The Annie E. Casey foundation released a new study on Tuesday that ranks all 50 states in terms of child-friendliness, but remember, no stupid map can tell you how to raise your kids. The composite score for each state's economic and health conditions, education and quality of communities were all used in a carefully developed methodology, which resulted in the ranking. According to the study, Minnesota is the best place to raise children, but only if you can stand really cold temperatures and funny accents.

In order of rank, Massachusetts, Iowa, New Hampshire, and Connecticut join Minnesota to comprise the top five states for baby-raising.

On the other end of the spectrum, Mississippi is ranked the worst state for overall child well-being, followed by New Mexico, Louisiana, Nevada and Alabama. The study observes that 30% of children in New Mexico fall below the poverty line, which is double Minnesota's 15%.

Other notable findings from the study are that 83% of eighth graders in Alabama are considered not proficient in math, and 77% of fourth graders in New Mexico are not proficient in reading—12% worse than the national average. Again, these are averages and not indicative of everyone's personal experience, so don't freak out if you are giving your kids the best childhood you can in a state that has a low ranking. This map doesn't know your life.

If you don't have a great job like 50 Cent's toddler, paying for college can be really tough. The rest of us have to get pretty sneaky to buy those very valuable English bachelor degrees, by filing for bankruptcy or selling our organs. Two totally straight bros* came up with a better idea: marrying each other.

Here is their text exchange planning the whole escapade:

Both dudes are immediately on board. It's really touching that the gay community has come so far that straight men can improve their lives by coming out of the closet.

They've edited out some of the details of their frenzied planning, but you can get the gist: be gay for pay.

Good luck you two! It's so wonderful to be living in a time when straight dudes and gay dudes have the same right to defraud the government. Equality has finally been achieved.

*Names have been protected so they are not caught on fraud charges and also because it's the internet and we don't know their real names.

On June 21, a redditor who goes by the handle i124qnds did the internet a favor by creating this massive album of famous people who have gotten the biopic movie treatment, paired with the actors who stepped into their shoes. It's a nice example of why the internet stays great, even after you've spent hours, days, even years falling down rabbit hole after rabbit hole on the site while your family gives up on you and eventually moves out and goes on without you. But it's all worth it, because now you can forward them a link of historical people and the actors who portrayed them onscreen.

1. Ludwig van Beethoven/Gary Oldman

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Although the music that is used in the film was played by someone else, Gary Oldman actually learned to play piano for his role in Immortal Beloved. He is rumored to have practiced six hours a day for six weeks on a Steinway in his hotel. Because that's just the kind of dedicated actor Oldman is. No word on whether or not he actually shot heroin when he played Sid Vicious in Sid & Nancy, but probably not. Probably.

2. Little Edie/Drew Barrymore

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Drew Barrymore campaigned really hard for the role of Edith Bouvier Beale in HBO's Grey Gardens (based on the Maysles Brothers' documentary of the same name). Like, really, really hard. She ended up preparing for over a year before filming began, working with dialect coaches and reading Edie's journals. She went on to win a Golden Globe for her performance. So, YES, Drew Barrymore can frickin' act. As she told Starpulse,

I went a little insane, because I just lived and breathed her. I thought that if the crew heard me talk the way I talk, they would think I was acting when I was being her and they wouldn't believe me. They would see that it wasn't real. I only spoke to people as her and I isolated myself because she was isolated. I just tried to be her in every way I could. I realized what a dramatically emotional person she was. She had these great highs, great lows, she acts like a woman, but she talks like a little girl. She says that she wants to get the hell out of here but she never did. She is a walking contradiction on every level. You are always being and doing something different. That push and pull is very emotionally wearing. I understood why she was in such turmoil all the time. I just loved getting to have a challenge that was this big. I've never been given this opportunity. I was like, "Dammit, I'm going to everything I can to rise to the occasion."

3. Abraham Lincoln/Daniel Day-Lewis

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Day-Lewis was always director Steven Spielberg’s first choice to play Lincoln, but he turned down the role several times. He went so far as to recommend Liam Neeson before finally giving in and accepting once Spielberg had the script re-written by Tony Kushner. At least no one had to carry him around the set, like in My Left Foot.

4. Bob Dylan/Cate Blanchett

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In Dylan, director Todd Haynes had a total of six different people play the title role, including a 13-year-old black teenager, but one who made a lot of waves with her performance was the formidable Cate Blanchett. She told the New York Times:

He was the reason I wanted to be involved in the project. And it’s very rare that you read a script that is as impenetrable as this was, because it was completely and utterly inside Todd’s brain. He’d worked out every shot, every juxtaposition of image. It was really like a operatic score, there were so many instruments playing.

