Data visualization expert and maker of cool infographics Randall S. Olson recently came across a fascinating study on male orgasm times that's currently behind academic paywalls. Being a lover of science, statistics and stuff that people are interested in, Olson poured the data the scientists collected—from 500 heterosexual couples across Europe armed with stopwatches and sex journals—into some startling graphs showing the distribution of how long men kept the motion of the ocean going.

The stopwatches were very important: the recorded results were 1.9 minutes shorter, on average, than when men simply estimated how long their intercourse had lasted. How long was the real average? 6 minutes. That means that the average guy, Olson points out, was overestimating his time by 31%. To be clear, the "start" time was penetration, and the "stop" was male orgasm (this is known in the biz as "the Victorian Special." It's not, actually, I made that part up).

But, of course, a 6 minute average isn't the whole story. Most men fell in the 4-11 minute range, but the total range of completion times ran from 6 seconds to 53 minutes. Here's one of Olson's two distribution charts, which makes the wide range of normal and the even wider range of unusual apparent. This will probably make you feel pretty good for a few minutes before you start comparing yourself to the long tail.

Check out Olson's full analysis and more charts.

This season of Game of Thrones is remarkable for a number of reasons—the show has left the books behind, the plot is picking up pace, Someecards' new Snapchat recaps of episodes—but the most noticeable one is time travel. (Spoilers, obviously) Bran Stark and the Three-Eyed Raven take several trips into the past, and after leaving the Raven, Bran pretty much montages all of Westerosi history.

But how does it work? At first, these seemed to be "no touching" trips—flashbacks Bran could walk around in. But then, well, Hodor. Game of Thrones has a particular flavor of time travel, one that's a lot more complicated than Back to the Future. Fortunately, Vox breaks down the mechanics of this time travel, as well as its implications for the future of Thrones.

So basically, Bran has already gone back in time to affect everything in the plot...he just still needs to do it when the time comes.

In this opening sentence, I will explain that the CBC show This Is That made a parody of TED Talks called 'Thought Leader,' and I'll let you know that it perfectly skewers the whole genre of "make you think" videos. In this second sentence, I'll reiterate that not only will this video make you laugh, it will make you feel smart and hip, too. Finally, I'll wrap things up in this sentence with an amusing but not distracting joke so you can go ahead and get to the video:

Lyudmila Pavlichenko (1917-1974) may not have been as bubbly as Belle or Ariel (when she can talk), but she has two things Disney princesses don't: 309 confirmed sniper kills fighting Nazis in World War II and a friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Her story went viral after getting the Disney storybook treatment by Jason Porath of Rejected Princesses, "a series of illustrations of women whose stories wouldn’t make the cut for animated kids’ movies, illustrated in a contemporary animation style." The inspiring but often dark and violent tale of Pavlichenko certainly fits the bill.

Porath himself is a former effects animator at DreamWorks, but Rejected Princesses marks his first foray into hand-drawn illustration. Dozens of non-conforming princesses later, the anthology of Rejected Princess will be a book on October 25th.

Pavlichenko's 309 kills have sometimes been disputed in the ensuing decades, although there are apparently arguments for both sides. The Soviets were not shy about exaggerating for propaganda. On the other hand, a "confirmed" sniper kill has to be witnessed to count, and Pavlichenko often worked solo.

Some of Pavlichenko's life, Porath states in his notes on the images, has been compressed, combined, or slightly overemphasized, as biographies and biopics often do to highlight the overarching theme of the story. As grim as Porath's story is, the Soviet fight against the Nazis in WWII was really, really grim.

Also omitted are tidbits like Lyudmila's ability to sit perfectly still for 18+ hours at a stretch, even if it meant answering the call of nature. One of her sniper duels, depicted in part here, lasted for 36 hours in a graveyard.

Although she rarely ever discussed her husband, Porath writes that colleagues did note the change in her personality after his death.

In reality, Porath states, some of the "new" tactics employed by her had been utilized before his passing, but she used them more afterwards, when she accelerated the pace of her kills after pledging to reach 300.

Porath notes that he drew this scene to highlight the story's theme of "loss and recovery," and that in fact the recovering Lyudmila was training new snipers. Her struggles with the American press, though, were totally real.

