19 Incredibly Useful Websites You Wish You Knew Earlier

We tend to think of learning a new skill or “going back to school” as something you’d do when looking to change careers, or to upgrade within your current one. But lifelong learning has incredible benefits, both personal and professional, say researchers.

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Fabricate Your Victory With The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a game of weaving tales of the most noble and extraordinary nature.

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Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling

Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers,” he said. “They are beautiful shapes.

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TV Journalist Trolls Betting Shop Offering Odds On His Tie Color

When a betting agency began offering odds on what color tie a veteran political journalist would be wearing during a live telecast, he decided to have some fun.

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Brexiters who argued they’d be more “free” didn’t really understand the philosophy of freedom

The pro-Brexit campaign played heavily on notions of freedom. Politicians urged voters to vote to leave the European Union to “take back control of our lives,” and “take back control of this great country’s destiny.”

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This man used his Powerball winnings to buy his town a fire station

Mark Hill won the lottery in 2012. He used some of the cash to adopt two more children, build a bigger house, and take vacations. But he also financed the construction of a state-of-the-art fire station in Camden Point, Missouri.

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