Dude Explains Why the U.S. Needs More Walkable Cities

By this point, we all know that we live in a society. But do we live in a community? Many of us live lives that revolve around our house, our workplace, and maybe a bar or restaurant at the weekend, but little else. Modern life can be quite isolating, if we really think about it.  …
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Serious Science Diagrams That Look Like Elaborate Jokes

We are indebted to science when it comes to a lot of things. The reason we enjoy all the wonders of modern medicine and technology are entirely because of the advancements it has made, and there are only going to be more to come.  Despite all the things that it has given us, the subject …
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People Lament The Demise Of The DVD Commentary Track

You don’t have to be a film nerd to appreciate a peek behind the curtain when it comes to the entertainment that we watch. You never know what fascinating trivia you might find out that will serve you well in a quiz of some sort, or failing that, can be used to impress/bore your friends …
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Proofreader Offers Useful Pneumonic Devices for Demystifying Words That Are Confusingly Similar

Bear with me, but does one bear it all or bare it all? And speaking of bears, if a bear pays me a compliment, can I complement his compliment with a compliment? Or would that negatively affect the intended effect? The English language is full of cruel tricks. There are many examples of English words …
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Proofreader Offers Useful Mnemonic Devices for Demystifying Words That Are Confusingly Similar

Bear with me, but does one bear it all or bare it all? And speaking of bears, if a bear pays me a compliment, can I complement his compliment with a compliment? Or would that negatively affect the intended effect? The English language is full of cruel tricks. There are many examples of English words …
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Informative Thread Explains What Cookies Are and What It Means to Accept Them

Websites are always demanding us to accept their cookies, but what if we don’t want any cookies? What are cookies anyway? They’re certainly not delicious sweet and buttery treats. They’re something invisible and mysterious. Twitter user @wtfjummy recently tweeted, ‘I be on websites accepting cookies not even knowing what that is’ and we felt that. …
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20+ Fascinating Facts For Perpetual Knowledge Seekers

Everyday we’re bombarded with so much information, our poor brains our bound to get overwhelmed and only process the necessary data, so to speak. It’s a shame we can’t retain all the interesting stuff we discover throughout our lives, but thanks to the internet and subreddits like r/todayilearned, we can revisit fascinating facts and historical …
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20+ Fascinating Facts For Knowledge Seekers

Everyday we’re bombarded with so much information, our poor brains our bound to get overwhelmed and only process the necessary data, so to speak. It’s a shame we can’t retain all the interesting stuff we discover throughout our lives, but thanks to the internet and subreddits like r/todayilearned, we can revisit fascinating facts and historical …
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Redditors Discuss The Things They Truly Don’t Understand

How does YouTube know what we want to see? What even is the stock market? How is there no absolute position in space? Effing magnets—how do they work? We all have questions like these in the back of our minds—not urgent enough to google, but not mundane enough to forget. Well u/lliorca336 gave redditors a …
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23 Fascinating Facts You Might Not Have Known

Everyday we’re bombarded with so much information, our poor brains our bound to get overwhelmed and only process the necessary data, so to speak. It’s a shame we can’t retain all the interesting stuff we discover throughout our lives, but thanks to the internet and subreddits like r/todayilearned, we can revisit fascinating facts and historical …
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