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317 - Top 10 Most FAMOUS Preserved BODY PARTS Feb 03, 2020

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The final resting places of most historical figures are highly guarded and viewed by many as shrines or at least veritable cash cows for the societies guarding them. For a very few of those figures, some of their remains have been “preserved” for posterity, the sake of science or just egotistical reasons. Sure anyone can see a dinosaur bone in a museum, but wouldn’t you rather see the brain of a famous scientist or the shattered bone of a martyred revolutionary?

316 - Top 10 MISUNDERSTOOD CREATURES Feb 02, 2020

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Many animals unfortunately suffer from a rather negative image in human culture, regarded by us as frightening, disgusting or just plain lowly. Nature, however, has no “vermin” or “pests” – all things have their place in the natural order of things, and in most cases, the benefits of an organism far outweigh its (accidental) inconveniences. Even animals many of us find “ugly” are only demonstrating the perfect body shape for their particular ecological niche. Open up your mind a little, and you just might find some beauty in something that once made your skin crawl.

315 - Top 10 GENERALS of Western HISTORY Feb 02, 2020

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In our modernized, mechanized age of warfare, where decisions are made by civilians, officers far from any line of combat, congressional committees, and unknown military strategists in committee, an army is a faceless thing. For the last six decades, the idea of massed armies doing battle has been considered a curiosity of the past, and warfare is often viewed more as an endemic state of some sort rather than a series of events.

314 - Top 10 Facts You Didnt Know About AIR FORCE ONE Feb 01, 2020

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Air Force One, a.k.a. that enormous plane that carts the president around, is one of the most enduring symbols of American power. To this end, the planes carrying the Air Force One designation are filled to the brim with bleeding edge technology and a bunch of other cool stuff we’re going to talk about… well, right now. For example, did you know…

313 - Top 10 COUNTRIES That Would be IMPOSSIBLE to INVADE Feb 01, 2020

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War is never fun, exciting or a source of glory for anyone (well, at least it shouldn’t be). Only someone who hasn’t experienced it firsthand would believe such a thing. As many have put it over the years: “War is hell,” pure and simple. And because this statement is a fact, most countries around the world have prepared themselves accordingly, unwilling to be taken unawares by a military invasion. Though actual wars for conquest are a rare thing nowadays, this doesn’t mean that armed conflicts don’t happen.

312 - Top 10 20th Century CONCEPT CARS We Hoped Wed Drive By Now Jan 31, 2020

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Children of the 1980s have the year 2015 marked on our calendars. The reason for this is because the movie Back To the Future II told us we would have flying cars and hover boards by 2015. There are still two years left to mass produce. If an apocalypse can theoretically occur in a day, then we can still hold out hope for 2015. Every year, car manufacturers unveil their latest ideas into what are known as ‘concept cars.’ These concept cars often will not be mass produced, but we are still holding out a bit of hope that one days these beauties could be on the streets. We also want to reach our sky garages by jet packs as long as we are at it.

311 - People Who Tried to CONTROL the WEATHER Jan 31, 2020

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We have to realize that weather, in all its forms, has influenced and shaped humanity in every conceivable way. The weather and the surrounding environment (which is also shaped by weather) has influenced language in every part of the world, how people built the houses and shaped their societies, what they ate, and the way that they dressed for centuries. Whole religions were formed as a sort of answer to the meteorological events happening all around. And it’s not inconceivable that people throughout history have tried, or at least thought about, controlling the weather.

310 - Learn More About Samurai's Deadly Weapons Jan 30, 2020

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Picture a samurai. No doubt you’ve got in your mind the iconic warrior with the cool helmet and armor, poised to attack with his trusty katana. Because of course, he’s wielding a katana. That’s what the samurai brought with them into battle, right? If there’s anything pop culture has taught us, it’s that the samurai was armed only with his courage and his katana. Well, not so fast. The weapons of a samurai were far more varied and versatile than movies would have you believe. We’ve dispelled some myths about the samurai in the past. Now, let’s throw some facts that squash even more.

309 - 10 MORE Facts That Sound Like BS, But Are TRUE (Part 4) Jan 30, 2020

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It seems like only yesterday that we dredged the back vaults of our list-writing brains to give you ten facts that sounded like they couldn’t possibly be true, but were. And what a list that was, huh? Full of crazy, once-in-a-lifetime facts of the sort you’re unlikely to witness ever again, the sort of tales that could only come once in a blue…

308 - Top 10 TERRIFYING Facts About DINOSAURS Jan 29, 2020

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Dinosaurs evolved from reptiles over 230 million years ago and were on Earth for about 65 million years before going extinct for reasons that aren’t exactly clear. For centuries, their fossils have fascinated people for a whole host of reasons, like their size, their ferocity, and the fact that they resemble mythical creatures.

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