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12 True Stories of the Most Horrible Things People Saw in Prison

Ever since I watched Oz on HBO, I’ve been fascinated by prisons. And even though I’m pretty sure that Oz is not an accurate representation of what it’s really like to go through the penal system–I’ve never been, so what do I know? Well these 12 redditors actually have been, and they took to AskReddit to share the worst things...

18 Kids Reveal Their Parents’ Personal Lives to Their Teachers

Those kids sure love to be honest. Unless you’re asking them who spilled or ate something. But, you get them in a classroom, and they seemingly become an open book. Here are 18 times when they might have opened the book a bit too far via AskReddit: #1. “Was it really bad?” “One kid called...

15 Patients’ Most Embarrassing Moments in the Doctor’s Office

Does anybody actually like going to the doctor’s office? Isn’t that the only place where good news might mean they’re going to cut you open? And the magazine selection these days is just pathetic. Like, are you telling me I have to actually subscribe to Popular Science now? Psh. Anyhow, these are some mostly innocuous stories...

Country Legend Dolly Parton Gives Millions of Books to Kids

When Dolly Parton isn’t accepting lifetime achievement awards for crushing it in country music and pop culture for longer than I’ve been alive: Or raising millions of dollars for victims of the recent wildfires in Tennessee: She’s giving out free books every month to kids all over the US: Source She’s had at least three...

Next Time You’re in England, Consider Camping in One of These Abandoned Churches

It’s called “champing” (because everything needs a cutesy hook to earn people’s interest these days), but the chance to spend a few days in one of several rural, medieval churches in the English countryside is a pretty charming proposal, adorable name or not. The Churches Conservation Trust came up with the idea back in 2014...

9 Species Have Been Named After Barack Obama

Maybe you’ve seen this Fact Snack of ours floating around: But it’s just a snack after all, so it only lists two of them. Here’s a quick glimpse at all nine, in case you didn’t catch them in the video up top: One of them is extinct, and two are parasites, but it’s still a really cool...

Was Einstein Wrong About the Speed of Light?

When it comes to the speed of light, we’re used to two constants: Nothing moves faster than the speed of light. The speed of light never changes. The speed of light is: 299,792, 458 meters per second or 186,000 miles per second or 671 million miles per hour This is what allows for the idea...

17 People Share Their Most Selfless Good Deeds

I read through a lot of these types of lists, and, I have to say, this one really did inspire an upwelling of emotion that, frankly, I wasn’t entirely prepared for. People are good! And these 17 people, with their amazing stories of selfless and thankless giving, are some of the best: 1.  Kidney “My ma...

25 Creepy, Real-Life Coincidences That’ll Give You Chills

We’ve all had experienced odd coincidences in our lives: one time in middle school, I submitted the correct answer to an online raffle that, if I won, would let me skip a class – except I didn’t know I needed to be there, and so I missed it anyway. I didn’t find out that I had...

Hashtag Wars: Stoner Video Games Edition

Combining stoners and video games seems like a no-brainer – the only thing better would be somehow incorporating junk food into the mix, too – and yet (as ever), the @midnight players and viewers manage to take things to a whole new level. #15. Effortless. #14. Solid. @midnight #StonerVideoGames Assassin’s Weed — MaliceNile (@malicenile) March...

Messages from the Dead: A Tumblr Account Collects the Final Texts Received from Loved Ones

This Tumblr account collects final text messages – both from people who have passed on or gone away, and from the people they left behind, who, perhaps to find some closure, tell their stories online. The messages are oddly touching, occasionally spooky, but always a brief, poignant glimpse into humanity just before some of our most trying...

Got Any Fact Snacks? It’d Be a Lot Cooler If You Did…

#7. ‘A kind of secret army’ Source #6. Obama, the namesake Source #5. What’s cooler than a pony? Source #4. Sweet, PINK, revenge! Source

Did You Order the Fact Snacks?! You’re Goldarn Right I Did!

You want the truth?! Cool. I’m pretty sure you can handle the truth – in fact, I’m more than happy to give it to you. Because we live in a world that has facts. And those facts have to be dug up. By folks like me. And, deep down, when you use these facts to...

How Two Dogs Saved the Little Penguins of Middle Island

 In 2000, what was once a thriving colony of Little Penguins – the (aptly named) smallest species of penguin – had been reduced to just four pairs. The colony on Middle Island, which sits off the southern coast of Australia, had a problem: the red fox, a species that was introduced from the mainland by colonists. They...