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Twenty Years Ago Today: Barbra Streisand Sued A Photographer And The Streisand Effect Was Born

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Samuel Whittemore Was A Honey Badger Of Freedom

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Explain To Me Again How You Plan To Get a 634' Ship Through a 600' Lock?

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Why did the Japanese buy broken glass in the USSR and throw it into the sea? #shorts

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Only The French Would Design A Plane With The Cockpit INSIDE The Engine

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The Irish Had Strange Taste In Butter

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The Judas Goats of Sioux City

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Mozart disliked this soprano so much that he wrote an opera that would cause her to bob her like head like a chicken

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One Does Not Simply Invade An Undefended Island

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Army vs Air Force: This is MY Airspace

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You Can't Fire Me, I'll Fire You! [646x836 - 105KB]

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A Queer Freed the Slaves

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As your consolation prize, you can have the Yooper!

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Stuck in the middle (of the air) with you

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Time...for a duel!

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Now you know [480x480 - 66KB]

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Outgunned, Outnumbered, Out Of Options? "Get off my bloody ship!"

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1891 Had a Deepfake Problem

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One example of why the third amendment is important: Dragonading

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How an Odd Man Picked the Revolutionary Lock [Video]

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How half-assed Japanese AAA lead to decades of war

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In 1475 You Either Made a Good Cup of Joe, Or Out You Go!

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Christopher Lee's friends had no internet yet, so they had to resort to letters to troll his uptight Swedish father-in-law

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If medieval needlepoint was sewn by men [320x249 - 18KB]

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In 1980 the FBI formed a fake company and attempted to bribe members of congress. Nearly 25% of those tested accepted the bribe, and were convicted

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