5. Malcolm X/Denzel Washington

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In an interview with Dallas Morning News, Washington said of the role: "I play three—no, four—no, five, maybe more Malcolms in this movie. But they're all one Malcolm, just different segments of him. See what I mean about it being the role of a lifetime?"

6. Selena Quintanilla Pérez/Jennifer Lopez

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Speaking to Billboard in 2015 about why Selena Quintanilla is still such a beloved figure 20 years after her untimely death at the age of 23, Lopez said:

The grace with which she handled the business, the grace with which she handled her life, the humor. Her spirit of loving what she did. Her sense of family. That's the tragedy of everything that ­happened and why she left such an imprint—because she was gone way too soon.

7. Hunter S. Thompson/Johnny Depp

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Depp became really good friends with Thompson while preparing for the role, which is not at all surprising if you know anything about either of them. In fact, Thompson had the honor of shaving Depp's head for the role.

8. Frida Kahlo/Salma Hayek

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Speaking about Kahlo, Hayek (who produced the film) told The Guardian: "What I respond to with Frida is her courage to be unique; her courage to be different. She lived her life exactly as she wanted and never apologized." Hayek's performance in Frida earned her an Oscar nomination for best actress, but she lost out to Nicole Kidman's turn as Virginia Woolf in The Hours. Goddamn Australians coming here and stealing all our Oscars.

9. Stephen Hawking/Eddie Redmayne

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Redmayne won the Oscar for best actor for his portrayal of Hawking in The Theory of Everything, which is only just slightly more prestigious than the shout-out he got from Hawking on Facebook.

10. Andy Kaufman/Jim Carrey

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In an interview with Contact Music, Bob Zmuda (the late Andy Kaufman's best friend) explained why Man on the Moon's director Milos Forman cast Jim Carrey in the role of Kaufman over the many other actors vying for the part:

Milos did a very smart thing when he cast this movie. He said he wasn't going to make it unless (affecting Forman's deep German brogue), "who evah plays Andy makes audition tape." Well, I'm not going to give you the names, but a few of those guys went (now in a grumbly voice), "I'm not making no audition tape."

So my phone rings one day (and it's Jim Carrey). He says he's made an audition tape for Milos and will I come over to his place to see it. I must tell you, I was not a believer in the beginning. This was before Truman Show, by the way, so I thought he was going to be eating the scenery. (But) the tape is not on for one minute and I'm crying like a baby. If somebody had given me this tape and not told me it was Jim Carrey, I would have thought it was Andy. It was remarkable. (During) filming, he started exhibiting Kaufman-esque behavior that none of us had told him about, which freaked us out. It really freaked out Lynn [Margulies, Andy's girlfriend, played by Courtney Love in the movie).

That's just a smattering of the photos, there are a lot more. Take a look at the whole gallery here:

Actor portrayals in biographical films

Who doesn't remember sneaking out of bed to watch Al Bundy (the first men's rights activist on television) and his dysfunctional brood on Married With Children? If you were an actual 90s kid, it was an important part of your upbringing and a way to learn how to properly insult your friends and family. Here's a photo from their first season:

They stayed on the air for 11 seasons. That's 11 years of Bud turning from tiny boy to tiny perv, Peggy eating bon bons in tight jumpsuits, Kelly calling herself a slut in front of her parents, and amazing satirical rants from Al like this one:

"When did men become such losers? It used to be so great to be a man. Women were there to please us. They'd look after the kids and we'd go out and have a good time. That's the natural order of things. What happened, Steve? I'll tell you what happened, Steve. Somebody told women they should start enjoying sex, too. That was the beginning of the end."

It's been 14 years since their last episode aired, and since then they've all gone on to have incredible careers. Ed O'neil is playing a patriarch again on Modern Family, Katy Segall gave voice to another modern feminist as Leela on Futurama, Christina Applegate became a movie star, and David Faustino did... a cameo on Modern Family.

Recently, they all posed for a picture together. Here they are, all growed up

There was talk last summer about them getting together for a MWC reunion, which would be amazing. Woahhhh Bundy!!!!!

A man who claims to have been Omar Mateen's lover came forward to Univison on Tuesday to give more information behind Mateen's possible motivation for shooting up a gay nightclub in Orlando earlier this month. The man, disguised with prosthetics and using the fake name "Miguel," went on the record to say that he does not believe the shooting was an act of terrorism, but an act of revenge against Puerto Rican gays that may have slighted him.

