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But If It Bleeds, It Leads!
Causes of death in America. What people die from, what they search google, and what the media reports on. Click the image …
Categories Dystopia Fact Check Interesting Medicine Unexpected
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Pink Floyd Recorded An Album That Was Too Trippy For Them
After the immediate worldwide success of Dark Side of the Moon and the lengthy tour that followed its release, Pink Floyd’s album …
Categories Documentary Interesting Music
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Conan Learns How To Survive In The Australian Bush
Conan dusts off his vest from the ’80s club scene to taunt deadly spiders and forage for Jack Daniels nips.
Categories Comedy Documentary Interesting
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Hiking With Kevin: Colin Jost
During a ‘wandering hike’ in Central Park, SNL’s Colin Jost chats with Kevin Nealon about life on SNL, Staten Island, his bout …
Categories Comedy Documentary Interesting Unexpected
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Why Your Rent is So Damn High
In 2017 about 43 Million Americans spent more than $485 billion on rent, which is the most money ever spent on rent. …
Categories Corporations Documentary Government Interesting Videos
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What to Pack for War in Syria | Diary of a Combat Medic
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took the last ISIS stronghold on the 23rd of March, 2019, marking an end to the 5-year …
Categories Documentary Government Interesting Military
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The First Openly Married Couple to Work at a Legal Brothel
Violet Vause and Kayden Blake are like every other married couple. They’re in love, they own several cats, and are planning to …
Categories Documentary Gender Interesting Unexpected
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Anonymous Hacker
Dear Lord these emails are HILARIOUS! Hi there, The last time you visited a Ƿorn website with teenagers, you downloaded and …
Categories Computers Humor Interesting
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Why Tucker Carlson Pretends To Hate Elites
Why would Tucker Carlson, who used to brag about being an “out-of-the-closet elitist,” use his primetime Fox News show to rail against …
Categories Documentary Fact Check Government Interesting Thinking
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MySpace Lost All Uploads Between 2003 and 2015
Someday, this will happen to Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. Don’t trust the platforms to archive your data.
Categories Computers Interesting Technology
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This Fun Fact Will Change the Way You Watch the Movie Airplane!
How specific is the parody in Airplane? Huge chunks of dialogue in the classic comedy are taken verbatim from Zero Hour! Everything …
Categories Comedy Documentary Interesting Videos
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Hiking with Kevin – Hilary Swank
Holy Crap – I’m in love now! What a smart, funny, insighful person – and the chemistry between them is great.
Categories Comedians Documentary Interesting Interview
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Mueller’s Investigation Has Created An Underworld Of Online Sleuths
Sorting through the data of the dead — their pots, their knives, and the rocks they cooked on — in order to …
Categories Documentary Fact Check Interesting Politics Videos
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How Plastic from Clothing Gets into Seafood
Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the ocean’s tiniest problem.
Categories Corporations Dystopia Environmental Interesting Science
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China Bans 23 Million From Buying Travel Tickets as Part of ‘Social Credit’ System
China blocked 23 million “discredited” travelers from buying plane or train tickets last year as part of the country’s controversial “social credit” …
Categories Dystopia Government Interesting Technology
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Wait for it . . .
Someone got caught with a hooker, and it was just too perfect not to add the Benny Hill “Yakety Sax” to it.
Categories Humor Interesting Unexpected Videos
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Kremlin Behind Anti-Vaccine Disinformation Campaign As Measles Cases Explode
Russian trolls and social media bots used vaccines as a “wedge issue”, spreading pro- and anti-vaccine information. A new study examining the …
Categories Interesting Medicine Russia Technology
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LSD Can Get Deep Down and Reset the Brain – Like Shaking Up a Snow Globe
The campaign to legalise LSD in Britain is gathering pace. Psychedelics may have a role to play in treating everything from alcohol …
Categories Interesting Medicine
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Fact or Fiction: Never Feed Rice To Birds
We’ve all heard the warning: don’t feed rice to birds or don’t throw rice at weddings because birds will eat it. Fact …
Categories Animals Fact Check Interesting Urban Legends
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Corn Syrup in Beer: It’s For Fermenting, Not As a Sweetener
Bud Light is touting that it doesn’t use corn syrup, but that doesn’t make it nutritionally much different from its competitors. Sweeteners …
Categories Corporations Fact Check Food Interesting
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Breakfast Is a Lie
The BMJ, a peer-reviewed medical journal, published a review of 13 controlled trials this week that determined breakfast “might not be a …
Categories Corporations Fact Check Food Interesting Science
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The Term Litterbug Was Created by Beer, Beer Can, Bottle, Candy and Other Manufacturers
It is a beautiful, if evil strategy, simple and elegant: once underway it is even cheap to run, as it is powered …
Categories Corporations History Interesting TIL
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None of These Faces Are Real
A Scanner Darkley is almost here.
Categories Computers Interesting Technology Unexpected
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The Beatles Rock Band Intro Cinematic Trailer
One of the coolest Beatles tributes I have seen – and it’s for a video game!
Categories Interesting Music
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How China Plans to Grade 1.3 Billion People
China wants to grade its people based on how good or bad a citizen they have been. A dozen cities are already …
Categories Documentary Government Interesting Technology