever. Below are several scenarios where the history of the world changed in a very short span of time – if these things had happened differently, we could be living with a very different world today.

508 - 10 Things That Sound Like BS, But Are True (Part 5) Jun 02, 2020

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In a world where fake news and false facts are rampant, it’s hard to distinguish what is true and what isn’t, especially when it sounds so unbelievable. We have gone through some crazy news stories and unbelievable tales from history and culled even more of the most interesting, unbelievable facts that sound like BS, but are completely true.

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