The Man Who Was Killed By His Own Beard

A 16th-century Dutch mayor named Hans Staininger had the most magnificent face full of whiskers the world had ever seen — a hirsute magnificence that ultimately proved to be his undoing

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15 Monuments Someone Needs to Build

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Most of the monuments we go to visit were built back in a time when the coolest thing you could do with clay and paint was to make it look like the person you were trying to represent. We asked you to create the awesome monuments that the modern world would actually want to visit. The winner is below, but first the runners up ...

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