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This Is the Woman Who Made the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Go Viral with a Single Tweet

2019 was the Year of the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich, and it’s all thanks to one genius social strategist: Angela Brown. The chicken sandwich came out in August of this year and immediately broke the internet. It wasn’t the sandwich itself that really brought the frenzied attention, though. It was one tweet that Popeyes posted in...

A Man with Autism Opened His Own Coffee Shop After No One Would Hire Him

If you want to learn a lesson about persevering in life despite all the odds stacked against you, this is a perfect example. Michael Coyne has struggled with many things in his life, including autism, ADHD, and bipolar disorder. Despite these challenges, Coyne has accomplished a lot, including competing in the Special Olympics. When he...

Woman Perfectly Describes Just How Impossible It Is to Pay Off Student Loans

If you’re one of the 44 million Americans who has student loan debt, the mere mention of the phrase “student loans” is probably enough to send you into a panic. The loans, which can be the only way for some people to afford higher education, often wind up being incredibly difficult to get pay off...

Man Writes Stupid Tweet About Hot Girl, Then Logs Back in a Decade Later with the Cutest Update Update

Twitter is so different now than it was 10 years ago. Back then, far fewer people were on the platform, and you could pretty much tweet whatever nonsense popped into your head — like meeting a cute girl and calling her a “jalepeno.” That’s what a young man tweeted in 2009, only to return 10 years...

10 Banned Baby Names from Around the World

Everyone has that one friend who named their baby something ridiculous (not naming any names here, but yikes), but if you’re like me, you probably just shrug it off. After all, people have the right to name their baby what they’d like (as long as they’re saving an appropriate amount of cash for therapy). Actually,...

Why Your Phone Struggles for Service on Airport Tarmacs

Whether you have just boarded your flight or just landed at your destination, one things is for sure: Your cell phone service sucks. Unfortunately for passengers sending a “taking off” or “just landed” text from the airport tarmac, the message never seems to reach its destination in a timely fashion. From a logical perspective, perhaps...

14 Fascinating Scientific Experiments That Will Never Happen, Because Ethics

Scientific research contributes so much to the world—from physics to biology, rigorous studies help us understand how things work. But studies also have to pass certain ethical tests in order to be approved. You can’t just conduct an experiment on anything, especially where humans and other living beings are concerned. On AskReddit, users shared what scientific experiments...

A Toilet Designed to Limit Worker Bathroom Breaks Might Be the Most Evil Office Invention of All Time

Man…this is pretty rough. We all have those really long, seemingly endless days at work where we’ll do anything to get away for a few extra minutes. You know, the ones where you pray that the clock hits five as soon as possible. And sometimes that means spending a few extra minutes in the bathroom,...

15 Fictional Parents Who Are Way Worse Than They First Appear

There are the television and movie parents who are obviously terrible, and then there are the ones who want you to think they’re just normal and average, but who are actually insidious pricks. The people on Buzzfeed Community pointed out that these 17 parents were really awful, and now that I think about it, I’m...

Nike Released a Pair of Comfortable Sneakers Specifically for Medical Workers

If you’re a health care worker, or you know any people in that line of work, then you also know that they are constantly looking for the perfect pair of shoes. They’re not vain; they’re just on their feet and moving around all day long. And, as you probably know, if your dogs are barking,...

Meet the Mexican Spider with Flesh-Eating Venom

Despite the fact that the perform a very necessary and friendly service, spiders aren’t exactly beloved by the masses. They eat bugs we don’t like – especially mosquitoes, things that sting, and destructive little turds that eat up our gardens – but for some people, even knowing this can’t negate their screeching reaction to anything...

10 Vigorous Sports Facts That You Might Not Know

Are you a sports fan? What’s your favorite? Football? Basketball? Baseball? I’m a hockey fan through-and-through and have been since I was a little kid. Let’s take a look at some fun sports that you might not be familiar with. 1. That’s a lot of money. Source 2. Let them play! Source 3. The inventor...

This Simple Template Lets You Draw a Duck – So Naturally People Went Nuts on It

Art is notoriously subjective – beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that – but when the owners of the Facebook page Smol Animal Memes posted a partially drawn duck and asked people to fill in the rest, they never guessed how much delight their followers would get from the request. Check...

How to Tell the Difference Between Stars and Planets Just by Looking

Telling planets and stars apart seems like it would be difficult – until, that is, you remember that classic lullaby that put us all to sleep. Remember “Twinkle, twinkle little star”? Yep. Stars twinkle, and planets don’t. With the exception of our solar system’s sun, stars are all so far away that astronomers talk about...