Africa is bigger than China, India, Europe and the USA. COMBINED.

Africa is big. But did you realize exactly how big?

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WOAH!

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Turns out the standard Mercator projection of the world MASSIVELY underestimates Africa's true size.

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Africa is so big it easily swallows the USA and Europe.

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Citing archery's historic methods, a Danish archer has released a video in which he fires three arrows in 0.6 seconds. Lars Andersen argues for speed and agility, in addition to accuracy.

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Clam the psychic clam, the clairvoyant sensation known around the world for his (her?) stunning record of World Cup predictions , has emerged from the grottos of prophecy to predict the winner of this weekend's Super Bowl XLIX.

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Suge Knight is in deep shit.

The 49-year-old Death Row Records founder turned himself into the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department early this morning after he allegedly ran over one man and injured another in the parking lot of a burger joint in Compton, California. An argument with members of a film crew that began on the set for the NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton apparently spilled over to the nearby restaurant, and that's when someone died.

Witnesses told TMZ, which broke the story, that Knight's behavior at Tam's Burgers got the attention of security, who asked him to leave. Knight's lawyer contradicted this version of events to the local media, suggesting his client was "attacked" by two people. Either way, one man died and the other was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

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The police haven't released the name of the deceased, but some outlets are suggesting it's Terry Carter, a friend of Knight's who showed up at the burger joint with him.

Knight's lawyer described the event as an accident, suggesting Knight hit the pedestrians while leaving. Police are treating it as a homicide, however. Late Thursday night, they held a press conference, and stated that Knight had run over the victim more than once. After turning himself in and being interviewed, Knight was arrested and his bail was set at $2 million.

The other victim named in the media, Cle Sloane—an actor from Training Day and End of Watch—does not appear to have suffered serious injuries.

While it might be hard to believe, the possibility of a fresh murder charge isn't the only thing that's making Knight's life hard right now. Last summer, Knight attended a party hosted by Chris Brown, and wound up getting shot six times. Then, in October, Knight and his friend comedian Katt Williams were arrested for stealing a paparazzi's camera.

According to Suge's lawyer, his health is in decline. He was hospitalized in November after taking a bad fall in his jail cell. He then passed out while receiving an X-ray and found out he had a blood clot in one of his lungs, according to TMZ. He's also been on blood thinners, and was still recovering from the ordeal when this latest fracas went down.

To make matters worse for Knight, he was due in court this week because of the camera incident. He has a history of blowing off court dates, and a history of violent crime.

Long story short: Knight's health appears to be fragile, it already looked like he was bound for prison, and now he's facing a potential murder charge.

Knight is famous, of course, for creating Death Row Records and being probably as responsible as any non-musician for putting the West Coast G-funk sound in record stores and on the radio in the early 1990s.

Of course, Knight never really cleared his name—in the public eye, at least—for the 1997 murder of the Notorious B.I.G. His storied rivalry with Biggie's label Bad Boy Records is still a favorite topic of conspiracy theorists, but what happened in the parking lot seems a lot less mysterious.

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You won’t hear us complaining about the number of camo-inspired releases happening, with the latest being this joint effort from CLOT and adidas Originals by 84-Lab on the Superstar 80s. Following our preview of the Cole Haan ZeroGrand Wing Oxford and Short Boots, each with a camo upper all their own, the Three Stripes brand and the Hong Kong-based creative powerhouse offer their own rendition packed with design cues straight from the military. With the iconic Superstar 80s silo as the base, the model has been reimagined with synthetic nylon uppers with a heel to toe sheel camo print. The duo complete their fourth collaborative installment with the OG midsole in an off-white, a golden Trefoil branded heel tab, and smooth black leather stripes to finish the look with premium style. Available now online from select retailers, including end clothing, hit after the jump for more angles

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In 2013 Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery built an elaborate five-foot diameter sand mandala at the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas. This video documents the monks painstakingly creating the mandala by hand, as well as the ceremonial dismantling of the mandala at the end of the process. According to the museum, the mandala’s destruction is meant to signify “the impermanence of all that exists.”

