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Victorian Women Somehow Wore Corsets While Working Out

The next time you’re doing cardio, consider yourself lucky. Today’s gymgoers have a multitude of clothing options that maximize performance and style. That wasn’t the case years ago. In fact, women in the 1800s exercised in corsets and flow dresses. Talk about making life difficult! According to Atlas Obscura, women in that era exercised in...

Wedding Videographer Is Under Heat for Making Fun of Client Who Wanted a Refund After His Fiancé Died

For Justin Montney, what should have been the most beautiful moment of his life has turned into a nightmare. He and Alexis-Athena Wyatt planned to get married in May. But months before, his fiancé died in a car crash. Naturally, that left Montney with no choice but to cancel with vendors. One of those happened...

Renovations at Auschwitz Revealed Tools Hidden Beneath a Chimney

Auschwitz and similar concentration (or death) camps have remained largely untouched aside from readying them to put their horrors on display for the public. Recently, historians and other researchers have been working to turn part of Auschwitz into a new exhibition, and they’ve made quite a discovery beneath the flue of a crumbled chimney. Knives,...

7 Emotional Moments From ‘The Office’ That Probably Brought a Tear to Your Eye

I have to figure that by this point, everyone who wants to has seen The Office – and if you’re someone who hasn’t, what are you doing with your life? Since most of of us have watched, loved, quoted, and re-watched, these 7 trips down memory lane are sure to hit you right in the feels. 7....

Been Sitting Too Long? Here Are 10 Stretches That Could Help You Loosen Up

Too many of us are spending our hours and lives sitting in front of a laptop day in and day out, and while remembering to get up and walk the dog, get our lunch, or just take a break for a stroll helps, there’s a good chance your back, knees, neck, and other muscles are...

5 Ways Running Affects Your Body Differently Than Walking

A small but consistent controversy seems to pop up every now and then as people claim (and refute the claim) that walking is just as good (or better) for your body than running. Runners, as you know, are a passionate group of people and are ready to defend their hobby/passion as the superior way to...

That One Time the Swedes Called in Gay to Work

People all over the world have been fighting for civil rights for centuries, without cease. Sometimes, the issues seem to come to ahead (ahem) and the battle line is pushed forward, just a bit, where it inches along until the next giant push. In the late 1970s, in Sweden of all places, being gay was...

Calling All YA Lovers: These 18 LGBTQ Books Should Definitely Be on Your Radar

YA (that’s short for Young Adult, for the uninitiated) fiction has been where it’s at for the past several years. From Twilight to The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, The Fault in Our Stars, The Hate U Give…really, I could spend the next three days listing amazing titles that center around teenaged protagonists. Many of them have been...

How 1,000 Kids Who Lost a Parent in Combat Got to Visit Disneyland for Free

I’ll never forget the first time I researched what survivor benefits are like for the families of fallen soldiers are in the United States. I was completely shocked at how little we feel we owe their spouses and their children in exchange for their ultimate sacrifice – it’s a pittance, truly. These soldiers follow orders,...

Scream Away, Because Shouting the F-Word Can Actually Improve Your Pain Tolerance

Humans seem to instinctively realize that screaming when in intense amounts of pain seems to help. None of us knows whether or not it actually does help, it’s just kind of a natural reaction to intense and unexpected pain. It turns out, though, that there might be something to it – and for once, modern human instincts...

Margarita Trucks Could Soon Be Rolling Into Your Neighborhood

The ice cream man kind of gets a bad rap, right? There’s just something inherently creepy about a grown man peddling treats to children from a painted van (and honestly, the colors and music kind of make him resemble a clown, which just isn’t a good thing, either). That said, people love food trucks. We...

14 Times People Called Out Karens for All the World to See

Karens are everywhere you look these days. These women are always right and they always insist that their time, energy and money is more valuable than everyone else’s. Looking for a good laugh? Here are 14 times people truly embraced their inner Karen. 1. Karen Bingo We have a winner! She’s the worst! Typical Karen...

Watch Squirrels Try to Make It Through This Epic Backyard Ninja Obstacle Course

If you’ve got a yard, chances are you’ve got squirrels. And there’s also a good chance these squirrels are your nemesis, particularly if you have bird feeders set up. Squirrels not only munch on food you put out for birds, but they also rip bark off your trees and taunt your pets. One man decided...

17 People Confess They Moment They Thought They Were Done for at Work

Most of us have had that “oh crap, this is it” moment at some point in our lives, be it as kids, at work, or with the law – that moment when you’ve done something terrible and you’re 100% sure you’re about to be busted. When that moment is followed by one when you realize...