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American Horror Story draws from real-life crimes and mysteries, reimagining them in chilling ways. These true stories add intrigue, letting the show tap into actual horror.From cold-blooded murderers to unexplained vanishings, these gritty true crimes supplied source material for the show's signature televised terror. The blend of fact and fiction sucks viewers into seemingly-familiar stories, only to shock them with macabre embellishments.&nbsp;Here are the 10 most terrifying real&nbsp;stories that American Horror Story has drawn from to tell its horrifying tales.

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Lists of the best country songs about things country people love, from hard work to drinking whiskey.

Country Songs for Country Folk

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It&#39;s no secret that there are dark&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/13-songs-that-don_t-mean-what-you-think-they-do/molly-mahan" target="_blank">hidden meanings in country songs</a>. One of the most tried and true traditions of country music isn&#39;t singing about driving around in a pickup truck or enjoying a couple of brews. It&#39;s actually the murder ballad, and it&#39;s unclear how such a dark theme became such an institution for this genre of music.&nbsp; Even wholesome artists like Carrie Underwood and the Dixie Chicks have penned country <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/dark-songs-meanings/christina-chilin?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">songs with dark meanings</a>.

Today, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/fun-songs-with-secret-dark-meanings/jessica-defino" target="_blank">plenty of pop songs</a> hide deceptively dark lyrics in the top 40 charts, but the tradition remains rooted in country. From Alison Krauss to Johnny Cash, here are <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-classic-country-songs/ranker-music?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">some country songs</a> you never realized are about some sinister deeds.

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Eiffel Tower

For 41 years, the Eiffel Tower was the <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/paris/articles/Eiffel-Tower-facts/" target="_blank">world&rsquo;s tallest man-made structure</a>, standing at a proud <a href="https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/history" target="_blank">324&nbsp;meters</a>. Even today, it remains&nbsp;Paris&#39;s tallest structure,&nbsp;and has attracted more than 250 million visitors since it was built as the entryway to the 1889 World&#39;s Fair. Though the French initially hated the Eiffel Tower&nbsp;- a group of 300 artists, sculptors, and architects signed an 1887 petition to halt construction on the <a href="https://www.thelocal.fr/20170928/eiffel-tower-12-facts-you-didnt-know" target="_blank">&ldquo;ridiculous tower&rdquo;</a>&nbsp;- it&rsquo;s since become one of the world&rsquo;s most beloved landmarks... even among ghosts.

Paris&nbsp;is haunted by creepy sights and occurrences, from the bones that line its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/secrets-of-the-paris-catacombs/greg-benevent" target="_blank">catacombs</a> to the endless giggles of the Eiffel Tower ghost. The iconic edifice has endured its share&nbsp;of tragic events&nbsp;- not to mention global conflicts and more than a few attempts to tear it down.

These unsettling stories about the Eiffel Tower&nbsp;are (mostly) true -&nbsp;from shouting spirits&nbsp;to the accidental demise of a <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/reichert-death-jump-from-eiffel-tower/kellie-kreiss" target="_blank">famed parachute inventor</a>.

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Goosebumps

<a href="http://target.georiot.com/Proxy.ashx?TSID=5036&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Frp.liu233w.com%3A443%2Fhttps%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%2Fref%3Dnb_sb_noss%3Furl%3Dsearch-alias%253Dmovies-tv%26field-keywords%3DGoosebumps%26rh%3Dn%253A2625373011%252Ck%253AGoosebumps&amp;amazon-ids-by-cc=US%3Drankercom2667128-20" target="_blank">Goosebumps</a>&nbsp;terrified a generation of &#39;90s kids, but the series&nbsp;was incredibly popular. Producers even decided&nbsp;R.L. <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/goosebumps-episodes-that-dont-hold-up/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Stine&#39;s original episodes</a>&nbsp;should be made into cinematic features, and of course the 2015 original film&nbsp;and 2018 sequel resulted in a plethora of&nbsp;Goosebumps&nbsp;fan theories.&nbsp;

Some of the fan&nbsp;suspicions have merit, but others are rather bizarre. A few people, for example, believe&nbsp;Jack Black&#39;s character in the film isn&#39;t even real. <a href="http://rlstine.com/about-rl-stine" target="_blank">Stine loves</a> to scare and confuse people, though. So who knows - maybe these fan theories are more plausible than not.

