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Chick-Fil-A’s First U.K. Restaurant Is Already Closing

Here’s some pretty bad news for popular chicken chain Chick-fil-A: less than a month after the fast food company opened its first location in the United Kingdom, it is already closing down. The British shopping center where the restaurant has its only UK location has been pressured by an LGBTQ rights group called Reading Pride...

The 20 Best Black Films of the Last Decade, According to Moviegoers

There have been a lot of great black films released since 2010. So many, in fact, that it’s kind of hard to keep up with all the quality cinema. Now’s your chance to update your various queues so you can get caught up. All of these African-American films received a 60% rating or better on...

Instagram Influencer Gives a Bad Yelp Review to a Restaurant That Wouldn’t Accept “Likes” as a Payment

I’ve said it before, and I’m gonna say it again: this “influencer” culture is really pretty confusing, and I’m not sure I understand it completely. Or that I want to understand it. And here’s another perfect example of why I feel that way (and maybe why you do, too). A Yelp reviewer who claims to...

Before Typhoon Hagibis Struck Japan, the Sky Turned Vivid Purple

On October 11th, the evening before Typhoon Hagibis hit Japan, an unusual sunset painted the sky a vivid shade of purple. The violet sky may have been simply stunning under different circumstances, but for people in the typhoon’s path, it was an omen of the devastation – including the loss of at least 40 lives...

Extremely Generous Man Pays off the Entire School Lunch Debt for 400 Kids in His Town

It seems criminal that children go hungry in the United States, but the sad fact is that it happens every day to thousands and thousands of kids. And sometimes we forget there are actually things we can do to help – but there are. Andrew Levy, a real estate agent in Jupiter, Florida, decided to...

This Man Studied Photography in Prison – Take a Look at His Work Now That He’s Out

Everyone deserves a second chance in life, and Donato Di Camillo is definitely making the most of his opportunity. Di Camillo found himself in and out of jail when he was younger, and he became very interested in photography when he was serving a sentence in a federal prison in Virginia. Di Camillo says, “I...

Microsoft Excel’s Xlookup Is a New and Improved Vlookup, to the Delight of Data Junkies Everywhere

Vlookup is an Excel command allowing you to extract a value based on the position of another value. So, you can run a vlookup to tell a cell to look for a value in one column and retrieve another value from the same row. Okay, forget all that because now we have Xlookup, which Microsoft’s Joe...

Scientists Have Found Traces of Animal Milk Inside Prehistoric Baby Bottles

If you’ve had kids recently, then you’re probably aware of the current push for all mothers to breastfeed. There are, of course, many reasons why mothers either choose not to or cannot for some reason breastfeed, and lucky for all of the beautiful babies out there, we have a slew of synthetic options these days....

You Might Have a Hard Time with These 5 Tough Riddles

There are tough riddles, then there are tough riddles – and these 5 really gave me fits. If you’re someone who fancies themself a riddle whiz, let me know what you think after you give these a go. 5. Define alive. 4. A quick but useful life. 3. I am full, yet empty. 2. Many...

These 15 Funny Tweets Really Get to the Heart of Young Adult Book Culture

Young Adult books are not only for the young. Not by a long shot. I know a ton of older people who devour these books. In fact, I’ve kept reading them myself, as I’ve gotten older. YA books are extremely popular and here are some funny tweets that really get to the specifics and the quirks about...

Fun Fact: There’s No Pumpkin in Canned Pumpkin

Canned pumpkin is not something about which you normally give two hoots for nine months out of the year. But, boy howdy, around September or October, depending when temperatures where you live drop below 60 degrees…watch out! Pumpkin is EVERYWHERE and in EVERYTHING. We want it in our PSLs (pumpkin spice lattes), our pies, our...

15 Behaviors That People Think Totally Scream “I’m Insecure!”

We all worry a bit too much about how we come off around other people. What they think about us, whether or not they like us, that sort of thing. And if you’re someone who needs other people to at least respect you in a business capacity, well, then appearing confident and cool is probably...

These 15 Amusing/Depressing Tweets Pretty Much Sum up Adulthood

Remember when you were a kid and you thought to yourself: “When I get older, I’m gonna do what I want, when I want. I’m gonna eat the best food, drive a nice car, and live in a really cool house”? Annnnnnd then, you turn 30, you live in an apartment with some random guy...

Thanks to Millennials, Milkmen Are on Their Way Back

Milkmen delivering the milk, cream and butter for the household early each morning was one of the more charming features of the 1950s. Then, like all cool things, milkmen fell out of favor. It somehow became more convenient and less expensive to buy our dairy at the grocery store. But here’s something else you can...