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5 Terrifying Ways Your Own Body Can Totally Hang You out to Dry

We depend on our bodies and our senses to give us accurate feedback about the world around us – how it looks, if it’s hot, what the food we’re about to eat smells like, and so on. But what if you had a condition or a disease that meant you couldn’t trust what your own...

There’s Now a Name for the Micro Generation Born Between 1977-1983

I know this sounds like a special snowflake thing to say, but as someone born in 1979, the truth is I’ve never identified with either Gen X-ers or Millennials. I didn’t grow up with technology, but I’m comfortable with it. I ran loose as a child, without any real fear of predators, sex parties, prescription...

20 Teachers Share What They Found When They Looked up Former Students on Social Media

I’m guilty of having looked up a teacher or two a few years since high school, but it never dawned on me they might be looking up their old students, too! These teachers did just that and shared some of the responses with AskReddit. Take a look at some surprising finds and some not so surprising ones:...

15 Crazy Party Stories to Top off Your Day

Listening to people’s drunken crazy stories is one of my favorite things to do. Let’s be honest: We all like to go a little bonkers, but the consequences…Let’s just say the night might be fun, but it’s not always worth the next morning. Check out these AskReddit users’ best party stories, and save yourself the hangover: 1....

Humanity Is So Jacked up It Turned an AI Chatbot Into a Nazi in Less Than 24 Hours

Microsoft launched a chatbot experiment named “Tay” on Twitter back in March of 2016. Tay was built to learn as she communicated with more and more people, and she started out with a pretty decent background in social media parlance like memes and emoji. At first, things seemed to be going just fine: But it...

Can’t Wait Any Longer: The Chilling Disappearance of Jean Spangler

On October 7, 1949, aspiring Hollywood actress Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter goodbye and told her sister-in-law she was going to meet her ex-husband to talk about his late child support payment. In a twist straight from a L.A. noir novel, she walked out the door and was never seen again. The last person...

This Tick’s Bite Can Make You Allergic to Red Meat…And It’s Spreading

A red meat allergy probably sounds like a real life nightmare to most of you readers, but, for some people, finding out they’re allergic to meat comes as a huge relief. That’s because, until their diagnosis, all they’d known is that they kept getting an all-over rash so itchy that sufferers have been know to scratch it until they bleed. These people have an...

28 Fast Food Workers Recount Their Craziest Drive-Thru Customers

You order a cheeseburger, fries and a chocolate shake. You pull forward and receive your meal and then proceed to drive away. Does it dawn on you that the drive thru workers usually see everything you have in your car? In this AskReddit thread, users share the weirdest things they have seen in customers cars...

8 Weird Things That Predict Divorce, According To Science

Science has the answer to basically everything, so why not to the elusive and complicated reasons behind the ending of marital relationships around the globe? Okay, okay, fine, so they’re not claiming to have all the answers on how to make it work, and you could totally have every one of these indicators and still stay...

How Bird Poop Shaped Our Maps

NOTE: This article was written by Dan Lewis. Dan runs the popular daily newsletter, Now I Know, which shares a fun fact and the story behind it each weekday. To subscribe to his daily email, click here. Imagine the America of the 1850s. Westward expansion has led to a population boom, or vice versa — either way, the...

19+ Cosplayers Share Their Most Cringe-Worthy Event Experiences

I actually had to look up what “cosplay” was because I’m old and stupid, but once I did, I knew this article was going to be hilarious. Get ready for great stories of the cringiest interactions cosplayers of AskReddit have experienced at events. Nerd alert! 1. Black Cat Was cosplaying Black Cat from Spider-Man. It was...

The Fresh Prince was dead the whole time. — 8 Conspiracy Theories About Popular TV Shows

People love to speculate about their favorite television shows, books, and movies. And, because I write books, I’m painfully aware that oftentimes people who read and love them are looking far more deeply than I did when creating them. Which is to say, people come up with theories and see foreshadowing where none was intended....

31 Times Interviewees Were Asked Unbearably Dumb Questions

Job seeking is hard enough without having to answer ridiculous and unnecessary questions as well. Check out the dumbest questions these AskReddit users ever got asked in an interview. 1. Boundaries anyone? During the interview, the interviewer wanted me to write down my Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram usernames and passwords. I don’t use any of those...