14 Trivia Tidbits We’ve Been Fostering From The Time They Were Factoids, But It’s Time Now To Send Them Off Into The World As The Listicle They Were Always Destined To Become
Shakespeare was a great writer known for inventing the valley girl name we know and love.
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1 The Man Making A.I. SpongeBob Covers of Emo Songs
Gerard Way has some competition
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‘Platonic’ Features the Low-Key Darkest Joke of Any Comedy So Far This Year
Seth Rogen rarely riffs on real-life tragedies
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12 of the Most Unlikely Duos in Entertainment History
Good or bad, these unlikely collabs were all downright weird!
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‘Revenge of the Nerds’ star Curtis Armstrong Explains the Difference Between Dorks and Nerds
If anyone knows the true essence of nerdom, it’s Booger
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We tend to think of people in olden times as somber and dignified, dealing with hardships we have since overcome. But olden timey people were still people, just weird freaks like us. Here are 13 pieces from art history that will have you going “Oh, right yeah. Maybe those thousands of years of Church art patronage warped my perception of the past.”
Youth Making a Face
Source: National Gallery of Art
The Triumph of Death
Source: Museo Del Prado
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Source: Google Arts & Culture
Ill-Matched Lovers
Source: National Gallery of Art
Gin Lane
Source: Tate
Phallic Wind Chimes
Source: British Museum
Arderne's Treatise
Source: British Library
Boxing Cats
Source: Atlas Obscura
Man with the Moneybag and Flatters
Source: The Leiden Collection
The Gardener
Source: Atlas Obscura
Jupiter and Io
Source: Google Arts & Culture
Garden of Earthly Delights
Source: Museo del Prado
Pine Seedlings on the First Rat Day
Source: British Museum
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