In 2015, Brad Lee Davis had a drunken argument with his stepfather and gave him a wedgie. Not just any wedgie — David pulled his stepfather’s underwear over his head, leading to death from a combination of asphyxia and blunt force trauma
As the turn of the century neared, the White Russian was just another bad, outdated cocktail from the 1970s. Then The Dude arrived and ensured that it wasn’t just ‘another caucasian, Gary’
Codebreakers and treasure-hunters have spent decades trying to figure out the mysterious papers known as the Beale Ciphers in hopes of finding the $50 million in gold and silver they alleged reveal. But are they the work of a genius or a 19th century grifter?
Ior Bock was a Finnish man who barely wore clothes; may have slightly shot his brother; was stabbed a great many times; and claimed to be part of a long line of people who sucked their own penises in a ‘swallow your own seed and remain one of the purest humans who understand everything’ sort of deal
Kurt Gödel was by any metric a genius — a mathematician, logician and philosopher who reshaped the world of mathematics as we know it, coming up with theorems that heavily influenced computing and machine learning. But later in life, all of that fearsome logic went right out the window
One of modern science’s most famous nutsacks is an incredible example of pareidolia, or seeing a face where there is no face at all — in this case, the MRI of a 45-year-old man’s ballbag
The word ‘condom’ doesn’t really linguistically mean anything or make any sense. One theory is that Charles II had a physician, Dr. Condom, who prescribed him cloth models when he couldn’t stop having illegitimate children. But that story is probably fake. Dr. Condom, where are you?
Many allege Season Nine’s ‘The Principal and the Pauper’ is the exact moment the animated series jumped the shark. But its creator says those critics have it all wrong — including the man whose life he drew upon for the story of Principal Skinner’s true identity
