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 ~
Cryptids, Mark 2: From the Mothman to the Wendigo
Welcome to the Manosphere: Pick-up Artists, Incels, and the Seduction Community
The Devil
Spectacular Failures: From New Coke to Segway
The Sordid Science Behind Interrogation and Torture
Battle for the Living Room: from Atari to the Console Wars
Mentalists, Faith Healers, and Frauds
Sketchy and Unethical Psychological Experiments
Sleep and Insomnia (finally!)
The Darwin Awards
Organized Crime, Volume 1: The Yakuza
Weird and Terrifying Animals
Off the Deep End: Facts and Mythology of the Ocean
Lost Civilizations
Insomniacs Inbox: Bats, Penguins, and the Great Emu War
Cryptids: from the Loch Ness Monster to the Dobhar-chu
Unfiltered Fairytales
Ancient Texts: from the Devil’s Bible to the Magna Carta
Scandals: Hollywood Edition
Superstition: Black cats and devils and mirrors, oh my
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