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A Brief History of Butt Medicine
From ancient drug enemas to World War 1 era, steampunk-esque prostate vibrators, the history of doctors trying to treat what ails a man through his b…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Fall Of Rome Is Why You Have A "Landlord"
Hate landlords? You can thank Rome for them. (Just kidding, you'd be paying someone to live on their property either way you bastards, but you just m…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Donner Party's Descent Into Cannibalism
The Donner-Reed Party was a group of American pioneers who migrated west to California in a wagon train and slowly tumbled into madness after months …
2 years ago
The Mother of Mexicans
Though Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with conquering the Aztec Empire the conquest might actually be thanks to his native female int…
2 years ago
How Humans Became Wheat Puppets
Did human beings domesticate wheat? Or did wheat domesticate humans? We dive into the long history of humanity's relationship with the plant and how …
2 years ago
The Nepo Baby Who Possibly Stole An Election
John Quincy Adams was the 6th president of the United States who won his election in controversial fashion over Andrew Jackson in 1824. He spent his …
2 years ago
Making Animals Answer For Their Crimes
Justice is blind. So blind, apparently, that it doesn't mind if pigs, rats, statues, and other non-human entities are brought to trial. This is the h…
2 years, 1 month ago
The History of Pirate Mardi Gras
Tampa Bay’s Gasparilla Pirate Festival is a huge city holiday and boasts the third-largest annual parade in the United States. It’s also a drunken, p…
2 years, 1 month ago
Harry Houdini's War With The Afterlife
Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, actor, and aviator who beefed with spirit mediums and psychics throughout the earl…
2 years, 1 month ago
This Pope Hated The Second Amendment
At the Second Council of the Lateran in 1139, Pope Innocent II banned Christians from using ranged weapons against other Christians under threat of e…
2 years, 1 month ago