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This is comedy gold.

The cruel people in the bus are just willing it to fall over.

In the fucking balls.

Whether you're a hardcore gamer looking to show your devotion or simply looking to bling out your gaming rig, these Colorware 24K Gold Controllers. Available for either the PS4 or...

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Hideous traffic accidents become quaint oopsies when rendered with model cars in “Driving Vehicles, Live And Let Live,” a 1947 driver safety film that was produced by Aetna Casualty and Surety Company.

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Bart returned home with a broken jaw, open wounds on his face and a ruptured eye. He is being treated by the Humane Society of Tampa Bay, Fla., and will return to his owner after he has recovered.

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Earlier this week the upper right corner of the United States lost its shit as a "crippling, potentially historic" blizzard headed toward the Northeast. While the national media covered that underwhelming storm with a gusto previously reserved for missing airliners and Middle Eastern crises, just a week earlier a less publicized—but perhaps equally important—snow event occurred in Lubbock, Texas.

It doesn't snow very much in Lubbock, so when a thin blanket of the white powder covered the Texas Tech University campus, it was reassuring to see students respond, as if by instinct, in the only way students should when their campus is covered in a light dusting—by building a massive snow penis at a highly visible spot on campus. It lasted for about a day before the university bulldozed it.

The video is pretty hilarious. The driver of that backhoe shows real determination. He doesn't just topple it; he lowers the plow straight down and then steamrolls the nuts for good measure. Why not seed that patch of earth with road salt to make sure no snow phalluses ever grow there again?

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Though the mighty womb broom is gone, its legacy lives on in Twitter form at @TechSnowDick. I spoke to the guy behind it, a sophomore bio major who was kind enough to DM me from class. According to him, "none of the students complained, at least while we were making it. Most students would walk by and take a picture and laugh."

[tweet text="Freezing my balls off out here. Literally, they're gone." byline="— Texas Tech Snow Dick (@TechSnowDick)" user_id="TechSnowDick" tweet_id="558803327555629057" tweet_visual_time="January 24, 2015"]

There was nothing political about it, either, he said. "The snow dick was not meant to be disrespectful to anyone. It was just for fun."

Of course it was meant to be fun—when life gives you a blizzard, you make a dick. Snow rods belong to a venerable tradition of phallic, site-specific sculpture. What makes a better Instagram post than a little snow beej, a throbbing snow erection, or a snow cock that's peeing out little snowflakes?

Below is a brief roundup of some of the best examples of frozen dicks that exist online. Take note, and try to top them next time it snows in your town.

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[tweet text="There is a giant snow penis outside my hall how am I supposed to react to this? Y pic.twitter.com/OhIjSGThHw" byline="— Natalia (@StupidityGalore)" user_id="StupidityGalore" tweet_id="559410266170212352" tweet_visual_time="January 25, 2015"]

[tweet text="My brother and his friend made this wonderful snow penis today:) pic.twitter.com/cENwzAn281" byline="— preston (@P_stones)" user_id="P_stones" tweet_id="544263411698524160" tweet_visual_time="December 14, 2014"]

[tweet text="Staying Classy #canton. #snowpenis someone spent a considerable amount of time on this before 9 am. pic.twitter.com/5XU71i79Pp" byline="— Elliott R Plack (@talllguy)" user_id="talllguy" tweet_id="433988113577549824" tweet_visual_time="February 13, 2014"]

[tweet text="The Snow Penis Collage pic.twitter.com/tPsp7UI19Q" byline="— Ibbs (@Captain_Ihab)" user_id="Captain_Ihab" tweet_id="306159839128727552" tweet_visual_time="February 25, 2013"]

[tweet text="Just incase anyone wanted to know what an 8 foot snow penis looks like. GROW UP JUSTIN pic.twitter.com/wo6iBAVu8D" byline="— Justin Delhotal (@Delblackout)" user_id="Delblackout" tweet_id="306942764757708800" tweet_visual_time="February 28, 2013"]