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The world of real-life personal shopping is anything but glamorous. Perhaps you&#39;ve wondered what it&#39;s really like being a personal shopper.&nbsp;Though far from a&nbsp;highly&nbsp;coveted <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/dream-jobs-in-fashion/fashionbaby" target="_blank">fashion industry job</a>, personal shopping&nbsp;takes a lot of patience, especially when you&#39;re dealing with wealthy clients who have no qualms about dropping a cool $1 million on a rare handbag but refuse to drink coffee unless it&#39;s heated to their preferred temperature.

Personal shopping isn&#39;t only for the rich and famous -&nbsp;plenty of affordable options are available, including free personal shopping services at department stores, including Nordstrom&nbsp;or Topshop.&nbsp;The wealthiest 1%, however, make for the best personal shopper stories - like the kind seen in the movie&nbsp;Personal Shopper,&nbsp;starring Kristen Stewart, and other <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-fashion-movies-list/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">fashion-focused films</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;

True tales of shopping&nbsp;for the elite&nbsp;will enlighten and perhaps disturb you. Personal shoppers may not lead the privileged life, but they&#39;re certainly well acquainted with it. &nbsp;

Personal Shoppers Share Their Weirdest Stories

Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros.&nbsp;Ultimate&nbsp;is the holy grail for every fan of the franchise. Instead of dreaming up which <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/nintendo-switch-smash-bros-character-predictions/mick-jacobs" target="_blank">characters</a> we most want to play, Nintendo gave fans a full roster of 76 different characters ranging from&nbsp;Pok&eacute;mon like&nbsp;Charizard&nbsp;and Mewtwo, who were available in later versions of&nbsp;Super Smash Bros., to old classics like Ness and Samus, who&#39;ve been staples since the days of N64. Pacman even gets a chance to shine&nbsp;out from beyond his 8-bit prison cell.

You&#39;re going to have to get deeply acquainted with your Nintendo Switch to unlock everyone. Only eight characters are available from the start: Mario, Samus, Fox, Link, Kirby, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi, but in a dream world, we&#39;d have them all.

So, which character from <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/super-smash-bros-ultimate-facts/jordan-breeding" target="_blank">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate</a> should you start with? Your zodiac sign can push you in the right direction.

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Santa Paltrow&nbsp;is coming to town, a bag of recommended golden Goop goodies in tow. Yes, Gwyneth Paltrow - giver of&nbsp;eyebrow-raising <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-gwyneth-paltrow-goop-advice/emilynerland" target="_blank">advice</a>&nbsp;and purveyor of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/craziest-goop-products/donn-saylor" target="_blank">weird products</a>&nbsp;via her company, Goop -&nbsp;has once again brought us Goop&#39;s holiday gift guide.&nbsp;And though her <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-worst-health-tips/eric-vega" target="_blank">health tips</a> might be questionable, the&nbsp;woman sure knows her way around the luxury gift market.&nbsp;In the same way, Gwyn seems to have consciously uncoupled from the everyday woman (if her <a href="https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/apr/22/gwyneth-paltrow/gwyneth-paltrows-29-weekly-food-stamps-budget-flaw/" target="_blank">experiment with food stamps</a> is any indicator), most of us cannot fathom the level of richness and privilege required to justify the purchase of a $95 matchbook.

Goop&#39;s previous&nbsp;wildest holiday gift recommendations show there are no bounds to celebrity excess -&nbsp;from earrings worth more than our student loans to a <a href="https://people.com/food/gwyneth-paltrow-goop-holiday-gift-guide/" target="_blank">$4,739 juicer</a>. And in some alternative life, it probably makes sense.&nbsp;

At the heart of it, the worst products in Goop&#39;s 2018 holiday gift guide are also some of the best, if only because they give us a glimpse into a universe we cannot understand -&nbsp;one where coconut butter costs $88. These weird products on Goop&#39;s holiday gift guide are as perplexing as they are desirable. But excuse us;&nbsp;our private hot-air&nbsp;balloon has arrived.

