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Every major star has to start somewhere, and it's rarely glamorous. Before they were walking red carpets and winning awards, they were taking whatever roles they could get, be them bit parts, B-movies, and guest spots on shows you totally forgot ...

Learning about history, its important events, and how much they're interconnected, can be a complete chore. So much so, that at times we feel as if the past was filled with only dull moments, where people never saw color, never experienced fun, and ...

Time travel is a concept that is hard to wrap your head around. It's easier when the idea is a closed loop, but even then, our linear way of understanding things makes us want the loop to have a beginning. And there are many films that try to explore ...

Horror movies are great, and at least for us, one of our favourite genres. A seeming weakness of it, though, is that the same tropes are repeated over and over. You've got your ghost stories, your slasher flicks, and your zombie apocalypses, and they ...

Being good-looking can sound like an easy advantage, and in some ways, it is. People may be friendlier, offer free things, or give you opportunities before they know anything about you. But being attractive can also bring unwanted attention, jealousy ...

Movie plots often depend on people making terrible decisions at exactly the right moment. Someone ignores an obvious warning, refuses to ask a simple question, or walks straight into danger despite having several perfectly reasonable alternatives.

Comedy shows are supposed to make you laugh, so it hits differently when an episode suddenly leaves you feeling absolutely miserable. You can spend years watching ridiculous arguments, awkward dates, running jokes, and characters making terrible ...

People in the '60s, '70s, and '80s had some pretty interesting ideas about having fun. Kids rode around in the back of station wagons, families dressed alike on purpose, and somebody apparently decided that keeping a raccoon as a pet was a perfectly ...

Imagine showing up for your first day at work and discovering that your desk is a steel beam hundreds of feet above the street. Or that you're expected to operate heavy machinery before you're old enough to drive. Old workplace photographs are full ...

Celebrities spend so much time posing for cameras that it's easy to forget what they do when nobody's asking for an autograph. Apparently, some of them spend their free time doing dishes, playing video games, or eating soup surrounded by cats. Others ...