He also played up Lyudmila's tour (she was the star of a group visit to the US, but still a member of a group) and notes that Roosevelt and she would have needed a translator.

"[I] played up her relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt larger than the historical documentation supports. That’s not something I did lightly – I am uncomfortable whittling the edges off of strong women, and Lyudmila was a very difficult, hard-edged human being."

"I tried to preserve that, especially in showing her defying Eleanor Roosevelt’s handler in her apartment. But there is no doubt that this is a softer Lyudmila than likely existed. I wanted to be very upfront about that."

Porath wrote to Someecards to make sure people are also aware that there is a movie about this very unique heroine, "The Battle For Sevastapol," and it looks exactly as intense as you'd expect for a patriotic Russian blockbuster.

Be sure to check out many more extraordinary women's stories at Rejected Princesses.

Comedian Jeff Wysaski, better known as Obvious Plant, is one of the rare people who think pranks should make the world more fun. Usually involving inserting fake printed materials into the real world—like Halloween costumes, IKEA labels, employee reviews of books and wine—this time Wysaski teamed up with several other comedians to create the kind of ad-filled community paper that people relied on for jobs and want ads before Craigslist and Facebook.

The result is bonkers, and may be Wysaski's (a name which contains the word "wiseass" within it, btw) most ambitious project yet. Some of them have a clear point of view, like the husband who's upset Martha doesn't like Space Jam. Others come from a bit of a... different perspective.

You should really take a moment to zoom in and read the ads (full images below), but here are some highlights:

"Why potatoes get soft when you boil them but eggs get hard? IS EGG REVERSE POTATO?? Please tell me I can't stop crying."

"I need a scarecrow that does its job well but not too well. I want to scare the crows off but not entirely. I like their company (but only sometimes). Would prefer scarecrow with a silly hat."

"NEED: New butler. Old butler mispronounced foie gras. Unacceptable. Musts: British accent, shiny cufflinks, silver tray with nothing on top, condescending attitude, inability to blink."

"WANTED: Neighborhood dads seek 'ALPHA DAD' to take charge at deck buildings and teach us new dad jokes. We don't have a leader and never know who should man the grill at parties PLEASE HELP."

And here is the full project for you to zoom and peruse.

Here's a bear named Takoda relaxing after a hot day by splish-splashing around in a giant tub full of cool water while playing with some floating balls. The world outside this camera's frame may be a terrible, depressing place, but this—just to reiterate—is a bear named Takoda who lives at the Oregon Zoo and has a big enclosure and a big bath and bath toys. Really, that's all you need to know.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Omar Mateen walked into Pulse—a gay nightclub in Orlando, FL—and opened fire, killing 50 people and injuring 53 in the worst mass shooting in American history.

This is, first and foremost, an tragedy of heartbreaking proportions, and the primary reaction of citizens was to come together and help.

Thousands of Orlando residents answered the call to donate blood. So many, in fact, that officials urged anyone else wanting to donate today to return in the coming days to maintain a fresh supply.

The blood situation also cast light on the fact that (despite rumors the ban would be lifted today) gay men are still barred from donating blood, a rule that seemed especially cruel in the wake of the Pulse shooting.

Despite the rallying of Orlando, the details of the night's events still have yet to fully sink in.

Then there were the official reactions. Speaking in Washington, President Obama spoke for the 18th time in the wake of a mass shooting. He described the attack as "an act of terror and an act of hate."

"Terror" and "hate" are references, of course, to the rampant speculation around Omar Mateen's motives. Mateen's father, Mir Seddique, spoke to the press shortly after the massacre, issuing a heartbreaking apology for his son's actions.

"We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident. We weren't aware of any action he is taking. We are in shock like the whole country. This had nothing to do with religion."

Mr. Seddique's statement may be accurate when it comes to the true, heartfelt practice of the Muslim religion, but his son was clearly practicing something else. His ex-wife and family members describe him as less religious than just abusive and awful.

Mr. Seddique says he first noticed a change in Omar about a month ago, when he got "very angry" about seeing two men kiss in Miami. This inspired many LGBTQ couples to respond with pictures showing they would not be intimidated.

Furthermore, a 9-1-1 call from inside Pulse indicates Mateen may have used that unorthodox route to "pledge allegiance" to ISIS before dying. Eventually, ISIS did take "credit," although this seemed to be an act of opportunism rather than planning.