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Before Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, an estimated <a href="https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/wave-of-persecution/" target="_blank">1.2 million German men</a> identified as gay. The country had <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/homosexuality-in-history/david-sharp" target="_blank">a thriving&nbsp;LGBTQ+ community</a> and boasted a significant number of gay bars, as well as research and&nbsp;community centers. One of those centers, the <a href="https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/ausstellungen/institute/" target="_blank">Institut f&uuml;r Sexualwissenschaft</a>, provided some of the first gender affirmation surgeries in the world&nbsp;and held&nbsp;a large body&nbsp;of LGBTQ+ research. Then, everything changed.

It&#39;s impossible to determine how many members of the LGBTQ+ community Hitler&#39;s regime&nbsp;silenced <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/what-life-was-like-under-nazi-occupation/rachel-souerbry" target="_blank">during the Third Reich</a>&nbsp;because the records cease to exist. The party embarked on a targeted campaign to wipe the community&#39;s&nbsp;existence off the map,&nbsp;and a mass book burning at the Institut f&uuml;r Sexualwissenschaft&nbsp;ensured&nbsp;essential parts of LGBTQ+ history would remain forgotten forever. However,&nbsp;authorities reportedly arrested about <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/persecution-of-homosexuals-in-the-third-reich" target="_blank">100,000 men</a>&nbsp;between&nbsp;1933 and 1945&nbsp;for violating anti-sexuality laws targeting LGBTQ+ individuals, which included&nbsp;some of Hitler&#39;s&nbsp;party leaders.

In 2017, Germany finally overturned the convictions of those&nbsp;punished by the Third Reich&#39;s&nbsp;anti-LGBTQ+ laws.

Nazi Germany Led A Campaign To Silence The LGBTQ+ Population, And Its Effects Continued Into 2017

Nazi Germany Led A Campaign To Silence The LGBTQ+ Population, And The Effects Of That Campaign Continued Into 2017

The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix)

The Netflix horror adaptation of Shirley Jackson&#39;s 1959 novel&nbsp;The Haunting of Hill House&nbsp;is basically&nbsp;This Is Us for the supernaturally cursed. Sure, there are a few&nbsp;jump scares and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/hidden-background-ghosts-in-haunting-of-hill-house/kyle-chorpening" target="_blank">barely hidden Hill House ghosts</a>, but at the show&#39;s heart, the most devastating scenes center on a father&#39;s inability to protect his children from the truth about their traumatic childhood.

Series director Mike Flanagan left no detail untouched -&nbsp;from the meticulously crafted set to the tiny Easter eggs threaded throughout. His depiction of family trauma is so unbelievably disturbing, it&#39;s no wonder the cast deeply felt its effects. The&nbsp;behind-the-scenes details of&nbsp;Hill House&#39;s set may surprise you, whether or not you lost it during the final episode.

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SkyMall launched in 1990, and the&nbsp;quarterly magazine quickly became an air travel staple. In an era before airlines had in-seat entertainment and WiFi, browsing through the smattering of bizarre products and enduring an occasional bump of turbulence was about as thrilling as a long-haul flight could get.

The most ridiculous SkyMall products wreaked deliciously of late-night TV infomercials. You seemingly had to have them, yet nobody (barring an odd distant aunt coming back from holiday) ever appeared to make a purchase. This proved to be SkyMall&#39;s biggest downfall.

In 2015, the nostalgic brand filed for bankruptcy tarnishing its 25-year legacy. The truth is the world no longer needed SkyMall and its patented brand of innovation and kitsch. We have&nbsp;blockbuster hits on the backs of our seats and endlessly entertaining WiFi. We have&nbsp;Amazon, which touts the same bizarre things you could buy from SkyMall except with free shipping.&nbsp;In short, we have better <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-to-do-on-a-plane/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">things to do on a plane.&nbsp;</a>

Skymall&#39;s weirdest products are a time capsule of late &#39;90s and early &#39;00s nostalgia. We&#39;re still not ready to let go.

The Most Ridiculous Products You Could Actually Buy From SkyMall

Pets

To dog lovers, all dogs are good boys and girls, but some dogs are the best boys and girls. Throughout the years, the most popular dog breeds in America have shifted, but there are&nbsp;some things they all have in common: They&#39;re smart, easy to train, and ultra-lovable.

Whether you&#39;re crazy for a Poodle&#39;s fluffy curls or can&#39;t resist the impulse to squeeze a Boston Terrier&#39;s squishy nose, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-dog-breeds" target="_blank">the most popular breeds</a> in every decade give us a glimpse at how dog ownership has changed. In the early 1900s, when agriculture was on the rise, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/dog-breeds-from-100-years-ago/nathan-gibson" target="_blank">owners preferred working dogs</a> that could help around the farm.&nbsp;During difficult times like the&nbsp;Great Depression, dog owners sought smaller pups.

These&nbsp;are the most popular dogs in every decade - from Poodles and Cocker Spaniels to the Labrador Retriever&#39;s unbeatable reign.

The Most Popular Dog Breed In The US During Every Decade Since 1900

The Most Popular Dog Breed In The US During Each Decade Since 1900

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The mere idea of electroconvulsive therapy - or ECT, formerly known as electroshock therapy - is, well, shocking. Running electricity through a human body as a form of medical treatment sounds cruel. But modern electroconvulsive therapy is nothing like what occurred in the psychiatric hospitals of yesteryear. In fact, some consider it&nbsp;one of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/successful-crazy-experimental-medical-procedures/nathan-gibson" target="_blank">safest and most effective treatments</a>&nbsp;available&nbsp;for severe depression.

Hollywood&#39;s portrayal of ECT certainly hasn&#39;t&nbsp;helped the treatment&#39;s reputation.&nbsp;Many people blame films like the Academy Award-winning blockbuster One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#39;s Nest for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-truth-about-shock-therapy/" target="_blank">ramping up the stigma</a> in the public&#39;s perception of ECT. In the movie, Jack Nicholson&#39;s character writhes in pain, but&nbsp;modern ECT is mostly painless.

Today, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-electroshock-and-electroconvulsive-therapy/amber-fua" target="_blank">electroconvulsive therapy helps an estimated 100,000</a> Americans a year whose <a href="http://www.health.com/depression/10-myths-and-facts-about-shock-therapy?slide=99771#99771" target="_blank">severe depression</a> doesn&#39;t respond to other forms of psychiatric treatment.

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John "Jigsaw" Kramer wants to know how far you'll push yourself just to stay alive. Like, will you cut yourself open? Take out someone else? Watch an entire Saw movie? Or 10 of them?

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Since its inception, the&nbsp;Saw&nbsp;franchise has disgusted audiences with&nbsp;vaguely moralistic murder traps and excessively gruesome scenes. All of the&nbsp;films&nbsp;are horrific, but <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-gruesome-deaths-in-saw-franchise/jodi-smith" target="_blank">some Saw death traps</a>&nbsp;are so ridiculous you have to laugh at them&nbsp;(at least until you <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/bizarre-diy-b-movie-special-effects/lisa-a-flowers" target="_blank">witness the CGI gore</a>). The villain, Jigsaw, plays&nbsp;sadistic games, torturing and confusing unsuspecting characters. He tends to stump the cops - and the viewers at home.

However, many diehard horror enthusiasts have their favorite Jigsaw traps. In fact, some of Jigsaw&#39;s most memorable traps align well with the astrological calendar. For example, if you&#39;re an Aries,&nbsp;you probably enjoyed the Public Execution Trap, because&nbsp;let&#39;s be real:&nbsp;Aries sure love an audience.

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Living in Germany after World War II was a grim reality for citizens coming to terms with both&nbsp;conflict and atrocity. Almost everyone had to cope with loss, as an estimated <a href="https://www.nationalww2museum.org/students-teachers/student-resources/research-starters/research-starters-worldwide-deaths-world-war" target="_blank">8.8 million German civilians</a> and 5.5 million German military members lost their lives due to WWII.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Those who survived&nbsp;often grappled with lifelong mental and physical health issues, while communities struggled to rebuild homes and restore order. Resources were scarce, communication with the outside world was non-existent, and roads remained quiet as families <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/germany-after-world-war-2/david-sharp" target="_blank">lived amid the destruction</a>.

German citizens emerged in 1945 with a unique shame that would remain in their culture for decades. The <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/photos-of-japan-after-world-war-two/will-gish" target="_blank">damage of WWII</a> continues to carry&nbsp;effects, from veterans&#39; psychological damage to unexploded ordnance still&nbsp;found across former&nbsp;battlefields.&nbsp;These stories, from those who experienced a <a href="https://www.upworthy.com/these-staggering-graphics-put-the-wwii-death-toll-in-perspective" target="_blank">post-war Germany</a>, paint the picture of a grieving culture fighting to rebuild the communities they helped eradicate.

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Pangs of nostalgia are particularly poignant in Pok&eacute;mon's Alola region - and not only because the creators reintroduced&nbsp;some of the original 150&nbsp;Pok&eacute;mon nearly 20 years after their debut.&nbsp;Sun and Moon&nbsp;seemingly aim&nbsp;to bring back adult players by depicting Hawaii <a href="https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/ypqany/pokemon-sun-and-moon-is-a-tourists-version-of-hawaii" target="_blank">through the lens</a> of a 1990s Japanese tourist. For a fair share of Japanese millennials, the games conjure memories of carefree childhood vacations and playing Pok&eacute;mon for the first time -&nbsp;and developers probably intended for this to happen.Hawaii and Japan shared a close link back&nbsp;in the 1990s. The&nbsp;Pok&eacute;mon&nbsp;Company&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/pictures-of-the-japanese-pokepark/crystal-brackett" target="_blank">released its original Red and Blue</a> versions in 1998, which&nbsp;became a cultural institution shortly afterward. During this time, Hawaii became one of Japan's most popular tourist destinations, seeing <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/12/business/japanese-tourists-longing-hawaii-still-worth-banking/#.W5LSKpNKj-Z" target="_blank">2.2 million Japanese visitors a year</a>. Because of this, the inspiration for <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/pokemon-sun-and-moon-fan-theories/joedonley" target="_blank">Pok&eacute;mon&nbsp;Sun and </a><a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/pokemon-sun-and-moon-fan-theories/joedonley" target="_blank">Moon</a>, which bring&nbsp;back many original characters, likely stems from the state's real-life history. From the feral cats threatening Hawaiian wildlife to the government-funded sewage treatment plants, these stories likely inspired the land of&nbsp;Alola.

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Fun facts about Ruby Rose: She loves tigers and used to sing church songs in the style of&nbsp;Mariah Carey. But despite a relatively harmless track record as far as celebrities go,&nbsp;the model, DJ/VJ, actress, and director sparks waves of online controversy -&nbsp;often inadvertently -&nbsp;no matter what she does.

Rose took America by storm after landing a recurring role in Netflix&#39;s hit series&nbsp;<a href="/list/orange-is-the-new-black-fan-theories/brandon-michaels" target="_blank">Orange Is the New Black</a>. Since then, she&nbsp;joined <a href="/list/stories-from-taylor-swift-squad/donn-saylor" target="_blank">Taylor Swift&#39;s squad</a>, directed a music video for the Veronicas, and landed parts in action blockbusters like John Wick: Chapter 2. As a gender-fluid actor, the star advocates for the LGBTQ+ community and speaks out against bullying. Yet somehow, Ruby Rose&#39;s controversies run rampant. That&#39;s apparently just the price of fame, which she grabbed on her own terms after numerous rejections.

