Few miscarriages of justice are worse than the one where someone is arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to years behind bars for a horrible crime they did not do. A huge chunk of their life has just been torn away, for literally no reason whatsoever. The following people have lived that nightmare and, sadly, they’re not the only ones.
There are certain animal-related facts that just about everybody knows by heart. Or at least, they think they do. Many widely-known facts about animals are just plain wrong. Luckily, we’re here to set the record straight.
Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in our society. It has become a…
If your country was #1 in something, you’r probably prefer it be something noble, like education or stupidly awesome rock music. But many countries take home the gold in far less conventional categories. If your country made it onto this list, drink till you feel proud.
We are headed into a world in which there is actively a fourth Transformers film…
Censorship is one of those things we always tend to scoff at, wondering how some…
It’s always a bad day whenever an animal dies before their time. When they die at the hands of a human, we’re naturally outraged. But when death is the result of a freak accident, we’re just plain depressed. And now you get to be depressed too, as we visit ten stories of animals who suffered the most unfortunate twist of fate imaginable.
Bill Murray is awesome on many levels. He’s absolutely hilarious, obviously, and over the years…
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?
Goldfish are the earliest fish to be domesticated by humans, approximately 1700 years ago in…
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.