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11 History Buffs Bust Common Myths

There are so many things that we just believe to be true or real, just because at some point, an authority figure told us they were. But here’s the thing: so much has changed over the years, even with the way we understand and teach fairly recent human history, so it turns out that a...

Could You Outsmart A Detective For 24 Hours? These People Are Up To The Challenge!

You’d be hard-pressed these days to find someone who doesn’t enjoy a good mystery, detective drama, or true crime documentary. There’s something about it that just fascinates us, but if I’ve learned anything from my binging, it’s that I seriously doubt I could get away with a crime. One Redditor posed this question: If you...

18 People Muse On What Makes Them Think of the Early 2000s

Listen, as someone who was in college (argh) in the late 90s/early 2000s, I definitely have some nostalgia for the period, no matter then tiny butterfly hair clips and in-depth discussions on whether NSYNC or The Backstreet Boys were the superior boyband. It’s NSYNC, and I won’t be entertaining arguments to the contrary in the...

17 People Share What Always Makes Them Think Of The Early 2000s

If you were an 80s or even an early 90s baby, there’s a good chance that the early 2000s are a serious nostalgia period for you. For me, a *cough* late 70s baby, the early aughts were my late college years, and yeah…they definitely seem like the good old days to me. There are things...

15 Great Comebacks To People Who Don’t Understand American History

If you think that a majority of people in America have a decent grasp on the historical events that have gotten us to this point, well…I’m very sorry to have to disappoint you on that topic. We all took those history classes in school, but if your education was anything like mine, a disturbing number...

11 Super Cool Vintage Finds That The Internet Shared

There are two types of people in this world – people who accumulate new and fancy things at every opportunity, and people who love trolling garage sales and secondhand stores and their grandparents’ cabinets for the vintage styles they love. These 11 people are the latter type, and their schlepping to Goodwill (among other places)...

People Talk About What Used to Be Great but Is Now Really Bad

There are a lot of bands that I loved when I was younger that are still at it that are just flat-out painful these days…sorry but it’s the truth. I give them credit for keeping it going, but jeez…it ain’t pretty. What do you think used to be great but is now really bad? AskReddit...

People Talk About About the Scariest Things They’ve Seen While Walking at Night

I try not to dwell on it too much, but we live in a world that is full of danger. You never know what’s around the next corner and you gotta keep your eyes and your ears peeled when you’re out and about: especially when you’re out walking after dark. Folks on AskReddit talked about...