How many of you (especially during the ever so fragile years of being a teenager) wished you could easily avoid getting caught while passing notes in class or at work, full of various derogatory messages about teachers and bosses? Ah, I know, the dream. The most ideal way to do it would be to write […]
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Top 10 Cool Facts About Mars
There are eight planets in our beloved solar system (or nine, depending on how attached you are to Pluto, but let’s not get into that), however none has managed to gain the popularity that Mars has. For some reason, the first planet that comes to our heads when we think of extraterrestrial life possibly existing […]
7 Absurd Education Related Punishments
You would think that the days of Victorian rigor and repression of… well practically anything from emotions to any form of deviance from the norm, were over. Or that the scary figure of the Catholic nun frowning just before she is about to deal swift and just punishment to a hapless youth no longer strikes […]
5 Unbelievable True Stories About WWII
What most of us remember about World War II from history classes boils down to who fought who, the Holocaust, the Nazis and how almost all participant countries sacrificed their economies and their people’s lives for winning the war. I’m pretty sure they don’t tell kids in any school in the world about these 5 unbelievable […]
Ten Facts About Vlad The Impaler
Also known as Vlad Tepes, Vlad III or Vlad Dracula, he was the son of Vlad II Dracul and a member of the Order of the Dragon. Regarded as sadistic by foreigners, he was, in fact, a savior for the Romanians and Bulgarians during the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. He was only nicknamed “the Impaler” after […]