Mongolian warriors used to ride horses bareback through the plains of Siberia, firing off arrows with deadly accuracy as they clung to the sides of their mounts at full gallop. Ceremoniously painting their Pintos for the solstice hunt. Native Americans chased down two-ton bison to feed their tribe for the long winter. American adventurers crossed …
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29 Weird and Wacky Oddities Found at Garage Sales
I love a good bargain find. You’ll often see me elbow-deep in the bins at the Goodwill, shoveling through mountains of stuff to find some gold. I’ll spend all day there rifling through stuff that other people have discarded. One man’s trash, they say, is another man’s treasure, and I find that to be universally …
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‘She is not going to stop’: Boy’s mother sneakily mixes spice-intolerant girlfriend’s spicy and mild salsa together whenever she visits their apartment
Some folks can’t handle even a little bit of spice. Spicy food lovers will have a hard time swallowing that pill, but some intolerances just cannot be remedied. At the very least, spice lovers will have all the extra hot salsa they desire without fear of it being eaten. Sounds like a good trade-off to …
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24-year-old stepfather asks 35-year-old stepkid to call him dad, stepkid refuses, leading to a family dispute when mom gets involved: ‘He was about to cry’
‘Delulu’ is a term youngsters are now using to describe people acting completely delusional, and even somewhat crazy, and I could not think of a better word to describe the guy in this story. As much as families are important, you cannot be forced to become family with anyone. Sure, you often don’t really get …
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‘Being obsessed with bacon. Or cats. Or narwhals’: 20+ things that were socially acceptable in 2010, but weird today
The second decade of a new century is often an odd one. It’s a time when people have mostly shaken off the influences of the previous hundred years, but they aren’t quite sure how it looks like the next few are going to pan out yet. In fact, they are the literal teen years of …
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‘I was trying to be polite but your kid is weird’: Mom turns down 2nd playdate after playmate makes her 11-year-old daughter uncomfortable, other mom won’t take no for answer
It’s easy to reject somebody as a friend when you’re an adult. You just have to cancel hangouts or not show up to their house parties a consistent but unspecific number of times before they finally get the hint that you’re not interested. Some might find this cruel, but I think it’s way less cruel …
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45+ Liminal Spaces and Interesting Interiors You Might Recognize From Your Dreams
Liminal spaces are defined as «empty or abandoned places that appear eerie, forlorn, and often surreal.» They’re spaces that make us feel like we’re in between two places, not quite here and not quite there. They feel haunted and empty, yet suggest the presence of humans, perhaps from a bygone era. They look like places …
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‘I don’t think so’: Woman forbids neighboring kids from using her tree house after their mom refuses to teach them to clean up after themselves
Having a tree house as a kid meant that you were probably the ruler of the neighborhood. Everyone wanted to be your friend, they all came over to your house to play in the tree house, and it simply made you the most popular kid around. Not that I would know how that feels, I …
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‘I had to chase the customer down three blocks’: Pizza delivery drivers share the wildest reasons customers ended up on the ‘no delivery’ list
Some people have been through and seen it all when it comes to their line of work, and by ‘some people’, I mostly mean pizza delivery drivers. Having to deliver food to someone’s home, sometimes at the weirdest hours of the day, surely invites some bizarre stories to be told. Sometimes those stories can be …
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25+ Weird Items Sold on Temu and Wish That Have to Be Seen to Be Believed
In their recent fake «Xiemu» ad, SNL perfectly captured the weirdness and shadiness of popular e-Commerce sites like Temu and Shein. «How so cheap? Don’t worry about it!» The voiceover ominously announces. But beyond their questionable labor practices and fall apart in one-use quality, sites like these are also full of products you never knew …
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