Author: Karl Smallwood

When Karl isn’t writing lists for Toptenz, he’s the researcher and writer for Factfiend.com, a website dedicated to sharing facts that weren’t on the front page of Reddit three days ago like all those other fact based sites. Fact Fiend is also on Youtube.

Houdini was the original party magician, when he wasn’t slipping out of handcuffs like a fart made of snakes, he was making women’s clothes disappear with his signature I-am-the-god-of-space-and-time look. Though Houdini almost never imbibed alcohol, one of his most deadly escapes was the time a brewery challenged him to escape from a beer keg,…

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When left to the unimaginative mind, remixes are little more than someone else’s song with an added drum beat. The truly creative types can take two different, often entirely unrelated, pieces of music and merge them into solid gold. Usually, the combination has no reason to succeed, and yet they often totally do.

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A common theme with superhero movies these days is the creators trying to make the hero more grounded in reality. Instead of Spider-man teaming up with a phychic spider-lady, he fights Willem Dafoe in a robot power-suit which is way more realistic. Likewise, the Batman movies released recently have taken the emphasis away from Batman fighting…

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Online dating is very common these days, it’s claimed that a significant percentage of all relationships now start online, how many of those are people clicking on Emma Stone’s Twitter feed and claiming that she will one day be theirs isn’t clear, but we’ll assume it isn’t enough to throw off the results. When it…

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Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re on the Internet. And while the Net is certainly great and awesome and everything, it has its dark side. And it’s EXTREMELY dark. Here are a bunch of really sobering facts and statistics that might make you consider just shutting off the computer and reading a book instead.

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The saying goes that, winning isn’t everything, but it sure as hell beats losing. If losing gracefully was an Olympic event, Byun Jong Il would have punched the referee in the nuts during the qualifying rounds. To explain, Byun Jong Il was a South Korean bantamweight boxer, who during the 1988 Olympic games didn’t agree with…

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Do run-of-the-mill guns and bombs bore you? Are you sick of the same old “mild firepower” that most harbingers of death bring to the table? Then maybe these pointlessly powerful weapons are more your fancy. Don’t just pierce your enemy’s heart and slowly drain their life away; make their entire body explode instead! It’s more sporting that way.

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