Miguel claims to have met Mateen on the gay dating app Grindr and pursued a two-month-long sexual relationship with him. Despite calling 911 and pledging his allegiance to Isis, Miguel believes that Mateen's motivation behind the shooting was an act of revenge against Latino gay men, and not one with religious ties. "The thing that makes me want to tell the truth is that he didn’t do it for terrorism. In my opinion he did it for revenge" says Miguel, alleging that last year, Mateen had sex with an HIV+ man who did not disclose his status to him, and that might have set off the attack which took place during "Latin Night" at Pulse nightclub. From Mediaite:

“He adored Latinos, gay Latinos, with brown skin – but he felt rejected. He felt used by them – there were moments in the Pulse nightclub that made him feel really bad. Guys used him. That really affected him,” Miguel said. “I believe this crazy horrible thing he did – that was revenge.”

Of course, anyone can slap on some bad special effects makeup and claim to know something. For that reason Univision reports that they could not verify Miguel’s story, but they were able to confirm that the FBI had interviewed him. The investigation is ongoing, and the FBI has neither confirmed or denied Miguel's story yet.

In an inspiring show of principled inactivity, members of Congress took a break from their normal inactivity to sit on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday, June 22, as a way of forcing a vote on gun control.

Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who participated in many such sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement, led roughly 40 House Democrats as they sat their fancy-suited butts down on the House floor and waited for something, anything, to happen.

Last week, Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) led Senate Democrats in a 15-hour filibuster for the same purpose, but despite widespread media attention, the Republican-controlled Senate still rejected every single gun control measure brought before them on Monday.

Coming immediately after the deadliest mass shooting in US history, many people were mad, if not surprised, by the Senate's decision. That's when Rep. Lewis and his colleagues realized that if they wanted to get results, they had better get seated.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) immediately gaveled the House into a temporary recess and turned off C-SPAN's cameras as soon as the sit-in started, but that didn't stop the politicians in attendance from taking photos and spreading the word, using the hashtag #NoBillNoBreak.

Senator Murphy made an appearance at the sit-in to show his support, and tweeted encouragement to his friends in the House.

Former President Clinton (not to be confused with future President Clinton) joined in:

As of 1:53 PM Eastern, the sit-in is still ongoing. Those representatives must be getting some serious pancake-butt right now, but even if no one brings them orthopedic pillows, they will remain resolute in their convictions. Rep. Lewis, in particular, has faced much worse in his time.

A post on a Facebook page called Always Learning has racked up almost 15,000 shares since being posted on June 18. Not all of the sharing seems to be the good kind of "THIS" or "aww" sharing, but more like hate-sharing (along the lines of hate-reading and hate-watching).

The post (written so neatly!) reads:

Do you "expect" your husband to help w/ household chores? If you do, you won't have a happy marriage b/c expectations destroy relationships. If he helps, great, and if not, do your housework cheerfully as unto the Lord. Remember, you didn't marry your husband to help w/ the household chores. You married him to be your protector and provider. You should also have married him b/c you deeply loved him, wanted to be a great help meet to him, and to make his life better, not worse and put more burdens upon his shoulders that he already has to carry in providing for his family.

Make his life as easy and happy as you can!

The Always Learning page is a "personal blog" on Facebook. A summary of the page, which appears to be run by a woman named Lori Alexander, reads:

A wise woman is ALWAYS LEARNING. She is open to change. She is ready to hear. She pursues knowledge. Come join me.

Wow. A lot of thoughts here. First and foremost, why is this hand-written? Does Lori not understand how computers work? All her posts are photographs of hand-written notebook entries. What gives, Always Learning? Maybe Learn what a keyboard is for?

Second, what is a help meet? A quick internet search reveals that it's basically a wife.

But aside from that, there are a few problems with this outdated idea of gender roles in marriages. And there are some points that don't exactly ring true for a lot of people.

But to be fair, some people do agree, of course.

It's hard not to wonder why (other than Christianity, maybe?) someone would have such a sexist view of marriage. But Lori helps explain that in a response to someone's comment.

Ah, there it is. So, apparently men are just not good at "homemaking." So lay off, all right? Husbands just doesn't know, and cannot learn, how to clean up after themselves. Perhaps it's God's will that husbands are good at things like being male, while wives are good at everything else. You never heard Eve getting after Adam to pick up his dirty leaves, so why should modern times be any different?

Annie Mae Braiden is a mom in Victoria, British Columbia, who is pleading with parents to get their children vaccinated after her 10-week-old daughter was hospitalized with whooping cough. She posted several pictures on Facebook of her daughter, Isabelle, who has been in the pediatric ICU since she was six weeks old.

