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26 Vintage Photos of What College Life for Celebrities Looked Like

While many celebrities rose to fame before or during their college years, others got to enjoy "the best four years of your life" with their anonymity in tact.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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23 Fascinating Vintage Photos of How Life Looked in Imperial Russia 100 Years Ago

Developing a technique called digichromatography, Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky took the world's most advanced color photographs of his time.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Wow

21 Earthy Photos That Show What Life Was Like for Loggers

Lumberjacks haven't always had fancy tools to get the job done, and loggers of the early 1900s used equal parts determination and delusion to fall some of the biggest trees in the world.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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'I Tried to Tell Ya' - 24 'Impossible' Things That Were Later Realized

As science progresses we learn more and more. But getting there is an arduous process.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 7 months ago in Funny

The 15 Most Decorated Animals in the History of Combat

Just like humans, animals have shown bravery and courage in the face of danger.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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26 Freaky and Cool Masks from History

The weirdest and wackiest things humans have ever put over their faces.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

21 'Don't Ask How I Know This' Facts

This isn't your elementary teacher's history.

By Carly Tennes

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Pour a Glass: 21 Historical Photos Celebrating the End of Prohibition

Between Jan 17, 1920, and Dec 5, 1933, Americans were no longer allowed to drink legally thanks to the 18th Amendment. And boy do those post-repeal parties look like fun.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 8 months ago in Ftw

22 Workers From History Who Had It Way Worse Than You

No matter how annoying your boss is in your dimly lit cubicle office job, it beats strapping a pickax to your back and taking a jam-packed elevator into a coal mine to breathe toxic fumes and hack away at rocks for 12 hours.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

23 Old-Time Photos of People Absolutely Failing At Life

From vintage rodeos gone wrong to a penny farthing wipeout, here are 23 old-timey photos of people absolutely failing at life.

By Carly Tennes

Featured 8 months ago in Funny

8 Cruel Yet Kind of Hilarious Public Humiliation Contraptions

Who knew dressing someone up in a barrel was so popular?

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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The Truth Is Out There: 8 Great Pyramid Theories That Have Yet To Be Debunked

As a wonder of the world that dates all the way back to 10,000 BC, not everything is known about the Great Pyramids.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

20 Real-Life 'Villains' Who Were Actually the Heroes

History is written by the victors, and sometimes those victors can keep their narrative going for a long time.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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22 Little-Known Facts to Broaden Your Horizons

Did you know that humans built the great Pyramids while woolly mammoth were still roaming the Earth?

By Daniel Bonfiglio

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21 Old-School Construction Workers With Absolutely No Fear Of Heights

Acrophobia who?

By Carly Tennes

Featured 8 months ago in Wow

20 Pyramid Facts That Left Us in De-Nile

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the last remaining intact ancient wonder of the world, and one of the most impressive engineering feats in the history of humanity.

By Daniel Bonfiglio

Featured 8 months ago in Ftw