Earlier this year, user ThrowawayCallsYouOut asked redditors, “What’s the best way to subtly f*ck with people?” The answers were so good, we had to bring some of the best pranks to life with this illustrated guide to being your worst self. Dick hair…

Sir Ian McKellen is a man who needs no introduction. The actor behind Gandalf, Magneto, and most recently Sherlock Holmes answers redditors’ questions in the latest episode of Ask Me Anything (AMA). He discusses the perks of being a knight, his friendship with Patrick Stewart, and whether he’d rather fight 100 hobbit-sized Balrogs or just one Balrog-sized hobbit.

Casey Neistat was kicked out of his family’s house at 15, became a father at 17, and decided to move to New York City by age 19. Today, he has over 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube and is the co-founder of the rapidly growing social platform Beme. Watch the story of the one defining moment behind his success in the pilot episode of Formative, a collaborative video series between Google Cloud Platform and Reddit’s Entrepreneur community.

If you waited until after Thanksgiving to bust out your favorite Christmas tunes, you might’ve missed the gravy train on “Jingle Bells.” Turns out this song was originally meant to be sung on Turkey Day. Oh, and it was also originally about old-school drunken drag racing.

The Sounds Like Chewy community is exactly what it sounds like—a group of like-minded Star Wars fans, gathered together to celebrate all things that sound like Chewbacca. Like this Coke can sliding across a desk, or this guy playing the electric guitar, or, umm, this chair.

From “Flowering Raspberry” and “Enchanting Eggplant” to “Ghost Ship” and “Zombie,” if you’ve ever wondered who comes up with the names of paint colors, wonder no more: These women do—and they gave redditors an inside look at the color-naming process.

Erin (Reddit user cuteliltrex) was born with radial club hands, a rare condition in which the radius bone of the forearm is malformed or missing. In a recent AMA, Erin shares what it’s like to be a self-described “T. rex Girl”—from childhood memories (of other kids chasing her with iron bars) to using selfie sticks, dressing as a dinosaur for Halloween, and dating on Tinder.

User nidenikolev was between insurance plans for less than two weeks—but during that time, a medical emergency forced him to go to the hospital. A month later, he got a letter from the hospital, and a bill demanding over $1 million for his visit.

Each week, Reddit’s artist-in-residence Shitty_Watercolour illustrates a sampling of Reddit’s best comments—and this week, they’re all about remembering the times we should’ve listened to our parents. From bad ex-boyfriends to always having a plunger handy, parents really do understand…

In 1977, animal psychologist Irene Pepperberg went into a pet shop to purchase a parrot named Alex. For the next 30 years until his death in 2007, Alex helped Dr. Pepperberg show the scientific community—and the general public—that the birds could count, distinguish shapes, and develop a large vocabulary. (See? Parrots really do understand…)

Meet the hagfish: a slimy, somewhat-phallic-shaped animal described by science blogs as “the most disgusting creature on Earth.” Whenever hagfish are stressed or in danger, they secrete copious amounts of slimy mucus from their pores, a perfect defense mechanism against predators like these unsuspecting sharks. Go, hagfish!

Am I really as good as people think I am? When will everyone find out that I’m a fraud? These are just a few questions typically asked by people with impostor syndrome. One educator explains what this phenomenon is, why it’s important to talk about, and how it can be a sign of a positive personal trait.