She acknowledged in her post that parents are free to do what they want, but wanted the pictures to be a reminder that those actions have the potential to affect children beyond just their own.

Here's the full text of Annie Mae's post:

So I wasn't going to do this, but I think people need to see what not vaccinating their kids do to the OTHER kids, like my 6 week old daughter. Isabelle has been in the PEDS ICU since she was 6 weeks old (now 10 weeks) with whooping cough. She was on a ventilator for 3 weeks and CPAP for 3 days (she was the lucky baby, the other ones have been ventilated for months) and we're still facing another 2 months in the hospital. She has to learn how to eat all over again, she's going through major withdrawals from the morphine and sedative she was on when she was ventilated, do you know how hard it is to watch your 10 week old go through withdrawals??!! We were hours away from losing her, the nurse picked her up and ran her down the hall to the ICU to get her ventilated because we were losing her. What you do with your kids is your choice but do not tell me that not vaccinating your kids isn't hurting anyone but your own kids, Isabelle is proof that it harms the other little babes who aren't old enough to get their vaccines yet. My son is vaccinated to protect himself and the other kids he's around. It never crossed my mind to not vaccinate, I want to protect my children and other children. Please vaccinate your kids, it's not fair that my little girl is in the PICU coughing and not being able to breath from a disease that shouldn't be around in this day an age

On June 21, Radar Online published what appears to be a leaked police report describing disturbing evidence collected at pop star Michael Jackson's house in the middle of his 2003 sex abuse trial. In the wake of this somewhat confusing revelation, a woman who claims to have dated Jackson on and off for 20 years, Shana Mangatal, blasted Radar in a Facebook post defending the late singer.

The post reads:

I wasn't going to comment on this but I've received so many messages from Michael's fans who are upset about the recent allegations being reported about what was found at Neverland. It breaks my heart that this would be reported this week - of all weeks. I gave an interview to Radar Online a few weeks ago on this very topic. It was perhaps one of the only positive MJ stories they've ever printed. I'm happy to have been able to tell them what I witnessed firsthand. I was speaking to Michael nearly every day during the 1993 allegations and also involved during 2003. Nothing illegal was ever said to be found at Neverland- only art books that can be found on Amazon. That is clearly stated in the actual documents that were released. He had art books everywhere, many given to him as gifts. He never threw anything away.Please only believe the facts that are presented to you and not the sensationalized stories attached to them. Some fans attacked me for giving an interview to Radar Online at all, but it's very important that we have some positivity and truthfulness to combat this negative trash. If you care, please read the story below for the reality of those accusations. I could write and talk about this forever but I don't want to take up too much space. If you have any questions about this particular topic, I can answer in the comments below. ‪#‎michaeljackson‬

The collection of evidence collected at Jackson's house is gross, certainly, but apparently not illegal. It includes books that were deemed technically non-pornographic by police but which included pictures of naked children. Most disturbingly, there was a book in which children's faces were "morphed" onto the naked bodies of adults.

The officer in the report says that the books could have been used as part of a "grooming" process, in which the inhibitions of potential child molestation victims are lowered.

There were also many books and magazines featuring adult pornography, and scantily clad photographs of the same children who alleged sexual molestation at the hands of Jackson.

Finally, there were also prescription bottles for the painkiller Percocet and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. Neither of these are uncommon medications (or uncommonly abused medications). Nevertheless, Radar claims were prescribed to treat sex addiction; it's unclear from the report why they believe this. Xanax would later be one of the drugs that led to the singer's death in 2009.

Demonick Nati, a publicist in Los Angeles, went to an event and met Shaquille "Shaq" O'Neal, who you might know from the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieberand also the NBA. While the program's rules said no cell phone photography, Nati snuck a picture. Or so he thought.

The video got over 10,000 retweets in 16 hours, and Shaq's playful grimace is already the stuff of legend.

Nati learned the hard way that only Aaron Carter can beat Shaq.

Ernestine Shepherd is an 80-year-old woman who could pass for a 65-year-old with the body of a 45-year-old.

She looks good for her age. Suspiciously good. As it turns out, her secret to her youthful radiance is highly achievable but requires effort, thereby excluding a large population of the word from looking as fine as her at age 80.

At age 57, following the early death of her sister from a brain aneurysm, Shepherd decided to commit herself to no longer being a self-described "slug."

