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22 People With Jobs That Are NOT for Those Afraid of Heights

22 People With Jobs That Are NOT for Those Afraid of Heights

For a normal person, it's enough to make your eyes water and your feet go wobbly.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

21 Historical Figures Who Died in the Weirdest Ways

21 Historical Figures Who Died in the Weirdest Ways

Important figures from throughout history have been repeatedly betrayed, killed on the battlefield, or assassinated.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 8 months ago in Wtf

21 Funny Photos From History Showing People Have Always Had a Sense of Humor

21 Funny Photos From History Showing People Have Always Had a Sense of Humor

The tradition of taking a "silly one" is as old as the camera itself.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 8 months ago in Funny

24 Historical Photos of Ancient Cities Then Vs. Now

24 Historical Photos of Ancient Cities Then Vs. Now

While modern meccas like New York, London and Tokyo dominate world markets today, they weren't always the most powerful cities of their time.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

22 Fascinating Photos of Old-School Planes From the World War and Before

22 Fascinating Photos of Old-School Planes From the World War and Before

Recent Boeing issues aside, modern planes are staggeringly safe and reliable, but they weren't always that way.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

Back to the Future: 14 'Time Travelers' Caught On Camera

Back to the Future: 14 'Time Travelers' Caught On Camera

What if time travel wasn't just science fiction?

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

A Trip Back in Time: 26 Old-Timey Photos of City Streets Around the World

A Trip Back in Time: 26 Old-Timey Photos of City Streets Around the World

Check out the streets of China, Tokyo, New York, Mumbai, Paris and Vienna in these down to Earth early 1900s historical photos.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

25 Historical Moves People Thought Were Brilliant But Turned Out to Be Legendary Fails

25 Historical Moves People Thought Were Brilliant But Turned Out to Be Legendary Fails

Even without a crystal ball, hindsight on some of these still seems quite a bit less than 20/20.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

20 Vintage Photos of What ‘Disco Demolition Night’ Looked Like

20 Vintage Photos of What ‘Disco Demolition Night’ Looked Like

Do you like Disco? Well a man named Steve Dahl really didn't, and on July 12th of 1979 he decided to do something about it.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

'They Did A Total 180' - 29 Heroes Who Lived Long Enough to Become the Villain

'They Did A Total 180' - 29 Heroes Who Lived Long Enough to Become the Villain

Unfortunately for these people, they kept their skeletons in the closet instead of in the ground, and paid the reputational price.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Ftw

11 Fascinating Archeological Finds That Challenge the Past

11 Fascinating Archeological Finds That Challenge the Past

It's amazing we know as much about our history as we do, but there is always more to learn.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

Straight From the History Books: 21 Educational Photos From History

Straight From the History Books: 21 Educational Photos From History

From famous actors, to world leaders to Civil War veterans, we bet you haven't seen any of these unique shots before.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

22 Historical Disaster Photos to Put the Fear of God in an Atheist

22 Historical Disaster Photos to Put the Fear of God in an Atheist

Just because we don't have as many photos and videos of historical disasters, doesn't mean they didn't happen. They didn't have gawking bystanders with iPhones.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

24 Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1977

24 Photos of What the World Looked Like in 1977

Peace, love and feathered hair.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

A Blast From the Past: 20 Historical Photographs That Are Seldom Seen

A Blast From the Past: 20 Historical Photographs That Are Seldom Seen

This collection of rare pics show famous events and daily life alike through the lens of normal people.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

20 Badass Historical Figures That Are Cooler Than All of Us

20 Badass Historical Figures That Are Cooler Than All of Us

No matter how cooler you are, these guys are cooler than you.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 9 months ago in Wow

A Glimpse Into the Past: 19 Historical Photographs They Don't Show in School

A Glimpse Into the Past: 19 Historical Photographs They Don't Show in School

Thanks to the internet, you can see fresh historical pics for the first time.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 10 months ago in Ftw

22 Crazy News Stories From 2001 That Were Overshadowed By You Know What

22 Crazy News Stories From 2001 That Were Overshadowed By You Know What

2001 was actually a crazy year for news, and it's too bad we don't remember much of it.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 10 months ago in Wtf

26 Pics of D-Day That Should Give Us All Pause

26 Pics of D-Day That Should Give Us All Pause

80 years ago today, June 6th 1944, 156,000 Allied troops stormed five beaches in Normandy, France in hopes of freeing Europe from fascist tyranny.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 10 months ago in Wow

Blast From the Past: 20 Fascinating Historical Photos To Explore

Blast From the Past: 20 Fascinating Historical Photos To Explore

We took a trip back through time to bring you some of the coolest historical pics the internet has to offer.

By zachnading

Featured 10 months ago in Ftw

17 of the Toughest Figures from History Who Earned Their Nicknames

17 of the Toughest Figures from History Who Earned Their Nicknames

What's in a nickname? A whole lot to these rad historical figures.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 10 months ago in Wow

11 Weird Ancient Beliefs and the People Who Practiced Them

11 Weird Ancient Beliefs and the People Who Practiced Them

Before modern technology and scientific methods, ancient humans used their imaginations to answer life's biggest questions.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 10 months ago in Wtf

Here’s a Ridiculous Look At Kraft Mac & Cheese Through the Ages

Here’s a Ridiculous Look At Kraft Mac & Cheese Through the Ages

Kraft Mac & Cheese has been an easy dinner staple for families around the country for decades.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 10 months ago in Wow

8 Medical Procedures That Meant Almost Certain Death

8 Medical Procedures That Meant Almost Certain Death

Sometimes we forget just how recently the spoils of modern medicine came to fruition.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 10 months ago in Wtf

21 Visions of the Future That Were Hilariously Off-Base

21 Visions of the Future That Were Hilariously Off-Base

For everything scientists get right, plenty more comically miss the mark.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 10 months ago in Facepalm

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Money in the Bank: 19 Autographed Items and How Much They Sold For

Money in the Bank: 19 Autographed Items and How Much They Sold For

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21 Park Rangers Share Times They Were Too Scared to Venture Into the Forest

The 20 Most Hypocritical Things Anyone Has Ever Overheard

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