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6 Bizarre Ways Funerals Will Change in Your LifetimeBy the time you attend your last funeral (we're going to go ahead and assume it will probably be your own), the ceremony won't look anything like what we do now.

Mind Games Stores Use To Play YouCapitalism is all about Jedi mind tricks.

5 Sex Stories That Will Change How You See Famous PeopleWe like to think of ourselves as filling in the gaps of your history knowledge that schools refused to teach you. Particularly sex history.

5 Reasons Millennials Should Destroy The Concept Of MarriageFor millennials, it might make more sense to just stop getting married once and for all.

[DON'T RUN THIS BEYONCE BABY ARTICLE WITHOUT FACT CHECKING]Please note that in our rush to get you the facts as quickly as possible, some information might be slightly incorrect.

6 World-Famous Landmarks You Can Secretly Live InsideFor the right price, you could call these eccentric dwellings home.

5 Badass Characters You're Picturing Totally IncorrectlyPop culture provides us with a convenient shorthand to understand history, but most of the time pop culture is super duper drunk.

6 Ways To Survive A Disaster That'll Make You Pray For DeathAfter a year when everything that could have gone wrong went wrong, it's not surprising that a few Nervous Nellies have gone into apocalypse mode.

5 Things Men Aren’t Willing To Learn About Female OrgasmsWhat is the point to existence? Is Bigfoot real? How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop? These are some of life's biggest questions. But none of them comes close to the ultimate mystery of the universe: the female orgasm. For mi

How The British Royal Family Has More Drama Than Any CW ShowTheir drama literally puts every soap opera to shame.

8 Easy Steps To Convince Your Husband To Get A VasectomyApparently, there is something about shutting off my husband's sperm flow that doesn't appeal to him on a basic man-level. So I set out to change his mind.

The Creepy Religion That Explains All Of Trump's ActionsWhen it comes to the basics of Christianity, Trump could really do with a refresher course.

5 Problems With Movies About History (From A Few Years Ago)Reliving recent tragedies is suddenly hip in Hollywood. This needs to stop.

How Celebrity Culture Gets Us Psychologically HookedWhy is the celebrity gossip industry a $3 billion a year business? Well ...

5 Apps That Have Rampant Discrimination Built InYou probably have a couple dozen sitting innocently on your phone right now, not realizing the havoc they are just waiting to cause.

6 Scientific Reasons Facebook Turns Everybody Into A JerkThe internet had such promise.

6 Movie Monsters (You Didn't Realize Are Centuries Old)Despite famines, plagues, body lice, and getting crushed by runaway donkey carts, our ancestors' ideas of monsters were spookily similar to ours.

5 Awesome Ways Pacifists Told The Man To F#@% OffHashtags are great and all, but this is how you non-violently change history like a boss.

'Wacky' Headlines With Legitimately Sad BackstoriesKeep your eye out for the following headlines, and trust us when we say they should never be shared in conjunction with that laugh-cry emoji you love so much.

5 Real Places Whose Economies Are Based On InsanitySometimes industry can influence the local culture in very unpredictable ways.

6 Tech Innovations (Absolutely Nobody Asked For)Just because you have an engineering background and an overactive imagination doesn't mean you should construct every insane gadget that pops into your crazy head.

The 7 Dirtiest Tricks Politicians Use To Make You Like Them Every election, politicians keep serving us up the same crap -- stuff that has nothing to do with their ability to lead.

5 Celebrities Who Hated Fame More Than Kanye Loves ItThese people pretty much wish you'd forget about them.

14 Epic Comebacks Stars Gave To Stupid Interview QuestionsJust a reminder that it's always a good idea to practice your witty zingers.

6 Ways Driverless Cars Are Going To Kill Lots Of PeopleWe're diving into this technology a little too quickly and ignoring all the warning signs about how we are going to screw up on the way to Driverless Car Utopia.

6 Awesome Stories From The Rio Olympics NBC Won't Show YouYou probably heard that the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were going to be an absolute disaster. But every virus-laden cloud holding you up at gunpoint has a silver lining.

5 Religions With Huge Followings (You Had No Clue Existed)Apparently there are several religions around the world with hundreds of thousands of followers which we can almost guarantee you know nothing about.

8 Famous Songs That Legitimately Changed The WorldTurns out AC/DC is kicking cancer's ass.

5 Realities Of Date Rape Many Women Already KnowDate rape is just one never-ending pit of B.S., and you need to know more about it.

