Graduating from college is no small feat, so when a friend, family member or loved one manages to get that degree we want to reward their hard work with something worthwhile.

But far too often they're handed a teddy bear wearing a graduation cap and gown, a frame for their diploma, or some dumb gift set they end up tossing in a box and forgetting about.

If you really want to reward grads give them an unique gift they'll use, like the Exerpeutic WORKFIT 1000 exercise bike desk station above, the CuiZen PIZ-4012 Pizza Box Oven or this brilliant Selfie Ring Light.

And since they'll most likely be of legal drinking age when they graduate they'll want to drink to their success, or drown their sorrows about their student loan debt.

Which is why grads will need this Cocktail Computer- simply enter the ingredients you have on hand and the "computer" gives you suggestions for yummy drink recipes. It even includes mocktail recipes for those who can't booze it up but wanna hang anyway.

See 26 Useful Gifts College Grads Will Actually Want here

Thanks to the lucky folks who married into royalty like Diana Frances or Kate Middleton we know the British Royal Family must have a last name, but many are unclear as to what that last name is.

We know it must be something other than "of Wales" or "of York", but as a rule the Royals don't use last names except for times when they must, such as when they're in school or in the military.

So what's the deal with the royal last name?

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Prior to 1917 members of the British Royal Family didn't use "common" last names at all, instead using their first name with the name of the house or dynasty they're part of, such as the House of Tudor or House of Wales.

But in 1917 King George V changed his house name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, a name derived from Windsor Castle which was changed due to anti-German sentiment.

George V not only changed the dynasty name- he made Windsor the royal family's surname, thereby doing away with any common last names. 

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To make matters more complicated Princess Elizabeth made another Royal Family name change when she married Philip Mountbatten and became Queen Elizabeth II, declaring the last name to be Mountbatten-Windsor.

So now descendents of the Mountbatten-Windsors can use Windsor, Mountbatten-Windsor, or if they have a title such as "His Royal Highness Prince" or "Her Royal Highness Princess" they don't have to use a surname at all. Now it's all so clear! *wink*

Read Here's Why The British Royal Family Doesn't Use A Last Name here

Joss Whedon has come a long way from the days when he was writing for Roseanne, and since then many studios have asked Joss to write scripts based on their franchises.

But for some reason Warner Bros hired Joss to write and direct a Wonder Woman movie back in 2006 but by early 2007 the project had been cancelled, leaving us to wonder what a Whedon Wonder Woman movie would have looked like.

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We've waited 10 long years to see Wonder Woman on the big screen, but before you go see the new movie you should read Joss Whedon's unproduced Wonder Woman screenplay and see how it compares to the Snyderverse version.

Read the full script here

-Via GeekTyrant

Fairy tale characters were way too calm and composed considering the morbid situations they dealt with during their stories, and they acted like these dark moments were no big deal.

Pushing an old hag who eats kids into an oven and leaving "the ungodly creature to be burned to ashes" should have scarred Hansel for life, and Jack narrowly escaped the clutches of a hungry giant, which would have left him with PTSD.

And, as this Electric Bunny comic shows, Little Red should have totally lost it when her grandma emerged from the wolf's stomach alive and unharmed, leaving them both in need of therapy and a long shower!

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Somewhere along the way it was decided that people who play in bands aren't very bright, then rock stars were further stigmatized as being drunk, dumb and on drugs because some big names glamorized this lushy lifestyle.

In actuality many of the most famous musicians in rock'n'roll history were extremely intelligent people, who showed off their brainy side with their brilliant lyrics and the very name of their band.

The Doors were named after Aldous Huxley's The Doors Of Perception, which is a line taken from William Blake's The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell:

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

Stuart Murdoch got the name for his band Belle and Sebastian from French children's book Belle et Sébastien by Cécile Aubry, which was adapted into an awesome anime series in the 80s.

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Modest Mouse's lead singer Isaac Brock named the band after a passage from Virginia Woolf's The Mark on the Wall:

"I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises."

And last but not least we have Moby, the guy who was clearly named after Moby Dick, right?

Well, sorta- Moby was born Richard Melville Hall, and his parents started calling him "Moby" at a young age after telling young Richard Herman Melville is his "great-great-great-granduncle".

See 20 Bands Named After Classic Literature at Mental Floss

Back before there was barbed wire to contain them, microchips to track them and trucks to transport them across continents there was the shepherd, who would tend to their herd as if they were their own offspring.

The shepherd would let their bovine children play in the fields all day and eat their fill, but when it came time to return to the safety of the stable the cows would heed the shepherd's call and run home.

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Thanks to keepers of history like photographer Joanna Jinton we get to hear what the ancient Swedish herding call known as kulning sounds like, and now I see why cows respond to kulning- because it sounds beautiful!

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Going back to school in the fall means getting a fresh batch of textbooks, which are always better used than new because other students have had the chance to doodle snicker-worthy stuff in the book.

These secret acts of vandalism used to be the funniest pictures in textbooks (unless you had a book from the 50s or 60s which was full of outdated information), but nowadays LOL-worthy stuff is included on purpose.

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Okay, that one was obviously a mistake they missed during editing, but this picture must have been included on purpose, right?

Maybe it's for "Geometric Racial Stereotypes: a journey in racist maths"? They're teaching some strange stuff in schools these days...

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See The Funniest Things Ever Found In Textbooks here

Our liver is more than just a booze and drug filter or something that goes great with "fava beans and a nice chianti"- it's the second largest organ in the human body, weighs as much as a chihuahua, and every vertebrate has one.

