If Your Mom Told You It Was Okay Never to Shave Your Thighs…You’re Not Alone
The day you start shaving is a big one in the life of any young girl. Chances are you’ve been asking for awhile, you’re nervous but excited and sure that somehow this is going to make you less awkward in gym class. Your mom, on the other hand, is full of warnings that make you...
This Guy Used to Make Fun of Tiny Dogs, Until a Chihuahua Saved His Life. Now, He Rescues Them.
Apparently, there is a certain set of people who think small dogs are dumb. Or, maybe, not very manly. My fella was once verbally harassed in a McDonald’s drive thru for having my papillon on his lap, so this is definitely real. Luckily, my husband is confident and my dog was awesome, so whatever. Bobby...
A Second Woman Pulls Parasitic Eye Worms out of Her Eye, and Doctors Fear It’s Just the Beginning
My husband likes to watch shows like Monsters Inside Me, and let me tell you – I’ve never been as paranoid to climb in a lake or take a hike in the tropics as I am after living with him for six years. And this species of worm that infects human eyes seems like it...
Pixar Is Making a Movie About Death, and the First Trailer Is An Emotional Roller Coaster
If you’re any kind of Pixar fan, then you, like the rest of us, have begun to realize that their writers and creators sustain themselves on the tears of their viewers. Between the beginning of Up, pretty much every moment of Toy Story (all of them), the short film Lava, and BingBong’s death in Inside...
Teenagers Are Using TikTok to Make History Less Boring — And It’s Working
TikTok isn’t history class (it’s probably not allowed in most history classes), but teenagers all over are using the newish social media platform to prove the adults around them wrong (again). Many of the commentaries are a bit simple, but hey – you have to remember that some people are hearing about these events for...
Meet Mojito, the Golden Retriever Puppy Who Emerged a Lovely Shade of…Green
In a twist that seems more worthy of Oz than plain old Earth, a regularly-colored golden retriever has given birth to a green puppy. https://www.instagram.com/p/B4C6INKAE4p/ Just one – the other eight members of the litter were all hued similarly to their parents (and presumably, their parents before them). Little Mojito was born just before Halloween...
The Trick to Solving a Rubik’s Cube
The Rubik’s Cube was invented in 1974 by a Hungarian professor named Erno Rubik, and get this – he didn’t realize he was making a puzzle at all until he accidentally scrambled it up and couldn’t fix is. “It was a code I myself had invented, yet I could not read it,” he famously said....
A Million Cannibal Ants Have Escaped from an Abandoned Nuclear Bunker
In a bizarre, isolated microcosm of nature, hundreds of thousands of worker ants have been forced to survive by eating the “corpses of their imprisoned nestmates” after they found themselves trapped in an abandoned nuclear bunker in Poland. Apparently, some individuals fell through a vent in the ceiling and were unable to climb back up...
Sweating Is Not at All Detoxifying
Now, y’all, I love to get sweaty. It feels good to feel your muscles sweat and work, and something about feeling the sweat pop out on your skin makes me feel accomplished, like it might all be worth it in the end. But of course you don’t have to exercise to get sweating. Hot yoga,...
20 Funny Insults That Really Only Work in German
Everyone knows that German is a weird language. There are lots of vowels, and in order to speak it correctly, you kind of have to sound as angry as possible. Plus the words get really, really long. It turns out, though, that their insults are surprisingly creative and funny. So the next time you really want to...
How Far You Can Actually Drive After Your Gas Tank Reads Empty
There are two kinds of people in the world: people who get gas when the gauge drops below half a tank, and people who wait for their gas light to come on, drive a while longer, and then stop to fill up at the last minute. As someone who falls into the latter category, I’ve...
Here’s Why Bob Ross Made Three Copies of Every Painting For Each TV Show
For many people, Bob Ross and his happy little trees are a source of nostalgia, comfort, and relaxation that we’ve never really been able to duplicate. He’s getting more and more attention as the years go by and new fans discover his patient style of creating art, but there’s always something we can learn, right?...
It Turns out Aussies Have Been Eating a Fish Previously Unknown to Science
To be fair, Australians already confront crazy-looking (and deadly) animals on a daily basis, so it probably never occurred to them to question a fish that tasted pretty okay and didn’t kill anyone once ingested. They probably didn’t expect to find out, though, that literally no one had ever heard of or seen the fish...
15 Redditors Weigh in on the Idea of a 4-Day Work Week
Recently, Microsoft tested a 4-day workweek with one of their subsidiaries in Japan and reported upsides galore – but do you think it would work across the board? What would be the benefits? The downsides? Well, these 15 Redditors have thought it through, and their musings are definitely a good place to start. 15. More...
Why Baking Makes You Happy, According to Science
I love baking. There’s something soothing about it when you’re having a bad day, when the weather turns dreary, or when you’re feeling a bit blue – and it turns out, that’s not just a weird quirk of mine. According to psychologists, baking makes people happier. And it’s not just because you get to lick...