6 Real Cities Destroyed By Incredibly Bizarre ApocalypsesWhen moving to a new city, there are a lot things to consider. Is there a good school system? What's the crime situation? How far is it to the nearest grocery store? Which type of natural phenomenon is most likely to kill me? Sure, they may not always put it i

5 Creepy News Stories That Aren't Getting Enough AttentionWarning: These stories are super depressing.

Actors With More Interesting Lives Than Their CharactersThese stars' off-screen antics were even more unbelievable than anything in their movies.

9 Mind-Blowing Pieces of Art Made With Ridiculous MaterialsLet's face it -- we've all tried to build a house of cards or make a sand castle at some point in our lives, but most of us get bored within a few minutes and give up. For others it may take an hour, or maybe even a few days... and there are those who devote their lives to making hugely pointless yet amazing things out of small, ridiculous material

4 Stupid Moral Panics Caused By Everyday ObjectsSex, women, and kitchen utensils have brought society to the brink of collapse more times than should be necessary.

5 Reasons 'Traditional Marriage' Would Shock Your AncestorsMost of our assumptions about what marriage was like back in the day are complete bullshit.

4 Everyday Things That Caused Huge Panics When They Were NewIt is almost like we constantly need something to be panicking about, proving that the next generation is going to be so much worse than ours is.

Scientific Reasons Breakups Suck Worse Than You ThinkYes, as if it's not bad enough that you're losing the one person who will remember to inform the singing waiters at Olive Garden that it's your birthday, it turns out that ending a relationship can actually have other awful, long-lasting effects on your life.

6 People So Good At Sex They're Basically MagicThe best sex is always about timing.

Ways The Decision To Not Have Kids Messes With Your HeadHi, I'm Kathy. I am 31 years old. I have been married for seven years. And I don't want children.

5 Places Where You Can Fulfill Your Disappointing FantasiesNow that you are grown up you can solve that problem the best way we know how: by throwing money at it.

Destructive Sides Of Celebrity Culture No One Talks AboutSociety has decided that being famous is the most important thing in the world. And that's a big problem.

Things Normal People Don't Understand About Panic AttacksI'm going to tell you about my debilitating panic attacks, because at the very least I deserve to make some money out of this terrible experience.

5 Women From History Who Were Basically Magic At SexHere are some historical women whose creative sexual resumes stand up to any man's.

4 Things You Should Know About Katt Williams' BreakdownKatt Williams might be at 'crying for help' levels here.

5 Mind-Blowing Loopholes You Had No Idea ExistedLoopholes are like buttholes -- everyone is pretty well aware that they exist, and some people don't use them often enough (and some people use them a little bit too excessively).

5 Ways Marvel Movies Keep Screwing Up Female SuperheroesClearly, the most impressive superpower in the universe isn't strength or invulnerability; it's having a dong.

4 Surprising Ways Your Sense Of Smell Rules Your Love LifeIf you're looking to impress a date, there are legitimate laws of nature to keep in mind.

5 Excuses For Being Lazy (Provided By Science)Society wants us to feel bad about being lazy -- it's even one of the seven deadly sins -- but I am here to tell you to ignore all that noise, accept who you are.

6 Shockingly Badass People Who Lived In The 19th CenturyWhen you think of the Victorian era you probably picture sexually repressed spinsters and sad little orphans. Not so fast though.

5 Huge Products That Failed Because Of Hilarious OversightsWhen going up against VHS, make sure your product can actually hold a whole movie on it.

My Eating Disorder That Ruins Thanksgiving: 4 RealitiesIt's called Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, and it means some people just can't eat that dry-ass turkey every year.

5 Petty Ways People Are Ruining Christmas This YearRed Starbucks cups are so last month. Here some new things for your family to yell about over Christmas dinner.

5 Harsh Realities Of Marrying Someone From Another CountryWhen you and the person you decide to spend the rest of your life with are from different countries, you face issues that homonational couples would never even think about.

4 Groups You Lose Faith In While Working For CharityWorking for for a charitable cause is a noble and amazing endeavor that will inevitably let you down at some point.

Ways 19th Century England Makes the Modern World Look TameIf you believe your teachers, the Georgian era in England was a boring period full of polite country dances. You have been lied to, of course.

Historical Events You Didn't Know Were Decided by SexPeople in the past were obsessed with sex to the point that sometimes they made decisions with really serious consequences just to get their groove on.

6 Insane Sex Myths People Used to Teach as FactsConsidering how obsessed people are with their junk, it is amazing how long it took humanity to finally figure out what it was all used for.

