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That Red Juice in Your Meat Isn’t Blood

There’s something perfectly primal about cutting into a piece of steak cooked to rare perfection. But while some salivate over the flowing juices, others freak out over the perceived presence of blood in the meat. Just like you should do with your meat after it’s done cooking, it’s time to put that myth to rest (resting...

Birds Do Have Hollow Bones, But It’s Not to Make Them Lighter

If you’ve ever put any thought into why birds have hollow bones, you might have thought it was to help them fly – lighter bones are easier to lift, after all. Makes sense, but that’s not the real deal. Hollow bones are actually an adaptation to assist birds’ lungs. Basically, birds need so much oxygen...

NASA Scientists Releases First Findings by Solar Probe

Launched in 2018, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached the fastest speeds ever achieved by a man-made vehicle. And that’s just the beginning of the all the amazing things it’s been doing as it zooms toward our sun. Details of the probe’s solar close-ups were recently published in the journal Nature. The observations were made as it...

15 Historical Plot Twists That Absolutely No One Saw Coming

I know that many of us grow up hating history, or thinking it’s boring – a fact that I blame on a complete dearth of decent history teachers in high schools everywhere. Cause here’s the thing: when you know where to look, history is full of totally fascinating, totally true tales. Here are 15 stories...

How Do You Explain Color To Blind People? — This Woman Shares What People Said

Describing colors seems easy when you think about it. Maybe you point to a tree or the sky, and your description is ready, right? But if you’re trying to explain colors to someone who is blind, you’ll have to be a lot more creative than that. One Twitter user was curious about how someone could...

Here’s How People Knew the Earth Rotated Before We Went into Space

It’s unsurprising, really, that people used to think the earth was flat. To the untrained (regular) eye, it feels like we live on a flat, motionless surface that stays safe and stationary underneath a spinning sun and stars. If someone came along and told you (the hypothetically scientifically illiterate) that you lived on a giant...

Funny Tumblr Thread Explores the Unexpected Hilarious Side of Being a Court Reporter

Even though the job might sound boring and difficult, court reporters are essential to a transparent justice system. But while court reporting may be difficult, it is definitely not always boring. Court just doesn’t strike most people as the type of place where unhinged people run their mouths, but… Well. Court can get pretty nuts....

Most People Have No Idea What A Heart Attack Looks Like In Women

You might have heard over the past several years that there’s a sad lack of knowledge and attention to the fact that women’s heart attacks begin and progress differently from men’s. We’re all shown the “typical” shortness of breath, pain the left arm, and finally in the chest…but if you’re a woman who thinks that’s...

This Instagram Account Brings You Only Happy News

It’s important to keep up with what’s going on in the world, no matter how much it might hurt your soul. That said, some days you’ve just had enough. Everything is so overwhelming and crazy that you just want to hear the good stories, see the helpers doing their thing, or be endowed with some...

Sneaky Professor Catches Cheaters by Setting up a Fake Answer Key Online

Cheating is a problem that teachers have to deal with – no matter how hard teachers try, kids are gonna find a way around the rules. And I imagine that the advent of the internet has only made students more creative and harder to catch. But don’t worry, because cheaters aren’t going to get away...

Artist Yee Chong Imagines Fantastical Animals Living in the Real World

Art takes so many forms and plays so many roles. It can make us think, push us out of our comfort zone, challenge us, please us, and connect us. In some cases, like Yee Chong’s adorable illustrations of fantastical animals living as pets, it can utterly delight us. Below are 12 of my favorite images...

This New Father Wrote a Beautiful Letter Describing the Feelings He Had While His Wife Gave Birth

Giving birth is no joke. There’s pain, a lot of bodily fluids, usually some colorful language, awe, shock, and yeah, plenty of things you can never unsee. At the end of it, if you’re lucky, you’ve brought a healthy baby into the world, so most people forget the rest of it (in time). This dad...

People Are Sending Selfies to Their Moms Just to See How They Will Respond Back

Twitter is often maligned, but it also exists to entertain us in a (sometimes) wholesome manner. Abigail Sanders decided to start a thread of “mom-style selfies.” She asked fellow users to send these selfies to their mothers with no context, and record their responses. Well, the internet delivered. Not only did fellow Twitter users dutifully...

Dad Text Messaged His Daughter For Fashion Advice For His Date And Their Conversation Went Viral

There’s not much sweeter than dads and their daughters who have excellent, close relationships. So when this young lady shared a text conversation in which her father was asking for advice on his first date wardrobe, well, the internet just collectively swooned. Life with a single dad, asking for advice on date outfits 😂😂 my...