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Warning: These Images Can Alter Your Vision for Months

Reader beware: stare at these images a little too long and you might find your vision being altered for the next few days, sometimes even months. Don’t worry too much, though – the damage isn’t permanent and the main side effect is seeing colors slightly differently. Named after Celeste McCollough Howard, the psychologist who first...

30 Times People Said Something So Profound, It Stuck with Someone Forever

Words are incredibly powerful. They have the power to inspire, to incite change, to heal or to harm. A few good words, carefully chosen, can change someone’s entire outlook on life. A Redditor asked people to share moments where they heard someone say something so profound, it stuck with them for the rest of their...

7 Popular ‘Facts’ That You Think Are True, But Actually Aren’t

You know how knowledge just sometimes seems to filter into your mind, almost as if through osmosis? Like, one day you go to sleep, and the next day, you think that eating lots of carrots can make your night vision sharper? Yeah, well. That’s not how learning works. Myth 1: Eating carrots improves your eyesight....

5 Ways the Gig Economy Is Messing up the World

Times are tough out there, and even though the economy is in goodish shape for now, a lot of people still have to hustle with two or three jobs and side gigs. The “gig economy” that so many people are now a part of (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) does provide Americans some extra cash, but it’s...

Dogs Can Tell If You’re Untrustworthy, Research Finds

Dog people have long suspected that their canine pals have an instinct about people from the start – whether they smell off or just get some kind of feeling about the baddies has been anyone’s guess…at least, until now! A recent study shows that dogs can and do analyze a person’s reliability! The researchers were...

10 People Share Their Best #IfYouStopAndThinkAboutIt Tidbits

There are things about life, art, movies, etc that we have just seemed to accept as a society for all the time – for example, yes… Dorothy Gale killed two women because a perfect stranger told her not to give up her shoes. That’s just one example of the deep thoughts pouring out of the...

15 Nostalgic People Share What They Miss About the 2000s

It’s hard to believe we’re almost a decade removed from the 2000s, but time is moving fast, baby. What do you miss about the 2000s? The same things as these folks? 1. Gamer “Nintendo Gamecube – I know it was the third place console, but it had so many games that I played constantly. I...

12 People Share the Most Ridiculous Thing They’ve Seen a Man Do to Defend His Masculinity

In this day and age, it’s becoming more and more acceptable for men to be and feel how they want – even in public and even if it’s not “manly,” but some people just aren’t on board. Like these 12 men, who went to extreme lengths to remind everyone around they were, indeed, male.  ...

Are These Dots Blue or Purple? Researchers Find Why People Often Get The Answer Wrong Over Time

Researchers at Harvard University recently released a study that makes a very interesting revelation: our concept of “threat” and the color blue, it turns out, is all relative and is not based on hard-and-fast rules. This is how the experiment worked: the researchers showed subjects a series of dots that ranged in color from very...

20 Random Texts Messages That Escalated Quickly

This is a lesson every person needs to learn. And sometimes people learn the hard way. Quit while you’re ahead! It’ll make life much more enjoyable! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.

16 Things Meghan Markle Can No Longer Do Now That She’s a Royal

Meghan Markle found her “prince charming” (literally) and tied the knot with Prince Harry on Saturday, May 19. While she looked absolutely stunning and the ceremony was beautiful, it was truly unlike any other wedding out there. Quite literally, Markle is now entering the “Royal Family,” which, within itself is a huge transition. Not only...

10 Horror Movie Wikipedia Pages That Are Strictly for Adults Only

Do you ever get sucked into the Wikipedia wormhole? Where you start researching one topic and you fall into an endless pit? I know I do every day. In the spirit of wasting time (and learning some stuff, too), here are 10 Wikipedia pages for horror movies that will creep you out. So click the...

10 Pieces of Advice On How To Get Through a Day Wearing High Heels

There’s a reason that the word ‘heel’ is so close to the word ‘hell’ (ok, fine, it was probably a linguistic accident – whatevs). Wearing even the cutest pair for an extended period of time can basically amount to torture, and if your line of work requires them on a daily basis, well, you definitely...

People Are Surprised to Learn How Intelligent Crows Are

I remember the first time I learned how crazy smart members of the Corvidae family – which includes crows and ravens – are, and it totally blew my mind. They can solve multiple step puzzles, for one, and for another, well…afterward, I wasn’t quite so quick to dismiss the happenings in The Birds. In case...