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LEGO bricks are a better investment than gold, study says Don't open that LEGO set.
You can build anything out of LEGO—from a working difference engine to a full-scale giraffe to a diversified investment portfolio. It turns out that LEGO Hogwarts Castle kit could one day put your kids through college. The plastic construction sets demonstrated stronger returns than large stocks, bonds, and gold over the three decades ending in 2015, according to a study titled LEGO – The Toy of Smart Investors, by Victoria Dobrynskaya and Julia Kishilova of Russia’s Higher School of Economics. It seems absurd that a 7,541-piece Millennium Falcon model could yield enough money for the downpayment on a house. But, thanks to supply and demand in the collector’s market, a…
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Andrew Jackson’s 1400-pound block of cheese Jackson was a legend. And, at some point, he was gifted a humongous wheel of cheese. This is the story of that cheese,
Despite a humble beginning, Andrew Jackson grew to become a legend. Born in the backwoods of South Carolina, he attended school only sporadically as a boy. By the age of 14, he had been predeceased by both of his parents and his brothers and fought in the American Revolutionary War (during which time he contracted, and survived, smallpox). He was known for his fiery temper and propensity for fighting. Still, he managed to pull himself up by the bootstraps to become a wealthy lawyer, celebrated general, influential politician and, eventually, President of the United States of America. And, at some point, he was gifted a really, really big wheel of…
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From ballet to nylon: The strangest things to cause riots Some riots will be leaving historians scratching their heads forevermore.
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Enter the dominion of The Beast: The mysterious allure of Aleister Crowley Described by some as "the wickedest man in the world," this satanist led quite the colorful life.
Before Dos Equis gave us “the most interesting man in the world,” there was occultist Aleister Crowley. Described by some as “the wickedest man in the world,” a Satanist, dangerous, and subversive, Aleister Crowley led quite the colorful life. Crowley’s mythic persona influenced rock legends Led Zeppelin and Ozzy Osbourne, and still continues to fascinate the world as a mystifying counterculture figure, years after his death. Born to break boundaries Edward Alexander Crowley was born on October 12, 1875, to a wealthy fundamentalist Christian family. Edward was fascinated by Western esotericism and the occult at a young age, and in 1898 he joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.…
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Gail’s men have gotten Vagina-Butts and can’t poop! Need butt scientists ASAP!
Gail Chord Schuler / Gabrielle Chana is a published author who is completely convinced she’s married to a male harem of giga-schlonged husbands that includes celebrities like Vladimir Putin and Brent Spiner. Helped by an inner circle of trolls world famous husbands, the world Gail inhabits is an ever expanding psycho spaghetti of increasingly impossible yet sincerely held beliefs. It’s Chris-Chan but with mindfuck sci-fi storylines about Jesuits and huge psychic penises instead of tard rage – and a very deep rabbit hole. Like the title says, now her husbands have found themselves in another snafu..: their anuses have turned into vaginas! They have no buttholes and they must poop.…
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Gates of Hell: The real places said to be entrances to the underworld Hell, Hades, Guinee—the names are different but they all describe an underworld that many believe can be accessed through real gateways.
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46 things I learned from being gulaged Varlam Shalamov spent much of the period from 1937 to 1951 gulaged in the arctic cold of Kolyma. These are the 46 things he learned from the experience.
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New Twitter rules ban misgendering, deadnaming "Happy hunting!"
Using the pronoun he for a male or she for a female is now officially a reason for Twitter to yoink your account. The microblogging giant has a history of suspending people for acknowledging biology, but now the practice is codified in Twitter’s increasingly labyrinthine rules under the hateful conduct section, which is starting to look more like a publisher’s style guide. The policy states: “We prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category. This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” [emphasis mine] Misgendering is the act of not using a…
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5 scientific ways strangers can tell you’re gay (even if you’re in the closet) We don't endorse stereotypes unless they're funny or we have science on our side, and the data is in: the "gaydar" is anything but a myth.
