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5 Tips for Overcoming Social Anxiety Disorder

For some people, the seemingly simple task of leaving the house and going to a small get-together or a dinner party is enough to send them into a near meltdown. An estimated 15 million Americans suffer from social anxiety disorder, also known as social phobia. While it’s always beneficial to seek out a doctor’s advice,...

15 People Share What Their Job Has Taught Them About People

The good, the bad, the ugly. Working – especially in customer service – lets us see all of what humanity has to offer. It can teach us things, too, if we’re willing to pay attention, and these 15 people are passing along that knowledge to you. #15. Jobs well done. “I’ve learned that most people...

7 Heartwarming Stories And Facts That You Might Not Know

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and boy is that true in the case of these photos. These 7 photos will surely open up your eyes. 1. Good work! 2. Labia Library 3. Gone viral 4. Adopt don’t shop 5. Love this! 6. Look closely… 7. Sibling to the rescue Interesting stuff,...

20 Times People and Companies Asked Wendy’s to Roast Them

Ask and you shall receive. If you mess with the bull, you’re gonna get the horns. Request to get burned, you shall get burned royally. Because Wendy’s is at the top of the Twitter roasting pyramid, people and companies feel kind of honored when they get burned by the burger giant online. But it’s also...

Dishes Need to Be Dirty for Detergent to Work, So Here’s How to Properly Use a Dishwasher

My husband and I have disagreed on this point for quite some time – while he spends twenty minutes rinsing all of the dishes clean before loading the dishwasher, it turns out I’m the one who’s right! Well, this time, anyway… Here’s why: the dishwasher detergent can’t do its job unless your dishes are dirty....

Meet the Only Woman Whose Name Appears on the Declaration of Independence

If the name Mary Katharine Goddard doesn’t exactly ring a bell, you’re not alone. But you should familiarize yourself with her because she played an important role in the foundation of our country. Goddard was an accomplished woman, especially at a time when females had little power in society. She was one of America’s first female...

This Incredibly Frugal Social Worker Left Behind $11 Million for Children’s Charities

Washington State social worker Alan Naiman was a frugal man – his friends and coworkers remember him as a man with old shoes held together with duct tape and clothes bought from a grocery store who drove to cheap restaurants in his old cars. But when the 63-year-old died of cancer in January of 2018,...

Bilinguals Share Their Awkward “I Can Actually Understand You” Stories

This moment has been played for laughs and for tears on the big and small screen – the one where people are speaking another language under the assumption they won’t be overheard, only to find out that the other person in the room understood them the entire time. The moments below kind of run the...

IQ Tests Don’t Work — An Explanation on Why They Are Flawed

It’s long been a standard of intelligence: if you score high on an IQ test, you must be incredibly smart, right? All of us have grown up believing it, so is it true? And how did this phenomenon come to be? The fact is that IQ tests are NOT what we think they are and...

4 Sketchy Things You Had No Idea Your Apps Can Do

There’s no denying reality: our smartphones are basically another limb for most of us these days, and we use multiple apps to do just about everything in our lives. That means ordering food, video chatting with a friend on the other side of the country, and storing A WHOLE LOT of our personal information and...

12 Girl Power Tweets That Might Make You Feel Empowered

Remember 2018? What a weird year for women, right? Some really, really important things happened, and as women started to go into 2019, a lot of gals online had their gloves up. These 12 tweets definitely prove that there’s still a long way to go to reach equality, even online. Let’s get to it, read...

Here Are the Top 10 Selling Domestic Beers of 2018

I know craft breweries are sprouting up like weeds and everyone’s on the hunt for the latest Triple Cranberry Sour Porter (ugh) but what about some love for the old standbys? The watery domestics we all grew up on? Red and white dynamite (Budweiser), the Bullet (Coors Light), etc. That’s what I’m talking about. In...

13+ People Dish on the One Thing They’ll Never Agree with Their Parents About

For many people, our relationships with our parents can be tough to navigate for any number or reasons. Even if your relationship with your parents is good, there are still bound to be things you disagree about (the number of dogs one rescues, for example, ahem). You might see your issue on the list below...

Woman Leaves Romantic Confession On Airplane Bag, And The Internet Is Trying To Find Her

It’s like a bottle lost in the ocean for years, randomly found by a stranger thousands of miles away… An airplane passenger recently found a revealing, heartfelt confession of love…written on a barf bag. Hey, if you’re not gonna use it to vomit into, why not write a beautiful, romantic story on it? A photo...