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Scientists Think They’ve Discovered a New Kind of Physics

Listen, if you’re not someone who is interested in physics, or who could name the sorts of physics we’ve currently agreed exist, this article is not for you – but I’m assuming if that’s the case, you didn’t click on it. So welcome, physics nerds. When the Large Hadron Collider lit up ten years ago,...

15 Awesome Video Stores You Can Absolutely Still Visit

You might think that video stores are a thing of the past – after all, why would you go out and rent a DVD (not to mention own and hook up and maintain a DVD player) when you can just stream whatever you’d like from the comfort of your own home. Right? Well, much like...

10 Easy Math Tricks That Could Really Make You Smarter

I know that math is some people’s things, but it’s definitely not mine – and I know that I’m not alone. Give me words any day of the week, y’all. Of course, none of us are spared from needing to do math in real life. I’m sorry to say that the teachers were right about...

18 Facts That Never Get Old and Always Make Us Smile

Some facts never get old, even when you hear them more than once. That’s the thing about knowledge – there’s so much out there to soak up that even cool facts can fall out of your head as fast as they went in, you know? So we think that even if you’ve heard these 18...

19 Straight-Up Fascinating Facts We’d Love to Show You

Facts are our business around here, so I like to think we know good ones when we see them. “Good” can mean different things to different people, but one of the factors for me is definitely the question “will it send me down an excellent rabbit hole?” These 19 facts definitely meet that (and other)...

20 Facts That Will Make You Feel Even Smarter Than You Already Are

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that you love facts. You’re here, after all, and this sort of headline is the thing that makes your brain get all warm and fuzzy inside. If brains got warm and fuzzy, I mean. Which they don’t. So, without further ado, here are 20 facts...

22 People Share the Rumors at School That Turned Out to Be 100% True

I’m having a hard time pinpointing one BIG rumor that captured everyone’s attention when I was in school, but I think it had something to do with a girl in my class getting pregnant and having to leave school due to her parents’ shame. And I honestly can’t remember if that was true or maybe...

10 People Talk about the Stigma Depression Carries in the Black Community

Pretty much everyone struggles with mental health at one point or another. It’s easy to think that certain issues, like depression, only affect women and not men, or only affect white people and not people of color, but that just isn’t true. There’s more that unites us than divides us, and mental health is one...

12 Posts Examine the Struggles Black People with Depression Go Through

According to BetterHelp.com almost 15 million Americans suffer from depression symptoms annually. And those are just the ones reporting it. Depression can hit anyone of any age, race, or religion. It doesn’t discriminate. And yet, perhaps because their community has experienced so much trauma, the black community often doesn’t acknowledge the reality of mental health...

26 Mostly-True Reasons These States Are Famous

We all think we know a lot about the places that we see on TV. Sometimes we might be right. Other times, well… We’ve got the TV version just about right. That was the case when a British Twitter user went viral last April for displaying his knowledge of the whole United States. Part tongue-in-cheek,...

19 Hilarious Attempts by a Brit to Name What States Are Famous For

I’m not the best at geography. I know that there’s a town in the UK called Cheddar and they invented the delicious cheese. I know that Downton Abbey was set in Yorkshire which is north-ish but filmed… somewhere in the middle? Nearish to Stonehenge? What I’m saying is that I would never attempt to do...

21 Facts You Can’t Live Without

Ok, ok, fine – you can live without knowing certain facts, but would you want to? If you’re here on our page, my guess is that you love facts as much as we do, which means you’re dying to see what’s on this list. Whether you’ve heard some of these before or not, we feel...

When You Treat Your Employees Like Crap, They Repay It In Kind

In a perfect world, employers treat their employees like human beings whose live and health outside of the workplace matter as much as what goes on in the office. In that world, employees would work hard for you because they feel respected and valued, so everyone wins. In reality, too many employers treat their people...

Is This Kid Wrong for Moving Out and Leaving His Parents in the Lurch?

Ideally, parents are able to care and provide for their children as long as they need a hand – so, for most of us, until we graduate from college and find a job of our own. Honestly, with the economy the way it’s been for the past couple of decades, most kiddos need a bit...