Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Home is Now Available to Rent on Airbnb

Have you ever wanted the chance to live like a classic American writer did back in the 1930s? No, we’re not talking about time-travel.

Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, one of the most famous couples of the Jazz Age, lived in Montgomery, Alabama in 1931-1932 and the top floor of their home is now available to rent on Airbnb.

Zelda worked on her only novel Save Me the Waltz in the house and her husband wrote part of his novel Tender is the Night there. The couple’s daughter also lived with them in the home before she went away to boarding school.

The home is now a museum and is part of the Southern Literary Trail. The first floor of the home is the museum dedicated to the life and work of the writers, and the second floor is where tourists can stay for $150 a night in a two-bedroom apartment. Sounds like fun!

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28 Memes About History That Are Better Than a College Education

Go ahead and learn all about history the old-fashioned way. Read book after book, show up to that 8 am for yet another pop quiz by your professor who looks like Jeff Goldblum. Or, you could have an infinitely better time scrolling through these memes. I know I’m a lot more likely to remember Julius Caesar through dank memeage than an over-priced textbook.

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Charlie Chaplin Started the “Distracted Boyfriend” Meme in 1922

One of the most popular memes this year is the “Distracted Boyfriend” meme. There was a solid month or so where it was being widely shared in its various iterations all over social media.

In case you’ve somehow missed it, it’s a meme that’s based on this stock photo of a young man who clearly has eyes for other women, even though he’s out with his girlfriend.

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Once Twitter got a hold of the image and it was only a matter of time until they turned it into a huge assortment of hilarity.

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It’s pretty much used as a meme to make fun of someone’s inability to resist a given distraction.

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Recently, however, one highly observant movie buff made a rather remarkable discovery – this meme has apparently been around since the 1920s!

It was first pioneered by none other than Charlie Chaplin, in the 1922 silent film Pay Day.

Film writer Peter Goldberg even posted a still from the movie as proof, and its similarity to “Distracted Boyfriend” is pretty uncanny.

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Naturally, it didn’ take long until Twitter turned it into a meme of its own.

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Check out the full clip below to witness the birth of a meme that was clearly way ahead of its time:

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What People Miss Most About the 2000s, According to Reddit

Can you believe we’re almost a decade removed from the 2000s? I guess that’s just how fast things move.

What do you miss about the 2000s? The same things as these folks?

1. Gamer

“Nintendo Gamecube – I know it was the third place console, but it had so many games that I played constantly. I still think Rogue Leader is the best Star Wars game ever made – and that was sixteen years ago!”

2. Old-fashioned

“The old-fashioned PC, Windows XP and the pre-Facebook Internet.

I get such nostalgia pangs when I remember sitting on my Dad’s old PC, playing computer games and watching old, non-professional videos.”

3. Me too

“Borders bookstores.”

4. Good times with this one

“MSN Messenger.”

5. Harry mania

“Harry Potter being in its heyday and theorizing about what would happen in the next books.”

6. ‘Toons

“Cartoon Network. It used to be awesome back then.”

7. Top 8

“Myspace. The site was flawed, but it was so much fun. The crazy layouts, the “top 8″ friends, the surveys, the music.”

8. Nothing more

“Buying a game at the store, reading the manual on the car ride home, then popping the disc in the console and immediately playing it, the entire game and what it had to offer, nothing more.”

9. Flip phones

“I miss the flip phone era from like 2006-2010, for me at least.

I was just better at communication back then. I was on 7th grade to mid high school back then and if I wanted to talk to a girl I’d call her. Texting wasn’t unlimited for a lot of people.”

10. Discman

“I graduated high school in 2001. I’ll always remember my yellow Sony Discman connected to the tape deck in my ’94 Saturn SL2. It was a stick shift too! The anti-skip didn’t work great, but I loved my collection of CDs I had going in the visor.”

11. The old days

“Checking my translucent blue VTECH answering machine when I got home from work.”

12. Just enough

“Just enough features on phones where we can make plans and figure out where we’re going. But not SO much functionality that we stare at our phones when we hang out with people.”

13. The aesthetic

“Overall I just miss the overall aesthetic of the 2000s. Everything was all gritty because it was barely a new millenia and nobody knew how the future would look like. Companies back then had over complicated logos to help them stand out from the rest of the crowd. Everything felt more real than the over-simplicity of today, and I truly miss that.”

14. Vh1

“The old Vh1 with all of the stupid reality shows and the “I Love the XX’s” decade shows.”

15. Amen

“I miss the messy culture of the 2000s. People wore ugly accessories, too many layers, messy makeup. Now, everything has to be so perfect, so “instagrammable”.”

 

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8 of the Biggest Scandals the World Has Completely Forgotten About

News these days moves so fast, doesn’t it? It seems like something will be the biggest hot-button issue one week, then completely disappear from everyone’s minds the next. If that bothers you, don’t worry – you’re not alone.

It certainly bothers these folks, who shared what they believe are the biggest scandals that everyone seems to have forgotten about.

1. Sketchy

“Equifax lost the personal data of almost every single adult. This is data we didn’t give them permission to access.

They are still in business.”

2. Not a peep

“Paradise papers!!! Trillions of dollars. All over the news for a couple of days, then nothing. Haven’t heard a peep about it since.”

