Kill the Bully: The Slaying of Bobby Kent
Hollywood, Florida is a typical suburban town outside of Fort Lauderdale, but in 1993, it felt anything but typical. The normally quiet town received a torrent of unwanted media attention when a grisly true crime tale unfolded before the residents’ horrified eyes. More shocking than the murder itself was the fact that a group of...
This Is What Happens When You Invite Barack and Michelle Obama to Your Wedding
Presidents and First Ladies get tons and tons of mail, even in today’s digitally-inclined world. You might assume that most of the mail gets glanced over then discarded, or perhaps stored away for future historians and archivists to pore over in 100 years. This is apparently not the case with Barack and Michelle Obama. A...
The Smallest Hotel on Earth Was Built Because of an Old Marriage Law
The smallest hotel on Earth is a very unique destination in its own right, but the history of this tiny building in Amberg, Germany makes it even more interesting. The Eh’häusl Hotel is only 8 feet wide, and it contains seven floors that comprise a grand total of 570 square feet. Only two people can...
This Band Brilliantly Manipulated Spotify to Their Advantage
I’ve always wondered how artists benefit from having their albums on Spotify. Well, at least some of my questions are now answered. A band called Vulfpeck took a brilliant approach to use the online music streaming service to their own advantage. As it stands now, bands make $0.007 per stream. That ain’t a whole helluva lot....
Jedi Are WAY More Badass Than We Ever Thought…and This Simulator Proves It
The folks over at Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator have come up with yet another fantastic virtual battle. This edition: 60,000 medieval warriors squaring off against a measly 300 Jedi. Although they vastly outnumber their opponents in the simulation, it seems the foot soldiers are no match for the skilled Jedi, and, though some Jedi do...
Video Proves Rainbows Are Really Full Circles — They Are Not Arcs In The Sky
You’ve always believed that rainbows are half-circles, correct? You’ve also probably always longed to find a pot o’ gold at the end at that half-circle, right? Prepare to have your mind blown (and your pot o’ gold dreams ruined). A crane operator in St. Petersburg, Russia filmed a rainbow from a 1,500-foot skyscraper that proves...
There’s Actually a Job Where You Can Dress up as a Panda to Play with Real Panda Cubs
We all love panda bears. That’s just a factual statement. If you REALLY love pandas, there’s a job you might be interested in. You’d have to move to China, but, hey, we all have to make sacrifices, right? The Wolong Natural Nature Reserve, in Sichuan Province, is looking for the ideal candidate to play with...
This Woman Is Mocking Shirtless Bros Who Hate on Sexy Women, and It’s Wonderful
Double standards can really get people fired up, but when it comes down to it most folks sit around complaining and don’t do anything. But one woman named Lindsey decided that there was so many brain-dead, oblivious fellas out there piling on to dumb double standards, she just had to mock them publicly. Lindsey created...
Artist Turns Women’s Stretch Marks into Beautiful Pieces of Art
Cinta Tort Cartró has attracted quite a following on Instagram for her unique, unusual artwork. Better known as Zinteta, she incorporates the female body into her work, but maybe not the way you’d expect. The artist has been painting women’s stretch marks and posting the beautiful, rainbow results on her account. On her Instagram account,...
Why Do Stop Signs Have 8 Sides?
Just last week, I took a friend of mine to the DMV so she could get a new license. While I waited 6 hours for her to finish up, I perused the official DMV literature to pass the time. As I was looking through the section on road signs, I asked myself, “What’s up with...
This Popular Tumblr Account Teaches Men How to Pleasure Women…the Right Way
There’s a hot tumblr account that’s relying on advice from women across the world to answer an age-old question… What are the best methods/techniques/tricks/skills/etc. to give a woman an orgasm? An anonymous woman who calls herself “Sylvia” said she started the “How To Make Me Come” tumblr because she wanted: A platform for women to...
PETA Probably Shouldn’t Have Asked Twitter for Reasons to Eat Bacon
PETA, PETA, PETA. I admire your cause (even though I’m too much of a carnivore to join your ranks), but sometimes you just bring the pain upon yourself. Like recently, when the animal rights organization posed a question on Twitter that opened the floodgates for some serious Twitter snark. Some cut straight to the chase....
Guy Discovers Prototype of the Nintendo Playstation in His Dad’s Attic
Nintendo PlayStation. Sounds like a video game nerd’s wet dream, right? Well, it was almost a reality, and now we have the proof. A guy named Dan Diebold found THE ONLY REMAINING PROTOTYPE of the Nintendo PlayStation in his dad’s attic. Dan’s dad, Terry Diebold, worked as a maintenance man and was supposed to trash...
You Can Now Fulfill Kristen Bell’s Lifelong Dream: A Sloth Slumber Party
Everyone loves a good sleepover, right? I’m not talking about the kind where you go home with someone you met on Tinder an hour earlier. I’m talking about the fun kind, like when you were a kid. Now you and a friend can have the ultimate slumber party… With sloths. Yes, sloths. The Zoological Wildlife...
The Mystery of the Disappearing Women in Ireland’s ‘Vanishing Triangle’
In the 1990s, eight women mysteriously disappeared in an area of southeast Ireland that is now referred to as Ireland’s “Vanishing Triangle.” The women were all young, and each vanished without a trace, leading many to believe that a serial killer may have been at work in Ireland during the time period. Today, the mystery...