Over the years, Shepherd built up her strength and in 2007 decided to enter the world of bodybuilding. Three years later, Guinness World Records declared the 5'5" woman to be the world's oldest bodybuilder.

Now at the ripe age of 80, Shepherd continues her regimented routine that sounds exhausting. The personal trainer, whose mantra is "Age is nothing but a number," wakes up at 4 AM to run 10 miles. In addition to all that cardio, Shepherd strength trains at least four times a week. She eats as much as she works out, nomming on 1,700 calories over seven meals a day.

In her years of exercise, Shepherd has never gotten injured, which means she's been much smarter about her workouts and rest days than those bros at your gym.

Aside from working out and eating right, some other tips to achieve Ernestine Shepherd's body at age 80 or earlier include having her genes.

Death: it is the ultimate unknowable. Unless—like these zombies and/or resuscitated people who shared their stories on reddit—you die during surgery or in a car accident and then are miraculously medically brought back. Whether or not these people were able to accurately remember being dead is debatable—on account of forming memories being something a living person (and brain) does—but they've died and lived to tell about it, so let's listen to them.

Warning: Not one person mentioned meeting God or being a zombie.

1. monitormonkey died during surgery and "flipped through a book of snippets" from his life.

I always get nervous about having surgery, but this time I knew something was going to go wrong. It sounds silly but I felt so strongly about it that I wrote a will and left it on my dresser just in case.

Anyway, things go wrong during the surgery and I start to bleed out. Things went even further south and then my heart stopped beating. I found out later that I was dead for several minutes.

Now I don't know if this was real or a hallucination or a mixture of the two.

I woke up in what looked like space but there wasn't any stars or light. I wasn't floating so to speak, I was just there. I wasn't hot/cold, hungry, tired, just a peaceful neutral kind of thing. I knew there was light and love somewhere nearby but I had no urge or need to go to it right away.

I remember thinking over my life, but it wasn't like a montage. More like I was idly flipping through a book and snippets stood out here and there.

I don't remember making a decision to stay or go back, I just woke up in the ICU two days later.

Whatever it was, it changed my thoughts on a few things. I am still afraid to die, but I'm not worried about what happens after that.

2. TheDeadManWalks was 15 years old when he was afflicted with sepsis and an infected colon while undergoing chemo. His body began hemorrhaging blood and he was rushed to a hospital where he "slipped in and out of life." He beautifully relates his near-death experience to hitting a snooze alarm on life.

The worst part of it all, looking back, is how peaceful it can seem. When I started vomiting blood, I went into shock. Hitting the wall to get my mums attention was a subconscious thing, the rest of me just... stopped caring. When the doctors were trying to save my life, I just wanted to black out again. I didn't want the lights to hurt my eyes and the doctors to hurt the rest of me any more, the unconsciousness seemed easier. And that's how it felt when I was in the ICU for a few weeks after that, doped up on ketamine and slipping in and out of life. Being asleep was easy, being awake meant more pain and less dignity.

So if you want to know what it's like to be that close to death, it's tempting. It's like wanting to hit the snooze button on your alarm at 7am. And maybe you do hit it once or twice but then you remember that you have work or school and that sleep can wait because you've still got shit to do.

3. TheBawlrus went into renal failure, and relates his brush with death to being powered down.

It was like turning off a TV. One second things were working and the next im waking up surrounded by doctors and nurses with my feet in the air and a unit of blood being shot into me at high speed.

"Heeeyyyyy budddyyyy...how ya feeling? We uh..lost you for a minute there."

4. Schneidah7 (temporarily) died from a motorcycle accident, and gives hope to anyone who wants to see their loved ones again.

I passed out while cruising along at about 50mph (they still have no concrete idea why) and I was thrown into a light pole. I only have two clear memories of that event. The first is being upside down and wondering idly why the opposite road was passing by inverted. The second is hitting the pole and stopping. It hurt, a lot. I cannot accurately describe how badly that hurt but suffice it to say I'm a person with a high pain tolerance to begin with and if I had been in my right state of mind I would have wept like a child. I just remember being on the pavement and things slowly going black and quiet, which honestly was a relief because it made the pain feel more distant instead of the crushing immediacy it had before. The only reason I didn't fall asleep was a bizarre moment where I heard someone yelling "Ranger up you candy fuck! Come on man, get up. Get up. GET UP!" and then someone slapping my helmet (which was basically smushed really hard onto my head; the faceplate was bent up into my face and a good chunk was more or less shaved off). When I opened my eyes I saw my brother squatting on the pavement next me to. This was odd because my brother has been dead from an OD for several years. I couldn't really gather the presence of mind to speak so I just looked at him.

