History

I’ve heard people who have been to prison talk about how there are some things that you never forget from your time on the inside: the smells, the noise…and the fear. And I hope and pray that you and I will never have to learn what it’s like to be incarcerated. What’s the most interesting...

Okay, this is a weird one, so hang on tight… I was in an Uber a few years ago and the driver ended up telling me that he just got out of prison for k**ling a man who had treated his sister badly. Quite a conversation for someone you met 30 seconds ago, huh? What’s...

Some people just have the gift of gab. And some people who have that gift talk about things that are downright creepy. I guess we all still have the ability to be surprised sometimes, right? AskReddit users shared the creepiest things people ever told them. Let’s have look, shall we? 1. Creepy from a young...

It’s pretty crazy to think about all the ways the world and the United States have changed dramatically in the last 20 years. Things we never could have imagined are now pretty commonplace…some of them good and some of them really, really bad. People on AskReddit talked about rational sentences they could say today that...

History, as they say, is written by the winner… So there’s bound to be some historical figures who have been fawned over and praised even though they really weren’t all that impressive when you delve into the details. Well, that stops today! People on AskReddit shared who they think are the most overrated people in...

We hear a lot about the UNDERRATED people in history, but today we’re gonna take a different approach. We’re gonna hear about the historical figures that people think really weren’t all that great. Who do you think is the most overrated person in history? Here’s what AskReddit users had to say. 1. Amateur hour. “Jack...

You might think that, since you know the Vanderbilt name and it’s even on a big, prestigious university and everything, that they must have gone out of this world with more money than they entered it with…but you would be wrong. If you love sordid tales of America’s past, buckle up – because the story...

Chicken nuggets – the preferred meal of toddlers everywhere, and also, delicious enough that their parents don’t mind snagging the leftovers. Who is the brilliant mind behind these little nuggets of yum, though? When did they first come into existence and save little kids from having to eat actual food day in and day out?...