10 Great Facts to Help You Expand Your Horizons
It’s important to always keep learning and expanding your horizons in life. Being a lifelong learner should be a goal that everyone strives for because having a wide range of knowledge about all different kinds of subjects is good for that brain of yours and it makes us appreciate the world we inhabit a lot...
14 Law Enforcement Workers Talk About What Their Jobs Are Really Like These Days
I am NOT one of those people who believes that there are no good cops and that every single one of them is crooked. I think some are good. Some are bad. Period. I also think police work is a profession where corruption or misconduct of any kind whatsoever can’t be tolerated. Not even the...
People Who Work in Law Enforcement Talk About What the Job Is Like Right Now
Whether you like cops or you don’t, you have to admit that they have a hard job. And things right now are very unpredictable and dangerous, so these comments from cops will be very interesting to read through. Stay safe out there and look out for one another. Here’s what people in law enforcement had...
People Talk About When They Were Told Horrific Stories Very Casually
About a year ago, I was taking an Uber to a friend’s house for a birthday party and making small talk with the driver. Over the course of about 12 minutes, he somehow got around to telling me that he recently got out of prison…for murder. He told me he killed the guy (his sister’s...
Ex-Friends of Killers Talk About What Those People Were Like
How strange (and disturbing) would it be to know someone who went on to be a serial killer or a murderer? You have to think that A LOT of people still remember their days as being friends with someone who went on to commit those types of crimes from school and work, right? Well, we’re...
10 Things You May Not Know About the Postal Service
Most of the time we go about our weeks and days not thinking all that much about the federal postal service. Sure, we might crab about the lines at the post officer or the lack of employees there to help, as long as the mail is coming fairly regularly and we have somewhere to buy...
How Benjamin Banneker, a Black Mathematician, Helped Design Washington D.C.
There’s a fairly commonplace saying, that history is written by the victors. Well, as a historian in another life, I can tell you that not only is it written by the victors, but it’s also almost always written by the rich and the European (in the case of Western history) – the traditionally educated, basically....