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Pop stars like Justin Timberlake sing "may" instead of "me' because it gives the impression that their performance is more powerful that it actually is. The 2000s trend was an attempt to co-opt the signifiers of intensity without actually needing to use them.

6 out 7 women Hitler dated in his adult life died by sucicide or attempted suicide. BONUS: Hitler would carry a whip around in an attempt to "impress" women as well.

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1. Males gather in large groups, called leks, to display their beautiful feathers and attract females. There are two types of males: resident and satellite males. Resident males occupy certain territory and display their plumage to impress females. Smaller males with light-colored ruffs are known as satellite males. They lack territories, so they attempt to mate with females that approach territories of resident males, risking injuries from owners of a territory. Resident males tolerate satellite males because they also attract some of the females to the breeding areas.

2. John Hinckley, the attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan, shot the president to impress Jodie Foster after seeing her in Taxi Driver, a film about a presidential candidate assasination attempt. The film itself was based on a real-life assasination attempt on George Wallace.

3. Thomas "Captain" Blood was the first and only individual to attempt to steal the royal jewels. Upon his capture, instead of being executed or jailed, King Charles was so impressed, he anointed Blood a member of his court with an annual pension.

4. After visiting Paris in 1940, Hitler was so impressed with the city that he initiated a massive construction program of new public buildings in Berlin, in an attempt to “destroy” Paris, not with bombs, but with imposing architectural achievements. Paris were to be only a shadow of Berlin.

5. A sociologist named Erving Goffman believed that when someone interacts with other people, that person will attempt to control or guide the impression that others make of them by changing or fixing their setting, appearance and manner. He even wrote a book about it.

6. Scorcese's "Taxi Driver" formed part of the delusional fantasy of John Hinckley, Jr. that triggered his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, in an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster

7. Jens Scherer holds the Guinness World Record for the farthest distance covered on a water slide in 24 hours, 94.5 miles. Jens racked up an impressive 427 rides on a 1169.6 foot-long slide, this averages to a ride every 3 min 22 sec for the duration of the attempt.

8. John Hinckley Jr, the man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan, did it in a bid to impress Jodie Foster. After Foster's performance as a teenage prostitute in Taxi Driver, Hinckley became obsessed with her and tried to gain her attention by trying to assassinate the POTUS

9. The attempted assassination on Ronald Reagan was an attempt to impress actress Jodie Foster, over whom the shooter had developed an obsession after seeing her in the 1976 film Taxi Driver

10. The motivation behind John Hinckley Jr.'s assassination attempt against US president Ronald Reagan was so that he could impress and get the attention of American actress, Jodi Foster.