You can’t make fun of a person for their name – they didn’t have any input on whatever awkward combination of words their parents decided to give them. But we’re going to say that places are fair game. We’ve done this before with street names, and we’ve even looked at towns before. But the last …
We can probably all agree that a functional justice should be based on proportional punishment. For the most part, things luckily work more or less as they should. Sometimes, though, the scales of justice tip the wrong way. We can all probably recall at least a couple of cases where someone who committed a serious …
If you’ve ever been on a diet, you’ve likely been tempted to just give up and treat yourself to something tasty. Maybe you’ve even wished you could weld your mouth shut to make sure you won’t give in to the temptation. Well, now you can. But be warned – the solution seems more like it’d …
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The famous and infamous don’t stop being that once they kick the bucket – in fact, a suitably sensational death can make a person seem even more mythical. It’s no wonder, then, that people have a weird fascination with famous people’s mortal remains. Yesterday we brought you the strange story of Napoleon’s missing penis. But …
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Napoleon Bonaparte is a man who needs no introduction. The one-time emperor of France is famed for his military genius, almost taking over all of Europe, and his height – which was actually average for the time. These days, Napoleon spends his time primarily in his decorated tomb in Paris. But not all his body …
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America’s 245th birthday is just around the corner. To the vast majority of the country, that means fireworks, flags, and food from backyard barbeques. But it’s a big country with a lot of history, and it just makes sense that not everyone celebrates the Independence Day the same way. Here are some of the more …
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Nobody likes being caught naked in public – that’s just embarrassing. But it sure does add to the shame when you get fined hundreds of dollars for violating public health rules. Two nude sunbathers in Sydney received a ticket for $750 each after the Australian police caught them violating COVID-related stay-at-home orders. And it’s all …
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A South African Woman claimed that she gave birth to ten babies at once, decuplets, and has since been admitted into the hospital for psychiatric evaluation. There is growing speculation that she actually was pregnant with decuplets. After making headlines for the alleged record-breaking birth, Gosiame Thamara Sithole, 37, was taken to a psychiatric ward …
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What would you do if there was a million dollars in your bank account? What about if it was almost a billion? Would you even believe it, would you take the money out and spend it right away? It happened to this lady, and this is what she did about it. Julia Yonkowski went to …
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A globally wanted con artist getting arrested after prostitutes kick his butt sounds like something from Ocean’s Eleven or some other Hollywood heist comedy. But it turns out once again that reality is weirder than fiction. Bernio Jordan Enzo Verhagen is a Suriname-born con man with a Dutch citizenship. He’s apparently very much into what …
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