The 'Limping Lady' Was World War II Most Underrated Hero
Virginia Hall was one of the most successful spies in WWII, but she remains largely unknown today. And that is just how she would like it to be.
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2 Why Do Statler And Waldorf Keep Attending 'The Muppet Show'?
Statler and Waldorf make it their business to get their butts in their balcony for every single Muppet show despite loudly harassing, heckling, and hating through the whole thing. Why?
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Bart Simpson Was Considered A Bad Influence, And That's Nuts
The '90s had some silly moral panics.
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The word "spin-off" shouldn't always inspire winces and visions of shows that rhyme with Blung Yeldon.
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13 Engrossing Facts To Make Us Command Attention In Any Room
The words that come out of our mouths should be more interesting. This'll help.
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Screw whatever your parents told you. You'll get far more attention doing weird shit than keeping on the straight and narrow.
5 Things Girls Don't Seem to Understand About 'Nice Guys'
Thankfully, niceness can be corrected with a newspaper smack on the nose, or a couple of solid heartbreaks.
"Nice guys think their good intentions make up for their pathetic failure to deliver. They're the Democratic Party of boyfriends."
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5 Reasons Graffiti Art Is Even Crazier Than You Think
To keep these paint-wielding strangers out of their stomping grounds, the homeless set up elaborate, and sometimes lethal, Home Alone-esque booby traps.
"The less lucky ones might find themselves impaled on a spike, or neck-deep in a communal toilet filled with months of hobo shit. Which shouldn't sound any worse than normal shit, but it somehow does, doesn't it?"
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The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (6/16)
Aaaaaaand our Facebook intern just left us for Chipotle. Great, now *we* have to do this.
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Andrew Jackson: Most Terrifying Man Ever Elected President
"I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun."
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22 Famous Stories That Left Out the Best Details
Gee, guys, we're starting to think that maybe Christopher Columbus isn't the best role model.
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The 13 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (6/23)
FUN EXTRA WRINKLE TO THIS STORY: in 2014, Rachel Dolezal encouraged people to boycott 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' for casting white actors as Africans.
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8 Racist Words You Use Every Day
Congratulate someone with a hearty "Hip Hip Hooray!" today? It's adapted from "hep hep," a German rallying cry that was uttered while Jew hunting in the 1800s.
"Have you ever worried that, no matter how hard you try, you'll just never be racist enough? Well, you're in luck."
Related: 5 Words You Use Every Day With Shockingly Dark Backstories
We Light Your Scrotum On Fire: 6 Realities Of The Morgue
Even when you know that it's just air escaping the body, hearing a corpse moan is shit-your-pants scary nearly every time.
"Because of limited space, after we cut away the front half of your ribcage, it might just end up wherever happens to be most convenient, like on your face or genitalia, where it will rest like a nightmarish bone bikini."
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38 Real Size Comparisons That Will Make Your Head Explode
"I'm on the Brute Squad."
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A 30-Second Guide to How the Gay Marriage Ruling Affects You
Now that gay marriage is the law of the land, we're sure you have many pressing questions. Let David Wong set you straight!
"If You Are a Heterosexual and Do NOT Want to Enter into a Homosexual Marriage: You will not be required to marry a gay person. This is a common misunderstanding. This decision actually does not affect you in any way."
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