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RSO is a record label nobody has ever heard of—probably because they were a little lacking when it came to sniffing out success. Case in point, this letter @uberfacts has been circulating. It's a 1979 letter RSO sent to one Paul Hewson, whom they called "Mr. Hewson," whom the world would come to call "Bono," telling him that his music was "not suitable for them" at the present.

Just a reminder that one person's "no" doesn't necessarily have to be the final word ...

This is a pretty wild story that took place in December, and is finally catching some traction. It all happened in Spain, where a burglar raided the home of a local football (soccer) coach and stole, among other things, a few videotapes. Only when he took his loot back to his hideout (assuming burglars still use hideouts) did he discover, to his horror, that the coach was luring his players to his home, sexually abusing them and filming it all. So the crook slipped the videotapes in an envelope, hid them in a public place, called the police and told them where to find them. The police found the tapes along with the burglar's anonymous note: "I've had the misfortune that these tapes have fallen into my hands and I feel obligated to turn them in so that you can do your job and put that (expletive) in prison for life."

The burglar is getting his wish: the coach has been arrested. As to the identity of the burglar himself, he's still on the loose and police are still committed to finding him ...

Carl Kasell has spent the past fifty years as the voice that might be most associated with NPR and, now, he's announced that he's stepping aside. His legendary voice had been the first thing many, many of us heard each morning until he left that in 2009. He has remained the beloved scorekeeper for NPR's Wait, Wait ...Don't Tell Me! since he first took the job in 1998. According to NPR, his role on Wait, Wait was his career highlight.

"'My favorite time at NPR has been Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! It was loads of fun and gave me a chance to meet and talk to in person the audiences that I felt I had known for so many years on the air,' says Carl. 'I can honestly say I am the luckiest man around to be able to have worked at a job I love for so many years. It's truly been a joy for me.'

Here’s a clip of gritty-voiced legend Bruce Springsteen covering Lorde’s indie pop hit "Royals" at a concert in New Zealand. The acoustic take on the electronic anthem is expectedly boss ...

The only surprising thing about this squirrel feeder from Seattle's purveyor of bizarre, Archie McPhee, is that it took someone until 2014 to come up with it. Come on, humanity. We're losing our edge here. And it can be yours for a mere $15. A small price to pay for squirrel feeding innovation ...

Introducing the perfect pizza cutter for that fixie-riding hipster in your life. As described on the Doiy Design site, “the fixie pizza cutter will add a cosmopolitan touch to your Friday nights with Pizza and friends" ...

If Christian fashion is your thing, you're in luck. Buzzfeed had eyes and ears on the ground at this year's Christian Fashion Week in Tampa, which is designed to “celebrate the idea of fashion from a Christian worldview, reflecting common values such as modesty, boldness, and integrity.” So, sounds like a pretty wild time. And although the idea might sound like it could set your eyes rolling so fast they unscrew from your sockets, Buzzfeed's Jessica Misener writes that it was a pretty good time.

...besides the pre-show prayer, the event seemed to me like a normal fashion show, save for less cleavage and no cocaine-fueled after-parties. It was also notably more racially diverse—in terms of both audience and participants—than many shows I’ve been to in New York. The clothes weren’t on the cutting edge of trends, but the designers hadn’t explicitly forsaken style in the name of modesty.

How bad is the basic infrastructure in the country of North Korea under the dictatorship of Kim Jong un? The picture below, taken from the International Space Station, shows a nation literally covered in almost complete darkness. Aside from the illuminated capital city of Pyongyang—where the government’s offices are located—there seems to be no electricity in the majority of the country. By comparison, the entire regions of China and South Korea (which border the reclusive nation) appear to be glowing ...

To help promote the First Lady’s “Let’s Move Campaign”—which encourages children to live healthy lifestyles—Will Ferrell and Michelle Obama filmed this focus group session with a handful of kids. Because Will Ferrell claims to eat like a real-life version of Buddy the Elf, the results were predictably hilarious ...

Last night, King Cake Baby returned to the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans to cheer on the Pelicans as they played the Los Angeles Clippers. This was notable, because he is the stuff of nightmares. The mascot is part of a weird Mardi Gras tradition, and, as evidenced by the image below, caused somewhat of a stir on Twitter during his visit to the game. Warning, you can’t unsee King Cake Baby—one glimpse, and he will haunt your dreams forever ...