Whether or not ISIS actually helped Mateen or whether he self-radicalized, as seems to be the case, the fight shifted as Sunday went on to politics.

At issue: whether the homophobic aspect of this attack would be ignored in favor of its Islamic terrorism, whether the GOP should've closed the loophole allowing terror suspects to buy guns, or whether this is all due to political correctness.

ISIS was not alone in accepting accolades.

He may not want"the congrats," but he appreciates them. Before Trump's tweet, the fight between the "this is all the NRA/Republicans' fault" and the "this is all Muslims/Democrats' fault" was already brimming. Afterwards, it exploded—with Trump supporters and everyone else sounding like they came from two different planets:

Some, like Igor Volsky, focused on the gap between congresspeople who send their "thoughts and prayers" one way while voting at the NRA's behest to make sure people on the terror watch list could still buy guns.

Clinton's statement was less incendiary, but also less visible. Given the chaos of the day, that may be an acceptable strategy for the short term.

The worst tweet of the day, though, goes to TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who claims he scheduled this one in advance, only to end up seeming like he was celebrating the murders of 50 people in a gay club:

But remember: the real fight is outside in the real world, not online with all the terrible people.

Anyone worried they may have friends or relatives who may have been in the attack is urged to call a special hotline set up by Orlando officials, (407) 246-4357.

(Spoiler alert: This is a recap video.) It was another "what didn't happen" week in Westeros as viewers and characters alike enter the home stretch of season 6 with its 7th episode, "The Broken Man." First of all, that man is pretty clearly The Hound, who is not only wondering whether the peaceful life is for him (it's not), but was last seen with his femur making its on-screen debut through his thigh.

But also Theon, who at least will be able to bond with some more eunuchs if he and his horny sister ever reach Mereen. And Jaime, who's trying to solve things without killing...and Jon who's full of holes...and Arya who's not a man but has adopted Ned Stark's season 1 hairstyle and sense of prudence. There are a lot of broken people. You can see last week's Snapchat recap here.

Some skeptics might say "but that's just how you hunt for catfish," but let's face it: magic is at work here. The magic... of summertime. No matter how much you think you're enjoying your summer weekends, you're probably not taking it to its full potential quite like this Southern gal in a fishin' hole becoming literally one with giant catfish. Of course, no one is having as much fun as this bear in a tub, but no one is perfect.

When a woman gives birth, the act of bringing life into the world is typically the most dramatic event of the day. Sometimes, though, the birth is only the tip of the iceberg. A Reddit user looking for salacious stories started a thread that requested tales from doctors who "witnessed the meltdown of a birth that was clearly a result of a cheating spouse." In the end, lots of non-doctors shared stories that would make excellent intros to made-for-TV movies.

The balance of happy and not-so-happy endings from these 15 stories should make you feel not too terrible about reading up on the details of other people's personal lives.

1. __gingerly was privy to a bad vasectomy.

2. Miaow73 dealt with a cooperative group of dads.

3. DarrenEdwards's friend worked with a subtle doctor.

My friend was a delivery nurse for the hospital that all high risk pregnancies go to. They are extremely busy and she has brought a lot of people into the world. She once delivered a baby in the parking lot by herself. This has come up on a weekly basis, but she shared the best story with us.

A Caucasian couple come in and the mother is in labor. When the dude is filling out paperwork the mother takes the doctor aside. She tells him there is a chance that the baby may a different race than the father and to let her know as soon as the baby is born.

The baby is born. The doctor turns to the mother and announces loudly,"Congratulations on your WHITE baby boy."

4. TrivzQ9's story shows that the drama isn't always about the new baby.

My mom is a labor and delivery nurse. One time she had a patient whose parents were present during her stay at the hospital. The staff there have a white board with some general information about the patients like blood type, time spent in the wing, and like how far along. This information is nameless for HIPAA reasons and instead has a patients number.
So this patient happened to be the only one in the wing at the time. Her father was walking back from the cafeteria at one point, and noticed the board. He stopped one of the nurses and asked if the blood type for the patient on the board was correct (he knew his daughter was the only patient there). It was B+. The nurse confirmed it was correct.

