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I have begun watching The New hbomberguy Video

There's some fun bits, like "Where does--and I mean this as a compliment--the most fuckable twink I've ever seen in my life get off telling me how to manage my T-levels?"

But like... man.

I think one of the things that bother me about the Internet Historian case is that it seems like, if the guy had just reached out to Mental Floss, it could have been a really cool collaboration.

He could have just. Fucking asked. Cross-advertized it with the magazine telling their readers "Now this fan favorite is narrated by [internet famous person] with some amazing animation, based on the writing of [our guy.]"

#also fun: My parents never took me to a psychologist so I assume that's normal.#and the tight rage of 'THIS VIDEO IS ABOUT JAMES SOMERTON.'#phoenix liveblogs #hbomberguy #plagiarism #phoenix talks #internet historian #mental floss

The thing that I don't get with the new Hbomberguy video is that if the Internet Historian had just been like, "hey, I read your article and I thought it'd be really cool to do an animation and narration for it" I wouldn't put it totally outside the realm of possibility that the people at Mental Floss would've done it. Guy's tarnished any further career now because he was too lazy to just ask first.

#hbomberguy #internet historian #man in cave #mental floss

In my opinion Mental Health is the most overlooked health related challenge we face today. We all struggle with it day to day in some degree or another.

Some days are easier than others but in almost every case I’ve found it helpful to surround yourself with a community mindful of the impact our thoughts play in our lives.

For some it may help to talk about it, for others it may just help to read about it or see that they are not alone. Either way our biggest battles in life always seem to take place in our own minds.

And so I created a community for anyone looking to bring more awareness, healing, and personal growth to their own mental health. Share if you wish, or merely observe.

This is publicly open to anyone who wishes to join, however an invite is required to keep out bots and trolls. Request one on the Community Page below or hit me up in my DM’s. Note that its viewable to the public but only members can read/add comments.

A mental health support community. For better or worse a place to unstick what’s stuck in your head.

#mental health #communities #mental floss

The epic effort to rescue Floyd Collins was a battle between heroism and folly, selflessness and selfishness, and life and death.

I hadn't watched the video by the internet historian but the original article is very good, check it out! Other works by Reilly are also very interesting

#cave rescue #lucas reilly #mental floss #sand cave #internet historian #to read

Princess Ingrid Alexandra, age 19, is second in line to the throne of Norway, after her father, Crown Prince Haakon. She is expected to become the second queen of Norway, although she would be the first Norwegian-born woman monarch. Margaret I—who reigned in the late 14th and early 15th centuries over the union of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden—was born in Denmark. Because Norway amended its constitution in 1990 to follow absolute primogeniture, Ingrid Alexandra remains ahead of her younger brother, Prince Sverre Magnus, in the line of succession.

Like the other princesses, Ingrid Alexandra balances her official life with personal pursuits. In 2016, the then-12-year-old princess lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympics in Lillehammer and two years later christened Norway’s new research vessel, the Crown Prince Haakon. For her 18th birthday in 2022, the princess received her own office at the Royal Palace, her family’s official residence in Oslo. She also posed for her 18th birthday portrait wearing a tiara—a family heirloom—for the first time.

Education will be Ingrid Alexandra’s primary focus over the next few years, but she’ll presumably make time for some of her favorite sports, including skiing and surfing. The princess won a gold medal in the national women’s junior surfing championship in 2020. Ingrid Alexandra also went skydiving for the first time just after her 19th birthday.

- Samantha Drake

The lives of future queens are not all tiaras and good hair days.

#princess ingrid alexandra #norwegian royal family #queens of europe #future queens #2023 #mental floss

BWAHAHA HE CAN’T GO ON A PLANE NO WONDER STARSCREAM HATES HIM

#megatron #gun ownership #mental floss #trivia #funny #transformers #maccadam

14 True Crime Songs About Murder and Mayhem

Mental Floss - by Kennith Partridge - 2/24/20

1. “Nebraska” Bruce Springsteen

Charles Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate

2. “Georgia Lee” Tom Waits

Georgia Lee Moses

3. “Annie Christian” Prince

4. “Stagger Lee” Lloyd Price

5. “1913 Massacre” Woody Guthrie

6. “Suffer Little Children” The Smiths

Moors Murders

7. “Darkness” Eminem

Stephen Paddock

8. “Brenda’s Got a Baby” 2Pac

9. “Deep Red Bells” Neko Case

Gary Ridgway

10. “Son of Sam” Dead Boys

David Berkowitz

11. “I Don’t Like Mondays” The Boomtown Rats

Brenda Ann Spencer

12. “Wildside” Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch

Carol Stuart & Tiffany Moore

13. “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.” Sufjan Stevens

14. “Hurricane” Bob Dylan

Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

The phrase “ripped from the headlines” doesn’t just apply to 'Law & Order' episodes. Songwriters throughout the history of popular music hav

#music #Bob Dylan #true crime #mental floss #playlist

A surprising number of lost books have found their way into flames—sometimes courtesy of the authors themselves.

6. The History of Cardenio // William Shakespeare and John Fletcher

Approximately 543 English plays performed in commercial playhouses during the Renaissance have survived. That may seem like a large number, but according to David McInnis, an associate professor at the University of Melbourne, “as many as 744 plays are identifiably lost, with hundreds more completely untraceable.” One of the most famous lost plays is William Shakespeare and John Fletcher’s The History of Cardenio, which was performed in 1613 and entered into The Stationers’ Register, a record that listed publishing rights, in 1653. It’s assumed that it was based on part of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, which features a character called Cardenio.

In 1727, editor and Shakespeare imitator Lewis Theobald staged a play called Double Falsehood, which was based on three untitled manuscripts Theobald claimed were the lost Cardenio. The next year, he published an edition of the play—but at some point, the manuscripts vanished and were ultimately never verified. While some academics have taken Theobald’s play at face value, others are skeptical of its authenticity. As Oxford University professor Tiffany Stern told the BBC, “If you look for Shakespeare in the work of a famous imitator, you will find Shakespeare whether he’s there or not.”

Paleographer Charles Hamilton suggested that a play known as The Second Maiden’s Tragedy (1611) may actually be Cardenio, but his claim gained little support; most commonly, that play is attributed to poet and playwright Thomas Middleton. Another Shakespeare play which has been lost to time is Love’s Labour’s Won, a possible sequel to Love’s Labour’s Lost.