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17 fun facts you need to know about Monty Python

Monty Python invented comedy: There, I said it. Never has a troupe been so prolific, so influential and so bloody funny in the history of humor. On July 20 they…

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July 18, 2014
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Colonial Americans were pretty much always drunk

Images of our Colonial forefathers usually involve powdered wigs, petticoats, and the thrill of throwing tons of tea into the Boston Harbor. Although we often think of their era as…

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December 24, 2020
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The tragic story of a Victorian swindler and his spectacular underwater fantasy world

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…

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December 15, 2020
  • 9 effective tips on how to look taller in photos No photoshop required. Anyone can do this.

    Despite badly wishing you could be taller, if a short stature is what your genes gave you, you simply can’t become LeBron. But in photos, you can make yourself look taller with a little foresight and knowledge. These tips do not depend on photo editing, so anyone can do this just as long as you have the right cameras and accesories. Here are 9 simple tricks to make you look taller in pictures: 1. Wear the Right Clothing Be mindful of your clothing when you take photos. Wearing clothes can change the proportion of your body, so choose the combination that will make you taller. Follow some of these tips…

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    The story behind the 3D printed gun reads like a movie script It's got it all.

    August 14, 2019

    10 lesser-known cryptid monsters that turned out to be hoaxes A lot of these are silly as heck, too. Don't get caught believin'.

    February 10, 2020

    This is why some people have that disgusting cheesy feet smell The answer, surprisingly, comes via malaria research.

    February 12, 2016
  • UK to censor global social media with fines, blocks, exec prosecutions Internet to be scrubbed of what passes for "hateful" speech in the UK, and the british public loves it.

    The UK government is proposing a new set of laws for social media companies to follow on penalty of fines, nationwide site blocks, and prosecution for executives who fail to act on “hateful speech.” Should the proposal come to pass, it will be an Orwellian nightmare come to life. The UK government proposes setting up a taxpayer-funded regulator to police online platforms with harsh penalties if they fail to remove content it doesn’t approve of “expeditiously.” The government proposes that the regulator be initially funded by the industry, with a plan of setting up a tax or levy to make the department sustainable in the long term. “The internet can…

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    Man brings ancient Greek music to life and the result is amazingly avant garde Discoveries and breakthroughs de-mystify the actual sound of ancient Greek music.

    August 20, 2018

    Everything you never wanted to know about the giantess fetish Meet the giantesses who eat, smother and crush puny, little victims—and the men who worship them.

    June 1, 2014

    Medieval gambling: high stakes games in the Middle Ages The folly of many, and suppressed whenever authorities felt the gentry were impoverishing themselves. It nevertheless flourished.

    February 20, 2020
  • Unraveling YouTube’s monkey torture network Psychopath network of monkey torture videos garners millions of views for years on end and nothing is being done about it. Jim investigates.

    Warning: this investigation is SFW as long as you don’t click yourself into the rabbit hole, but it’s very media heavy. What compels someone to hate monkeys? To look at a picture of our little cousins and and wonder aloud with your friends how wonderful it would feel to crack their skulls open with a frying pan? YouTube is host to many diverse communities coming together to create, share, and comment on their particular thing. Furries shitting in their diapers or even men living in septic tanks – there’s always a video, always another user with your specific interest looking to connect. Out on the periphery, on the very edge…

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    10 freaky animals with real super powers Many superheroes are based on things found in nature—for a reason.

    May 4, 2010

    Deadliest Place on Earth: Disneyland rides with blood on their tracks “The Happiest Place on Earth” is littered with the ghosts of fallen visitors.

    May 20, 2010

    20 badass facts about about pirates Arrrr, did you know?