Turns out he knew his and his wife's blood type. He was O+ and his wife was A-. This combination will never yield a B+ baby. He brings his wife out and just points at the board and this look of shock washes over her.

TL:DR Father of patient in labor finds out his wife cuckolded him 25 years later by knowing his blood type punnit squares.

5. According to therealblh, this dude is lucky. Other people might disagree.

6. And from then on, phil_istine trusted whatever the Internet said.

These stories remind me of something I experienced first hand the day after my son was born:

Nurse: So your baby's blood type is A- Wife: Like me! Nurse: And daddy! Me: No, I'm A+ Nurse: You must be mistaken, that combination isn't possible. (...) Nurse: Uh, I'll leave you guys to it. Me: pulls out phone and frantically Googles "baby blood type combinations"

(the nurse was wrong).

7. No cheating exactly in No_more_throw_aways's story but lots of potential drama.

Funny story that reminds me of this. My husband, then boyfriend, was in the process of getting divorced when I found out I was pregnant. His soon to be ex wife found out a month later she was also pregnant from a guy she had a one night stand with (not my husband). Prior to this she was refusing to sign divorce papers because she hoped to reconcile even if he did have a pregnant girlfriend. Obviously it wouldn't work out since she got knocked up by another guy so she finally signed them.

The similar part is that our due dates were 11 days apart. We had the same obstetrician, and were set to deliver at the same hospital. My company switched insurances a week before I was due and I got to pick a different hospital. Wouldn't you know it, we went into labor hours apart and delivered on the same day. Our obstetrician had to deliver my son first and then run across town to deliver her son. The OB did a double take when she saw my ex's family show up to visit her later after visiting us. They were the "he may have divorced her, but we didn't" mind. His sister even stayed when she delivered to be her support buddy even though she was officially with the one night stand guy and his family was there.

Our OB told us she thought that may have been the most "Jerry Springer" thing she had seen in awhile.

8. Mechadragon469 is here to inform you about a tell-tale sign of cheating unrelated to color.

My friend told me this story of hers. Woman and her husband were having their first child and it was the friends first ever delivery (ob/gyn). When she got the baby out she looked at it, then looked at the parents and asked "OK, which of you has six fingers?" The mother broke down crying yelling I'm sorry to the husband...their neighbor apparently had 6 fingers.

9. Hii6212's mom knows never to rush to judgment.

My mom has seen a lot of babies come out "the wrong color" (she's been a labor and delivery nurse for 27 years) but the story she always tells is a very dark black couple delivered with her hospital and the baby came out sheet white with white-blonde hair. The dad stormed out before the doctor could tell him the baby was albino, and he yelled the whole way down the hallway something along the lines of " I feed you, I fucked you, I rubbed your damn back and you give me a white baby" he was apparently heard in the parking lot singing "that baby ain't mine". He came back in the morning with coffee for the staff and a big bouquet of flowers and balloons for his wife because his mom or someone asked if the baby could have been albino since he had an albino cousin.

10. Cricketino was lucky this didn't end in a cat fight.

11. This person's acquaintance was tricked into getting his life together, so it's a happy story.

Not a doctor, but my best friends stepbrother was that guy who found out he wasn't the father because the baby was black.

I'll try to make it short. Dude had gone to rehab twice and was doing really really well. He came back home for a weekend and fucked his ex-gf. Left and went back to his house states away to continue his newfound life. Got the call she was pregnant and dropped everything to come back and be a father. We were really worried he would relapse but he was great.

So 9 months of preparation goes by. He was gonna be an awesome dad. All worried about relapsing were gone and he seemed ready to become the best dad he could ever be.

Baby comes out. Everybody's happy. Nurse takes him aside after a few minutes and says "I want to ask you something. You do know that's not your kid right?" He says what do you mean?

"Well, that baby is at least half black, but the pigments are prolly going to really darken."

So he goes over to his ex-gf and asks if there's anyways what the nurse just told him is true. She starts sobbing and breaks down completely. Admits that she fucked a black guy right around time he came back. So he says, "Alright. I'm glad you and the baby are healthy. Have a nice life."

Walks into the waiting room where all the new grandparents are waiting. Cheers. Celebration. "Everything good?"