5. Axesta died a little bit as a result of sepsis from a dentist's tools

Once arrived at the hospital I was put on the most uncomfortable bed ever and drifted off. I couldn't stay awake.That's when I saw nurses and doctors around me injecting me with things and shouting. I remember thinking that it must be serious if a doctor was shouting, as they usually don't show panic.I was lucid enough to laugh internally thinking "Wow.. I must be really sick if I don't even freak out over all of these injections"and then it happened, I saw my mom crying and I thought "Holy shit.. this must be for real."

As soon as I thought that, I fell asleep. I say asleep, but I died. for exactly 2 minutes. It really feels like falling asleep, but.. for me it was beyond peaceful.It felt like you didn't really have to worry about anything anymore and obviously in my case - I didn't feel sick anymore.

As someone that was once suicidal - this was actually a horribly dangerous feeling as for the first time I got confirmation that dying wasn't all that scary.

I woke up seven days later in the hospital. It took me another seven to start eating and they told me that I more than likely got sepsis from infected tools at the dentist.

The scariest part was after that happened - I no longer feared dying. So I consciously try to pull myself out of a depression whenever I feel it coming. But - for whoever is scared that their loved one felt pain in death, I can honestly say - it's a very peaceful feeling.

And another note for everyone who is using this as an excuse to never go to the dentist, he adds:

I had chosen an out-of-home dentist with a very small practice that wasn't charging me a lot. I never checked reviews because I'm a cheapskate. Don't let this scare you! I've had dental work since and it all went swimmingly!

6. CDC_ tells us how things could have gone in the movie My Girl if only Macauly Culkin had lived around the corner from a hospital and they were able to bring him back to life.

I got stung by a fucking nest of wasps right next door to my home. They stung me all over my head, neck, behind my ears. 39 stings the doctor counted.

It was insane. I ran away as fast as I could, the nest was on the door of a garage I had just come out of and bumped. I got home and was like... ok... I'm ok. I'm cool. Told my mom I got stung by some bees but I thought I was ok.

She didn't seem too worried. I decided to go take a shower. I began feeling dizzy and my back started hurting.

I quickly turned the shower off and got my clothes on and began feeling dizzier and dizzier. Then when I came out of the bathroom my mom looked at me and had a look of horror. Told me to get in the car immediately. My face and head had swollen hugely. We lived just around the corner from the hospital, so she just drove me.

Between my house and the hospital I started losing consciousness. Everything I saw had a yellowy tinge and I suddenly felt very heavy and tired. My breathing got very labored, but I sort of of didn't care. I felt like I was slipping away into sleep

You know old TVs, when they were turned off the screen would be basically engulfed in black and the light shrank down into a pinpoint before disappearing? My vision slowly started feeling like it was doing that.

I remember arriving at the hospital and they didn't even bother with registration, they threw my ass on a gurney and started pushing me back. As I was going back I remember closing my eyes and thinking "I guess whatever happens..." And then nothing. Just like going to sleep when you're SUPER exhausted. I felt kind of peaceful and wasn't really thinking about anything much at all and the lights just went out.

Some minutes later I opened my eyes and a very large man was staring at me, smiling and said "Well bad news, you're gonna feel completely fine within a couple of hours, you probably won't even get out of going to school tomorrow."

He was right.

7. z91x almost drank himself to a peaceful death.

When I was 14 and at a party, I drank way too fucking much. (I was sort of an alcoholic even at that age, due to easy access to alcohol at the time. Also a family full of alcoholics who didn't give a fuck.) Woke up on the bathroom floor vomiting my guts out, in and out of consciousness. I could faintly hear my brother in the background, calling for an ambulance.

Woke up in a hospital bed where the doctor said I had been dead for 2 minutes, but they managed to revive me. My BAC was 0.56.

In my experience, being dead was like being asleep. Absolutely no difference. No flashbacks, no afterlife that I could recall... It was exactly like sleeping. Very peaceful.

He kept drinking after that, but is now 18 months sober.

8. SonOfDavor was a 5-year-old who almost drowned in a pool and now sees shimmering visions.

Well, nothing official and I hope this is okay, mostly for the head trip it occasionally gives me: I almost drowned in a pool when I was 5. I remember looking up and seeing my mother dismissing the lifeguard because I was "only playing" and his legs starting to break through the water because he knew better, before blacking out.