In the summer of 2018, she was cast as The CW&#39;s Batwoman. Batwoman&nbsp;is the first openly gay superhero with her own series. The announcement created a Twitter storm, with naysayers&nbsp;decrying Rose as not &ldquo;lesbian enough&rdquo; to play the character. And by the summer of 2020, she left the role.&nbsp;

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Vintage clothes, prized paintings, and unique furniture -&nbsp;there are amazing flea market finds out there. Among the most captivating are those offering&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/rare-historical-photos/larry-taylor" target="_blank">a glimpse of the past</a>. Greg Pack, a retired graphic artist, found <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/vintage-photos/derrick-deane" target="_blank">the Holy Grail of vintage photographs</a> when he purchased a mysterious box from <a href="https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/centuryold-mystery-photos-found-in-a-box-for-4-at-an-essex-car-boot-sale-37238095.html" target="_blank">a boot sale</a> in Chelmsford, Essex, UK.Greg managed to haggle the box's price to around $5&nbsp;and worked tirelessly to transform the glass negatives into positives and track down the photos’ source. Fortunately, he used to work in the field of graphic reproduction.Greg’s son, Scott Pack, posted the wild ride on Twitter and asked the internet to help him look for clues. Many in the comments section dissected the clothing worn in each picture, as well as the&nbsp;locations listed underneath the back of the box in an attempt to date the images.After navigating a couple of red herrings, the Packs&nbsp;ultimately decided the images were more than 100 years&nbsp;old - possibly taken between 1901 and 1909 -&nbsp;of an English family who might have taken a holiday in France. You never know what kind of history your next flea market visit will unearth.

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Though it was ratified in 1791, the First Amendment feels more relevant than ever. Debates go back and forth about <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/limits-on-freedom-of-speech/ranker-news" target="_blank">what freedom of speech covers</a> and what demonstrators have the right to say <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/most-important-civil-rights-issues/lauren-slocum" target="_blank">about civil rights issues</a>.

At its core, the First Amendment protects American citizens from government punishment because of the opinions they express. Some people question&nbsp;how far free speech protection goes. Are people really allowed to get together in the name of what most would deem hate? The answer is: sort of. For example, it isn&#39;t illegal to express bigoted views or to speak out against the government, and Americans are free to wear Nazi armbands and use racial slurs.&nbsp;

There are some freedom of speech limitations, though, and it&#39;s important to know the ins and outs of what the First Amendment protects.

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If you’ve ever traveled to Big Bend National Park, you may have driven by this hidden desert oasis designated for kids who killed their parents. Tucked into the&nbsp;Chisos Mountains, which roll through west Texas's most isolated areas,&nbsp;Estrella Vista, or Starry View, is ​​​​​​neither visible&nbsp;from the road nor appears&nbsp;on Google Earth. However, it's a real place for the two residents who call the tiny, tin-roofed building home.The town originated&nbsp;with the crimes of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/derek-and-alex-king-father-murder-facts/jessika-gilbert" target="_blank">Alex and Derek King</a>. In 2001, the Kings murdered their father after years of alleged abuse. Dan Dailey, who saw headlines about the boys, hoped to become a surrogate father for youths who are guilty of parricide and struggling&nbsp;to transitioning to life after prison. The concept of a&nbsp;remote village for criminals isn't new;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/miracle-village-florida-facts/trilby-beresford" target="_blank">Miracle Village</a>, FL, for instance, is home to a population of registered sex offenders. Still, Estrella Vista is unique.

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The sitcom follows Ted Mosby, architect, and his pals Barney, Marshall, Lily, and Robin, as they live, laugh, and love in New York City. From 2005 to 2014, it was—wait for it—legendary.

How I Met Your Mother

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It&#39;s no secret&nbsp;Friends and How I Met Your Mother share a familiar premise. The characters also embody similar&nbsp;roles (if you think Joey Tribbiani isn&#39;t a less-damaged version of Barney Stinson, we&#39;re at a loss). Though Friends&nbsp;managed to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108778/awards" target="_blank">rack up more awards</a> than How I Met Your Mother, let&#39;s be&nbsp;real: HIMYM is the better series.

HIMYM has <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/how-i-met-your-mother-fan-theories/cehudspeth" target="_blank">a dedicated following and&nbsp;numerous fan theories</a> based on the show&#39;s long-running mystery of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/ted-mosby-girlfriends/tyler-mitchell" target="_blank">who the titular mother is</a>. The series flips&nbsp;the format of a sitcom on its head&nbsp;and manages&nbsp;to craft a show where viewers can enjoy out-of-sequence episodes, yet still need to watch&nbsp;from start-to-finish to fully appreciate the story. Conversely,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/reasons-friends-doesn-t-hold-up/erik-barnes" target="_blank">Friends has short story arcs</a> and stagnant character growth.&nbsp;HIMYM doles out more life lessons than an after-school special,&nbsp;teaching millennials across the globe the importance of male tenderness and adult friendship.