5 Scientific Reasons Powerful People Will Always SuckScience says being in charge not only attracts terrifying douche bags but creates them as well. And with that, here's the scariest article you'll read this month.

5 Sci-Fi Apocalypses The Government Is Actually Planning ForThere are entire real government programs devoted solely to thinking up ways to counter weather-themed supervillains and other outlandish threats normally relegated to the realm of science fiction.

6 BS Medical Stories Your Friends Shared On FacebookSome recent medical news stories are about as accurate as the 'Plastic Surgeons Hate Her!' spam ads decorating those same articles.

The 5 Least Romantic Keys to a Happy RelationshipThese tips won't win you love, but they sure will keep you in love.

5 Reasons Rats Are Way Scarier Than You ThinkRats are kind of creepy and gross, but they're not all that bad, right? Wrong.

The World's Fastest Growing Industry (is a Pyramid Scheme)Jobs that sound too good to be true often ARE. Especially for folks with no education or training.

5 Eerily Familiar Things Animals Do When They're DrunkIt isn't just our love of being drunk that unites us with our furry and feathery cousins. It turns out, once they get wasted, animals start acting a lot like humans.

Shocking Ways You Overestimate YourselfHate pictures of yourself? That's your brain telling you lies.

7 Insane Parenting Tips Real People Thought Were A Good IdeaThere are lots of people out there with experience raising their children safely, happily, and turning them into functioning adults. These tips are not from those people.

Awful Works Everyone Pretends To LikeNot even famous geniuses make great stuff all the time.

5 of the Worst Failures in the History of Adult SupervisionIt takes a village, but sometimes not even the village seems to give a damn.

4 Things Now Considered Manly (Were Created for Ladies Only)A handful of things have managed to go from pink to blue in our culture, and here are four of them.

5 Horrifying Ways Real Kids Got Introduced to Adult LifeAdults are the worst.

5 Fictional Stories You Were Taught in History ClassForget about Stephanie Meyer or JK Rowling or Stephen King--at the end of the day, they just write stories and make billions of dollars. No, the writers who really deserve a pat on the back are the ones who wrote completely fictional stories that, over time, were remembered as actual history.

5 Insignificant Things That Determine Who You Have Sex WithTurns out there are even more things that get people to consider knowing us in the biblical way, and they're so subtle and random that pants-wearing just seems stupid now.

6 Things Men Do to Get Laid That Science Says Turn Women OffYour very existence completely mortifies women.

Reasons Christmas Is the Most Dangerous Time of the YearEvery single part of the holiday season seems to come together in an attempt to mess with your physical and mental well-being.

6 Historic Villains You Didn't Know Had Incredible CareersSome men are remembered for their greatness, some men are remembered for their evil, and some men are just remembered for that one fantastic failure that taints their entire existence.

4 Ways We're Programmed to Think Women Aren't FunnyWhile women are just as funny as men, there are some scientific reasons behind why you think they aren't.

5 Ingenious Contraptions Built Out of Nothing But GarbageNext time you go to throw out that empty beer bottle, just stop and think: Could that be the first piece to your own Fortress of Doom?

5 Psych Experiments That Sounded Fun (Until They Started) All these experiments were very real and sounded very awesome. On the surface. The truth was a very different kind of animal.

6 Things You Won't Believe Can Brainwash You On Election DayIt turns out that politicians are the ones who should be cynical about us. Science is finding that some pretty weird stuff can make us forget what we stand for on Election Day.

5 Real Buried Treasures That Can Make You Rich (Or Kill You)You could be rolling in gold coins by the end of the week. If you can find them. And survive.

The 5 Most Half Assed Apologies for Historic CrimesWe're almost positive that Ted Kaczynski's apology was more sincere than these.

4 Horrifying Facts About the Sexy Halloween Costume IndustryThe problem has become so systemic that it just perpetuates itself with minimal (and counterintuitive) input from us, like some kind of insane robot.

5 Apps That Were Clearly Designed By Total Creeps

6 Shockingly Evil Things Babies Are Capable OfWhy, you little shit.

6 Factors That Secretly Influence Who You Have Sex WithAccording to science, the world around you is dangerously full of hidden aphrodisiacs that can land you in bed, and even in long-term relationships, with someone who's totally wrong for you.

The 5 Most Humiliating Things We're Doing to RobotsBefore our window of time ruling Earth is slammed shut on our fleshy, poorly designed fingers, humanity is making one last stand: having robots do humiliating jobs for which they're wildly overqualified.

5 Things We Are Making Fatter (In Addition to Ourselves)If your own health won't get your fatass on a treadmill, at least do it for the health of your friends and Mr. Snuggletons.

