fbpx

These Guys Just Smashed the Time Record for Driving Across America

In case you’ve never heard of it, the Cannonball is a race from New York to Los Angeles that racing aficionados are constantly trying to win. There are no official rules or regulations because…well, it’s pretty much illegal; in order to break the record for the fastest cross-country time, you have to break a whole...

A Lengthy Psychological Study Shows That Boomers Are Indeed More Sensitive Than Millennials

Older people like to treat younger generations like they’re soft – as if they get their feelings hurt over small slights and aren’t tough enough to walk uphill both ways to school in the snow – but the data coming out of a very long, thorough psychological study says that’s not at all true. Basically,...

Woman Who Wore a “Hail Satan” T-Shirt onto a Plane Was Forced to Change It – or Else Get Off

I have to say, I would probably never wear a shirt like this, but we live in a free society where people can wear whatever they want, wherever they want…actually, never mind, this shirt is pretty cool and I admit it that I would probably wear it in public. A woman named Swati Runi Goyal...

7 of the Hardest Countries for Americans to Visit

As Americans, we’re fortunate to be able to travel most of the globe with minimal restrictions. That said, there are some spots that are less-than-welcoming to people from the States (sometimes, understandably so). Just a warning: you might want to think twice before attempting to stamp your passports in these 7 countries. 7. Iran https://www.instagram.com/p/B6iuLn0B7Dm/...

A Dog Owner Died of Sepsis After His Dog Licked Him

I don’t know about you, but I routinely let most dogs I encounter lick me as much as they want. Now, after learning about this story, I can say that maybe I need to back off a little bit… A 63-year-old man in Germany began to feel ill and ultimately died – and the culprit...

The Sexually Transmitted Disease Rates in America Are out of Control

Oh great…isn’t that a headline you just love to see? According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the sexually transmitted disease rate in the United States continues to rise in 2019. The report that the CDC released in October of this year shows historically high rates of chlamydia and the worst rates of gonorrhea...

Rapper Donates Bras Thrown on Stage to Domestic Violence Shelter

Tech N9ne is one of the hardest working rhymers out there, and he’s been at it for a long time. The Kansas City rapper has a huge catalog of music, but one of his songs really gets the crowd going. The tune is called “Areola” and it’s about…well, women’s breasts. Tech N9ne meant for the...

If You Want to Be More Productive, You Might Want This ‘Nap Desk’ in Your Life

I always knew that George Constanza was right…about napping during working hours, that is. I don’t know about you, but I tend to hit the wall in the middle of the workday. I have a TON of energy from about 8 A.M. to about 2 P.M. and then…uh oh…this guy gets a little sleepy, and...

Here’s Why It’s Absolutely Impossible for Someone to Open a Plane Door Mid-Flight

On rare, frightening occasions, an airplane passenger decides they want off the flight…while in midair. The bad news is the rest of the passengers can get quite a scare watching someone, who is usually drunk, have a breakdown and go for the exit door. The good news is it’s impossible to get the door open...

Women in Nepal Struggle to Survive After Being Sent to Dangerous ‘Menstruation Huts’

Governments around the world are moving toward equality of the sexes, better understanding of human functions, and teaching science-based sex education, but in some rural areas of mid-western Nepal, girls and women are still forced to spend their periods in unsafe “menstruation huts.” More than one person has suffocated after lighting fires inside in an...

15 People Who Disappeared to Start a New Life Share Their Stories

It’s something you might think only happens in the movies: a person realizes that in order to save themselves (or someone else) they have no choice but to disappear from their lives and begin again as someone new. It turns out that people actually do this in real life, though, and here are 15 of...

Don’t Throw Away Those Expired Medications Just Yet

When it comes to expiration labels, don’t believe everything you read – at least when it comes to medicine. Many of us casually throw away medicines past their expirations as if they were poisoned. Luckily, science says that many medicines retain their potency well after their expiration dates. Of course, there are exceptions to the...

Please Enjoy These 5 Tricky Little Brain Teasers

In this age of automation, sometimes you just need to run diagnostics on your brain. Like, does it still work on its own? Can it figure things out without a search engine? Is there a way to entertain ourselves that doesn’t include a screen? Well, since you’re going to scroll through these on your computer,...

10 People Shared Questionable Trivia and Then We Fact-Checked It

If you have a Reddit account, you’ve probably seen fun threads discussing little-known “facts.” These often sound too strange or outrageous to be true, but Lifehacker went through the trouble of fact-checking some of the trivia shared on the site. As it turns out, knowledgeable Redditors know a ton of information the rest of the...