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The 18 Most Incredible Things Trash Collectors Found on the Job

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever thrown away? Was it in a bag? Sometimes, if I’m throwing something especially weird out, I’ll make sure and set it on top or to the side, like I’m showing it off to our garbage collector. As if she’ll appreciate it. Turns out, they are keeping tabs, and nothing I’ve...

Meet the Stray Dog Who Joined a Monastery and Became a Monk

Get ready to be slayed by adorable. Are you prepared? Yes? Good. Then it’s time for you to meet Friar Bigoton (Friar Moustache, omg), a stray schnauzer who found his way into the Saint Francis Monastery in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He went from living on the streets to living life in his very own uniform, and...

Hilarious Pictures of 12 Animals Experiencing Things for the First Time

Animal pictures. Need I say more? I suppose I can – these adorable animals are experiencing something new, and, lucky for the Internet, someone was ready with a camera to capture every hilarious, adorable moment. You’re welcome. #12. He’s seeing a christmas tree for the first time! (LOL he looks stoned) #11. “LET ME IN YOU...

Private Investigators Reveal the Most Bizarre Thing They’ve Had to Do on the Job.

I went through a phase when I was younger where I loved to watch old PI movies. There’s something glamorous about the way the profession used to get the Hollywood treatment; it’s danger and sex all wrapped up in the sad, suave face of Humphrey Bogart. That’s obviously not what it’s really like. Just ask these...

23 Evil Genius April Fools’ Pranks to Pull on Your Friends, Family, & Coworkers

There are A LOT of lame April Fools’ jokes out there, especially the ones companies pull every year. Although, I will say, Google is definitely a standout for some good ones. But these pranks from AskReddit? These are dynamite. And they’ll work. So study up pranksters! The shiz is about to get real. 23. Lube-arific Replace...

Rap Battles Have Been Around for 1,500 Years – at Least

Rap battles are at least 1,500 years old: “Flyting” or “fitting” was a contest of wits, popular in the 5th-16th centuries, where one person flung insults in verse at the other for pride, beer, and the entertainment of others. And versions of these contests existed in some form or another among Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, Greek,...

Only 4 Texts Remain from the Maya Civilization After Thousands Were Destroyed

Despite the fact that we are not very far removed from their heyday, we know very little about Maya civilization. And it’s not because the Maya weren’t into recording their history. The Maya were prolific writers and actually evolved from using scrolls to a form of folded paper called the codex right around the same time...

This Model Became a Meme and It Ruined Her Career

Do you remember this racist meme? I don’t either, but the story behind it is as riveting as it is horrible. Taiwanese model Heidi Yeh says she had a pretty solid career going for two years, modeling for big name companies like Sony and landing some great exposure. Here she is in a floor display....

The Unseen Dutch Resistance: This 90-Year-Old Woman Seduced Nazis as a Teenager and Led Them to Their Deaths

It turns out there were all sorts of ways to join the resistance against the Nazis during WWII. Even before Freddie Oversteegen and her sister Truus joined up at the request of the Dutch military, she and her family were hiding people – Jewish and Lithuanian – in their home. Her mother had divorced their...

These 17 Calls to 911 Operators Will Chill You to the Bone

Everybody knows that being a 911 operator is a stressful job, and sometimes they hear things on the other line that stick with them for quite some time. I’m glad the men and women who man these phones do what they do. Because I know I couldn’t deal with stories like this from AskReddit. 17. “He...

This Artist Shows You What Your Favorite Animated Characters Would Look Like IRL

I’m sure that, when watching animated films and television shows,  you’ve noticed that the characters are cuter than regular humans. Well, it’s not just because they’re cartoons, or because forest animals respond to their lilting singing voice – they’re drawn with exaggerated features like bigger eyes, rosier cheeks, thicker hair, etc., that make them objectively...

This Guy Live-Tweeted A Murder In His Apartment

Chances are, you’ve had at least one bad roommate in your lifetime (yes, an ex-spouse totally counts). Maybe they leave crap everywhere, or watch porn really loud, never take out the trash, or throw parties that keep you from sleeping. All of which is going to sound like super normal bad roommate behavior after you...

The Michigan School Massacre of 1927

Sadly, attacks on schools have become an all too familiar phenomenon in the U.S. These senseless tragedies play out on our television screens so often that many Americans have seemingly become desensitized to the massacres. Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and many other schools will always be associated with the violence that occurred there. Without conducting...

6 Abandoned Movie Sets You Can Visit In Real Life

Who doesn’t love the feeling of stepping into another world? And even better is when it’s a place you’ve glimpsed on the big screen and felt its magic, right? There are plenty of real life film locations that you can visit, but not many that sit abandoned and look exactly as they did when the...