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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Guy Rates The Emergency Alarm Sounds For Different Countries, With Unexpectedly Entertaining Results
If there’s one kind of sound in this world that almost everyone universally hates, it’s an alarm going off. It doesn’t matter whether it’s waking you up in the morning, yet another false fire scare in your apartment building or signalling the impending nuclear holocaust, these are noises designed to be as supremely annoying as …
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Man Explores The Creepy Basement Under His House, Finds An Underground Railroad
It is the premise of every other low budget horror movie ever made: a family moves into an old house and finds something that they didn’t bargain for. It’s not something that most people expect to happen in real life, especially not on the scale of an entire underground tunnel. Nonetheless, this is exactly the …
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Completely True Stories That Sound Fabricated
Some stories that exist out there sound like they’re straight out of a movie. They can’t possibly be true, right? Not so – writer Aidan Moher tweeted out the other day asking people to share their most unbelievable true stories, and let us just say…the people delivered.
40+ Fascinating Pics That Show A Special Side Of History
We love nerding out over history pics and trivia tidbits. If you’re also into that kind of thing, then you’ll definitely love these photos that show different angles of well-known historical events that you almost certainly haven’t seen before. Go check out Life in Moments on Twitter for more fascinating pics from history!
Thoughtful Thread Points Out The Privileges Most Of Us Take For Granted
It is accepted wisdom that life is often pretty hard, no matter where you come from. However, it would be stupid to ignore that many of us benefit from circumstances and people in our life while others do not have the same opportunities. This AskReddit got everyone thinking when it questioned all the things that …
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20+ Oddly Specific Ordinances and Little-Known Laws
Did you know that in Arizona it’s illegal for a donkey to sleep in your bathtub? And you better keep close tabs on your birds, because in California it’s illegal to whistle for your canary before 7 a.m. There are hundreds of peculiar laws and ordinances still in effect today even though some of them …
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20+ Animals Doing Entirely Normal Things
One of the worst assumptions we make as humans is that we’re the only living things that have personalities. Our brains may (allegedly) be a lot more developed than other species, but that doesn’t mean other animals don’t have the capacity to express themselves. Some might call it anthropomorphization, but where’s the fun in that? …
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Strange, Mundane And Charming Excerpts From The Treasure That Is Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an institution. It knows almost anything about everything, to the extent that if it doesn’t show up on the first page of most Google results it feels like it’s a problem. Every teacher who ever disapproved of it for being ‘unreliable’? They were bewildered by its gift for cutting homework time in half. …
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4 Movies That Are Actually Propaganda
For as long as there has been a film industry, concerned parents have warned kids that movies like Star Wars, Top Gun, World War Z, and Angry Birds are trying to turn them into violent, promiscuous, Satan-worshipping commies. Well, it turns out they may be right — though half the time it’s not even clear …
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