Hypocrite Facts

Because the 1915 film Hypocrites contained full recurring nudity, it caused riots in New York City, was banned in Ohio and a mayor in Boston demanded the negatives be painted over to clothe the woman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…

Lily Allen supported the British government in targeting file sharers violating copyright laws and there was a backlash because it was found that she plagiarized in her blog supporting it, making her a hypocrite en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil…

That during WWII, Indian freedom fighters created an army with the help of Japan to fight against the British, citing the British as hypocrites for condemning Nazi Germany while exploiting millions of Indians for war and profit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ind…

Ayn Rand was a hypocrite who didn't believe her own philosophy. alternet.org/teaparty/149…

Fatburger sells a 'Hypocrite': a veggie burger topped with strips of crispy bacon. [link includes dozens of other secret menu items.] thehackedlife.com/2010/09…

Jeremy Kyle has or has had pretty much all the problems of the people on his show (including a gambling addiction and affairs) and is a horrendous hypocrite en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jer…

Mark Twain denounced his former secretary Isabel Lyon as "a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a filthy-minded & salacious slut pining for seduction". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa…

Fat Burger has a hamburger called the Hypocrite: A veggie burger with bacon.

At Fatburger you can order a "Hypocrite"—a veggie burger with crispy strips of bacon. mentalfloss.com/article/2…

In 1984 a British Conservative MP called leftists hypocrites for opposing visits by South African, but not Israeli, leaders. "In moral and physical terms, there is very little to choose between those two regimes." margaretthatcher.org/docu…

Ayn Rand's pro-free market novel Atlas Shrugged was adapted into a three part film series in the 2010s. After the first two movies bombed, the producers resorted to Kickstarter to fund the third film. indiewire.com/2013/09/wha…

Today I learned about the Three-Fifths Compromise, where slaves were counted as 3/5 of a citizen. The Southern states wanted more seats in Congress than they might achieve with only white people, but counting them as equal would be plainly hypocritical, since slaves did no have the rights of free people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thr…

Tom Cruise rented two cruise ships to house production staff for his latest Mission Impossible movie. cruisehive.com/cruise-lin…

Beavers, alligators, and puffins are catholically considered fish during lent . thefisheriesblog.com/2017…

The Las Vegas prosecutor who charged Bruno Mars and Paris Hilton for cocaine possession committed suicide after his own arrest for crack cocaine. lasvegassun.com/news/2013…

In the 90s Arizona passed a law creating an official tax stamp and licensing program for drug dealers so that they could hit drug dealers with extra tax evasion charges. The court ruled this was too hypocritical and let a licensed drug dealer walk free. nytimes.com/1996/10/06/we…

The form of the pledge used today was largely devised by Francis Bellamy in 1892, and formally adopted by Congress as the pledge in 1942. The most recent alteration of its wording came on Flag Day in 1954, when the words "under God" were added. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ple…

Ted Kaczynski made a homemade gun which he intended to use as a homicide weapon kk.org/streetuse/unabombe…

AEG Live, the owners and operators of Coachella Music Festival attempted to profit off of Michael Jackson's death by offering fan's 'Souvenior Tickets' in leiu of a refund to tickets to the 'This Is It' tour, which was interrupted by Jackson's death. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ans…

Academy award-winner Bong Joon-ho made "Okja"(2017) after watching Sergio Arguello’s “La Parka” (“The Reaper”), a film about a slaughterhouse worker who spent 25 years killing bulls, and Nikolaus Geyrhalter's “Our Daily Bread,” a film about EU factory-farming. youtube.com/watch?v=Tzr3Q…

Robert Kennedy had the FBI bug Martin Luther King's phones and hotel rooms. The wiretaps uncovered his personal sexual liaisons with women. LBJ listened to all the tapes and remarked at one point "Goddammit, if you could only hear what that hypocritical preacher does sexually." theatlantic.com/entertain…