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PayPal purge of big tech’s opposition continues YouTube's free speech alternative BitChute is just the last of many victims.
PayPal has banned BitChute, YouTube’s main free speech oriented competitor, from its service. According to BitChute’s statement, the ban appears to be permanent and final and the only thing provided by the online payment giant in way of a reason is a mention of its Acceptable Use Policy and their we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason clause. The move is a powerful blow against the rapidly ascending video platform, as PayPal subscription payments from supporters had been its main source of revenue. “It’s our belief that it is our stand against the current trend in censorship that has resulted in this action,” the statement…
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11 short story collections that need to be in every bookshelf Ah, short stories — the lazy man’s novel. But so much harder to pull off.
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Sam Hyde’s dead and here’s the documentary: Blacklisted Million Dollar Extreme fans praise new doc chronicling Sam's last days in the bunker.
You will be forgiven for not knowing about Sam Hyde (✝2011—2018), but you should still watch the documentary youtuber Porsalin just released about the last couple years of his career. Sam is the guy history will record, and not Alex Jones, as proof that censorship just works and is a stellar idea for a liberal democracy increasingly threatened by cartoon character #1, cartoon character #2, and other unbearable fascist jpeg tyrannies. Watch this video on YouTube (There is also the issue of locking himself away behind a paywall for almost a year now – several generations in internet time – allowing only his most devoted paypiggies to view his post-Adult…
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6 baffling phenomena that have surprisingly simple medical explanations "Supernatural" mysteries can pass down generations after they’ve actually been solved, as is the case with the following six “unsolvable” mysteries.
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Alt-left bloggers are lying to you on Daily Dot Asian journalist reports on gaming controversy involving gender. That makes him a white nationalist troll. What?
On October 23, games journalist Ian Miles Cheong released a YouTube video and a LULZ article reporting on the doxxing and harassment campaign targeting CD Projekt Red employees and their relatives. The report quickly went viral, reaching the Reddit front page with the most popular thread earning 5,6k upvotes. The story was already bizarre: the entire hullabaloo had started over a tweet accidentally gender appropriating the #WontBeErased hashtag for a non-transgender purpose, after all. Then a Daily Dot hit piece appeared. And while the article itself could find no factual fault with the reporting, its title suggested the polar opposite – and far worse. Ian had become a literally Hitler.…
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Vampires have nothing on the sinister blood-drinking fairies who inspired them Long before Dracula ever hit the shelves, Scottish folklore painted the first image of a vampire-like creature and it was terrifying.
Ever wonder when the first imaginary, blood-sucking, bat-shifting creature stepped into the light? Believe it or not, it wasn’t in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight… but it also didn’t start with Dracula. So, where did the vampire originate? The cheesy modern day vampires These days, the vampire narrative is pretty worn out. Ever heard of a little heartthrob movie called Twilight? What about The (cuddly) Count on Sesame Street? Heck, even Hotel Transylvania turned a bruting vampire into a caring, overprotective dad with an agenda to ruin his daughter’s love life. Big whoop. So, what happened to the terrifying vampire tales of the past? Bram Stoker’s Dracula certainly jarred the world when it was first released, and inspired some fairly scary…
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The 11 best Goosebumps monsters Writing at a breakneck pace, R.L. Stine churned out sixty-two Goosebumps. These are his best monsters.
It’s plain to see that 90s kid lit is enjoying a renaissance right now, and the king of the paperbacks back in the day was R. L. Stine. Writing at a breakneck pace, he churned out sixty-two mainline Goosebumps books as well as dozens of spin-offs and other titles. Stine’s series made horror accessible to audiences too young for R-rated fare, taking a variety of terror tropes and giving them young adult twists. With the second Jack Black-starring Goosebumps movie set to hit theaters, we pulled out the library card and reacquainted ourselves with the freaks and beasts of the original book series. Here are definitive picks for the eleven…
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