6 Ways Your Office Is Literally Killing YouWould you believe us if we told you it's the office itself that's making you sick? Because that's what the scientists are saying. And if science says it, it must be true.

The 5 Weirdest Ways Music Can Mess With the Human BrainThe more science studies music's effect on the human brain, the more bizarre things we discover.

The 6 Most Ridiculous Things Ever TaxedThroughout history, governments have used high taxes to try to discourage certain behaviors (like smoking) and cash in on others. So it's very telling and/or frightening that at various times governments have taxed some rather ridiculous things.

6 Real World Jedi Mind Tricks Salesmen Are Using On YouWe've all been there: You go in for a new cell phone battery, then one of the salesmen walks up, and next thing you know you're walking out of there with every iWhatever they had in stock. Once the new gadget smell and irresponsibility high wear off, you're left wondering: How the hell did they do that?

5 Slogans You Won't Believe People Thought Were a Good IdeaIf Don Draper hadn't been murdered by a roller-skating disco prostitute in 1979 (final season of 'Mad Men' spoilers!) he'd be shaking his head.

5 Bizarre Brain Hacks That Make You Better at SportsTalent, hard work, desire -- they're all nice if you're trying to get to the top of your sport. But all other things being equal, there are a few other factors that give one side the edge.

7 Amazing (Yet Uninspiring) Feats of Human EnduranceSome people achieve world records buying running marathons and swimming across oceans. These are not those people.

4 Inexplicable Things People Are Infusing With MarijuanaCurrently, pot is legal in only two states, but that isn't stopping companies from cramming marijuana into every possible product like the skateboarding older cousin of bacon and ginseng.

5 Ways You Sabotage Your Love Life (Explained by Science)If everyone is wandering around just dying to commit, why is it that you're still alone, crying so much that ocean life could live in the soaked folds of your shirt?

The 5 Most Horrifying Things Corporations Are Taking OverBut sometimes corporate sellouts involve more than cringe-worthy ads and intrusive product placement. This is when selling out starts to get just a bit horrifying.

5 Ridiculous Secrets Only Two Living People Know: Part 2Here are five more things you will never learn in your lifetime -- unless you happen to be one of the only two people on the planet who already know them.

5 Physical Details That Reveal Highly Personal InformationNone of these are 100 percent, and you should not use any of them to make unfair assumptions about people. It is only in the name of entertainment that we point out what researchers have found.

5 Bizarre Ways You Can Brainwash a CourtroomSome day you might wind up in front of a judge due to a 'hilarious' misunderstanding (or because you had to murder some dudes). If so, there are several things that can tip the scales of justice in your favor that have nothing to do with the law or evidence.

5 'Secure' Places That Are Shockingly Easy to Break IntoFortunately for the burgeoning criminal, it turns out that some of the biggest and most daring crimes require surprisingly little effort.

5 Logical Fallacies That Make You Wrong More Than You ThinkThe Internet has introduced a golden age of ill-informed arguments. You can't post a video of an adorable kitten without a raging debate about pet issues spawning in the comment section. These days, everyone is a pundit.

4 Reasons We Were Right Not to Boycott the OlympicsWhile it was a tempting idea, it would have been the wrong decision.

5 Ways Your Brain Is Tricking You into Being MiserableEveryone wants to be happy, but the biggest obstacle to that is the mushy thing inside your skull that you think with.

5 Unfortunate Biases Hard Coded into Your DNANobody wants to think they're prejudiced, despite the fact that we all constantly pass judgment on literally everything.

5 Sci-Fi Weapons (That Already Exist)Here is some space age technology that is already within our grasp.

The Most Amazing Celebrity Meltdown No One's Talking AboutRarely is there such a perfect storm of crazy as that surrounding the recent meltdown of Katt Williams.

7 Secrets Only Two Living People Know (For Some Reason)In this article are secrets that only two people on planet Earth know. Sometimes they have very good reasons to keep these secrets so fiercely. Other times, not so much.

What James Bond Movies Tell Us About the EconomyIt turns out that James Bond was specifically designed to appeal to people enduring serious economic hardships, sort of like NASCAR.

6 Ways You Can (Accidentally) Attract the LadiesIt turns out many of the most important things you do to attract the opposite sex have nothing to do with skill.

6 Half-Assed Ways Scientists Made Mind Blowing DiscoveriesLooking to discover a new animal species? Have you tried eBay?

The 6 Stupidest Things Ever Done With Historic TreasuresHey, a mummy! We needed a paperweight, right?

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