This chart breaks down the percentage of women who believe it is OK for their husbands to hit them, by country. Jordan, Somalia, and Ethiopia top it off with around 80% of women saying it's OK, while women in Serbia, Georgia, and Belize say no way.

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1. Sad Stats on Women’s Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence Internationally
2. The Percentages Of Women Who Think It’s OK For Their Husbands To Hit Them
3. Women’s Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence - The Raw Data
4. Many Women Believe Men Are Sometimes Justified in Hitting Their Wives

This video is actually a 2-for-1: a fancy “thunderstorm” and the world's only Slovenian jazz band singing “Africa.” One half is cool and the other half is cool if you are being ironic. You pick which!

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1. Via Abroath

Watch this tribe lady remove the giant plate embedded in her bottom lip! You know you're a redneck when you point a camera in front of a girl and ask her to remove her lip plate. And you know you're white trash when you ask her if she can fit a short stack on it.

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TECH BUZZ: If you get a text that begins, “I swear, I will make sure I give you HIV…” don't fret right away, it could be a Nigerian love letter! It's all about creativity when you show your love! That “HIV” text would end: “H is for Happiness and joy forever with an I: Incomparable love that will never V: Vanish until death do us part. I love you.” Unless you do actually have HIV, then the romance might be lost.

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1. How to say I Luv U in Nigeria
2. via Neatorama

Today is World Water Day, a UN-based initiative that seeks to raise awareness to the millions of Africans that live without daily access to clean, safe water. Beck lent his new single, “Time Bomb” to the cause for this stylized video by charity: water. So how can you help? Spread it, interneteers!

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1. Globe dives into World Water Day
2. World Water Day on UN
3. Send a World Water Day eCard
4. charity:water
5. World Water Day

POLITICS BUZZ: In July of 2007, six gorillas were murdered, execution-style, in the Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Brent Stirton, the photojournalist who shot the intensely disturbing photographs of the slain gorillas, returned to the Congo with writer Mark Jenkins to determine the why this atrocity happened. The story complete with brutal militias, environmental disasters, corruption, smuggling, and the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide is covered in the July issue of National Geographic. and a documentary on the subject will air July 1st.

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1. Who Murdered the Virunga Gorillas?
2. Brent Stirton Projects: Gorilla Killings - Virunga, DRC
3. Brent Stirton Interview: “Chronicling the Virunga Gorilla Murders”
4. Mountain Gorillas Killings Fueled by Charcoal Trade
5. Gorilla Killing Photos at Rome’s international festival of photography
6. “Help the Virunga Gorillas!”
7. “Inside the Gorilla Wars: Rangers on Risking It All” Documentary

A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and two crocodiles. Everyone’s favorite animals vs. animals vs. animals video was recently turned into a National Geographic special. The original was captured in 2004 by videographer David Budzinski and photographer Jason Schlosberg at a Kruger National Park (South Africa) watering hole.

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1. The Story Behind Battle at Kruger