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There are exactly two reasons why The Big Bang Theory can cause tears to run down your cheeks:1. You have to cry from laughing so hard.2. You find ...

A towel is about the most useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.If you have a towel with you, others automatically assume that you also ...

If there's one place you wouldn't expect to find the giant lizard Godzilla, it would be in the kitchen. After all, the iconic scaly beast has much ...

The envy we Muggles feel towards the students at Hogwarts is real. What do they have that we don't? Oh yes, magical abilities... Unfortunately, we ...

How nice it would be to have a scale model of an X-Wing. Or an AT-AT. Or of Darth Vader's TIE Fighter. Preferably made of durable material. But of ...

If you leave the EU or the Schengen area, you generally always have to take a valid passport with you, as the German ID card, for example, is not a...

There's no story so good a drink won't make it better. - Thoros von MyrIndeed, no story can be so good that a thematically appropriate cocktail won...

If you believe a well-known advertisement and the resulting meme, the most interesting man in the world drinks beer. We've never heard such nonsens...

"Oh no! What's that on your face? Like a facehugger? Wait, I'll get the M41A pulse rifle quickly!" You have to be prepared for a reaction like that...

Every race in the most famous science fiction series of all time has its strengths: Klingons are the best fighters, Vulcans the brightest minds and...

As Muggles, we have to do without some comforts. Although we have been able to make up for a lot with our technology, the lack of magic still hurts...

All you need for your new spaceship are your fingers and perhaps a pair of needle-nose pliers and tweezers. Who would have thought? Well, you can't...

The motif of the three monkeys that see nothing, hear nothing and say nothing is something we come across from time to time in everyday life - the ...

Even though you are much older than eleven, you are still eagerly awaiting your letter to Hogwarts. You simply don't want to accept that you will r...

Every good adventure involves a spectacular escape, a thrilling chase or a dangerous hike through unknown territory - perhaps all three. But this i...

For some viewers of the Netflix series "Stranger Things", VHS tapes and the 80s are probably just as unreal as the parallel world into which Will d...

In the list of the most famous vehicles from film and television, the DeLorean from the great "Back to the Future" films should of course not be mi...

In the Studio Ghibli film "My Neighbor Totoro", a small family moves into a house in the countryside - and discovers that the property and the adja...

The School of the Wolf is one of the most renowned Witcher schools, not least because of powerful representatives such as Vesemir and the protagoni...

Snappy remarks, daring crooks, fist fights and perhaps the worst table manners in the world: these are the films of Bud Spencer and Terence Hill. T...

As a scientist, adventurer and adult who has remained a child, the Doctor is known to have a weakness for all things tinkering - whether ancient or...

Anyone who is able to identify this Enterprise correctly straight away is definitely a true Star Trek fan. It is not so easy to tell the many diffe...

The droid R2-D2 appears in almost every Star Wars movie, but still hardly anyone understands what his beeps mean. But perhaps that's for the best, ...

There is only one breakfast egg left. You look to the left, then to the right. Your family stares greedily at the perfect oval thing lying in the m...

The terrifying, mysterious nightshade that terrorizes the village of Berk in the film "Dragon Taming Made Easy" soon turns out to be an incredibly ...

If there's one thing nerds and geeks know, it's where to put all their cool gadgets, nerd shirts, collectible figures and the like. All the rooms i...

The journey of the companions, who set out to destroy the One Ring and prevent Sauron's reign of terror, is not only dangerous and adventurous, but...

As we learned in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Hogwarts doesn't just have ordinary showers, but also sumptuous bathrooms with truly magical ...

What didn't work the first time will certainly work the second time. Or the third. Maybe you can help the Empire to rebuild the Death Star. Unfortu...

If you ask die-hard science fiction fans who the most iconic villains from this genre are, the term Stormtrooper is sure to come up. With their sno...

While the Earth has been explored by mankind over the millennia, with the exception of a few areas such as the deep sea, the infinite expanses of t...

Monkey D. Ruffy, leader of the Straw Hat Gang, has two goals in life: To become pirate king and to find the famous One Piece treasure. But that's n...

If the transformation lessons don't really work out and you don't happen to be an Animagus, there's really only one way for a young wizard to trans...

Claiming to know "Star Wars" inside out is a pretty bold statement, as the Skywalker saga comprises three trilogies. There are 42 years between the...

Stephen King must definitely have a sadistic streak: Because since normal clowns obviously wouldn't be creepy and scary enough, the cult author sim...