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How to Turn Your Broken Refrigerator Into a Cool Outdoor Bar

If you’re like me, you probably haven’t spent too much time in your life wondering how you could repurpose your old refrigerator. I mean, when my fridge breaks I mostly curse at it, buy a new fridge, then get excited about a new appliance. Because I’m old. But these days, people are rightfully looking for...

These 20 Warm and Fuzzy Tweets Are Sure to Make You Smile

Let’s take a break from all the doom and gloom going on in the world to feel good about our universe for a few minutes. (This will be temporary, I promise). These 20 tweets are simple, sweet, and wholesome. And we all need a lil’ bit of that right now, brothers and sisters. 1. Policin’...

18 People Share the Less Obvious Signs Someone Might Be in Emotional Distress

A good portion of the population struggles with mental health issues, and almost everyone will experience a rough period or a situational depression more than once in their lives. When we’re feeling down, we need people to reach out to us, and when others are feeling at the end of their rope, we want to...

16 Flight Attendants Share the Wildest On-The-Job Stories They’ve Got

There are a ton of jobs that I think generate pretty good stories to tell, and I would venture to guess that a good 99% of those are jobs that force you to work with other human beings as customers. Flight attendants have a little more leeway and power when it comes to checking the...

Even Ancient Persians Recognized More Genders Than Just ‘Male And Female’

In the modern world, the ideas that gender can only be male and female and that those identities are unalterably set at birth is only starting to change (and only among some sets). But a study of 3,000-year-old Persian graves suggests that the ancient Persian people had a much broader definition. Though some modern people...

Ryan Reynolds Crashed an ‘X-Men’ Zoom Reunion and It Got Awkward Fast

People all across the world have been spending a lot more time at home during the coronavirus pandemic, and that includes celebrities. One way many entertainers have kept the rest of us going is by hosting reunions on Zoom. Recently, several people who have starred in the X-Men films decided to have a virtual meet-up....

Was This Man Wrong to Put His Nanny (Not His Wife) on a Family Membership?

Family dynamics are complex, and honestly not something we can really comment on from the outside most of the time. Families not only look different than they used to, they function differently, too, with both parents working or the woman becoming the breadwinner, etc. The people of Reddit being asked to weigh in on these...

New Law in the Philippines Requires Students to Plant at Least 10 Trees to Graduate

The world’s green spaces may be in peril, but Filipino students are doing their part to help. In fact, they don’t really have a choice in the matter; a new law will require all students to plant at least 10 trees before they can graduate from high school and college. Planting trees upon graduation is already...

People Shared What They Want for Christmas. What’s on Your List?

Is it weird that I still ask my parents for presents like this around Christmastime even though I’m well into adulthood? (And this is how they respond, too…). Christmas is almost here, and I hope that you have your list together of what you want and need this year. These AskReddit users sure know what...

Study Claims Air Pollution Now Kills More People Than Smoking

Recent research, published in the European Heart Journal, suggests that air pollution now kills more people than cigarettes – a bold claim and, if true, a sad one. After all, people choose to smoke cigarettes, but no one decides to breathe in polluted air at the bus stop or on their morning jog. The study...

Overweight Person Made a Dinner Awkward When They Were Served Less Food Than Others. Did She Overreact?

I’m not gonna lie, this story made me cringe when I read it. And if you don’t think there is discrimination against overweight people in our society, you’re not paying attention. Take a look at this story from Reddit’s “Am I the A**hole?” page and see what happened to an overweight person at a dinner....

These Are the Animals That Went Extinct in 2018

Sadly, living on Earth means that we inevitably cause harm to other animal species. And each year, some animals go extinct. Part of it – a big part – is the fault of human beings, part of it is natural selection. There is no doubt, however, that animal extinctions are happening at a faster rate....

This Electric Eel Can Generate Enough Electricity to Light a Christmas Tree

‘Tis the season to watch eels power your Christmas lights show. Isn’t that the way the saying goes? No? Well it might be now, after the Tennessee Aquarium live-tweeted their resident social media eel, Miguel Wattson, using his bio-electric discharges to light up a Christmas tree. The only proper way to enjoy this is with...

Top 10 Binge-Worthy Facts About Netflix Shows

I’m going to date myself, but remember when you scheduled your free time around TV? You and your family would rush home to catch your favorite shows, such as Roseanne or America’s Funniest Videos?  Remember the disappointment you felt when you missed that week’s show? Kids today will never understand the pain of waiting for...