Everybody loves a good fun fact, even if it’s useless. Interesting and unique facts can be great conversation starters. Like one of my favorites: Did you know that bananas are actually berries? AND, strawberries are not berries? Fascinating, right? Useful? Not so much. But if you like discovering weird, fun, and random facts like this, …
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Wise Ol’ Boomer Shares 32 Gems of Wholesome Wisdom, Making Him Everyone’s Grandpa Now
Getting older makes you realize that your grouchy old neighbor growing up had every right to be cranky. With creaking bones, aching skin, a receding hairline, and perhaps a touch of memory loss, aging is a frustrating part of life that’s tough to manage with grace. However, there are a delightful few elegant elderly folks …
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‘[Traveling] is not at all on her bingo card’: Elder Millennial couple feud over how to spend $100k in annual benefits, debating van life over a white picket fence
Elder Millennials have been presented with a unique opportunity with their generation. While a lot of folks argue that this generation received the short end of the stick in a lot of ways, one man, an ex-military guy with staggering VA benefits, would argue otherwise. After being injured in combat abroad, u/highspeed_haiku got his golden …
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‘That’s a nighttime jump scare house’: Zillow house goes viral after revealing 9 life-size wax figures on display around the house
Welcome to this cozy 4 bedroom 3-and-a-half bathroom with dazzling mountain views, a walk-up pool, and several giant wax figures of female superheroes who come to life at night. Care to follow me to the dining room?
The Most Entertaining Reddit Posts This Week (March 15, 2024)
If some people are to be believed, Reddit is one of the last good places on the mainstream internet. It’s the place that anyone who’s anyone goes for advice on just about every topic under the sun, and it’s full of juicy, dramatic stories that you can while away many hours reading. Although it doesn’t …
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‘The high five was invented in 1977’: Etymologists reveal the origins of well-known words and phrases
One of the many mind-bending things about knowing a language is how many words and sayings we use while having next to no idea of their origin. Writing and speech change all the time, and when they are built on for hundreds or thousands of years it’s inevitable that some things are going to get …
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41 Bamboozling Images That Need a Little More Context
Earth is a strange and wonderful place. Even before humanity made things a little more colorful, the natural world has always been unusual, interesting, and bamboozling to behold. But guess what, the most interesting part of this silly green planet has got to be this downright strange society we call the human civilization. Take a …
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20+ Funny & Interesting Editor Notes on Wikipedia Articles
We all know Wikipedia as the closest thing we have these days to the font of all knowledge, but it takes a lot of work behind the scenes to be that way. An encyclopedia that technically anybody can edit has to work hard to ensure it doesn’t spread misinformation or faulty research (our teachers were …
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‘Tailored bespoke clothing’: Regular folks share the ‘rich person things’ they’d adopt if they made it big
We love to think about what we’d do if we won the lottery. Often it comes down to pretty simple things: clothes, houses, travel. Most of us would just get nicer versions of things we already have. Okay, maybe I’d buy a flamethrower and a hyperrealistic oil painting of my cat, but mostly I’d just …
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‘Having a trash can that is disguised as a cabinet’: 30+ Universal life goals for economic class climbers that started from the bottom
Growing up poor, you never realize you’re poor until one of those dirtbag rich kids comes to school with the newest Gameboy, rubbing it in the faces of every wistful child in your class and claiming that he has another one at home. Sadly, a lot of folks grew up wishing they could climb the …
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