Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

There are many siblings around the world who would say, if pressed, that they would go to any length to help a brother or sister in need. These Serbian twins really pushed that sibling love to the limit, though, when one of them was born with no testicles and the other had two. 36-Year-Old Serbian...

Sometimes it’s annoying that people are walking around all the time with cameras at the ready. It means you could get caught with no makeup and dirty hair in the back of someone’s Instagram pic at Starbucks, and it means you’ve got to accept that what you say could pretty much always be recorded. But,...

It seems as if there have been a few stories lately when scientists and other suit-and-tie types have been unwilling to say aliens aren’t behind one thing or another – which I guess is the safest course, because no one likes to be proven wrong. I mean, if a situation actually arose in which aliens...

Everyone has that one friend who named their baby something ridiculous (not naming any names here, but yikes), but if you’re like me, you probably just shrug it off. After all, people have the right to name their baby what they’d like (as long as they’re saving an appropriate amount of cash for therapy). Actually,...

There are the television and movie parents who are obviously terrible, and then there are the ones who want you to think they’re just normal and average, but who are actually insidious pricks. The people on Buzzfeed Community pointed out that these 17 parents were really awful, and now that I think about it, I’m...

Despite the fact that the perform a very necessary and friendly service, spiders aren’t exactly beloved by the masses. They eat bugs we don’t like – especially mosquitoes, things that sting, and destructive little turds that eat up our gardens – but for some people, even knowing this can’t negate their screeching reaction to anything...

Art is notoriously subjective – beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that – but when the owners of the Facebook page Smol Animal Memes posted a partially drawn duck and asked people to fill in the rest, they never guessed how much delight their followers would get from the request. Check...

Older people like to treat younger generations like they’re soft – as if they get their feelings hurt over small slights and aren’t tough enough to walk uphill both ways to school in the snow – but the data coming out of a very long, thorough psychological study says that’s not at all true. Basically,...

As Americans, we’re fortunate to be able to travel most of the globe with minimal restrictions. That said, there are some spots that are less-than-welcoming to people from the States (sometimes, understandably so). Just a warning: you might want to think twice before attempting to stamp your passports in these 7 countries. 7. Iran https://www.instagram.com/p/B6iuLn0B7Dm/...

Governments around the world are moving toward equality of the sexes, better understanding of human functions, and teaching science-based sex education, but in some rural areas of mid-western Nepal, girls and women are still forced to spend their periods in unsafe “menstruation huts.” More than one person has suffocated after lighting fires inside in an...

It’s something you might think only happens in the movies: a person realizes that in order to save themselves (or someone else) they have no choice but to disappear from their lives and begin again as someone new. It turns out that people actually do this in real life, though, and here are 15 of...

In this age of automation, sometimes you just need to run diagnostics on your brain. Like, does it still work on its own? Can it figure things out without a search engine? Is there a way to entertain ourselves that doesn’t include a screen? Well, since you’re going to scroll through these on your computer,...

You’ve probably realized by now that having (many) strong passwords is one of the best things you can do to protect your identity, your money, and your privacy in general (if you have trouble remembering a lot of different passwords, get a password manager). Or at least, I hope you have – because there are...

I love this topic, because even in the worst movie, there’s bound to be at least one piece of relatable dialogue or some moment that really deserves better than it got. Think about it and I’ll bet you can come up with more, but these 15 are a great place to start! 15. There’s a...

Fifty years ago, this isn’t a question that would have been on many people’s minds. Student loans were typically small and paid off shortly after graduation, leaving the students who needed them free to start their adult lives, debt-free and degree in hand. Now, things are very different, with the majority of students exiting four...