The liver works hard for the human body- it regulates plasma glucose and ammonia levels, produces proteins vital for body function and serves as both an organ and a gland, since it filters toxins and pushes them out of the body.

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And if that isn't enough to make you think of the liver as the mightiest of all organs consider this- the liver is the only organ that can completely regenerate, needing only 25 percent of the original tissue to do so:

“When a person donates more than half of their liver to someone who needs a transplant, the liver returns to its original size in nearly two weeks,” Reau tells Mental Floss. According to a 2009 study in the Journal of Cell Physiology, evolutionary safeguards are responsible for this regenerative effect due to the numerous functions performed by the liver. “This process allows liver to recover lost mass without jeopardizing viability of the entire organism,” the authors write.

Read 12 Bilious Facts About The Liver at Mental Floss

Skating the streets of San Francisco is something only the brave, experienced and/or balls out bananas should attempt, because those steep hills make it easy to munch it hard and stopping ain't easy.

But Sean Greene has lots of experience skating down those steep ass hills of San Francisco, so watch him skate SF for a vicarious thrill!

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Thrasher Magazine put together this montage video showing pro skateboarder Sean Greene bombing down the super streets of San Francisco like he's invincible. Maybe he is?

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Kids realize their parents are full of crap at an early age, and one of the ways they discover adults have been lying to them is by catching us doing something we told them absolutely, positively not to do.

This double standard drives kids crazy, because they want to look up to their parents and respect their authority but can't bring themselves to obey a lying, conformist worrywart with poor math skills.

Jacob Andrews and Willie Muse have cited five examples of What Adults Say Vs What Adults Do in this strip, but I'm sure you can think of at least a dozen more things that make adults totally full of baloney man! Adulthood is a lie!

-Via CollegeHumor

Carving wood into smooth, organic shapes is an amazing skill in its own right, but sculptors who turn raw wood into fantastic looking figures while retaining the tree's natural grain and burls are a cut above the rest.

However, a lone sculptor could spend a decade or more carving a giant redwood into a sculpture so you need a team of artists to tackle a job that big and make it an impressive act of cooperative creativity.

Chinese architect Dengding Rui Yao hired over 20 sculptors to help him bring his massive Oriental Lion sculpture to life, and his team of artists spent 3 years carving out what would become the world's largest redwood sculpture.

The Oriental Lion measures 47.5 feet long, 13 feet wide and 16 and a half feet tall, and it survived a 3000 mile trip to Wuhan's Fortune Plaza Times Square in one piece, which was a feat in and of itself!

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Sometimes people share stories online thinking they'll be applauded for their ingenuity and creativity only to find the internet community pitying them for their ineptitude.

i don't have any spooks or forks so i broke off a piece of a hanger so i could eat pic.twitter.com/5wh5SVfpxX

— childish sambino (@samiwert) May 11, 2017

A college student named Samantha proudly tweeted about how she turned a broken coat hanger into a makeshift fork and people couldn't help but feel sorry for her...and make fun of her, of course.

High school seniors: This is what you're excited to graduate for. https://t.co/GQgR3tr5vt

— T-Milli (@tmilli15) May 11, 2017

But Samantha's post also inspired people to tweet about their own makeshift utensils, and some of them made her idea look downright brilliant.

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— cass king (@Cassofkings) May 12, 2017

Of course, some of them made her idea look dumb, because paper scooper beats jagged plastic hanger fork by a mile.

@samiwert The other day I ate fried rice with my own business card

— Please Dont Eat Meat (@BestSinceHamlet) May 12, 2017

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Do the words "Chinese government", "global economics" or "belt and road" make you think about having some hot fun in the summertime?

I didn't think so, but your opinion of these seemingly boring words is sure to change after you watch this video featuring the song "The Belt and Road", which is bound to become the jammy jam of Summer '17!

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So what is this video all about? It's about the Belt and the Road-

The belt is an actual physical road that will connect China and Europe, and the road is a trade route (think Silk Road) that includes maritime shipping lanes and freight. At the Belt and Road Forum (yes, BARF), Jinping laid out the plan to pump $150 billion a year into 68 countries to promote trade and strengthen the Chinese foothold.

China wants to underwrite huge infrastructure projects all over the world: a coal plant in Sri Lanka, exporting to Pakistan, and expanded electricity grids in Central Asia. This isn't exactly new—China has already funded public transport in Ethiopia, for example—but it's at an unprecedented scale that will shift global trade.

But while we wait for more plans to unfold it's probably just good to numb the anxiety of shifting global powers with a song, and why not the Belt and Road?

-Via Motherboard

The world had become a mad, mad, mad place well before Max went mad and fired up his Interceptor looking for revenge, but where will the madness end?

Will the post-apocalyptic world look more like the modern interpretations, or will it be full of kooky characters wearing patchwork outfits like as seen in those crazy movies of the 70s and 80s?

This video by Monkey Blood doesn't answer any of those questions, but it does answer the question nobody has ever asked- what would a Mad Max: Fury Road-It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World mashup look like?

Two words- utter madness! Also acceptable- Jonathan Winters!

It's a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road - Trailer from Monkey Blood on Vimeo.

-Via GeekTyrant

It's hard to decide which animated movies are the "greatest of all time", especially when you include both 2D and 3D features, but telling which ones are the worst is incredibly easy.

You just have to look for the animated films that are brazen ripoffs of good movies, unnecessary sequels nobody asked for or the ones that are simply too ugly to watch.

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AlltimeMovies put together this list of 10 Worst Animated Movies Of All Time, and while I don't feel they all deserve the "worst of all time" title every film on the list is unwatchable, so "the worst" it is!