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The Story of the 392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree That Survived Hiroshima

At the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington, D.C., is a piece of Japan’s history that dates back to the 17th century. It’s a bonsai tree, gifted by master Masaru Yamaki to America on its bicentennial. The 392-year-old white pine is the oldest tree in the collection – it was planted in 1625, cultivated...

Students Are Overdosing on Dangerous Amounts of Tuna

That’s not how you expected that headline to end, is it? Me, either, but this is where we are in America today – college kids eating so much of the cheapest food they can find that they’re winding up needing medical intervention they can’t afford. Tuna, in case you fall into this category of unaware,...

Lucky Charms Is Now Selling Bags of Giant Marshmallows

The best part of Lucky Charms is obviously the marshmallows: heart, stars and horseshoes, clovers and blue moons, hourglasses, rainbows and tasty red balloons. Obviously. In 2015, General Mills unveiled Marshmallow-Only Lucky Charms, and now they’re taking it to another level by making the marshmallows full size. On August 8, the company announced the release...

Foul-Smelling Fart Forces Kenyan Regional Assembly to Pause Their Debate

Everyone passes gas sometimes, but not everyone’s farts are smelly enough to disrupt the political process. A member of a Kenyan regional assembly emitted a fart that was so foul, the entire assembly had to disperse in the middle of a debate, BBC reports. The Homa Bay county assembly had just returned from a lunch...

10 People Share Their Biggest Annoyances

Everyone has their quirks, especially when it comes to things that annoy them. If you’ve ever said “I’d rather have hot needles put into my eyes than deal with [INSERT ANNOYANCE],” then this is for you! For instance, if you simply cannot stand the sound of people chewing, then take pleasure in knowing you are...

Why You Should Really Stop Cleaning Your Ears with Cotton Swabs

You’ve probably heard by now that using cotton swabs like Q-tips to clean your ears can cause infection or injury to your ear can*l or eardrum, but this latest case out of Australia might be the thing that actually gets you to stop. https://www.instagram.com/p/B1WWFU3BCKi/ A 37-year-old woman who claimed that she cleaned her ears using...

Move Over Christmas, Ugly Halloween Sweaters Are Here

If you’re counting down the days till Starbucks offers the “Pumpkin Spice Latte” then you need to get on the Ugly Halloween Sweater ban wagon! Ugly sweater parties were once only reserved for Christmas. It’s the hot holiday trend where your friends go out and buy the most hideous or blinged-out sweater to wear with...

Man Karaokes So Hard He Collapses His Lung

You have to appreciate a person who really puts themself out there on karaoke night. I mean, what’s the point of grabbing the mic and getting up there if you’re not going to give it your all, right? Right. Buuuttttt, that said, you probably want to avoid collapsing your lung in the process, eh? Apparently,...

People Are Upset by Ryan Reynold’s Reaction to Spiderman Leaving the MCU

You’ve probably heard by now that a financial rift between Disney and Sony has caused Tom Holland’s Spiderman to exit the MCU – and as most people agree that this iteration of Spiderman is the best one, the internet is understandably upset. How DARE Sony do this to Tom Holland?! TO HUMANITY?! #SpiderMan pic.twitter.com/78rCEJDoRO —...

15 People Who Actually Read the Terms and Conditions Share The Sneaky Things They Found

Who reads all those terms and conditions before clicking ‘okay’ or ‘proceed’ or whatever? It turns out that some people are just that bored (and/or anal), and they’re here to tell you what you’re missing – and what you need to know. 15. The Canadian math requirement. I had a Victoria’s Secret coupon that said...

British Parents Are Trying to “Cure” Their Kids’ Autism by Forcing Them to Drink Bleach

Filed under: Yes, The World Is Getting Dumber By The Minute Autism is a disorder that affects up to 1 in 100 children, and there currently is no cure. A fact that is not, sadly, stopping U.K. parents from forcing their autistic children to drink (or take an enema of) a dangerous chemical cocktail that...

A Few Tweets About Spiderman Leaving the Marvel Cinematic Universe

If you’re a fan of Spiderman, the Spiderverse, or the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), then you were probably as shell-shocked as the rest of us were to learn that Disney’s rift with Sony meant that Tom Holland’s Spiderman (arguably the best iteration) would be getting the boot. In order to make everyone laugh (to keep...

Right Now It’s Snowing Microplastics In The Arctic

Microplastics are defined as any plastic fragment less than 5 millimeters in length, and at this point they have been found in every corner of the globe. They come from any number of sources – from rubber tires to paint and cosmetics to toothpaste tubes and synthetic clothing – and the ubiquitous nature of them...

Teen Activist Greta Thunberg Faces Jokes About Drowning as She Boats Across the Atlantic to Battle Climate Change

Greta Thunberg is 16 years old and has made it her life’s work (so far) to raise awareness for, and to do her best to combat, climate change around the world. Apparently, this makes grown ass people with keyboards think it’s okay to joke about a teenaged girl drowning in a boating accident, because that’s...