Friends is a classic -&nbsp;and &quot;Smelly Cat&quot; will forever hold a special place in all of our hearts -&nbsp;but no one grows up wishing to find a love like <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-friends-ross-and-rachel-episodes/ranker-tv?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Ross and Rachel</a> (unless you&#39;d&nbsp;prefer a life of deleted answering machine messages and entitlement). And we&#39;re going to guess we can&#39;t hack the rent in a comparably&nbsp;giant apartment either. In fact, we&#39;re willing to slap-bet on it.

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First comes trial, then comes guilty, then comes sentencing to years locked away with people even more dangerous than you are. Join us on a whirlwind tour of prison!

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&quot;That brake fluid has been making my celly hella cranky. Wouldn&#39;t be surprised if he went dancing on the blacktop.&quot; Say what? The <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/secret-code-used-by-pedophiles/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">secret language</a> of prisoners isn&#39;t really common knowledge for those who haven&#39;t been thrown in the slammer. If you&#39;re a fish (someone newly incarcerated), you&#39;d better learn quickly so as to&nbsp;avoid a major dispute.

Cryptolects and prison code words have evolved through the ages. In the 1500s, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/12/daniel_heller_roazen_s_dark_tongues_reviewed.html" target="_blank">secret prisoner languages</a>&nbsp;were&nbsp;referred to as &quot;thieves&#39; cant&quot; or &quot;peddlers&#39; French,&quot; but codes aren&#39;t&nbsp;just for prisoners: Everyone from Parisian escorts to dope&nbsp;peddlers to <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/hobo-symbols/kellen-perry" target="_blank">hobos</a> has crafted their own communication methods&nbsp;to hide the nature of their business.&nbsp;

What do prison slang words mean? Here&#39;s a handy guide in case you ever find yourself facing the long arm of the law.

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The US Navy has done some truly epic things for America since its inception in 1775. From&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-navy-seals/ranker-military" target="_blank">Navy SEALs</a>&nbsp;–&nbsp;the infamously fit and fearless corp&nbsp;of elite sailors – to nuclear submarine operators that wield enough power to&nbsp;flatten an entire country, sailors in white and blue&nbsp;protect international borders and risk their lives on rescue and reconnaissance missions every day. As it turns out, however, all that power is hardly&nbsp;glamorous. Then again, is it surprising that living in a metal tube thousands of feet beneath the ocean's surface sometimes gets tough?Navy <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/what-its-like-to-live-on-a-submarine/jacobybancroft?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">submarine living quarters</a> are almost completely cut off from the outside world. Forget about WiFi and cable TV – you're lucky if you can even receive&nbsp;snail mail or call your loved ones from a contraband iPhone. In many cases, seeing the sun even once a month&nbsp;is a gift, and there's only so much preserved food a human can stomach. Despite this, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/difficulty-of-us-military-training-programs/aaron-edwards" target="_blank">military</a>&nbsp;crew members have a way of keeping morale up and foster a&nbsp;camaraderie that can't be understood by the general public. This is what it's really like to live on a nuclear sub.&nbsp;

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Makeup Junkie

You've wished upon a star, and the makeup of your dreams is&nbsp;finally here. Like other <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/nostalgic-makeup-products/mariel-loveland" target="_blank">nostalgic makeup products</a>, these enchanting Disney makeup collabs&nbsp;recall&nbsp;the whimsy and magic of your favorite fairy tales.&nbsp;At some point, every makeup-obsessed Disney lover imagines they're a princess.&nbsp;These Minnie-approved products will bring your dreams to reality, whether you're putting on blush with an enchanted rose brush or staring into a glass-slipper-inspired compact mirror, asking, &quot;Who's the fairest of them all?&quot; Hint: it's you, with your fierce ability to pull off statement lips better than Snow White.&nbsp;Like Cinderella's gown and carriage, many of these Disney-inspired beauty products are only available for a limited time. Fortunately, you won't have&nbsp;to count on your fairy godmother's good graces while scouring the depths of eBay for these items - Sephora and MAC regularly stock awesome Disney goodies.These ultimate makeup products for Disney fans&nbsp;are magical, but if you don't jump on them now, they'll disappear when the clock strikes midnight (or when they inevitably sell out).

