The Disturbing History of the Suburbs
A nice job, a beautiful family, and a nice little house with a white picket fence – this is the stuff the American Dream is made of. Owning a little piece of land out in the suburbs, where the grass is green and the neighbors are friendly, where kids grow up playing baseball into the...
People Share Things Their Parents Threw out That Is Now Worth a Lot of Money
My dad always says that if he would’ve held on to his baseball card collection from the 1950s he’d be a millionaire. Well, it didn’t exactly work out that way… I don’t know if he threw those cards out or his parents did, but they’re LONG GONE. And you know this is a pretty common story. A...
The Western United States Is Facing the Worst Megadrought in More Than 1,200 Years
With all the awful things going on in the world right now, this is probably the last thing anyone wants to read about, but it is a reality, so it’s better that all of us should be informed about it. A recent study released in the journal Science reveals that a historic megadrought is currently taking place...
15 Facts That Seem Too Weird to Be True
Truth really can be stranger than fiction – there are some facts that, if you read them as part of a story, would make you put it down in disgust because the author went too far. These 15 facts really do seem unbelievable…even though they are 100% true. 15. Yeah, I had to verify this...
10 Facts That Might Pause and Make You Think
What are you doing with all your free time? Napping? Exercising? Cooking? All of those things are great, but you should also be LEARNING. And we’re a great resource for all kinds of interesting things, including FACTS. We have all kinds of great fact sets that make our readers think and they get exposed to...
Nerds Raged After Someone Said ‘Orangutan’ at a Poe Conference and Things Went Downhill From There
Who said the academic world is full of stuffy people, void of emotion? Those crazy cats are ready to put up dukes if they get ruffled enough. Especially if orangutans are mentioned at an Edger Allen Poe conference. Why? Read this Tumblr thread to find out more about what makes academic types start to lose...
Police Officers Open up About the Smartest Criminals They Met
It’s been a staple of film, television, and literature for years. The cunning criminal who is so bright that they routinely outsmart the police and make them look foolish. But this phenomenon exists in real life too, believe it or not. AskReddit users shared their stories about especially smart criminals. Let’s see what they had...