During his visit to The Tonight Show, Will Ferrell preformed a Downton Abbey-themed figure skating routine in honor of the Winter Olympics. If that sentence isn’t enough to make you click the video play button below, then we honestly don’t know what is ...

Tina Fey is set to star in the film adaptation of the book The Taliban Shuffle. The memoir tells the story of war journalist Kim Barker, who covers the on-going conflicts in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the early 2000s. Even though the book has some serious undertones, the movie—which is being penned by 30 Rock writer Robert Carlock—will likely carry a lighthearted tone. As Vulture notes, ironically, in the New York Times 2011 review of the book, they noticed that, “[Barker] depicts herself as a sort of Tina Fey character, who unexpectedly finds herself addicted to the adrenaline rush of war” ...

Jimmy Fallon's first week on The Tonight Show has been a boon for lovers of viral video content, and here's another winner: his interview with OneDirection heartthrob and suspiciously not British accented Harry Styles. Whether you're a staunch OneDirectioner or you can't stand the thought of hearing "What Makes You Beautiful" ever again, this interview demands to be seen ...

Meet young Alexis Martin, possibly one of the smartest 3-year-olds on the planet. Alexis is so smart, that she literally measured off the charts of a standard IQ test, leaving doctors to estimate that her IQ is somewhere in the neighborhood of 160. As Gawker points out, that’s the “same score as Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.” Along with geography—she can label countries around the world on a map—she has also mastered Spanish (teaching herself from an iPad), memorizes bedtime stories and has even become Arizona’s youngest Mensa (an organization for super smart people) member. You can watch her adorable interview over on ABCnews.com ...

License plates are the source of a strange amount of controversy in this wild country, and Georgia's just released a new one that is upsetting a lot of people. This new vanity plate has a Confederate flag emblazoned on it, and its proponents say the flag is a proud part of the South's legacy. Of course, there are those for whom the Confederate flag is a reminder of some of the darker chapters in the South's history. As the Atlanta Journal-Consitution reports:

A spokesman for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said Tuesday that the state should not have sanctioned the battle emblem to appear on a Georgia tag. "To display this is reprehensible," said Maynard Eaton. "We don't have license plates saying 'Black Power.'"

The Georgia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans say they have the right to celebrate their heritage however they best see fit ...

On March 11, professional table tennis star Timo Boll will face-off with robot KR Agilus, in an epic duel that may actually determine the fate of humanity. The match is being organized to promote the opening of the KUKA Robotics factory in China. If robots can beat mankind’s greatest ping-pong star, what hope do we have left? ...

Breaking news, there’s evidently actual “meat” in Hot Pockets. Also breaking news, some of it is from diseased animals, and according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is being pulled from shelves because it is “unsound, unwholesome or otherwise … unfit for human food.” Hot Pocket-maker Nestle said that only a small number of Philly Steak and Cheese Hot Pockets were affected by the bad meat from a supplier in California, and they were being recalled. Our advice: nuke your daily Hot Pockets for a few extra minutes before eating, just to be on the safe side ...

A new survey conducted by the National Science Foundation has found that a quarter of Americans believe that the sun revolves around the earth. In the EU, 44% of residents didn’t know the basic fact about how our solar system operates. Another finding from the survey raises some different questions concerning scientific understanding though. According to Time, “only 48 percent knew that humans evolved from earlier species of animals.” Of course, considering the fact that many religious beliefs about creation counter this idea, in this case, the word “knew” is a bit misleading ...

Look. There are certain outlets calling Judy Cox—a mother who was shocked at how suggestive some t-shirts in a Utah PacSun were—a prude. And, sure, on a global scale, this may not be quite the best way to go about engaging the issue of sexually themed clothing aimed at teenagers. However, on a limited scale, there's no denying that there's something appealingly rogue about how Mrs. Cox went about solving her problem—by purchasing every single shirt she found offensive in the entire store so nobody else could, and planning to return them all one day shy of the 60-day return policy limit. It cost her $567 and she's saying it was worth it. “These shirts clearly cross a boundary that is continually being pushed on our children in images on the Internet, television and when our families shop in the mall,” Cox told The Associated Press ...