Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

Here’s a tale about the founding of America that they don’t (but should) teach you in high school – beer (or lack thereof) played a role in the choice to make Plymouth Rock the first landing place for English settlers in the New World. First, let me dispel the notion that the proper Separatists were...

There’s probably a good chance that you’ve never spent much time considering the bony protrusion at the bottom of your face. I mean, it’s there, you don’t really have to take care of it, if you’re between the pimples and chin hairs seasons of your life, so what’s to consider? Now that you are thinking about it,...

Secrets are rarely – if ever – kept forever. If you’ve got one, you’d better prepare for the day it comes out, because the chances are very high that’s going to happen eventually. These 16 people have some pretty gross secrets, so when they’re out in the open, I’m betting at least a few people...

It’s times like these that the imaginary worlds we love are more important than ever. They’re still intact, unchanged and unbroken, there for us to escape into whenever we’d like. That said, it can also be fun to imagine how our favorite characters would be if they were living in our bizarro timeline – which...

Being poor is like anything else in the wide range of human experience – if it’s not something your intimately familiar with in a firsthand sort of way, there’s a good chance you don’t understand what it’s really like to live that way. When you know better, you do better, so it’s important to try...

Cheesy as it was, Saved by the Bell was one of the most beloved sitcoms of the 90s. We gobbled it up on Saturday mornings, we watched the reruns after school. We loved Zack’s antics, Jessie’s feminist snark, and totally cried when Kelly broke up with Zack for that dumb college bro. So, for a certain set...

There is no reason for kids to hate learning history the way they typically do – I blame crappy teachers, to be honest, who force us to memorize boring stuff, never tell the fun stories, and fail to contextualize how the past can and does affect the present (and future). If you love your memes...

When you think about horror movies, maybe jokes and laughs aren’t the first things that come to mind. That said, everyone who loves horror knows that the good ones always have some moments of memorable levity – it lets you exhale, and it also puts you at ease right before it stabs you in the...

People love sharing life hacks on the internet, almost as much as people love learning new life hacks on the internet. There aren’t enough hours in the day, so why wouldn’t we all be looking for ways to squeeze some more productivity out of the ones we have? If you love life hacks, you’re going to love...

The rest of the world enjoys poking fun at the Brits, because…I guess because their stereotypical stiff upper lip and lack of outward emotions are sort of funny. But also it’s allowed because historically, they’ve been major arseholes who colonized millions of cultures around the world. Here are 14 tweets from the account @SoVeryBritish that...

They say things are a classic for a reason, and generally, that’s true. But when it comes to classic novels, the reasons they could be considered classic – like they were written during the transition from Tsarist to Communist Russia, for example (looking at you, Anna Karenina) – might have nothing to do with how...

So many people love true crime, unsolved mysteries, and even ghostly murder tales these days, it just makes sense that we enjoy the idea that we could solve some of these crimes ourselves. If you’d like to don your detective hat, pick up a spyglass, and give some murder riddles a try, we think these...

Anyone who was watching teen movies in the early 2000s surely remembers The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. Though not a huge hit, the film was a cult classic that remains beloved by people of a certain age even today. If that’s you, get excited – director Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids) has confirmed that Sharkboy and Lavagirl...

It’s always a weird thing, to find out that someone’s name isn’t their actual name, right? Sometimes, it makes sense why they chose to go by something else – like Chipper Jones eschewing the first name “Larry” – but other times, it’s just too strange to think of them as anything else. In these 12...

Listen, anyone who has been to a State Fair anywhere in the Midwest (which includes North Texas, I believe) can attest to the fact that absolutely anything can be fried. It doesn’t matter if it should be fried, only that it can be, because my friends…just about anything tastes better after being introduced to some batter and...