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“There’s a lot of stuff that I’ve purchased that is just total crap, so I thought I’d share it,” Kromelis says. “I…

In 2016, Vice reported that nondominant hand masturbation (also known as “left-handed wanking”) was a thing.…

“Blank Space, baby,” “red lip classic,” “look what you made me do,” a million allusions to lost scarves—across…

HBO Max’s latest entry into the Scooby-Doo canon, Velma, has the kind of pedigree that usually signals hit.…

Trending in 2023 is one of the world’s oldest games played on a 17-year-old website: Chess.com. The site, which…

A family of anthropomorphic dogs are sitting by the window in a café when the mother asks, “Can we get the bill,…

In the year 798, the noted scholar Alcuin of York penned a letter to Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards,…

There are only two kinds of tweeters: winners and losers. The winners are still on the platform, winning. The…

At the height of summer—on August 15 to be precise—6 million people visited Quincy’s Tavern, a steampunk-inspired…

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