There was nothing between that moment and throwing up water after he pulled me out of the pool. Though I can remember with absolute clarity how the water made everything shimmer as I was looking up, and sometimes I see that swimming shimmer as I'm walking around outside or if the light is really bright. And I can't help but wonder in those moments if my entire life, all my failures, successes, falling in love with a woman and having two children with her, the love of my life cheating on me, if everything for the last 30 years is just all inside my head during the last few moments before I die, still in that pool.

Before we all get whimsical about this guy's lack of reality, Yerwun responds with some sound logic:

Well, I'm here reading it, so no.

9. deag_bullet got a teensy bit killed in a car accident, but is at a loss for how to interpret his experience.

I was in a serious car accident (hit by a drunk driver) a week before my high school graduation. Without going into all the gory details, I lost so much blood that they declared me dead. Although I do not remember much, between the rescue workers extracting me from my car and a tree and waking up three weeks later, I do remember feeling very warm and seeing lights. I've always believed it was due to medications and moving between areas with different lighting, but I'm open to otherworldly suggestions.

10. 7storiesup died at 7 years old during surgery, and it gave him an incredibly bleak view of death.

When I was a kid I needed eye surgery a few times. The last time I, at 7, told the doctor I couldn't do it today because my asthma was acting up. The doctor ignored me and put under anesthesia regardless. I had an attack, as I fucking knew I would, while under anesthesia and my heart stopped.

I remember the anger at the doctor, and then feeling something soft on my hands upon waking up with absolutely nothing in between. I was blind when I woke up and don't remember when I regained the sight, maybe a day or two later. It may have also been really thick bandages with my eyes closed, I just remember not being able to see anything thus I latched onto the stuffie my sister or mom handed me.

It was like waking up from a deep sleep, the kind you get after a hard day at work in a nice comfy room. One moment you're just awake like someone pressed the start button on the controller that is your mind and body.

So, it doesn't hurt. The heart stopping must've hurt and the asthma attack, but actual death is painless. It isn't scary, though like all humans I do fear it. It also isn't some magical experience... you're just sleeping, except sometimes you can wake up from it, like I did, and sometimes you can't, like my daddy who died when I was a child.

It is sad though cause it's nothing... life is smelly and loud and busy and interesting and fun and colorful and death, death is absolute nothingness.

11. Hobojesse wrote in with another dental scenario. This is why no one wants to get their teeth checked, people!

Two months ago I was OD'd on anesthesia in an oral surgeons office. Coded in the ER and was dead for under a minute, but fuck it, it counts.

Between me going out and me waking up in the ICU there is nothing. No black void, lost loved ones, messages from the other side. Nothing. Processing it since then, I don't know if there's nothingness is comforting or terrifying.

12. minusthelela flat-lined for ten friggin' minutes in the ER, and doesn't want to die again.

I was 16 years old and encountered tachycardia for the first time. Went to the ER with my mom, not really thinking it was a big deal (hardly any symptoms aside from high heart rate). I didn't realize how intense the situation was until two cardiologists and several nurses rushed me to what looked like an operating room of sorts.

Again, I didn't really know the full extent of what was happening, I felt pretty normal and never had a history of heart issues up until then. However, my mom worked in the medical field for several decades and I could see the utter fear and concern on her face.

Fast forward to the doctors trying to slow my heart down but couldn't. Last resort is some drug that essentially stops your heart and resets it at a normal beat. Right as they're giving me the drug, they warn me I might feel a heavy weight on my chest.

What a fucking understatement. Felt like someone was bit by bit, squeezing all the air and life out of me. Eventually the room went black and a feeling of peace came over me, like I was going to sleep. I didn't see anything good or bad, just emptiness.

When I awoke, I assumed only a few seconds had passed. Instead, the drug caused my heart to stop for 10 minutes or so and the doctors were trying to revive me, assuming I was dead given the flat line.

I'm 27 now and two years ago I had a second episode happen. Luckily, when they gave me the drug I didn't pass out, yet I was forcing myself to stay awake, I didn't want to die again.

13. And finally, there's calgarykid, who was surrounded by his regrets during their visit to the afterlife.

It was a really bad car accident where I went through the windshield and became trapped between the two vehicles. I was fading in and out and heard the scene get more and more chaotic as EMT's and cops showed up. Then everything started sounding far away and I felt like I was disappearing. Then I had this montage of regrets (really cliche i know) blast through my mind, right down to not wearing a seatbelt that night. Probably hundreds but only a few really stick out now. Then I "woke up" in the ambulance. Kind of a turning point for me

Game of Thrones season 6 spoilers below, of course.