"Yep. Healthy baby. Healthy mom. I'm not the father. I'm outta here." And walked right out the fucking door.

The girls parents even wanted him to pay and support. He moved back to where he got his life back together and is doing incredibly well. But man, I wish he had all that time back

12. Another blood type story, from Tahirrana.

13. Von_Funkenstein was the true winner of this story.

My aunt is white and so was her husband (he passed a while ago). When they finally had a kid, my cousin was black. The family decided to ignore it, my uncle included. This was in 1989, and to gain my young teen cooperation I got an early Xmas gift: A Sega Genesis. Love my cousin!

14. _toodles's dad punched a wall, not out of happiness.

Not a doctor, but still a relevant story. When I was born, my father was 100% certain that I was not his because his blood type and my mom's blood type couldn't have produced me. He punched a hole in the wall in the hospital and yelled at my mom refusing to sign the birth certificate because I have A+ blood, my mom has 0 neg and he was positive that he had AB neg because that's what his brand new dog tags said (he was in the army at the time). Turns out, they misprinted his dog tags. All his old tags said A positive.

tl;dr A typo on my dad's army issued dogtags almost caused my parents to divorce.

15. Myzyri reminds you that for every person who will make you want to cry, there's another person who will make you want to cry happy tears.

I heard this from an old client who was an obstetrician. He was telling me stories about when he used to deliver babies at peoples' homes way back in the day. This was probably 15 years ago when he told me this story and he was in his 80's (83 IIRC).

Anyway, he was telling me about his son and I asked if he delivered his own son. He said yes and told me the most amazing, heartbreaking, and heartwarming story.

In the late 40's, the town ambulance/hearse/taxi pulls up at his little independent practice out in the boonies of Illinois. A volunteer firefighter comes in and says they have a lady in labor and they won't make it to the hospital which is over an hour away. He tells them to bring her in. He delivers the baby and mom passes out. They clean her up. They clean up the baby. And all seems normal.

Mom wakes up and the doctor comes in to give her the baby. She starts screaming "get it away from me!"

He's all confused and can't figure out what's going on. She keeps flailing around and screaming that she doesn't want to look at "it."

The doc takes the baby out and comes back. She's calmer but still looks frantic or terrified. He talks to her and she just stares at him like he's got nine heads. He finally asks, "Well, what do you want me to do with your son?"

The mom stays silent for a long time and as he's getting up to leave, she quietly says, "Can you get rid of him?"

The doc asks what she means. She says, "you know. Maybe just make him go to sleep so he won't wake up."

He said it took everything for him to not beat this woman to death right then and there. He went off on a tangent about how much he loved his work working with all the new mothers in all these little towns full of "salt of the earth" people with great family values. On and on about how happy it made him bringing life into the world and this woman wanted him to murder her baby.

He asked why and she ends up saying that her husband is in the military and its not his baby. She couldn't let him find out. He kind of understood her rationale for not letting her husband know, but murder??? So he suggested family, an orphanage, and other options back then (none of which seemed appealing in my mind). She said no to all of them because she "couldn't risk this coming back to haunt her."

He told her he'd see what he could do and he let her rest. The next day, he tried to talk to her again and she was just more adamant about "making it sleep." She said she wanted to hold her baby. He refused since he thought she'd try to kill him herself. She went nuts.

In the end, he sent her home and told her that he'd given the baby to his brother who was a pastor and was unable to have children. He promised he'd never tell anyone (even the kid) who she was.

Then he said he "taught her a lesson." If she ever found herself pregnant again, she would come to him whether it was her husband's or not. If he ever found out she went elsewhere, he'd tell everyone the story. He said he did this because he was afraid she'd get knocked up and kill the next one. And he knew he'd find out if she went elsewhere because he was the only baby doctor for five towns around and knew other other docs at the hospitals. (Of course, she could have delivered at home on her own, now that I think about it.)

She never had any other kids (as far as the doc knew - and he said he did check up on her once or twice with his colleagues). Supposedly, she died from a drug overdose a few years later.

The doctor and his wife raised that baby as their own son (his wife wasn't able to have kids - the pastor brother was BS just to make her think he'd already given the baby away). He eventually told his son a very watered down version of the story when the kid was older. The kid ended up becoming a plastic surgeon and has like 9 kids of his own. He's doing very well, he's very happy, and he probably never would have had a shot had that small town fireman tried to press on to the hospital and wound up delivering the kid in the middle of nowhere. He was convinced she would have delivered and then smothered the baby by the time they got to the hospital.