[tweet text="Return of the snow penis at 621 #snowday pic.twitter.com/8HnvcnaX0E" byline="— Bethany Freese (@bethanyfreese)" user_id="bethanyfreese" tweet_id="322433576626946048" tweet_visual_time="April 11, 2013"]

[tweet text="Praise the penis All hail snow penis Let us merry round and sing the song of our people. pic.twitter.com/xvchXFSDqr" byline="— reckless (@EvilArtistplz)" user_id="EvilArtistplz" tweet_id="533397029238472704" tweet_visual_time="November 14, 2014"]

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The primary cast of director Paul Feig‘s upcoming Ghostbusters reboot has finally been announced with Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones set to star. Wiig and McCarthy previously worked with Feig on the film Bridesmaids, and McKinnon and Jones are both current cast members on Saturday Night Live. Feig announced he was officially attached to the project in October of 2014 as director and writer along with with Katie Dippold.

Feig posted a photo of the four women today on Twitter.

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— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) January 27, 2015

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Have you ever sat around pausing movies or television shows hoping to land on just the right moment so you can have a good laugh at the out-of-context hilarity on the screen?

That’s the comedic power of the pause in action, and no matter the format those paused moments make the show look just plain wrong!

The Soup has put together a collection of screenshots that make innocent cartoons look like total smut, and they've come up with a rather catchy name for these pausal peccadilloes- Bad Pause. 

Take a gander at their collection Bad Pause: Cartoon Edition, but only if you're ready to laugh at how easy it is to totally ruin your favorite cartoon shows from childhood with a perfect pause!

Hidden compartments are fun and you know it . If you're looking for a way to hide some of your smaller valuables while brightening up your place, this potted plant compartment is perfect.

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Undisputable Cuz, a giant 40-ton, 75-foot-long barbecue pit that’s hauled around by a 18-speed Peterbilt truck has gone up for sale on eBay. The giant smoker, whose owners claim that it’s the largest in the world, boats a total of 24 doors and can cook up to four tons of meet in a single go. The price of the cooker (not including the truck) is listed at $350,000 with a surprisingly reasonable $3.58 for shipping fee.

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Concepts has joined forces with ASICS once again on the classic Gel Lyte V silhouette, featuring an exceedingly clean design inspired by the area of expertise of one “Boston George,” portrayed by Johnny Depp in the 2001 film Blow. The build carries premium suede construction that uses both perforated and smooth paneling finished in a light grey shade, along with laces and side stripes accented with reflective 3M. A combination white and red midsole and a blood-splattered custom sockliner rounds out the details. The Concepts x ASICS Gel Lyte V launches January 30th at 6 p.m. EST through the retailer’s Cambridge and NYC locations, as well as online.

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Release Date: 1/30/2015 (Friday)

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Darth Gummy by Crummy Gummy—a gummy artisan who works primarily in the medium of gummy—is a 1:1 scale model of Star Wars villain Darth Vader’s iconic helmet made with over 1,000 gummy bears. The gelatinous, sugary sculpture was recently shown at the WYN 317 Gallery in Miami, Florida.

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In 1985, the long-running BBC documentary series Horizon took a trip to visual effects powerhouse Industrial Lights and Magic and visited with artists like Chris Evans, Mike Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw, and Ralph McQuarrie, who helped create the lifelike matte paintings that provided the backgrounds for the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones films.

In a recent interview, Ordaz discusses how he got into the field.

By the time I graduated Art Center College of Design I was already painting for the movie industry and was hired by George Lucas’s company ILM. My first assignment was to paint a background establishing shot for ET. Spielberg liked it and my career took off.

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Canadian artist Marie-Lou Desmeules slathers paint, hair, fabric, paper, and plastic on models, transforming them into garish, wonderfully creepy living replicas of famous people and pop culture characters. Photos of her wondrous pop culture replicants can be viewed on her Behance portfolio and her Instagram account.

Steve Jobs

Barbie

Kim Jong-un

Andy Warhol

Rambo

Bert/Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)

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