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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Redditors Share the Most Useful Apps They Can’t Believe Are Still Free in Informative Thread

The first time I ever used Shazam, the application that identifies music with the click of a button, it felt like magic. To this day, it’s probably my favorite app. Wherever I go, if I hear a new song that I’m vibing to or one from my past that I totally forgot the name of, …
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Women Discuss Common Parenting Mistakes Dads Make When Raising Daughters

It must be utterly terrifying to be a parent, knowing that anything you say or do (no matter how seemingly trivial at the time) has the potential to mess up your kid enough that they bring it up in therapy some day as an adult. Dads raising daughters opens up a whole other can of …
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Funny Gems & Tidbits From the World of Tumblr

Lots of internet users seem to think that Tumblr dot com is ‘over’ or ‘dead.’ Not so! In fact, Tumblr is thriving. While X (formerly known as Twitter) users flail about in a panic, wondering if Elon Musk is about to destroy the whole platform once and for all with one big paywall, Tumblr users …
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Things That Make People Look Ten Times Older Than They Are

I started smoking cigarettes when I was about eighteen years old. Of course I knew smoking was slowly going to kill me, but at the time, I’d never considered the fact that it was making me uglier. By the time I was thirty, I could tell those decades of sucking down carcinogens had taken a …
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Myth Busters Talk About All the ‘Dangerous’ Things That Are Actually Pretty Safe

If you grew up with parents that were even the slightest bit neurotic, you probably spent a lot of your childhood hearing awful tales about things that could happen to you in the wrong circumstances. The world is a mighty dangerous place where all sorts of things can go wrong, and in turn they can …
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