3. Contamination

“The pharmaceutical giant Bayer sold a drug for hemophiliacs that ended being contaminated with HIV. Once learning of the contamination, instead of ceasing sales entirely, the company choose to only discontinue the drug in the US (where the evidence of the contamination and associated deaths had come from) and proceeded to market the product in Asia and Latin America. Many patients contracted HIV and ultimately died of AIDS because of this decision. To my knowledge, no one from Bayer has ever been prosecuted.”

4. Missed this one…

“About 10 years ago two men with Japanese passports were caught trying to smuggle $134 billion in forged bearer bonds into Switzerland in the trunk of their car! They were caught by Italian police and we still don’t know anything about who they were, where the bonds came from or why they were being smuggled.”

5. Hmmm….

“All deaths related to Scientology.”

6. Save our girls

“What happened with the “Save our girls” thing? The African warlord kidnapping schoolgirls for, I forget what. He also did the comical thing about cleaning his teeth with some kind of stick on videos.

Also did Sean Hannity ever get waterboarded for charity?”

Answer from another user: “The Boko Haram/Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping. 276 abducted, 112 still missing. A little over a hundred have been released, many probably dead.”

7. Scandalous

“When the American government paid internet companies to install internet all over the country in the 90s or something and they didn’t actually do it all. Nobody really remembers it but it was one of the biggest scandals America has ever seen. Sorry for incorrectly spelling I’m bad and lazy. Also I totally forget what it was called. I’d love if someone remembered.”

8. Crisis

“The 1982 Tylenol Cyanide poisonings that killed several innocent consumers and put manufacturer Johnson & Johnson in crisis mode. Their handling of the aftermath is considered a textbook example of competent crisis management. It led to the market introduction of a wide array of safety packaging. No arrests ever made.”

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Someone Made Charts To Explain Countries’ Flags And The Results Are Hilarious

Do you remember how old you were when you learned that flags actually meant something? As a kid, I thought they were just a random assortment of colors and stripes that looked cool, when in reality they carry a lot of significance. That’s why these internet users made these handy charts to help explain the “true” meanings behind each country’s flag. Are they 100% accurate? No. Are they 100% hilarious? Absolutely.

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These Antique Heirlooms Could Be Slowly Killing Their Owners

In the early 20th century, glow-in-the-dark watches and clocks were popular and commonplace. They were often given as gifts to British and American servicemen, as well. The unique glow was created by painting radium on the dials, a compound which breaks down into radon – a colorless, odorless gas that remains present in the environment. It’s considered safe at certain levels, but a recent study out of the University of Northampton and Kingston University has discovered that the watches and clocks can emit the carcinogenic, radioactive gas at a rate up to 12 times higher than the maximum “safe” level.

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Researchers looked at 30 different specimens as part of an international report on radon exposure, and used radiation detectors to test the samples. They found the watches produced 13,400 becquerels per meter cubed – public health organizations have determined that indoor spaces should aim for no more than 100 becquerels per meter cubed to be safe.

“These results show that the radon emitted from individual watches can potentially pose a serious cancer risk,” one of the researches said in a statement. “This is of concern because, in addition to military watches being particularly prized by collectors, many individual radium-dial watches are kept as mementos by ex-servicemen and their descendants.”

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There is an established link between radon and lung cancer.

If you or someone in your family has one of these watches, make sure to research and practice proper handling and storage techniques. And if you need more convincing, check out what happened to the poor girls who helped manufacture the things back in the day – it’s not pretty.

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These Rare Photos of Vintage Grocery Stores Are Surprisingly Cool

There are about a hundred ways you’d be able to spot a vintage photo from a modern one, and that goes double (or triple) for snapshots of old grocery stores. For one thing, people back in the day would not have been caught dead shopping in their pajamas. The stores were also more elegant with wider aisles, and so on and so forth.

You won’t be sorry you took this stroll through eras gone by!

#15. Check out these cashiers.

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#14. A self-service Piggly Wiggly in 1918.

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#13. The early to mid-70s.

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#12. The Jitney Jungle, 1962

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#11. Proof that kids haven’t changed since the ’50s.

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#10. Late 19th Century

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#9. I guess wearing curlers in public was okay in the ’60s.

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#8. Where shopping is a pleasure…and so are those cars!

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#7. James Dean shopping in the mid-50s. And looking cool in the process, obviously.

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#6. Chicago, 1941.

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#5. Even in the ’80s, people still dressed nice.

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#4. Extra-wide aisles at a Publix.

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#3. A Japanese-owned store in the days after Pearl Harbor.

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#2. 1925 – so neat and tidy.

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#1. Check out that price for ground beef in the ’40s.

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There Are Other Flags Hiding Within Norway’s Flag

At first glance, Norway’s flag looks pretty typical.

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But if you look closely, you can see the patterns of six other countries’ flags within the Norwegian flag. A demographics researcher named Simon Kuestenmacher pointed out the flags in a tweet.

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Norwegian Air used this nifty little pattern to make an advertisement with prices to these different destinations.

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Pretty cool, right?

h/t: Mental Floss

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10 Facts About Crime and Criminals

Crime is woven into American culture just like apple pie and baseball. And it is fascinating to study.

Read on to see 10 interesting facts about crime and some of the colorful characters who have committed them.

1. Dillinger

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2. Killer Cadillac

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3. Wiseguy

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4. Animal abuse

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5. The Body Farm

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6. Free pizza!

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7. Glitter

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8. Old timers

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9. Big Al

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10. Gang wars

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