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The Beginner's Guide To The Perfect Plantation WeddingA plantation wedding could be perfect for you! Here’s how to morally compromise everyone you love and have the day of your dreams.

Foreskin Pants Are The New Boyfriend JeansForeskin pants are the new boyfriend jeans. The stretch of the foreskins means a perfect fit. Plus, they're literally made from people’s boyfriends.

7 Songs about Violence and War - JamAddictViolence and war aren’t the obvious choices of inspiration when composing a song. Usually people sing about love, or losing love, or wishing they had love, or basically anything love-related. Barring that, they might write lyrics reflecting on partying, or how awesome the party they are at is, or how they are going to make […]

9 Famous Eccentric Women - JamAddictThere were a lot of women considered eccentric in their time because they wanted crazy things like the ability to vote or work or love another lady. This list is not about those women, because history is littered with examples of eccentric women who were really were just plain weird. They were usually rich: wealthy […]

How Abraham Lincoln's Assassination Created The Multi-Billion Dollar American Death Industry Abraham Lincoln was possibly our greatest president, and you would think his body would be treated with respect after he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre on April 15, 1865. And in a way, it was: Lincoln became one of the first people in America to be embalmed. After Lincoln's deat...

What's It Like Being A Kid Raised Under Scientology? If you know anything about Scientology, you’re probably aware that it is a pretty out-there religion, founded by the science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. But Scientology for kids is even crazier than it is for adults. Scientology’s parenting rules are, well, different. Ex-Scientologists hav...

The Heroic Life And Tragic Death Of Alan Turing Alan Turing was one of the world’s greatest geniuses. He basically invented the modern computer and was instrumental in helping end WWII, even though he never set foot on a battlefield. The Germans had invented the ultimate message coding device, the Enigma machine, and if the Allies wanted t...

Medieval Peasants Actually Had A Lot Of Free Time (And Here's What They Did With It) Life for peasants in the Middle Ages was difficult, to say the least - Medieval peasant jobs could often involve long hours of back-breaking labor in less than sanitary conditions - but it wasn’t all bad. Peasants actually had a lot more free time than you might expect. They got eve...

Murder, Inbreeding, And Destroying The Catholic Church: The Sins Of The Borgias In the late 1400s and early 1500s Italy was full of powerful families, but none were as feared and reviled as the Borgias. The Borgias’ history is a checklist of every terrible thing you can think of, and then some more. Rodrigo Borgia (later Pope Alexander VI) and especially h...

Stories From The Fall Of The World's First "Poor Little Rich Girl," Barbara Hutton Barbara Hutton might not be a name that rings many bells today, but in her time she was notorious. She was the Woolworth heiress whom the press dubbed “poor little rich girl.” She was one of the richest women in the world, with a fortune of almost a billion dollars in today’s money. Hutton wa...

Exceedingly Repressive Rules And Rituals From The Hyper-Conservative "Quiverfull" Christian Movement The Quiverfull movement came to prominence with the televised introduction of the Duggars and the reality show about their huge family. Quiverfull Christians emerged in the 1980s as an evangelical response to the rise of feminism and the use of birth control. The name comes fro...

Take This 1930s Let's face it - 1939 was a different time. People were only just starting to figure out how much of a jerk Hitler was and the popular thoughts around marriage in the 1930s would be shocking to most of us today. Thankfully, there was the George W. Crane marital test, a quiz designed especially...

Why Can't The War of 1812 Have Its Own Blockbuster?Last week was the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812. Did you know that? You might have read the headline of a small news article on the subject and then moved on. The War of 1812...

Forgetting Aladeen: 7 Great Dictator PortrayalsSacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator is stinking up theaters as we speak so it's a good time to remind ourselves that movies about crazy people with absolute power can actually be awesome. Here's a look at some of the best....

Proof That Every Rabbit In The History Of Cinema Has Been EvilIf you've ever owned a rabbit, you know that they are nothing more than small, fluffy bundles of pure evil. Screenwriters know that, too. Many of them speak the truth with dangerous rabbit characters, but others are too afraid to...

5 Actors Who Thought They Were Novelists (And Were Very, Very Wrong)We expect books by celebrities that are famous for being famous (Lauren Conrad, Nicole Richie, Snookie) to be terrible, even with the help of a ghost writer. But every now and then a legitimate actor decides the world needs to...

Over the Top Critical Reactions to 5 Attempts to Change How We Watch MoviesSometimes it seems like directors and studios are on a never-ending quest to ruin our movie watching experience. Human beings hate change. Yet it seems every decade or so Hollywood just has to try something new. Here are some hilarious...

