Posts by Kim Wong-Shing

Death in the age of social media is a strange phenomenon. Long after people pass away, their social media accounts stay online, which can be both touching and eerie. In case you’d like to prepare, here’s what you can and can’t do with your parents’ social media accounts after they pass away. Facebook is the...

Remember that girl who licked a carton of Blue Bell ice cream and put it back, sparking a nationwide panic about tampered-with products? Yeah, apparently people are out there tampering with hair conditioner, too, as one poor woman in Wisconsin learned the hard way. Taffy Jo Trimm and her daughter Ashley Rose bought a bottle...

Americans throw away about $62 million each year by tossing coins in the trash, and pennies are the most frequently discarded coins of them all. A lot of people just don’t see pennies as valuable, and mostly they’re right. But some specific types of pennies are worth up to $200,000. Coin collectors are willing to...

Depending on which food delivery app you use, you may want to stop tipping your delivery driver through the app. Apparently, some apps actually keep that tip money for themselves rather than passing it on to the driver. Sneaky! DoorDash, Amazon Flex, and Caviar are the three main companies who do not automatically pass customers’ tips on...

Sometimes, the solution to a $2.5 trillion problem is hiding in plain sight. The global shipping industry has a major rusting problem that costs an estimated $2.5 trillion each year, per a study from the National Association of Corrosion Engineers. That’s a lot of money. A team of Indian scientists has found one solution to...

Serena Williams is one of the best athletes in the world. She’s earned a record 23 grand slam singles titles, plus a list of other career achievements that is so long it would take up this entire article. That’s why it’s hilarious that some totally regular, non-professional-tennis-playing men think they could win a point off...

Doug Lindsay was forced to drop out of college at 21 years old due to a mysterious condition that doctors were unable to solve for the next 11 years — until he invented his own cure. Doug spent the years of his illness mostly confined to a hospital bed at home in St. Louis, Missouri....

If you’ve spent any time in a museum ever, you may have noticed that a lot of ancient sculptures are mysteriously nose-less. One of the most famous examples of this phenomenon is the Great Sphinx of Ancient Egypt. But the Great Sphinx is far from unique. Ancient sculptures from a wide range of cultures, including...

When I was growing up, you had to basically fake your own death to get out of going to school, complete with a fake fever and some over-dramatized coughing. But now, students can just take a “mental health day” if they need one — as long as they live in one of these two states....

When you’re young, people are FULL of advice about what you should and should not do with your career. But you shouldn’t listen to every single bit of advice that you hear, because people of all ages are absolutely clueless — it’s a fact, as this insightful and funny Twitter thread makes clear. Psychologist Adam...

People love to drink coffee for breakfast, if internet memes and novelty mugs are any indications. But while you may feel like a zombie until you’ve had your morning coffee, you may want to eat a bagel or something first. It’s really not the best idea to drink it on an empty stomach, Reader’s Digest reports. Coffee has...

Hey, um, Netflix? If you guys need a new idea for a reality show, I have the perfect idea: Two sisters with completely opposite personal styles went viral on Twitter recently, and they are absolutely fascinating! 10/10 would follow their lives on TV. Alexandria Bishop and Jessica Toutant are two sisters who live in Detroit....

If you feel a pang of guilt every time you throw a piece of plastic away and start spiraling into anxiety about the impending climate apocalypse — here is some news that may brighten your day. Plastic is infamous for its ability to pollute the environment for years and years without degrading. But because the...

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but if you buy hot dogs and buns, you will never run out of both at the same time. There are usually 10 hot dogs in a package, but then the buns are only usually sold in packs of 8. And, look, there are definitely bigger problems in the...

Do you have a vacation coming up, like, tomorrow? Getting or renewing a passport typically takes forever — several weeks, at the minimum. But there is a way to cut that processing time down to as little as 24 hours, if you have the funds. A service called RushMyPassport works with FedEx to provide passports and...