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11 People Who Weren’t Content Resting on Their Laurels

There’s nothing wrong with taking a pause, looking around, and enjoying where you’re at in life. That said, you’ll never be getting your own Wikipedia page listing your many achievements if you get stuck there. Take a page from these 11 people’s books – they definitely didn’t rest on their laurels, and look what they’ve...

10 People Whose Achievements Awe and Inspire

If you’re looking for someone to look up to, someone whose life and achievements will motivate you to reach higher and run faster…that can sometimes be tough to find. We’ve got 10 people here though who were built to go the extra mile, and since they might be new to you, prepared to be amazed!...

27 Pictures That Will Make You Feel Just a Bit Old

If you ask me, being “old” really isn’t the horrible state of affairs we feared in our twenties. We have a bit of money, we have space of our own, and now that we’re “old,” no one thinks we’re lame if we want to order takeout and binge Netflix every weekend. If you’re “old,” though...

If You’d Like to Own a Haunted Scottish Village, Here’s Your Chance

There are two types of people in this world: people who hear “haunted village” and go “nope,” and people who hear “haunted village” and go “please, tell me more.” If you’re here, I’m guessing you’re one of the latter folks (welcome, bestie), so let’s get to the (hor)crux of the story, shall we? The Old...

16 People Share the Scariest Thing That’s Happened to Them in Broad Daylight

We tend to think of well-lit, populated places in the middle of the day as being fairly safe. We let our guards down, we assume nothing bad can happen in public…but listen. Take it from the girl who watches tons of murder documentaries – that’s just not true. If you don’t believe me, listen to...

17 People Muse on the Wildest Things Our Human Ancestors Did

It’s pretty weird to think about all of the trials and tribulations that previous iterations of human beings struggled through just to make it from dawn until dusk. Their coping mechanisms seem out of this world to us, but for them, it was just daily business. If they could watch us for a day, no...

18 Facts That Never Get Old and Always Make Us Smile

Some facts never get old, even when you hear them more than once. That’s the thing about knowledge – there’s so much out there to soak up that even cool facts can fall out of your head as fast as they went in, you know? So we think that even if you’ve heard these 18...

19 Straight-Up Fascinating Facts We’d Love to Show You

Facts are our business around here, so I like to think we know good ones when we see them. “Good” can mean different things to different people, but one of the factors for me is definitely the question “will it send me down an excellent rabbit hole?” These 19 facts definitely meet that (and other)...