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25 Foods Your Dog Should Never Eat

We’re all guilty of sometimes treating our pets more like humans than animals – and that includes giving in to those big doe eyes begging for human food while you’re tidying the kitchen after dinner. Yeah, I see you. It’s okay to indulge your little darling once in a while, but with the recent doggie...

10 Historical Pictures of People Knitting That Are Cool as Hell

Knitting is cool. I’m surprised you didn’t know that. But, seriously, the hobby, once a dying art, has been making a real comeback – possibly because no one wants to leave their houses anymore, and the Internet is increasingly making the hermit dream a reality. Either way, Barbara Levine included these awesome pictures of people knitting through...

20 Great Headstones You Need to Take a Look at

Some people – okay, maybe most people – don’t seem to have much of a sense of humor when it comes to the topic of their own death and what may or may not come afterward. Which is totally fair, considering the seriousness of the topic. If, however, you can manage to look past the,...

If You Have Skills, You Can Stay at These Italian B&B’s for Free

Apparently, bartering is making a big comeback in the Italian bed & breakfast world – last year they held the 8th annual barter week (it’s in November). Prospective guests go on the La Settimana del Baratto (Italian for Barter Week) website and list what skills and/or goods they can offer in exchange for a room, and...

A Future to Live For: Pokémon GO Contact Lenses!

You put down your phone, look up, and right there in your line of vision sits a Pikachu. On your couch. It looks as real as can be, with no technology other than what is in your eye. Sounds amazing, right? According to Niantic CEO John Hanke, this could be a reality in the future....

Next Time You Think You’ve Got It Bad, Remember This Brown Panda

It’s a hard gig being different – especially when it’s the way that you look, and not something you can change. We understand this in the human world, and it turns out that things are just as big of a struggle for those who don’t quite fit into the animal world. Just ask Qizai, a...

Bust That Gym down with These Top 5 Pokémon Ranked by Attack

The folks over at Pokémon Go Hub have put together a handy chart that lays out the best attack packages of Mons and move sets. I’ll give you the rankings and analysis of the top 5, and then we’ll glance through the top 20 or so: #5. Flareon Flareon is the easiest of the top five attackers to acquire. In fact,...

19th-Century Etiquette Rules for Talking Politics Involved Being Polite and Actually Knowing What You’re Talking About

If you’ve spent any amount of time on Facebook in the past year (or week, or day, or hour), you’ve clearly noticed the astronomical number of people who straight-up have no idea what’s actually going on in the world of politics, American or otherwise.  It’s not just a matter of voicing different opinions; some people confidently...

Always Order the Biggest Pizza You Can Get: 7 F’awesome Food Facts

Food. It brings us together. It helps identify our culture. And it (literally) gives us a reason to live. Check out these 7 cool facts you might not know about the stuff you put in your belly. #7. Mushrooms are like family to us. Source #6. There’s a reason for that hole. Source #5. Mystery...

Ditto & Generation 2 Pokémon Have Been Found In Pokémon GO Code!

The wizards over at The Silph Road took a look through v0.45.0 code, and it revealed a bunch of really intriguing details. v0.45.0 brought new code to the APK that revealed new features, which are soon to come. The Silph Road has audited the APK to see what could be learned. After a preliminary look through...

The Dead Bodies of Severinsbrücke Bridge

It’s no secret that, after WWII, Germany (and much of Europe) had to be completely rebuilt from scratch. The country had been decimated by bombing and fighting, not to mention the movement of hundreds of thousands of troops across the landscape. That meant fixing all the major infrastructure a country needs to move things from...

This Skull on a Stick Was Not a Halloween Prank

Late last month, close to Halloween, police in Sacramento, California encountered a truly bizarre scene – a homeless woman walking down the street, carrying a skull on a stick. Police followed the woman to an abandoned house, where they stopped and questioned her. The woman said she found the skull, and she led them to an...

These Unsolved Serial Murders Will Be Featured on 2 New TV Shows

Are you as excited as I am about true crime TV? Well, there are two awesome-looking new true crime shows starting soon!!! People Magazine Investigates premieres November 7 on the Investigation Discovery channel. The 10-part program will tackle some of America’s most infamous crime stories, spotlighting the impact of crime on families. The Killing Season debuts on A&E...

That Time Teddy Roosevelt Got Shot But Gave His Speech Anyway

On October 14, 1912, two men’s destinies collided. One was the President of the United States. The other, a Bavarian-born saloon keeper from New York. The former was on the campaign trail, seeking another term as a third-party Progressive – giving 15-20 speeches a day on the trail had nearly worn him out, and with a...