TL;DR: Lady gets pregnant by another man. Her husband has no idea because he's in the military. She ends up at a small town doctor and wants the doc to kill the baby so her husband doesn't find out. Doc raises the baby with his barren wife and the baby grows up to be a brilliant surgeon who gives the doc tons of grandkids and a huge family he never would have had otherwise.

They might as well have called them the 2016 Hamilton Awards, #amirite! The fan favorite hip-hop musical cleaned up in Best Musical, Best Score and more, culminating in author Lin-Manuel Miranda's romantic sonnet for his wife. As far as previous generations of Broadway royalty, Angela Lansbury and Andrew Lloyd Webber also made dazzling appearances, too, and (it is the Tonys) so much more! Here are the 32 best reactions on social media to the 2016 Tony Awards.

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Perhaps the most unusually pacedGame of Thrones episode of the season, "No One" turns Arya's plot into a chase sequence out of a horror film and reunites two doomed almost-lovers, but still saves its big moments for off-screen, including all threeof its majordeaths. However much it varied between clunky and delightful, there was one thing this hour made clear: for the next two episodes, the show will be choosing violence, and lots of it. Warning: spoilers for the most recent episode of Game of Thrones ahead.

Arya kills no one.

Ugh, Essie Davis was great and I wanted her to be Arya's new mom. Instead, she's brutally murdered by the Waif, who chases Arya through Braavos in a long, stunningly directed sequence... only for Arya to finally kill the Waif offscreen.

I wanted to see that fight.

Imagine: Arya extinguishes the candle because she spent the first half of the season blind; she can fight without sight, and she's not sure that the Waif has the same advantage. Still, she's injured; imagine the kind of cunning she'd have to use to outsmart this girl. Maybe she could even make the Waif feel fear. Maybe she could even make the Waif admit her real name; admit that she is not no one, that no one is no one.

Instead, Arya just goes back to the House of Black and White to put the Waif's face in the Hall of Faces. She's lucky that Jaqen H'ghar didn't kill her, which would have made sense.

Brienne and Jaime, sitting in a tree.

Apart from, like, Sam and Gilly, the tentative love story between Jaime and Brienne is one of the few plotlines in the show that actually seems kind of romantic, and it was nice to see them yearn again—even Bronn knows they want to f*ck each other, though, and tells Pod as much. Still, as Brienne reminds Jaime, they're on opposing sides now; whatever is between them is likely as doomed as Brienne's Blackfish recruitment effort.

Luckily, the pair didn't have to kill each other right this episode. As the Lannisters and Freys overtake Riverrun, Jaime allows Brienne to escape. Still, this is sure shaping up to be another season in which everyone's favorite character doesn't do much! To make up for this, I hope the last episode is just Brienne personally throwing Ramsay Bolton off The Wall.

Also, nice reminder that Pod has a magic penis.

Is Cersei doomed?

With Jaime away making eyes at Brienne, Cersei is more powerless than ever in King's Landing; her only allies are Qyburn and Qyburn's monster Mountain. But as impressive as the Mountain is (he makes another head explode with his bare hands this episode, with even greater ease than he exploded the head of Oberyn Martell), the ace up Cersei's sleeve may prove completely useless after Tommen outlaws trial by combat (RIP Cleganebowl, what is hype may never die). To Tommen and the people of King's Landing, this almost certainly means Cersei will be found guilty.

But do you even remember what Cersei is on trial for?

Cersei confessed to having sex with Lancel last season; that's why she did her walk of shame to atone. But her infidelity with Lancel was only one part of the trial. She's also accused of plotting to murder King Robert—and of having an incestuous affair with her brother Jaime, resulting in the birth of her three children. Both of these claims true, of course. But if Cersei is found guilty of both, then Tommen will also be guilty of being a bastard. He will lose his claim to the crown. By outlawing trial by combat, Tommen didn't just potentially create his mother's downfall; he also may have created his own.

