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They do it because they’re desperate for money and attention... There’s not enough money in this world to make me do something degrading.
Fabio
Romance novel cover king and protein drink entrepreneur comments about reality television
46,762,310
number of times Interstellar has been illegally downloaded this year, making it the most pirated movie of 2015
In our society there are two paths to success: One is to be good at computers and the other is to be a sociopath.
Jaron Lanier
Computer scientist, composer, author, virtual reality pioneer
$8,300,000
amount promised by Japan to compensate South Korea for the sexual slavery of Korean "comfort women" during World War II
I don't know what his relationship with women has been like, but he has discovered that women go to the bathroom, and it's very upsetting for him.
30%
percent of surveyed Republican primary voters in favor of bombing Agrabah, the fictional country from Disney's Aladdin
That window may be open for a long time — and hopefully it is — but it also may be open for a short time. I think the wise move is to make life multiplanetary while we can.
964,574
number of new asylum-seekers that have registered to live in Germany within the first 11 months of 2015
Ever have one of those days where you just wanted to play Fallout 4, but somebody says something so dumb you have to get on Twitter?
If I don’t say it now, then, when? Am I just going to carry it around for the rest of my life and keep it secret? Because secrets aren’t really a thing that I do.
0
number of refugees who have committed terrorist attacks inspired by extremist Islam in the US since 9/11