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These 12 People Have No Way to Explain the Strange Things That Happened to Them

Weird things happen to everyone, right? It feels like fate, or kismet, or destiny, or just dumb luck, but if we sit and look at what happened with a calm and critical eye, we can usually figure out what exactly happened. Most of the time, maybe, but not in cases like these 12 – when...

14 Weird Events People Absolutely Cannot Explain

Weird things happen to people all of the time. That said, about 99% of those events can, with enough consideration and time and space, be explained by logic and common sense. The 1% of the time they can’t are where the fears of the paranormal, of roaming ghosts, of invisible hands, and other things that...

15 People Share the Strange Happenings They Can’t Explain

If you’re lucky enough to live a decent amount of time, weird things are definitely going to happen to you. Some will seem strange in passing, some will linger in your mind, but usually, after a while and some thought, you can explain it, at least to satisfy yourself. There are, though, odd things that...

This Revenge Story Proves You Should Never Mess With Someone’s Christmas – Not Even if They’re Family

I think it’s fair to say that every family does the holidays differently. You might do Santa up big, or play him down (or ignore him totally). Everyone might buy each other all of the gifts they can afford, or you might draw names from a hat to keep things less expensive (but still loving)....

13 People Share Photos of Their Neat and Unique Collections

One of my favorite things about people is how unique we all are, with our own strange interests that turn into really fascinating and beautiful things (sometimes). We walk through our lives, gathering the things that bring us joy, and keeping them to look at on rainy days – in reality or just in our...

16 People Who Collect Cool and Unique Things

People everywhere seem to enjoy collecting things. Things that are small and innocuous, like paper clips, and other things that are harder to find and store, like vintage record players. Anything you think of, there’s probably someone out there with a collection of it. Even so, I didn’t really expect to find pictures of people...

17 Very Unique Things People Collect and Shared With the World

I’m not sure what the psychology is behind why human beings love to collect things – coins, books, rocks, figurines, records, what have you – but there must be some reason that so many people lovingly gather certain things to display in their homes. Sometimes those collections go beyond the average, too, and that’s when...

16 Inexpensive Items People Claimed Drastically Improved Their Lives

There are some things we buy knowing they’re frivolous. Other items we expect big things from (because maybe they came with big price tags) only to be disappointed, the thing relegated to the back of a closet where we don’t have to look at it and be reminded. Then there are the times – rare...

18 Items That Cost Less Than $50, But That People Say Improved Their Lives

When you’re thinking about spending money on something, many people hem and haw regardless of the price tag. The more we spend, the more we expect our purchase to work out the way we imagined – to make our lives easier or more fun or more colorful or just more streamlined, maybe. If you’re looking...

Food Service Workers Share 20 Orders You’re Gonna Have to See to Believe

If you’ve never worked in food service, then you’ve never had the opportunity to be completely stunned by the food or drink another human being with put into their body with relish. Things that you think are objectively gross, turn out not to be. Things that should never be combined are smacked together and gobbled up,...

23 Food Service Workers Recall the Pickiest Orderers They Had

Remember that scene (or scenes) from When Harry Met Sally when she orders her food and it’s like, incredibly specific and takes her two or three minutes to finish? And the waitress is like…sure, lady. If you’ve spent any time at all working in food service, you’ve had customers just like that – so many, in...

It Turns Out That Mass Extinction Events Happen Every 27 Million Years

We are currently in the middle of a mass extinction event, in which we are in danger of losing hundreds, maybe thousands, species of animals forever. It’s sad to think about, this morbid marking of time passing, of the marks we humans leave on the planet, but recent evidence suggests it’s not a novel event...

Here’s How to Erase Almost All of Your Online Footprint

We’ve spent a decade or more gobbling up everything the internet has to offer. We’ve got apps on our phone, we’ve got our noses in social media, we share pictures of our lives and discourse with strangers, and for a long time, no one really stopped to think about what we were doing. Now, more...

Why the Discovery of Water on the Sunlit Moon Is Such a Game-Changer

You’ve probably noticed that any time scientists find water in outer space, they get super excited about it. Unless you’re a scientist yourself, or maybe a space enthusiast, you might not know why we’re supposed to be so amazed and excited, too, though – and we just can’t stand for that. NASA has always known...