You can’t win them all.
In 1961, America experienced the sting of its first truly humiliating public defeat, a debacle that played out in real time on the international stage. The bungled and bloody Bay of Pigs Invasion would mark the first major misstep of the Kennedy administration, and as “Operation Zapata” began to unravel in Cuba, the resulting scandal would undermine America’s carefully crafted image as a shining beacon of virtue.
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~ KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND SLEEP IS OVERRATED ~
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Diets Debunked: The Sketchy Science of Health and Weight Loss
Uncool: Failed Fads and Terrible Trends
Substandard Superheroes: The Bad, the Worse, and the Ugly
Misnomers and False Advertising
Forbidden Tourism: The Most Dangerous Locations on Earth
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Murdersville U.S.A: Ed Kemper
Murdersville U.S.A: The Serial Killers of Santa Cruz
Modern Snake Oil: From Cryotherapy to The Secret
Unhinged Tyrants and Sadistic Monarchs
Nuclear Power: Evil or Misunderstood? (It’s a Little of Both)
Stupid Criminals
Memes: They’re Literally Everything
Cults: QAnon, a.k.a W the Actual F
Scandals: Television Edition
Urban Legends
Ridiculous, Silly, Frivolous Lawsuits
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