5 Reasons They Need to Make a Movie About Winston Churchill’s MomI'm going to assume you received at least the bare minimum that an education offers, so you're aware of whom Winston Churchill is. What you might not know is that his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, née Jeanette Jerome, led a...

8 Steps to Cashing in on Your Micro-Celebrity, the Saddest Job Title Since Freelance WriterIt has recently come to my attention that I am a micro-celebrity. You are probably one, too. I know that sounds like a ridiculous made-up word but it is a real thing. Another freelance writer friend is even taking a...

Another One Bites The Dust: 5 Remaining Single Billionaires You Might Have A Chance WithAccording to some in-depth research by Forbes, as of March this year there were only 31 single billionaires under age 50. And Mark Zuckerberg's marriage over the weekend is just a reminder to all of the Olympic-caliber gold diggers out...

A Plea to the BBC: Let Me Throw My Money at YouTwo days ago I was trying to watch the most recent episode of Have I Got News For You. For those of you who are not familiar with this BBC show, imagine if The Daily Show only ran a few...

5 Modern Movies That Show What the Rest of the World Really Thinks of AmericaThanks to some questionable foreign policy, America isn't exactly the most popular kid on the block these days. But just how bad is it? Well, if these five films, all released in the past twelve years, are any indication, we're...

The 6 Worst Movie Trailers in Recent MemoryToday the nominations for the Golden Trailer Awards are announced. That's right, the people who make trailers, just like everyone else in Hollywood, like to give themselves a pat on the back for their hard work making bad movies look...

7 Movies’ Solutions to Writer’s Block, Or, When in Doubt, Write About the Fact that You Can’t WriteI couldn't come up with an idea for today's article. Fortunately, screenwriters have proven time and time again that it is perfectly acceptable to use writer's block as your subject if that is the thing that finally gets you writing....

The 6 Worst Movie Trailers in Recent MemoryToday the nominations for the Golden Trailer Awards are announced. That's right, the people who make trailers, just like everyone else in Hollywood, like to give themselves a pat on the back for their hard work making bad movies look...

10 Notable Examples from Hollywood's Checkered History with RacebendingIn theory, we live in a post-racial society. Yes, racism still exists, but we're not supposed to talk about it anymore. The most powerful man in the world is black, right? So everything is fine. We can move on. That...

7 Unusual Restaurants in Barcelona - JamAddictBarcelona has some of the best dining experiences in the world. The Michelin Guide awarded 24 restaurants in the city at least one Michelin star in 2019. That’s a lot of seriously good food you could get very fat on. But dinner isn’t always about quality. Sometimes, you want an experience to go along with […]

Historical Geniuses and Their Psychiatric ConditionsMichelangelo would be on the autism spectrum, and other compelling cases for retroactive diagnoses in 11 of history's great minds

Feminists: Stop Making Miley Cyrus Your Hill To Die On - MandatoryHey, Todd here. For those of who don't know Kathy, she interns here and helps me out with links and stuff. She writes for Cracked, Mental Floss, and she's also a published book author. Basically, she's way more qualified to write this site than I am because grammar is my daily struggle. However, she's a …

Perfect Timing: How to Make the Most of the DayFrom when to send e-mail, sell something on ebay, or make a baby, find out how to best use your 24 hours each day.

Hollywood's biggest dirty little secretsHollywood may seem like a magical place full of beautiful people with fairy tale lives, but in reality, it can be as seedy as some of the movies it produces.

People whose lives were messed up by their celeb namesWhile sharing a name with a celebrity can get you a table at that exclusive restaurant and lead to a lot of fun stories, it can also be annoying, or worse, actually negatively affect your life.

8 of the Most Ridiculous Sports Losses of All Time - Weird WormOf course there have always been bad losses in sports. However, sometimes the loss is so bad, and the story behind it so ridiculous, that it transcends the

The Weird Experiences of 7 Dead Bodies - Weird WormLiving is hard, dying is easy. And you would think being dead would be easiest of all. But as the weird experiences of these seven people show, sometimes death

The World’s 10 Most Weirdly Exclusive Clubs - Weird WormThey run the gauntlet from secret societies to business groups, to sporting clubs, to just plain crazy, but rest assured all of these clubs have one thing in common: there is absolutely no way you are getting in.

Blacksheep: the Mortifying Siblings of 7 Famous People - Weird WormThere’s one in every family. However, having a brother or sister who is an embarrassment is magnified a hundredfold when you’re famous. Here are 6 examples

8 Weirdest Funeral TraditionsYou are going to die one day. No one likes to think about it, but it is a universal truth. And while the actual dying part probably won't be any fun, tha...

History’s Most Over-the-Top Funerals - Man Cave Daily

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