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10 People Share Their Funny Stories About Breaking School Rules

School is a necessary part of everyone’s lives, and with any luck, attendees end up with a few good memories and an education. But it’s also a place with a lot of rules and regulations that don’t always make sense. Teen years are rife with the desire to rebel against adults who don’t always get...

10 Things You Should Do At Least Once A Year

Staying healthy and taking care of yourself isn’t as easy as it seems. Responsibilities, social activities, and other obligations make it easy to skip appointments until it’s too late. Luckily there are many things you can do to stay on top of your self-care routine. Here are some of the things you only need to...

This Fast Food Restaurant Has the Best Customer Service to Go with Its Legendary Fried Chicken

Fast food is all about consistency in flavor, value and customer service. And when it comes to the latter, one fast-food titan stands above the rest: Chick-fil-A.  No matter how long the drive thru line extends or how jammed the lobby gets with hungry kids, Chick-fil-A employees treat customers with tremendous respect and hospitality. And...

How to Correctly Pronounce February

We are all adult people here, and yet, when confronted with the name of the second month of the year, we are left uncertain and sounding out syllables. For the last time, is it feb-roo-air-ee or feb-yoo-air-ee? According to both the Merriam-Webster and American Heritage dictionaries, both the common and proper pronunciations are considered correct....

17 Tumblr Posts That Prove We Still Love the 2005 “Pride & Prejudice” the Best

I know what you’re thinking, and I agree with you – there’s definitely an argument to be made for Colin Firth’s portrayal of Darcy in the BBC miniseries. That said, there’s just something about the 2005 remake starring Kiera Knightley that makes you fall in love with the whole story again, isn’t there? If you’re...

17 Really Weird Things That Society Just Accepts as Normal

Sometimes, you’re just minding your business, going about your daily routine when you realize: LIFE IS SO WEIRD. From colloquial sayings to random societal norms, there are a ton of frankly bizarre things about being human that go unnoticed most of the time. But thanks to AskReddit, you now have 17 of those things to...

Why a Night out Drinking Can Keep You From Sleeping Soundly

Anyone who’s taken advantage of happy hour on a Friday night can attest to how much fun it can be. After all, who’s opposed to two-for-one specials, ’90s throwback jams and good company? Unfortunately, those same partygoers can also testify to how difficult it is to wake up well rested after coming home buzzed at...

17 Words That Might Not Mean What You Think

I like to think of myself as a word person. I take pride in my vocabulary, and try – especially in my writing – to find the perfect word in every situation. That said, even people like me, who try to learn when they can, sometimes are wrong about what words actually mean. We might...

People Can Die From Simply Giving Up On Life, A Study Has Found

I think that most people have been near an aging or terminally ill loved one and, after they were gone, realized that there was a moment when the person simply decided that they were done living. The first time I ever heard about this phenomenon among healthy, younger people was when I was researching voodoo...

14 Caterers, DJs and Event Planners Share the Saddest Party They’ve Ever Worked

There’s nothing quite as awkward as a sad party. Whether it’s a birthday, graduation, wedding, or other special event, things can go horribly awry, and no one has more experience with these situations than the employees who work at them. From caterers to DJs, people on AskReddit shared the saddest party they’ve ever witnessed. Warning:...

Newly Invented Nanoparticle Can ‘Eat’ Heart Attack-Causing Plaque

Scientists from Michigan State University and Stanford University have worked together to develop a nanoparticle capable of ‘eating’ the plaque that causes heart attacks. The results of their study were published in Nature Nanotechnology. Led by Bryan Smith, associate professor of biomedical engineering at MSU, the team created a “Trojan Horse” nanoparticle that could possibly...

It Turns out That Women’s Cycles Don’t Actually Sync Up

There’s a myth that’s been around since forever that women who have been through puberty and live in close proximity will eventually all start getting their periods at the same time. Like, even if you start out nowhere close, your start date will change by a day, then another, and so will your sister’s or...

12 Men Who Said They Didn’t Want Cats, But They Fell In Love With Them

I’ve heard this one before, and from my own dad. He swore up and down that he didn’t want a cat, and he got pretty annoyed when us kids started feeding a stray that eventually became part of the family. And then what did he do? Fell in love with it and went and got...

12 of the Greatest Tweets Ever Tweeted

Twitter can really be TOO MUCH sometimes. When literally everyone with an internet connection has a platform for every single one of their half-baked ideas (as long as it fits into 280 characters), you’re bound to come across some duds. But other times, Twitter’s uninhibited atmosphere makes for some 10/10 jokes. Over the years, certain...