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19 People Confess the Weird Facts They Love to Share

We’re all about facts here, and let me tell you, one of the best things about them is that there are always ones you haven’t heard coming down the pike. New ones, funny ones, shocking ones, and yes – weird ones – are just out there, waiting to come up in your presence for the...

17 People Relay Some Seriously Weird (But True) Facts

When you ask someone for their favorite fact, you never know what you’re going to get in return. Most people probably have more like a handful of favorites, each to be deployed in the perfect situation, all designed to wow and excite people every single time. These 17 people are hitting us with their favorite...

18 People Share the Weirdest Facts in Their Arsenals

Facts are something that almost everyone loves, and also, we all have our favorites. The ones we can’t wait to drop anytime we get the chance, the ones that never fail to get us the reaction we want – and yes, the weirdest things we’ve heard that are just impossible to forget. Those are the...

14 People Divulge Niche Hobbies and Their Surprising Dark Sides

When you think about fun, niche hobbies like knitting, or stamp collecting, or maybe bird watching, you probably don’t imagine there’s a dark side, but listen – literally everything imagined and carried out by humans has an underbelly. That said, what goes on at say, backstage at a Yu-Gi-Oh convention might truly surprise you –...

Even Though You’re Skeptical, What’s the Creepiest Thing You’ve Seen That Could Have Been Paranormal? People Responded.

I don’t know if I believe in ghosts, UFOs, or anything supernatural, but I will say that there are so many unexplained things out there that I’m at least open to the idea. And I think we can all agree that there’s a lot about our world that we don’t know about…yet. Skeptics, what’s the...

Here’s Why Our Hair Often Gets Darker as We Age

If you look back at photos of yourself as a toddler, or even as a kid heading off to fourth or fifth grade, you might always be a little surprised to see how white-blond your hair used to be. It’s not true for everyone, of course, but there are a good number of people who...

15 Chalk Images That Will Warm Your Heart

There are all kinds of art in the world, like there are all kinds of artists and all manner of people looking to see something, learn something, or know something from the art they take in. If sweet, heartwarming, small-but-perfect moments are your thing, then Ann Arbor, MI chalk street artist David Zinn should be...

15 Americans Who Said Things That Will Make You Question Our Whole Education System

I mean, if you live in America and walk among Americans on a daily basis (or just interact with them on Facebook), there’s a good chance you’re already questioning the American education system – just saying – but if there was any doubt in your mind that we’re failing a good portion of the public,...

15 Parenting Mistakes That Are All-Too Common

I think that if there’s one thing that’s true about almost every parent out there, it’s that we’re doing our best. We might not have all of the tools, we might be overworked, emotional, struggling with our own mental health, or stretched too thin, but we’re not ever intending for those things to wreak havoc...

We Have Officially Connected the Human Brain to a Computer

If you’re a fan of science fiction, then you’re probably thinking that you’ve seen this movie before (and you definitely have). People imagining the future, or ways human beings might be able to live forever, have long turned their eyes toward possibly “uploading our consciousness” into a machine as a way to make that happen,...

People Share the 11 Absurd Pieces of Clothing and Their Outrageous Price Tags

Sometimes when I want to buy an unusual new product, I remind myself that without risk there’s no reward. Sometimes it works, and the unusual new product is a massive success! Other times it’s a huge disappointment, and I kick myself for days. The point is, we all make weird choice sometimes. And the luxury...

10 People Share the Reasons Why They Never Wear Yoga Pants

I confess, the closest I get to wearing yoga pants in public is generally walking my dog around the neighborhood. I think I haven’t recovered from the late 90s transition between when you could get away with wearing leggins and nothing else covering your behind, to when that was suddenly not cool at all. But...

The “Red Planet” Isn’t as Red as You Might Think

Mars has gotten the nickname “the red planet” because of the way the surface shows up a rusty color in the images we get from the many NASA probes and expeditions we’ve been lucky to successfully launch. What if I told you, though, that’s it’s really just the dirt – that the redness of the...

15 Treasure Troves People Found Metal Detecting

There’s a great, cozy little show called Detectorists that centers around a couple of old friends and their frequently fruitless hobby scanning the countryside with metal detectors, ostensibly in search of some great unknown treasure. The show, of course, isn’t really about metal detectors, it’s about friendship and fulfillment and life and love and all...