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5 Behind-the-Scenes Stories That Make Movies Way More Interesting

Stanley Kubrick Had All the Props from 2001: A Space Odyssey Destroyed So They Couldn’t Be Reused in Bad Sci-Fi Movies

After 2001: A Space Odyssey wrapped, Stanley Kubrick did something that feels less like a post-production decision and more like the final act of a Bond villain: he had all the sets and props destroyed. The glowing monolith? Gone. The EVA pods? Scrapped. The sleek interior of the Discovery One, with its antiseptic beauty and unsettling symmetry? Bulldozed into oblivion.

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5 Iconic Artworks Worth Slowing Down For

Paul Delaroche, The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (1834)

When you first look at The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, you might not even notice the executioner. That’s what’s so striking about it.

This isn’t a painting about violence—it’s a painting about the moment just before violence. It’s about innocence, fragility, and the unbearable stillness that comes right before something terrible happens.

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The Most American Thing Ever: Going Into Debt for Nachos

I’ve always believed that America’s defining trait is its ability to take a bad idea, wrap it in convenience, market it as freedom, and then defend it to the death like it’s a founding principle. This is a country where people will finance a mattress with 72-month APR and then sleep on it like Thomas Jefferson personally endorsed the coil count.

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5 Historic Photos That Speak Volumes

Soviet civilians in Moscow hearing the radio announcement that Germany has started the invasion of the Soviet Union, June 22, 1941

The radio cracked and spat like a fire without flame. A thin voice uncoiled from it, dry and plain and terrible. The men and women gathered in silence, hunched like figures carved from wood, their breath held like currency in a time of famine. The words came slow, as if dragged behind a cart. Germany has invaded.

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