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Buying A New Car Sucks. Why Do We Even Visit Dealerships Anyways?

How Benjamin Banneker, a Black Mathematician, Helped Design Washington D.C.

There’s a fairly commonplace saying, that history is written by the victors. Well, as a historian in another life, I can tell you that not only is it written by the victors, but it’s also almost always written by the rich and the European (in the case of Western history) – the traditionally educated, basically....

Biology Professor Breaks Down Why Defining Sex and Gender Is Actually Not Simple At All

Sex and gender are more complicated than people want to believe. And in a world where many, many brave folks are coming forward to say that they don’t want to be categorized with the sex they were born with, or that they don’t identify with a particular gender at all, or a hundred other combinations...

12 Things That Exist Solely Due to Low Intelligence

Sometimes we run across rules or precautions that just seem so dang obvious, we wonder why on earth they even need to be stated. Perhaps it’s for legal reasons, perhaps it’s because at some point some person made a very stupid decision. AskReddit users share the feelings on things that exist solely because of stupid...

21-Year Old WWII Soldier’s Sketchbooks Offer a Stunning View of a Horrific War

If you’re an artist, you know that no day is complete if you’ve had no way to create. I’m an author, and even on days when I don’t write, my brain is working on unsnarling plots, registering new ideas, or chatting with characters in my head. For 21-year-old Victor Lundy, he took his sketchbook everywhere...

New Guidelines Released Of Birth Years for Millennials, Gen-X, and ‘Post-Millennials’

Guys, listen. I’m a Xennial (Gen X), and I identify pretty hard with my people. We’re a bunch of nihilists who depend on only ourselves and have been expecting the fiery destruction of the world as we know it for some time now, and we’re doing okay. Mostly. That said, I totally feel for Millennials,...

Was the 1945 “Pitchfork Murder” of Charles Walton the Result of Occult Activity?

The brutal murder of Charles Walton, on February 14, 1945, remains one of Britain’s strangest unsolved cases. Seemingly motiveless, riddled with rumors of occult practices, and hampered by a wall of silence from potential witnesses, it confounded even the greatest detective of the time, Scotland Yard’s legendary Robert Fabian. On the day of his murder,...

16 Things Many People Learn Too Late

There are many life lessons and other tidbits that would be super useful to us earlier in life – if I was going to add something to this list it would be the fact that it really doesn’t matter what other people think about you. Age and experience are, unfortunately, the best teachers, but here...

What Used to Be Cool but Is Now Cringeworthy? Here’s What People Had to Say.

Are you old enough to remember HyperColor t-shirts? They were pretty much the coolest thing around for a brief moment in time when I was growing up… And then, in an instant, they were totally UNCOOL and cringeworthy. And you and I know that kind of thing happens all the time. Let’s get some more...

VIDEO: Watch Early Pokémon Sun Gameplay!

If you love watching Pokémon GO videos on YouTube, you know the channel MoreAliA. This guy is an absolute gaming nut, and he LOVES all things Pokémon. He even has a dog named Eevee. Like I said, pretty obsessed. (For real though, that’s a cute dog.) His channel is so popular, Nintendo sent him Pokémon Sun...

6 Ways You Could Repurpose Your Coffee Grounds

Since somewhere around 70% of Americans enjoy a cup of joe at least a couple of times a day, there’s a good chance you’re disposing of a bunch of coffee grounds on a weekly basis. I’m not sure what percentage of Americans are interested in re-using what they can instead of tossing it into the...

16 Security Guards Dish On The Weirdest Thing They’ve Seen On A Shift

There are all kinds of jobs out there that I feel like would have super interesting components to them – mostly positions that end up putting people in contact with the public, of course – and security guards are no exception. And to the ones that work at night, well…that just ups the weirdness quotient,...

Where the “H” in “Jesus H. Christ” Actually Comes From

When yelling “Jesus Christ” just isn’t enough, you might add an extra letter in there: Jesus H. Christ. It’s like Jesus’s full name that you break out when you’re really serious. But what does the “H” even stand for? Well, first of all, the “H” is not a middle initial, because Jesus Christ is not...

These 10 Photoshopped Pictures of Eminem “Smiling” Are Vast Improvements on the Original

Eminem seems to be one of those divisive artists – people love him, they hate him, they appreciate his musical contributions but can’t stand his personal choices – which means that it’s hard to get a consensus on the man in any random group of friends. But I truly think we can all agree on...

What Red Flags Did You Notice on a First Date? People Shared Their Stories.

Have you ever been on a first date and you could just tell it wasn’t going well and the person you were with was giving off serious red flags that made you want to hit the road? Sure you have! We’ve all been there! And these AskReddit users were nice enough to tell us about...