Some people set records for juggling balls. Others set them for eating giant amounts of food. Still others walk really long distances. Then there are these people, whose records are oftentimes unintentional, always brutal, and occasionally tragic. These are not records you want to break anytime soon.
When it comes to the internet it’s sometimes quite hard to trust or believe what…
Every artist is influenced by somebody else, but usually it’s fairly obvious: new metal bands were inspired by other metal bands, a new mob movie takes cues from Scarface, etc. But sometimes, a muse is so far removed from the artist that the connection makes virtually no sense. But great art doesn’t always make sense; who says art’s inspiration has to?
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Dolly Parton is kind of easy to pick out of a crowd, for a variety…
When you think of The Beach Boys, you think of good times, and probably enjoying…
On paper, Zero Tolerance in schools sounds good. Classroom violence and brutality has gone too far, and by gum we won’t let it stand even one more time! However, in practice it fails far too often, as perfectly innocent accidents and misunderstandings get treated like major crimes, ruining lives for little reason other than “we gotta look tough, dang it.”
A lot of filmmakers have their signature calling cards, or gags they like to throw…
The opening scene in Star Wars: Episode VII will be one of the most important scenes in cinema history. Done right, it could reinvigorate the series and finally cement it as the greatest sci-fi story ever told. Done wrong, it would be the final nail in the coffin built by Jar-Jar Binks’ bare hands. Here are ten ways to do it right.
Some facts just about everybody knows, even if they’re totally useless. Others, however, are a bit more obscure, but likely more important than whatever pop culture nugget dominates your subconscious. Here are ten facts that should get shared at parties way more often.
It seems to be true that many people around the world tend to believe that…
Steven Spielberg was, for the longest time, one of the most famous successful people who…
The tantalizing announcement that the Man of Steel sequel would also introduce Batman to a…
Absolute power corrupts absolutely, says just about everybody who can’t think of their own damn line. But cliched as it may be, it’s usually true, especially in these ten cases. When nobody has the ability to overrule a psychopath with power, everybody loses. Except the psychopaths, who tend to do OK in such cases.
Some animals are so popular and ubiquitous that it’s just assumed they’ve been part of our lives forever. However, it turns out some of these creatures were in hiding longer than we think, and our knowledge of them is restricted to the past 200 years or less. Who knows what else is out there?
Every day, it seems like the world just gets stupider and stupider. Except for one little problem: it’s not. Despite the existence of reality TV and a new Fast and Furious movie every damn year, scientific research is proving that, as a whole, we’re better at humanity than ever before.
It’s always a horrible casualty when a police officer is forced to shoot a suspect to death. But when word gets out that the shooting might not have been necessary at all, things become even worse. And when you realize that this kind of thing happens a LOT, that pit in your stomach drops deepest of all.
Some of the most common characteristics of a bear include a large body, stocky legs,…
1800 did not look one thing like 1899, thanks to incredible advancements in both technology and society. It’s odd to think about it at first, especially since photos from that century are rare, and voice recordings are even rarer. But amazing things happened over those hundred years, just about every day. Here are ten of the most news-worthy stories of the bunch.
There has been much said about the general public’s ability to trust the criminal justice…
Entertainment today is so advanced, and evolves at such a rapid pace, that it’s easy to take it all for granted. Here’s a tribute to the trailblazers of the past, the ones who helped make our high-tech, high-def world possible in the first place.
Museums and libraries are human treasures, but they aren’t eternal. All it takes is one well-timed disaster, man-made or otherwise, and the entire thing could go up in flames. Today, we focus on the man-made disasters, those cases where people actively, and successfully, destroyed human knowledge and delayed our advancement as a species.
If you didn’t commit the crime you were convicted of, a pardon would truly be a gift from Heaven. Unless, of course, you’re already in Heaven when it happens. Post-mortem pardons are almost always a cases, made even worse once you realize even a freakin’ turkey can get pardoned in a timely manner.
If you had to pick a city to bestow the title Serial Killer capital of America onto, you’d probably nominate Detroit, or maybe Miami. Well, Cleveland, Ohio has something to say about that. Over the years, they’ve racked up a impressive number of mass murderers that might well trump every other city in the nation. And none of them were motivated by LeBron leaving.