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The Forbes Fictional 15
Share 24.3K Tweet 4538 You’re not imagining it: The rich do keep getting richer. Even the fictionally rich. The members of our 2011 list of wealthiest fictional characters have an average net worth of $9.7 billion, up 20% from last year. In aggregate, the Fictional 15 are worth $131.6 billion --more than the gross domestic product of New Zealand.
Poet and pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rosetti loved his wife, Elizabeth. How much did he love his wife, you ask? Well, after she died of a laudanum overdose in 1862, he buried her with the only existing copy of his unpublished poems. However, seven years later Rosetti found himself suffering from a really bad case of writer's block, so he dug up her body and retrieved his poems. They were published in 1870 and were well received by critics, but he never forgave himself for pilfering them from her grave. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
@mental_floss Amazing fact #556: Prohibition made it a crime to produce, sell, or transport alcoholic beverages. But anyone who already had bottles of old liquor stocked away was free to consume it at his or her leisure within the confines of their home.:
When I was 12 or 13 years old, I got my first professional job as a cartoonist, drawing, would you believe, editorial cartoons for the local paper, in the tiny West Australian town I grew up in. Since then I have done some other shit. Like these!
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10 movie poster cliches (with plenty of examples)
If you’ve ever felt like movie posters are all the same, you now have proof that your hunch is right, thanks to these compilations by Christophe Courtois … (You can click on the images to enlarge them.) 1. Big heads in the sky over tiny people on a beach
5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness
Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... Think You Got a Good Night's Sleep (After Only Two Hours of Actual Sleep)40 Unwritten Rules to Live By
1. Never ask a woman if she wants to have sex by asking her if she wants to have sex. 2. It is more important to have good health insurance than good health. 3.
This page is brought to you by UC Berkeley Parents Network Back to the Jokes & Quotes Collection 1. No matter how hard you try, you cannot baptize cats. 2.
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