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Pregnant Dolphins Sing to Their Babies in the Womb

When I was pregnant, there was all kinds of literature on how and when babies can start to hear you talking or singing or reading while in the womb. It’s supposed to help them recognize your voice, start learning before they’re even born, and to help parents bond with those babies before they can hold...

Jim Wanted To Get Divorced But The Writers Said No — Behind-The-Scenes Of Jim and Pam From ‘The Office’

That’s right, you guys – one of the most beloved couples on television ever was supposed to break up. Can you imagine getting all misty-eyed about their engagement, only to have gotten divorced later? I can’t, and there’s a good chance you can’t, either, and luckily, it never happened so they’re living happily ever after...

Millennial Women Are Rocking the Male-Dominated Profession of Welding

It’s no secret that there are too many younger people out there – millennials, mostly – who have found themselves with expensive college degrees, tons of unpaid student loans, and not a well-paying job in their chosen field in sight. There is (or will soon be) a dearth of skilled laborers, since for decades now,...

The 5 Rules For How To Eat Hot Dogs — The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council Want To Fix That

If you’re an American, there’s a good chance you’ve been eating hot dogs for most of your life. They’re not good for you, but they’re about as American as apple pie – and honestly, I don’t know how you really enjoy a baseball game without one! So it would probably surprise you to know that,...

5 (Other) Times the Olympics Have Been Canceled or Postponed

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics have officially been postponed until summer 2021, and even though everyone – athletes and the pubic alike – is disappointed, it seems like it was the best decision for the times. Since the Olympics began in 1896, they’ve only been postponed or canceled a handful of times – which means what’s...

Extraordinary Photos Of A Belgian Forest Carpeted by Bluebell Flowers

There are so many places in the world to be discovered and explored, marveled at and adored. I’d never heard of Hallerbos (Halle Forest in Dutch), but after seeing these pictures, I definitely am putting it on my life for when I someday make it to Belgium. https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDEdE-FUrQ/ It looks like something straight out of...

14 Facts So Wild They Could Only Be About ‘Tiger King’

There’s nothing quite like Netflix’s hit documentary Tiger King – it’s got a gay, gun-loving tiger breeder from Oklahoma, a cult leader with multiple wives, and the craziest cat lady that every lived. And guys, that’s just the beginning. If you’re obsessed with the show, just getting into it, or preparing to dive in, there’s...

UFO Sightings Actually Rose 75% in 2019

UFO sightings are nothing new. People in the ancient world saw mysterious things in the sky, and that has never changed. There was a spike back in the 60s, when Area 51 became a thing, but things have leveled off in recent years. In 2018, in fact, there were “only” 3395 reported sightings of UFO’s...

Researchers Have Found the World’s Smallest Known Dinosaur in a 99-Million-Year-Old Piece of Amber

After hundreds of millions of years, people just can’t get enough of dinosaurs. I’m not sure what it is about these creatures who roamed an earth devoid of people and died a horrible mass death, but kids, adults, scientists, and everyone else just seem to love everything to do with them. Which is perhaps why...

6 of History’s Most Terrifying and Deadly Viruses

I never spent much time thinking about viruses or how we’re all going to die until about 5 or 6 years ago, when I read The Hot Zone. Before that, I had a fleeting fascination with pandemic stories, but nothing stuck. However, The Hot Zone did stick. A lot. And thus began a borderline obsession...

NASA Has Opened Astronaut Applications to the Public

If you’ve ever wanted to be an astronaut but assumed NASA had some fancy recruitment tactics, well…prepare to have your mind blown. Because anyone with a master’s degree in a STEM field who doesn’t mind tight spaces could technically land the job. NASA recently posted an ad for astronauts on USAJobs, and as long as...

Why Americans Are so Obsessed With Paper Towels

If the coronavirus has taught us anything, it’s that Americans are totally obsessed with our paper products – a fact we should have already known, given that we produce more unrecyclable trash (per person) than any developed country in the world. And paper towels? Americans spend around $5.7 billion annually on them, and most people...

That One Time a Door-To-Door Catnip Salesman Was Arrested for Inciting a Crowd in NYC

History is super fun, y’all, and I maintain that if you don’t agree it’s just because you haven’t been told the right stories. Stories like this one, about a man who sold catnip door-to-door and made unintentional friends with every feline within a ten-block radius (maybe more) and earning an arrest for inciting a (cat)...

13 Behind-The-Scenes Secrets From Costco

Everyone loves shopping at Costco. They have everything you need, and lots of it. There are samples. They have delicious produce and meats, and you always feel like you’ve gotten a great deal (even if you have no idea where you’re going to put it when you get home. It makes sense, then, that we’re...