Trivia Question of the Day
Bayer faced a major controversy in the 1980s when they sold a tainted medication that caused widespread harm. What was the drug, and what was the issue?
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Lets Take a Stroll Through The Art Museum
Lucas Cranach the Elder – Portrait of Princess Sibylle of Cleve (1526)
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Trivia Question of the Day
What is the primary subject of the Sistine Chapel ceiling painted by Michelangelo?
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Picture of a Mountain Gorilla right before he punched the photographer
‘This Movie Gets Worse Every Screening’: The Brutal Studio Notes That Almost Killed Blade Runner
There’s something inherently hilarious—and borderline tragic—about reading early studio notes for Blade Runner. You can feel the tension dripping off the page, a cocktail of confusion, frustration, and outright disdain for a movie they couldn’t wrap their heads around.
“This movie gets worse every screening,” one executive lamented, as though Blade Runner was some sort of recurring fever dream that kept getting more incomprehensible every time they revisited it. If it weren’t so funny, it’d be heartbreaking.
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Fascinating Photos Collected From History
South Vietnamese troops, joined by US advisers, rest after a tense night of waiting in an ambush position for a Vietcong attack that did not come, January 1965.
The men sat in the hush of the jungle, their breaths shallow and measured, like animals knowing the predator watches from the dark. The South Vietnamese soldiers held their rifles loosely, the weight of their readiness sagging now in the absence of need.
A haze of cigarette smoke coiled upward into the humid blackness, dissipating among the branches like the hope of a clean fight. The Americans sat apart, their bulkier forms hunched against the damp earth, muttering low in a language alien to the trees and the men they trained. The jungle itself seemed to conspire in stillness, the chatter of birds and the clamor of insects held tight in the throat of night.
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Remember Young Jenny From Forrest Gump? See What Hanna Hall Is Up to Now
If you’ve ever spent an afternoon shouting “Run, Forrest, run!” at your friend during a pickup game of tag, then you already owe part of your childhood to Hanna Hall.
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Trivia Question of the Day
In The Godfather, the character Johnny Fontane is a crooner and actor who seeks Vito Corleone’s help with his career. Which real-life singer and actor is widely believed to have inspired the character of Johnny Fontane?