    May 14, 2020
  • #MyWhitePrivilege is trending on Twitter and of course it’s coming from Portland, OR "it's important we then do what we can to boost the voices of POC, pay them for their [Twitter] labor on here"

    #MyWhitePrivilege is lighting up Twitter and boy, do pronoun laden twitterers have some unsubstantiated anecdotes for you today. The top related mentions lead to @Freeyourmindkid – a black nationalist writer for Jewish magazine Forward.com (what?) and creator of an anti-Trump site – as the main busy bee, spreading the pollen of cringe and division across the platform: As TwitterMoments describes it: People are sharing stories of “outrageous” things they’ve gotten away with thanks to #MyWhitePrivilege. (h/t @Freeyourmindkid)https://t.co/zl373u8vUn — Twitter Moments (@TwitterMoments) March 30, 2019 The tag has spawned a frenzy of stories on personal experiences of purported privilege, many of them well into Poe territory: I went to pay for…

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    Why Hollywood gets World War II so wrong Hollywood liberals see World War II as the last morally unquestionable war but so often get their facts wrong.

    August 25, 2016

    15 damn near impossible to beat video games Challenge is what makes video games fun, but everybody has a different barometer for what's hard and what's complete bullshit. Let's explore the BS part of the spectrum.

    January 31, 2020

    6 incredibly stupid cons that actually worked You are being hunted by polish priests and need to pay the CIA $160k to protect you. These are the cons that make Nigerian 419 scammers look like Ocean's Eleven.

    September 18, 2020
  • Read Kiwi Farms’ epic response to NZ police thug demanding identity of everyone talking about Christchurch attack "You're a small, irrelevant island nation barely more recognizable than any other nameless pacific sovereignty."

    The administrator of Kiwi Farms today revealed in a forum thread that New Zealand police has contacted him and demanded identifying information on all forum posters who have discussed friday’s New Zealand terror attack. The information sought includes email and IP addresses, and breaking news of a 22-year-old New Zealander being arrested for sharing the livestream from the attack gives you a pretty good idea of the sort of things they’re planning to do with it. Here’s the initial email from a John Michael, Detective Senior Sergeant of NZ police: Good afternoon I am hoping that you can help us with an investigation the New Zealand Police are working on.…

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    How to get drunk at children’s birthday parties I like my children, but I LOVE them even more after a few beers. This is the true secret to raising children.

    August 5, 2010

    6 incredibly stupid cons that actually worked You are being hunted by polish priests and need to pay the CIA $160k to protect you. These are the cons that make Nigerian 419 scammers look like Ocean's Eleven.

    September 18, 2020

    Too freaky to fake? 5 legendary TV curses One might be tempted to dismiss this as the inevitable result of an industry that attracts famewhores and the mentally ill. Then again...

    February 29, 2012
  • Christchurch attacker livestreamed shooting spree, posted manifesto to 8chan Brenton Tarrant killed at least 40 in POV filmed mosque attack.

    A gunman – now identified as Brenton Tarrant – has massacred unarmed people in a mosque in Christchurch’s Hagley Park (New Zealand), and the gruesome events were livestreamed on Facebook by the shooter himself. Early reports suggest that at least six people have been shot, but the livestream of the incident – copies of which quickly spread to filesharing websites like Mega.nz, AnonFile (kiwifarms mirror), and Zippyshare – show dozens of casualties within and around the mosque. (New reports now back this up, saying at least 40 dead: see bottom of article for updates.) The mass shooter advertised the livestream, as well as a manifesto titled “The Great Replacement,” to…

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    A brief history of toilets Going to the bathroom used to be a lot weirder. And in some countries, it still is.

    October 16, 2014

    10 mysterious caves and tunnels nobody can explain Ancient goblin caves, underground pyramid secrets, Victorian crime dens, and even Satanic tunnels under a preschool. Let's go cavin'.

    February 21, 2020

    The quest to put our sleeping brain to work New study suggesting we can do basic processing and, perhaps, even math in our sleep, is a big step forward.

    September 17, 2014
  • Five fast facts you need to know about the Warski/Ralph rift in Internet Bloodsports A state of the disunion.