The Achilles tendon only got its name circa 1692, prior it was called "chorda Hippocratis" (string of Hippocrates) and "tendo magnus" (great tendon) before that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ach…

John F. Kennedy requested his head of press, Pierre Salinger, to get him 1,000 Cuban cigars. Seconds after bringing the president 1,200 cigars, Kennedy signed the Cuban trade embargo. youtube.com/watch?v=dHazL…

The DA that prosecuted Bruno Mars for cocaine possession was fired for possession of crack cocaine and an unregistered firearm. nydailynews.com/entertain…

Norway stopped investing money into Walmart after determining that the company is guilty of "serious violations of fundamental ethical norms." worldpolicy.org/blog/2011…

When Hugh Hefner became a father to two sons raised at the Playboy Mansion, nudity was banned, the "Playmates at Play" sign became "Children at Play", and the grounds were littered with toys books.google.ca/books?id=…

A week before his draft physical, Ted Nugent "stopped using the bathroom altogether, virtually living inside his pants caked with excrement and urine" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted…

Today I learned of the term "Drawbridge Mentality", a term used to describe people who move into a community they consider "unspoilt", then oppose any form of inward migration and development. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dra…

The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., left the AA governing body in 1958 to focus on experiments with using LSD to overcome addiction aaagnostica.org/2015/05/1…

An Ohio Judge, who each year would move a drunken-driving trial from his courtroom to a local high school as a cautionary tale to students, was arrested himself on a DUI after he hit a County bus, failed to stop, then refused a sobriety test after being pulled over by police dispatch.com/content/stor…

A baby that was born without a brain was able to survive for 2 years and 174 days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bab…

Isaac Hayes, the voice of Chef on South Park, announced that he was quitting because of the shows' treatment of religion after a scientology episode. Matt Stone commented "In 10 years and over 150 episodes of South Park, Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of [other religions]." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tra…

There was a 'golden tree' in British Columbia, that was illegally cut down. The man who did it disappeared before he made it to trial. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kii…

A copy of "Hustler" magazine was found in televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's hotel room(along with hooker); Swaggart had preached against Larry Flynt for 15 years. sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl…

Martin Luther King Jr cheated on his wife marriage.about.com/od/pol…

The main characters of Superbad are named after the film's writers, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who were 13 when they wrote it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sup…

Warren Buffet was campaigning to increase taxes on the rich whilst refusing to pay about $1Billion in back taxes. huffingtonpost.com/2011/0…

At parties during Prohibition, President Harding's wife Florence served liquor from a private reserve that came from the confiscated alcohol by the Prohibition-era Justice Department. firstladies.org/biographi…

George Orwell listed famous people he suspected of being communists and sent it to the British Information Research Department blogs.commons.georgetown.…

Today I learned about "The Family".... maybe I'm a little late on this, but it's creepy stuff. videocafe.crooksandliars.…

In Eminem's first album, Mathers raps about salvation through God and Christianity. sputnikmusic.com/review/1…

President Ronald Regan was almost choked to death by a chimp m.mentalfloss.com/article…

Vladimir Demikhov, a Soviet scientist, performed a canine head transplant. Initially, he was performing a heart transplant. However, when one of the subjects died Demikhov, not wanting to "waste the sterilized operating table", proceeded with the head transplant. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vla…

The 52 members of Congress' Tea Party Caucus requested 764 earmarks totalling over $1 billion hotlineoncall.nationaljou…

After the invading Turkish army ethnically cleansed the majority Greek Cypriot population from Northern Cyprus, the majority of the population was replaced with mainland Turkish settlers, in violation of article 49 of the Geneva convention. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tur…

The Netherlands has a political party which fights for animal rights and was the first in the world to have one. It has held seats in the Dutch House of Representatives for over 10 consecutive years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par…

Furbies were banned from the National Security Agency of the United States due to concerns that they may be used to record and repeat classified information. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur…