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If you think Pepe Alas‘ historical rants are weird, then you haven’t read this book yet. Click here quick!
Fact or fiction? Only history will tell.

This is actually a montage of sorts of photos of the Titanic’s doomed departure in 1912, made a little interesting by James Cameron’s film score.

Adolf Hitler was ruthless not only because of, you know, all those dead people, but also because of the “ruthless” way he could make the room stink.
This was an embarrassing problem for a ruthless leader of the Third Reich. With uncharacteristic concern for his fellow human beings, Hitler had first tried to cure himself when [...]

Shockingly, the White House had, after all, a ready-made speech drafted by presidential speechwriter William Safire for President Richard Nixon, just in case Apollo 11 (carrying famous astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin) would meet something tragic during that historic year of 1969.
Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore [...]

So now we’ll be able to find out if Jacques de Molay really “did it” with Geoffroy de Charnay! Hurray!

Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago.
Crick…later told a fellow scientist that he often used small doses of LSD, then an experimental drug used in psychotherapy, to boost his powers of thought. He said [...]

Murder and sex and wearing nice, colorful things. Yep, that’s about the entirety of human history.

SS officer Karl Höcker, lovely Nazi officer we dare say, is mostly the star of a photo album that shows in stunning visual clarity how life was good and beautiful in one of the Nazi’s biggest killing centers. Of course, you won’t see the gassing of Jewish people because that’s just not nice!

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We’ve always wondered how our oft-used word, “shit,” came into fashion. So imagine our delight when we hit upon this probably apocryphal but funny to repeat story.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything had to be transported by ship and it was also before commercial fertilizer’s invention, so large shipments of manure were common.
It was [...]

A long time ago, when people in Britain see a street lined with prostitutes, they’d call it “Gropecunt Lane.” We would have preferred “Honey Pot Avenue,” but there were probably just so many cunts you had to acknowledge.
Gropecunt Lane was a name used in English speaking towns and cities in the Middle Ages for streets [...]