Nice moments:

My least favorite TV thing is when characters talk in coded speech about secret plans and that happened twice this episode. First, Varys is headed off on some secret mission (to get ships? Is he going to the Iron Islands? Heading to King's Landing like he does in the books?). Then, Qyburn confirms an unknown rumor for Cersei (I have zero speculation about what this might be. Zero. Did I miss something?).

Thankfully, Daenerys and Tyrion will have scenes together again. But not before Tyrion, Missandei, and Grey Worm have a lovely conversation together about wine and jokes. Between that nice moment and Tyrion wistfully admitting that he wanted to own a vineyard someday, I fully expected them to be brutally murdered by the end of the episode.

Rory McCann is amazing as The Hound, and he's clearly, along with Bronn, one of the showrunners' favorite ancillary characters—they wrote a moment where he takes the boots off of someone while he's being asphyxiated and puts them on his own feet.

Spoiler corner:

I might be crazy, but I am not convinced this episode rules out a return of Lady Stoneheart, despite the fact that Beric Dondarrion is apparently still alive. It sure seems like there is some kind of splinter group of the Brotherhood out there and there is still lots of talk about Catelyn Stark this season.

But I'll be honest: my persistence here is mostly just because I find it completely inexplicable that the show creators would not adapt one of the biggest, most surprising, and most emotional plot twists from the books. Cleganebowl not happening is one thing, because that was just a theory; Lady Stoneheart is actually canon. If Catelyn Stark isn't resurrected in the show like she is in the books, that is a weird adaptation decision, and when the series is over I would like to hear why David Benioff and D.B. Weiss decided not to include it. (Not to mention Young Griff, but that's a different discussion and I'm sleepy.)

Next week:

The episode is called "The Battle of the Bastards." Presumably, this is referring to Gendry and Ellaria Sand coming to blows. [Edited to add: I am trolling you, I know what it's really referring to, come on.]

In the wake of the news that a single shooter had killed 50 and injured 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando early Sunday, Adele brought her personable A-game to her June 12 concert in Belgium. The singer, according to The Fader, busted out "Hello" then dedicated her show to the victims of the horrific shooting. Tears were had, in between classic Adele jokes. Stick around past 1:17 to listen to a very bad recording of Adele performing "Rumour Has It."

Numerous other celebrities shared their reactions on platforms that didn't allow for live tears but were still emotional.

Video of Adele, Justin Timberlake on Instagram: it all makes you want to cry.

Meg Ryan hit up the Tony Awards on Sunday night to introduce a performance from the cast of She Loves Me, causing many people to lose it because they failed to realize that time has passed and 1995 Meg Ryan is no more.

People were shocked at the face of Meg Ryan, who has been unable to gain youthful immortality and is now 54.

What night cream are all these people using that has them so shocked at this woman's 54-year-old face? Or did they just come out of an underground bunker that they entered in 1998, when this gem of a movie came out.

That film gave so many the confidence they needed to meet an Internet stranger in person.

One Twitter user soundly shut down all the hate Ryan received online.

These people are also assholes because they haven't been keeping up with Meg Ryan's face. She's been looking this way for some time, since gravity began to interfere and she tried to fight back.

Jaimie and Brienne reunited, Dany returned, and Arya and the Waif settled their differences once and for all. All this, plus spoilers aplenty, in 23 of the funniest reactions on social media to Game Of Thrones season six, episode eight: "No One."

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The horrific, tragic shooting at Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando shook America, and The Tony Awards, Broadway's biggest night, was dedicated to the victims of the shooting.

Before the lively celebration of the theater community, with musical numbers and acceptance speeches celebrating love, host James Corden addressed the audience directly. "Hate will never win. We have to make sure of that," he says, "Tonight's show stands as a symbol and a celebration of that principle."

After the emotional, tasteful, opening remarks, the ceremony that went on to hand Hamilton 11 trophies started with (what else?) a Hamilton parody, plugging James Corden's name instead of Alexander Hamilton, lingering on the "a" of "James" to make up for the missing syllable.

After referencing the biggest musical of the year, Corden went on to reference the biggest musicals of all time, including Fiddler on the Roof, Cats, and Cats' cousin, The Lion King.

Admittedly a difficult segueway, the Tonys team handled it well, as they continued to honor the victims throughout the telecast, including a sonnet by Lin-Manuel Miranda.