Posts by Adan Mathews

Are you ready to be freaked out by simple pictures of the street? The latest optical illusion going viral on Imgur is two identical pictures of the street side-by-side, which look like different camera angles. It’s hard to believe that these photos are indeed identical, but the original poster has evidence to prove it. Check...

Holy moly, this letter from a fifth grader is BRUTAL. A Twitter user going by @TheAyannaShow posted a letter written by a child to a teacher that this girl hates very much. Hates with the burning of a thousand million suns. Hates with a hate that is more than a hate. Y’all I’m screaming. To...

Meet Colleen Dagg, the Internet’s newest hero: The Florida resident recently won the hearts of Twitter when she physically fought a racist white woman in a hotel lobby. According to various reports, tweets and Facebook posts, the woman made a racist comment about Haitians. The video then shows the woman getting in Dagg’s face and...

Qasim Rashid, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., went viral for giving a white supremacist—and the internet—a much-needed history lesson. Rashid gets harassed on the internet by anti-Muslim a-holes on the regular. One of them, who was likely quite proud of this “hot take,” asked him “Where’s the Christian version of ISIS and every other religion...

We create new Fact Snacks for you every single day and put them up on our website. But it’s a tough road from fact to Fact Snack. More than half of our submitted, fully-researched facts never even get to be Fact Snacks. Yet here we are, dropping facts on our blog and website multiple times...

We’ve got a sweet and tasty bunch of fact snacks ready for you. Actually, they’re always ready for you at our website, but I know that sometimes you just want us to do the picking for you. In this roundup, I’ve got a secret CIA program that involved doing pretty unethical stuff to cats, a...

Can you die from drinking too much liquor, coffee, or even water? Of course. Too much of anything can be deadly, right? But how much are we really talking about here? For the most part, it’s a lot. Like more than any person would logically think of imbibing. Unless you’re into eating ground cherry pits…...

Need a term to describe your habit of buying too many books? The Japanese have a word for that. Does it matter to you how the inventor of the GIF thinks you should pronounce the word? Either way, we’ve got that, too. We’ve got all that, along with ancient Egyptian doctors who were extremely specialized...

I hate waiting. Sometimes, when I’m waiting on trains, I imagine myself jumping onto the tracks, hitting the third rail, and frying to a crisp, just before the train arrives to crush my smoldering corpse. But that’s just me… Right? Or do you have those thoughts, too? There have been many names for it throughout...

We create new Fact Snacks for you every single day and put them up on our website. But it’s a tough road from fact to Fact Snack. More than half of our submitted, fully-researched facts never even get to be Fact Snacks. Yet here we are, dropping facts on our blog and website multiple times...

Have you been thinking of taking one of those jobs teaching English in Japan? I know you’ve seen the ads. I mean, why not? If you’re single, you want a bit of cultural exchange, and you don’t mind children, this could be a pretty sweet gig. I have friends who’ve gone, and they all seemed...

Wolves are some fascinating creatures. They don’t really have magic powers, but it sure can feel like it, sometimes. After all, they have the power to reshape the ecosystem. They make surprising friends. And some of them even have pee that smells like weed. What?! Yes: 5. Maned wolf pee smells like weed. Sources: 1,...

What a tangled web the ecosystem weaves. Everything has a place. The dragonfly, the mosquito, the whale, and even the wolf. In fact, when it comes to wolves, we didn’t know how much we missed them, until they returned: Sources: 1, 2, 3 After being essentially eradicated by 1926, wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone in 1995. At...

What if Professor Snape didn’t die?! Or What if he did die, but he was banished to an airport in the US? Wouldn’t that be the ultimate? Well… Sources: 1, 2, 3 The hunt for sneaky Snape seems to have started out back in 2012, when this was first posted to Imgur: The caption read: Professor...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has had some pretty heavy duty one-liners. He basically made a career out of it. Though they might not always hold up in translation: Sources: 1, 2, 3 But they were enough to keep him in Humvees for a long time. He spun that fame into a seat at the head of California’s...