Katherine Benjamin
I'm a writer.
Cracked columnist and editor. Writer at Grunge and Ranker. Author of Funerals to Die For. Contributor to The De-Textbook. Finalist in the Writers' League of Texas Manuscript Contest 2017 (SF/F).
PROJECTS
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False facts you always believed about Ancient Egypt
Despite how awesome your fifth grade social studies teacher was, he or she didn't teach you everything there is to know about Ancient Egypt. And in reality, many of the larger-than-life "facts" you did learn were probably complete BS.
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Funerals to Die For
The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever
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Things Americans do that totally confuse people in other countries
Since the United States is arguably the world powerhouse, it's easy to think everyone else must have us figured out by now. We export our music, our movies, and our military, so surely foreigners must know us inside and out. But it turns out there are still aspects of the USA that confuse the heck out of the rest of the world.
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False facts about creepy-crawlies you always thought were true
Some insects are beautiful. Some you could not want further away from you. We all flinch when we feel a creepy-crawly on our body, but no matter how you feel about them, there's a good chance you believe a few urban legends about them.
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When magic tricks went terribly wrong
Magic isn't just for people who were lonely as children or thought it might be a way to pick up girls. It's also for the professionals, people who make a living out of pushing themselves farther than anyone else. But sometimes magic pushes back and tragedy can strike.
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The most controversial presidential pardons
Of all the cool powers the president of the Unites States has, the best might be his ability to issue a pardon to anyone for anything. It's the world's greatest get out of jail free card.
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The mystery of the Black Knight satellite
There are millions of people out there who believe aliens have visited earth. Whether it's seeing a UFO, hearing secret messages, or a full-on alien abduction complete with anal probes, there's a conspiracy theory for everyone. One of the craziest is about the Black Knight satellite.
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Famous places that may never have existed
You know those days when nothing is going right and you wish you could just escape to a magical land where everything is unicorns and rainbows? Throughout history, people have actually believed in elusive places like these, but they've taken on very different mythologies.
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5 Reasons Millennials Should Destroy The Concept Of Marriage
When you are young and free, the summer is a time to be off school, travel, and lament that you aren't beach-body ready. But once you get a bit older, summer means one thing: Wedding season. Just, so many goddamn weddings.
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5 Sex Stories That Will Change How You See Famous People
In many cases, the only reason you would even want to stay on is that being drunk with power makes you super attractive to the opposite sex.
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6 World-Famous Landmarks You Can Secretly Live Inside
Whether it was a theme park, a museum, or even that place that did the amazing barbecue ribs, we've all visited somewhere we wished we could stay in forever. Good news!
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5 Badass Characters You're Picturing Totally Incorrectly
Most of us didn't learn about, say, the Wild West by visiting a research library and poring over Oklahoma manure industry receipts from 1896. No, chances are you learned your Old West history by watching stuff like Tombstone or Cowboys & Aliens or Hey Dude.
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5 Badass Characters You're Picturing Totally Incorrectly
Most of us didn't learn about, say, the Wild West by visiting a research library and poring over Oklahoma manure industry receipts from 1896. No, chances are you learned your Old West history by watching stuff like Tombstone or Cowboys & Aliens or Hey Dude.
The point is, pop culture provides us with a convenient shorthand to understand history, but most of the time pop culture is drunk as hell. So chances are everything you know about cowboys, knights, samurai, or pirates -- that is, pretty m...
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6 Ways To Survive A Disaster That'll Make You Pray For Death
Most of us can't afford to escape a future doomsday by hunkering down in a bunker or circling the planet on a space station, but we can afford a few gadgets to make us feel better about the fact that the earth is definitely mad at us and wants to kill us all very soon.