Iwan Rheon is now famous to Thrones fans as the despicable Ramsay Bolton (née Snow), but he originally auditioned for the part of Jon Snow. In real life, Rheon's has more in common with the show's protagonist than its most hated villain. Specifically, his ability (or lack thereof) to deceive. In an interview with BBC Radio 1, Rheon revealed the toll keeping friends and family spoilers-free took on him since he wrapped filming in December:

But it's a relief that I can now talk about it openly. I filmed the final scenes back in December - so I've been lying to everyone for six months. It's difficult because I'm not a very good liar.

He also shared a gem regarding the mechanics behind the show. Apparently, when your character's getting written out of the series, the show runners basically dial you up for a prank call. "When you get the call," says Rheon, "you know what's coming."

You get a call. It was from David and Dan, the creators. They said 'Hey congratulations, Ramsay makes it to the Iron Throne.' And I'm like 'I'm dead aren't I?'

Yes.

Ramsay had known about his death for approximately a year before the rest of the world watched dogs tear his face to death. Unlike Ramsay, he's glad the starving hounds betrayed him, even if he's still dealing with "a kind of grieving process."

I've always said I'd like a dragon-related death. But I'll take dogs. It's a lot better than just falling down some stairs or dying peacefully in my sleep.

He's talking about his character. As a human, dragon death is at the top of the "worst ways to die" list, right below getting munched up by dogs and right above getting an arrow through the eye. Ramsay Bolton deserved all three at once.

There are so many subtle changes that can make huge differences in movies. How terrible would it have been if The Breakfast Clubkept its original title, The Lunch Bunch, or if that dude who Elton from Clueless was Jack in Titanic?Redditor Numendil showed us how thankful we should be for the editing process by collecting a bunch of early versions of movie lines we now consider gospel. May the lines of others be with you.

1. Star Wars

2. The Matrix

3. Die Hard

4. Back to the Future

5. Pirates of the Caribbean

6. True Lies

7. Taxi Driver

8. V for Vendetta

9. Titanic

10. Fight Club

11. The Empire Strikes Back

Ugh, bad news guys. Page Six is reporting that we will never see Blake Shelton with his shirt off. Ever. Guess it's time to give up the dream and start looking for meaning in our small, pathetic lives elsewhere. Pack it up, folks. You don't have to go home, but you can't see Blake Shelton's man nips here.

Just like shooting guns and eating huge portions of food at restaurants, ogling shirtless celebrities is one of America's favorite pastimes, but Shelton is not buying it. A source tells Page Six that the country singer chooses to remain covered up because he is a bit self conscious about his weight, despite loosing 30 pounds after his divorce from Miranda Lambert.

“He is so sensitive about his weight,” a source told Page Six. “You will never see him shirtless.” That sources goes on to say, "He always keeps his dressing room closed. At photo shoots, he will not change on set. He goes back to his dressing room whenever he needs to take his clothes off."

That source's story checks out. An aggressive internet search turns up no pictures of Shelton without a shirt on, even in these new pictures of him swimming with girlfriend Gwen Stefani. That's right, Blake Shelton swims in a giant, oversized tee. Here are just a few of the pictures with Blake wearing shirts that come up when you try to find pictures of him without one. See?

This disturbing trend.

This is just too weird.

You can always try for yourself, but there appears to be no magic set of keywords you can punch into Google to make a shirtless Blake Shelton appear, because pictures of shirtless Blake Shelton do not exist. Turns out famous celebrity Blake Shelton actually has insecurities just like non-famous people, and he chooses not to show off his bod for random internet spectators to comment on. Wow, a person doing what they want with their body? What a novel concept.

Meet URL, the cleverly-named Electronic Detection dog of the Weber County Sherrif's Office! The force out in Ogden, Utah just welcomed this specially-trained K-9—the first of his kind in the state—who can sniff out electronic devices.

URL is a 16-month old black Lab who is one of just nine K-9s in the US who can "sniff out electronic storage devices such as thumb drives, cellphones, SIM cards, SD cards, external hard drives, tablets and iPads." As the sheriff's office announced on Facebook, “Whether it's child porn, terrorism intelligence, narcotics or financial crimes information, URL has the ability to find evidence hidden on basically any electronic memory device.”

The superdog, whom People magazine lovingly refers to as a "porn dog," comes from the some trainer as Bear, the famous K-9 who played a key role in arresting Subway pitchman Jared Fogle by sniffing out Fogle's thumb drive.

URL is unable to directly detect porn, "but rather his highly sensitive nose has been trained to detect the unique chemical compounds found in the certain electronic components."

Watch out, criminals and dogophobes!