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In the frigid Canadian north, where temperatures routinely reach the negative double digits, a small Yukon bar thought of a unique way to warm up:&nbsp;the Sourtoe Cocktail. This whisky shot with a human toe - yes, a real human toe - is as grotesque as it is polarizing.You'll find the Sourtoe Cocktail at&nbsp;the Sourdough Saloon, located inside the charming Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon. Drinking it is less about enjoying a cocktail than earning a badge of honor - a classic &quot;hold my beer&quot; moment. So&nbsp;how do you become part of the Sourtoe Cocktail Club? You've got to kiss the toe. Once your lips touch the dried flesh of the mummified body part, you join the ranks of other proud inebriated heroes. It's such an honor, some alumni have hung their membership certificate next to their college diploma. Downtown Hotel's Sourtoe Cocktail has a wild history - perhaps as wild as the impulse&nbsp;to down the cocktail itself. From Prohibition rum runners on the lam to incidents involving&nbsp;lawnmowers to elusive&nbsp;toe-nappers, the Sourtoe Cocktail may be the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/alcohol-made-from-strange-substances/laura-allan" target="_blank">most interesting drink</a>&nbsp;you'll ever order.

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Nazi Germany didn't just seek to eradicate those who didn't meet the criteria of their ideal race. They also fought to create a super genetic line through selective breeding in the ultra-secret, undeniably twisted Lebensborn program. It was akin to <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-josef-mengele/jacob-shelton" target="_blank">Josef Mengele's concentration camp experiments</a> to the extent that it involved Nazi &quot;science&quot; and a total lack of bioethics.This program, created by the SS, was a state-supported, registered association sparked by the shrinking birth rate in Nazi Germany. Lebensborn mothers faced a moral predicament. While many already were fervent followers of Hitler, for some, it was a matter of survival in war-torn, Nazi-occupied Europe. The Lebensborn program attempted to breed racial purity through a very specific set of phenotypic criteria. The children of Lebensborn were often kidnapped from their Nordic and Eastern European families, forced to erase their past identities&nbsp;and be reborn as Hitler youth. For many, their lives were lies, and they only discovered their origins in adulthood, if at all. Here's a look inside the twisted Nazi program to breed a master race and what happened to the Lebensborn survivors when the war was finally over.

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In front of the live studio audience, everything was all punchlines and pratfalls — but when the cameras were off, dark and messy things took place on the sets of the TV comedies America never missed.

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The Brady Bunch

The Brady Bunch&nbsp;cast won the hearts of America&nbsp;with their poignant family relationships,&nbsp;&#39;70s style, and timeless life lessons.&nbsp;Has there ever been a show as wholesome, as precious, and as widely loved? 

The Brady family&nbsp;certainly may be timeless &ndash; we&#39;ve all caught the reruns on TV Land nearly 50 years after the fact &ndash; but it turns out, <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/all-the-brady-bunch-characters/reference" target="_blank">the real-life&nbsp;Bradys</a> aren&#39;t&nbsp;so&nbsp;wholesome at all. In fact, their real lives are somewhat tragic&nbsp;(unless you&#39;re Peter Brady, and in that case, thank your lucky stars for VH1).

Behind the scenes of The Brady Bunch, Brady brothers and sisters found&nbsp;themselves embroiled in high school love triangles and addiction,&nbsp;the father was forced&nbsp;to hide his sexuality,&nbsp;and some struggled with alcoholism. Some of the kids reported&nbsp;adolescences so&nbsp;challenging that it&#39;s a wonder the show even lasted five seasons. Not everyone&#39;s personal lives&nbsp;held so much sadness,&nbsp;but the behind-the-scenes stories paint quite a different portrait than the wholesome happy family you remember.

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