2013 – The Year Of Learning Things We Didn’t Want To Know

2013, as mentioned before was long yet quick and we learned a bunch.  The following list is compiled of the top news stories as well as some things people have done that make us shake our heads, not to mention how big businesses and agencies control our brains.  You'll find that a lot of the things below deal with the NSA, and without Edward Snowden, this list would be smaller.  It may seem like a big list but you should have seen it before I edited it.

From Apple to the NSA, take a look.

-Making people sit and wait for a website to load is worth double-digit approval numbers.

-Thanks to the NSA, Santa isn't the only one who knows if you've been bad or good.

-Paula Deen can't fake-cry to save her life.

-People will literally buy ANYTHING Apple tells them to.

-Somehow, Tim Tebow's out of football, but Tony Romo isn't.

-It's not as cool as it once was to wear those yellow "Livestrong" bracelets.

-People will drop a small fortune on a new Apple product that's essentially the same as their old one, just because there's an "S" in the name.

-Even though we DON'T live in the 1400s, the birth of a Royal Baby somehow still qualifies as "news."

-For some inexplicable reason, people keep letting Vince Vaughn make movies.

-That email where you told your mom you're depressed, your job sucks, and you'll never meet a girl?  The NSA got a BIG kick out of it.

-Americans would be WAY more interested in the Syrian Civil War, if it starred some of the "Real Housewives".

-The "Hunger Games" movies are perfect for anyone who likes movies about fights to the death, where no one actually dies.

-The year slowly fades to an end as does the life of your smartphone battery.

-Well, whatever we learned the NSA definitely learned, too.

-Next time, we should elect a president who is familiar with Javascript.

-We should all be worshipping Kanye West . . . according to Kanye West.

-Alan Thicke neglected to teach his son that it's wrong to steal from Marvin Gaye.

-No event, even the funeral of a major world leader, is too serious to take a selfie.

-If you don't write down and Instagram your resolutions, people won't remember that you even had any, so all is forgiven.

-All viral YouTube videos are actually Jimmy Kimmel's hoaxes.

-The federal government can be shutdown for two weeks without anyone really noticing.

-Will Ferrell doesn't know the meaning of the word "overexposed.

-A lot of musical artists would be working at Wendy's if not for Auto-Tune.

-We have no hope because nothing has changed.

-You CAN'T keep your existing health insurance

-Amanda Bynes has really bad taste in wigs.