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5 Fascinating Facts and the Stories Behind Them

There was once a teenage Pope

His name was Pope Benedict IX, and he became pope for the first time around 1032, when he was possibly as young as 11 years old. (Historians argue the exact age—some say early teens, others say no younger than 18—but either way: teenage pope.)

Now, most teen boys are still figuring out deodorant. Benedict IX was running the Catholic Church.

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Whatever Happened to Raine Pare-Coull From ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’

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For a certain slice of ’90s kids, Are You Afraid of the Dark? wasn’t just a TV show—it was the definitive late-night experience, a kind of bootleg Twilight Zone for kids who thought Goosebumps books were a little too basic. It aired on Nickelodeon, which meant it was supposed to be for children, but it always felt like it was for someone slightly older—like that weird cousin who let you watch Scream before your parents thought you could handle it.

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The Monologue That Makes ‘Andor’ the Best Star Wars Show

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Lonni Jung: And what do you sacrifice?

Luthen Rael: Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace, I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost, and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.

What is… what is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life, to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. No, the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror, or an audience, or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice?

Everything.

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9 People With Below Average Intelligence Describe What Life Is Like For Them

1. I have a global information processing disorder. If our brains were computers running at 60 frames per second normally, mine runs around 45 on a good day – not quite enough to really be noticeable, as it might in some people with Down’s Syndrome for the sake of example, but enough to lower my IQ and cause problems in my everyday life.

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