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That Time Teddy Roosevelt Got Shot But Gave His Speech Anyway

Talking to Animals and Inanimate Objects Is a Sign of Intelligence and Empathy

People who talk to their pets as if they are human are not simple-minded or nutty. Rather, the habit seems to be a sign of high intelligence and empathy. That’s reassuring news for anyone who has been mocked for telling the dog the weather is too bad for a walk right now, but maybe later...

16 Text Abbreviations You Might Not Know

You’ve been in this situation before: you get a text from a friend or family member and there’s an abbreviation in there that you’ve never seen before. You panic because you don’t want to look clueless or uncool and you act like you know what they’re talking about. Then the conversation takes a strange turn...

15 Really Wholesome And Great Stories People Shared

Starting off a new year is always a mixed bag. On one hand, you want to do your best and start over in some areas in your life. On the other hand, sometimes you get bogged down with all the new excitement and you don’t even know where to begin. Oh, and the weather usually...

Vets Treat an ‘Exotic’ Orange Bird That Ended Up Being a Seagull Covered in Curry

Some Good Samaritans recently brought what they believed to be an exotic, orange bird to the Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in England because they saw it stranded on the side of the road looking like it couldn’t fly. Looks pretty exotic to me. Ooohhhhh, I wonder what species it could be… So the vets got to...

Man Dies While Diving Underwater to Propose to His Girlfriend

In a tragic incident, a man dove into an underwater room to carry out what should have been a romantic proposal — but he never made it out. Steven Weber and girlfriend Kenesha Antoine were on vacation together in Tanzania. They stayed at the luxury Manta Resort, famous for its floating accommodations and underwater rooms,...

What’s the Weirdest Thing You Found When You Cleaned Out a Person’s Belongings? Here’s What Folks Had to Say.

It’s never an easy task to clean out the belongings of a person who has passed on to the other side. And it’s REALLY not easy when you find things you didn’t want to find. But hey, we’re all weird in our own way and we all have our secrets…so let’s try not to be...

Waiters Roasted Their Customers With Mean Comments On Receipts, But Forgot to Delete Them — Now Customers Are Outing Them Online

Servers at restaurants are often on the receiving end of hostile customer behavior. We constantly see them serve up memes about customers who refuse to tip, leave filthy tables, and make unreasonable demands. But restaurant servers are also human, and they also make some epic workplace mistakes. One Steak ‘N Shake customer was surprised with...

‘Dirty Dancing’ Movie Is Finally Getting A Sequel 33 Years Later

Thirty-three years ago, Dirty Dancing hit big screens. Since then, it has become one of the most popular romance movies of all time. Generations of film fanatics have learned the story of Johnny Castle and Frances “Baby” Houseman—famously played by the late Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey, respectively. While Dirty Dancing got released in 1987, it still...

A Silly but Helpful Guide to Identifying the Artist Behind Famous Paintings

Art history isn’t everyone’s bag, but there is definitely value in being able to look at a painting and know whose brush brought it to life. And while it takes years for scholars to study the intricacies and subtleties of why the paintings of particular artists look the way they do, you can learn to...

11 Comics About Life That Are Funny, Because They’re True

Art in general, and comic strips specifically, are at their very best when they’re putting life – or some subset of it – under a microscope. Artists see our world through a specific, beautiful lens, and the artist behind Sabencomics is no different. Her drawings are about life, and the experiences that connect us all...

10 People Share Cool Photos Of Things Worn Down By Time And The Elements

It’s easy to think of the modern world as timeless. We don’t want to think about how fragile our existence is, or how many generations of things and people have come before us that are now nothing but dust and bones. Sometimes, though, we run across images of just that that can’t be denied, and...

15 People Share Advice on How to Make Friends If You’re Lonely and Don’t Necessarily Like People

For some people, it can be hard to make friends at any age. I’ve always had a solid set of friends, but I will admit that the older I get, the harder it is to meet people and make new pals…and a worldwide pandemic doesn’t necessarily help matters, either. So how can a person make...

12 Pictures That Use a “Human For Scale” to Show Us the Size an Object Really Is

Some objects aren’t things that most of us see on a regular basis – or ever at all – and so it can be hard to imagine how large or small it is, even if we know intellectually that it’s an extreme size on one end of the scale or the other. One easy way...

This Cruise Ship Captain Had Some Words for a Man Who Questioned Her Rank

Now, I’m woman enough to examine the misogyny I’ve internalized myself and realize that yes, in my mind, I’ve been imagining cruise ship captains – and maybe all captains of sea-going vessels – as male. That said, of course it makes sense that women can and do take the helm of ships large and small,...