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If you’re going to a festival this summer, we thought we’d provide you with a few pointers, some field-tested, sweat-soaked, port-a-potty-scented tricks of the trade, culled from our collective 175 years of concert-going experience. Don’t do the brown acid. Or the mystery vape from the guy in furry boots who calls himself Zynlord and says […]

We’ve all fantasized about what we’d do if we won the Powerball. Student loans? Gone. Mortgage? Paid. Tropical vacation for the entire extended family? Of course. And that’s just the first 5 seconds of the daydream. It’s not like you’d have to work anymore. But winning the lottery doesn’t automatically buy you a one-way ticket […]

Reddit is one of the largest content aggregation platforms out there, with hundreds of thousands of users and communities. And while Reddit has seen a decline in quality due to its attempts to become PC-compliant, there are still some gold nuggets along the way. But I don’t recommend anybody sifting through the garbage on Reddit […]

Beauty, like most things we aspire to, is pain. It has to cost us something, and sometimes that something is death. Nowadays, it could take just a beard trimmer, a styling cream, or a to-match accessory to look good. But in times past, if it didn’t mean breaking a bone or affixing some deadly cosmetics, […]

There’s something delightfully pretentious about Latin. It is, despite what the classics majors will tell you, a very dead language. And yet its use alludes to an era that many in the West naturally revere — the Bronze Age. These days, Latin is, more often than not, relegated to legal terms or mottos. These have […]

We do weird things for reasons we barely remember. We knock on wood, avoid black cats, flinch at spilled salt, and fear the wrath of Brussels sprouts. Superstitions are often brushed off as silly habits, but behind each one is a surprisingly detailed, and often hilarious, origin story. From ghostly birds to cursed wallets, here’s […]

Some people old enough to read this site grew up with Bozo the Clown. His show debuted in Los Angeles in 1959 and spawned a franchise of TV shows with different actors portraying Bozo in 30 different cities. It was broadcast via the nationally syndicated, Chicago-based super-station WGN until 2001. He also served as the […]

Modern weddings are full of traditions that trace back thousands of years, from brides wearing white to the bouquet toss and beyond. While many of these marriage rituals focus on the big day, there are just as many dedicated to the bedroom. That’s much more interesting and fun, right? (Wrong. Oh, so very wrong.) Love may […]

Upon first glance, Britain’s Witley Park in Surrey is just like any other extravagant mansion, but there’s much more to this Victorian masterpiece than meets the eye. From the secret underwater ballroom to dramatic suicide deaths, the story behind the man who built the mansion is surprisingly tragic. Shady entrepreneur James Whitaker Wright Long before […]

The first time you actually encounter a vagina in real life, it can throw you for a loop. There’s all kinds of neat stuff goin’ on down there and most of it shouldn’t be discussed. Still, I’m going to. The lady flower is as powerful as it is gentle. It’s also as handy as a […]

Reddit has been home to many discussions, debates, and confessions over the years. While some of these posts have been insightful, thought-provoking, and even heartwarming, others have been downright disturbing. In this article, we will be delving into the depths of Reddit’s archives to bring you some of the most shocking and disturbing confession posts […]

Your mother always said that you were different. That’s why she never let you play with the other kids, or let you stay out past 9 PM until you were 20, and because of that you may have become a socially awkward and emotionally crippled mess. You’ve grown to learn that different isn’t always good, […]

“Let us go, brothers, go! To the Eden of heart-love, Where the fruits of life grow, And no death e’er can part love!” While those words might sound like an anthem from Woodstock 1969, they are instead a call to action written in the 1860s by the unshakable John Humphrey Noyes, leader of the Oneida […]

The Darwin Awards were created in the 1980s to honor those individuals who made the ultimate sacrifice to protect humanity’s gene pool. That is, they died in such an extraordinarily idiotic manner that their deaths actually significantly raised the quality of the DNA passed on to the next generation — as per Charles Darwin’s theories […]