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Dogs Can Help With Seasonal Allergies — Here Are 8 Reasons You Should Own A Dog According to Science

I didn’t have dogs growing up. We had cats (4 of them over the 20-odd years I lived at home) and some of them were great. Others were those other sort of cat, but whatever the reason, my parents never gave into our begging for a puppy. When I was 22, my then-fiancee and I...

People Are Scratching Their Heads Trying To Figure Out This Confusing Kindergarten Worksheet

There are parents everywhere who are helping their kids with schoolwork (or doing the teaching at home) now that school is out for the foreseeable future. And while there are many different kinds of frustration at the situation, one of the funniest – and most annoying – is how we’re all learning just how much...

Thief at Gym Gets Served a Piping Cold Plate of Revenge

So maybe we should turn the other cheek, but people who steal other people’s stuff sometimes need a lesson in civility. Having something stolen from you when you’re only going about your business is the most aggravating experience. If it’s ever happened to you, then you know how frustrating it is of rarely getting an...

This Pastry Chef Turns Desserts Into Tiny Worlds Too Real to Eat

If you have any imagination at all, looking at chef Matteo Stucchi’s breathtaking desserts will leave you wondering whether you’re staring down at a whole, tiny world, with small people hidden away beneath the buttercream and colorful art. Like maybe we’re Horton the Elephant, and there are little Whos living in these amazingly crafted worlds....

Submarine Serviceman Shares His Tips On How To Get Through Long Periods Of Isolation

The world is now a part of the largest ever self-imposed isolation, for good reason. It hasn’t been easy for many to get used to their own company. Thankfully, this isn’t the first time anyone has had to spend a lot of time on their own. Jon Bailey is experienced in submarines and decided to...

Ikiru the Cat Has the Cutest, Dopiest Face in the World

You never know exactly what you’re going to get when you adopt a cat (or any animal, for that matter). You can try to gauge personality, and you can ask the shelter or foster for their advice, but true personalities never really emerge until everyone gets comfortable. Rich and Emma, the now-parents of Ikiru the...

The Most Accurate English Speakers Can Pronounce Every Word in This Poem From the 1920s

English is a super hard language to master – whether it’s your native tongue or a second (or third) language, chances are you still make plenty of mistakes. We don’t remember everything from school, all of the rules and the ways it breaks those rules, and of course, there are regional quirks that make our...

This Stunning GIF Gives Us a Unique Look at the Surface of a Comet

Comets are strange little things. They are really large space snowballs, with an icy center surrounded by frozen gasses, rocks and dust, orbiting the sun. When they are completely frozen, comets are about the size of a town. But when one gets close to the sun,  it heats and starts spewing the gasses and dust until...

14 Historical Incidents You Might Not Have Been Taught About In School

The whole of human history is too much for any one person to memorize or learn, and most of us only get to study it for a handful of semesters out of our entire academic careers. It’s understandable that we won’t have time to learn everything, but some things seem as if they might have...

10 Very Weird Websites You Need to Check Out

What is the coolest website you’ve visited that no one knows about? A few weeks that question was posted to AskReddit and the comments piled up. Seems as if a lot of Redditors have their obscure favorites they’re willing to share. So, if you’re deciding between getting off the computer to try your hand at...

“It Can Always Get Worse” – 20 People Ponder Things That Would Make 2020 Go Even More Downhill

In the past year alone, humans have seen fires in Australia, California, and the Amazon forest. Worldwide carbon emissions from various types of businesses, human activity, and burning fossil fuels have also made a dent in our year, and not exactly for the better. On top of COVID19, a contagious disease spread by the novel...

20 Europeans Discuss American Problems They Don’t Understand

The United States and Europe do things very differently. Inches vs. centimeters, coffee vs. tea, and currency notes that are all the same color. But our differences are slightly deeper than this. Governments, banks, and transportation systems work differently in the United States, and that can be hard to wrap your head around. In a...

Law Firm Hires Chef to Hilariously Screw With Security Guard

For some people, getting a badge goes straight to the head. And while we should show the same courtesy and respect to someone in a uniform with badge ensemble that we’d show anyone, any kind of power-tripping also deserves an eye-roll. Also, thinking outside the box so we can all go about our days, bruised...

16 Bits of History You Probably Didn’t Learn in School

To be fair, there are only so many things teachers can get into during a school year, so unless you decided to dedicate yourself to the study of history, there are a great many things you’ll never hear about unless you stumble across them on accident. Even if you do decide to dedicate your life...