    If you follow YouTube drama at all, you might be aware of Internet Bloodsports. And you’re probably familiar with the main players: Ethan Ralph of Killstream, the now-banned YouTube channel that was outed by the Wall Street Journal for promoting white nationalism; and Andy Warski, the formerly anti-social justice channel-turned talk-show channel for the alt-right. Following Ralph’s deplatforming on YouTube, both Ralph and Warski took to Stream.me, a streaming platform and competitor to YouTube that has since been shut down after threats were made against the owners’ children. But before they were deplatformed, Ralph and Warski managed to earn a little over $4,000 from their paypigs to fund a trip…

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    This is why some people have that disgusting cheesy feet smell The answer, surprisingly, comes via malaria research.

    February 12, 2016

    These are the haunting last words of doomed airplane pilots Black boxes record everything going on in the cockpits of crashing planes. These are the last words of their doomed pilots.

    March 1, 2020

    Meet the “Virtuous Pedophile” network protected by Twitter The "Minor-Attracted Persons" movement is led by a Canadian doctor who demands a "P" in "LGBT," and Twitter is accommodating them.

    August 21, 2019
  • Japanese police arrest teenage girl for Javascript prank The classic infinite alerts loop.

    A 13-year-old girl has been arrested in Japan for producing a Javascript-based prank that creates infinite alerts. Police in the Japanese city of Kariya charged the teenager for distributing the malicious code on an online message board. The code, which can be viewed here, creates an infinite loop that pops up an alert message, immediately showing a new message every time you click “OK.” Desktop browsers have no problem closing the page once it’s opened. Chrome, for example, lets you close the tab in spite of the pop-up. On the other hand, mobile browsers are particularly susceptible to this sort of prank, as it is difficult to close the tab…

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    52 Hertz: the mystery of the loneliest whale in the world Hydrophones are tracking a whale that doesn't sound or act like any other whale in the world.

    May 20, 2012

    The (many) unsexy reasons you would never want to be a male porn star Getting paid to have sex on camera with hot girls is wildly overrated, and we’ll tell you why.

    September 26, 2011

    The mystery of Larry Wachowski Could the co-creator of The Matrix real life truly be stranger than fiction?

    January 12, 2006
  • Ian McKellen canceled for supporting Kevin Spacey "I’m waiting for someone to accuse _me_ of something."

    The actor best known for playing Gandalf in Lord of the Rings, Ian McKellen, is facing the heat for statements about disgraced actor Kevin Spacey and alleged gay sexual abuser Bryan Singer. McKellen shared a controversial theory on why Spacey and Singer allegedly abused underaged men on a podcast called #QueerAF with journalist Evan Davis, who queried him on his opinions about the two gay men. McKellen, an openly gay actor, shared his belief that the entertainers allegedly abused minors because they were unable to be open about their sexuality. “Well, frankly, I’m waiting for someone to accuse me of something,” McKellen joked. “And me wondering whether they’re not telling the truth,…

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    Fun sounding techniques for measuring horrible things When something goes horribly wrong, there are people out there who get paid to measure just how bad things actually are.

    September 8, 2011

    This is what it’s like selling drugs on the deepweb A story about an Excel spreadsheet and how I don't deserve to live.

    June 8, 2019

    I’m a Lyft driver and asked riders to tell me their deepest confessions You'd be surprised what people told me over the course of my 60 day experiment.

    January 11, 2016
  • Internet Bloodsports: the pay for play troll army terrorizing the internet An army of internet trolls led by youtubers like Andy Warski and Keemstar is destroying my life for a sickening spectacle fueled by donations. Here's what happened.

    An army of internet trolls led by youtubers like Andy Warski and Keemstar is destroying my life for a sickening spectacle fueled by donations. Here's what happened.

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    10 types of weirdos you’ll find in an adult bookstore There's something in an adult bookstore for everyone, right? Unfortunately.

    October 1, 2009

    Why Hollywood gets World War II so wrong Hollywood liberals see World War II as the last morally unquestionable war but so often get their facts wrong.

    August 25, 2016

    How to get drunk at children’s birthday parties I like my children, but I LOVE them even more after a few beers. This is the true secret to raising children.

    August 5, 2010
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