Abandoned places give me the chills… Whenever I chance upon one, I imagine who once walked its various halls, climbed its staircases, and slept in its bedrooms. Were they troubled? Careless? Frustrated? What was going on their lives at the time, and what led to such a magnificent place being left behind and forgotten? So …
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Nitpicking roommate overreacts after being accidentally overcharged by $6: ‘You were supposed to be my best friend’
Roommates can get passive-aggressive. In an attempt to keep the ‘peace’ in the house a lot of friends living together will resort to petty Post-It notes or labeling their food in the fridge, but at a certain point, when does the passive aggression threaten a friendship? Well, whenever money is involved, every friendship is at …
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29 Fascinating Posts From the Underbelly of Wikipedia
As I’ve said here before, if I could only keep one website on the internet, it would be Wikipedia. In fact, maybe I’d be okay with wiping the internet and starting over with just Wikipedia. No more social media, no more harmful content, just a wholesome fountain of information that never has ads and is …
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‘We’re 5th cousins’: The strange family secrets uncovered by DNA testing
Just took a DNA test turns out I’m 100%… married to my 5th cousin. Whoops! This is exactly the kind of thing that you dread finding out when you take one of those mail-in DNA test kits. I, for one, am too scared to do it for fear that I’m carrying some unknown, dormant disease. …
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‘There is a species of turtle that can breathe through its butt’: 30+ Suspicious Random Facts We Don’t Want the Backstory For
A lot of the knowledge the human race has acquired to date has come about by strange and/or unethical means. More often than not it’s probably a good thing that we know it, but it’s also a stark reminder that not all discoveries are going to be as cutesy and elementary textbook ready as Isaac …
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With a Fictitious $3,000,000,000 Prize at Stake, the Internet Wagers Which Horror Villain They Could Survive 24hours With
We’ve all seen those scary movies where the protagonist is running agonizingly slow through the woods as they attempt to flee from the villain. They’re clumsy, they’re thoughtless, and it seems like every main character that’s about to meet their brutal end is dumber than a doornail. All of these scary movies made viewers irrationally …
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The Weirdest Artifacts Previous Tenants Left for New Owners to Find
One of my favorite reality programs is Storage Wars. If you’re unfamiliar, it follows a crack team of bidders who buy storage units sight unseen in the hopes that they’ll find some interesting and valuable abandoned items. It’s a thrill to find out what they’ve come into. It’s the closest thing we have to pirate’s …
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20 Google Maps Oddities and Glitches That Show the World is a Fascinating Place
If I found myself in some farfetched hypothetical situation where I had to choose only a couple of apps to keep on my phone, Google Maps would be one of them. I have a propensity for getting lost that makes it nothing short of a necessity (I would not have survived adulthood in the analog …
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30 Things With Faces For Pareidolia Obsessives
It’s pretty wild how much brain power we use even when we’re not trying very hard. Our minds are always trying to find links and draw conclusions, and few things exemplify this better than the phenomenon of pareidolia. Finding human faces in inanimate objects is one of those things that sounds ludicrous in principle, but …
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20 Weird Fun Facts for Inquiring Minds
Have you ever been in a group setting where someone asks everyone to «go around and share a fun fact about themselves?» I have, and every time I hear those words it sends a shiver of panic down my spine. A fun fact? About myself? The pressure to be funny, humble, surprising, but not too …
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