Posts by Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn

To know about elephants is to love them – they share strong family bonds, they’re crazy smart, and they’re way nicer to humans than we deserve (as is true of most animals) – and after reading these 9 facts, you’re going to adore them even more. These gentle giants are around 10 feet tall and...

There are times when you’re kind of sad that a certain animal has gone extinct. Then there are times when you hear “a beaver the size of a bear,” and know instinctively that would not be, in any way, shape, or form, adorable. Meet the Castoroides, a giant beaver who surely could have built some...

Our world is growing and changing, hopefully in ways that make it more inclusive and comfortable for every single person who inhabits it. Most of us want to adapt in order to help make that possible, but the truth is, sometimes we just don’t know the answers to the hard questions – and we’re afraid...

If you’re a certain type of indoorsy person, wandering the nation’s national parks – even if you’re getting paid – does not sound like your idea of a dream job. For someone who lives for exploring, for hiking, for communing with nature and spending your days outdoors instead of in an office would seem like...

If you experience synesthesia, then you probably already know what it means. For everyone else, here’s a quick definition: experiencing something with one sense and somehow, that experience translating to a second one. Like, you see a scone, and can taste the scone. Or, you hear the letter B and imagine the color yellow. It...

Every job in the world has secrets that would surprise those who aren’t in the know. Tattoo artists are part of so many of our lives these days, though, that the things they’re keeping behind closed doors are of particular difference. Also, you figure that tattoo artists see some pretty interesting characters, and therefore have...

As fastidious as most of us try to be, not a person among us can claim to never have found a food masquerading as a science experiment in our fridge. You know what I’m talking about, right? And obviously, you’re not going to be tempted to go ahead and eat something rotten and moldy, but...

With the increasing amount of hurricanes and tropical storms in the past decade or so, you’ve probably noticed there seems to be a method to the madness when it comes to how meteorologists give them names. You might wonder why they’re given names in the first place, instead of not just say, numbers. Or maybe you...

Y’all, I had no idea that one of the best and move coveted ingredients for high-end perfume came from a whale’s intestines. For real. Whale vomit (or perhaps something like a whale gallstone), also called ambergris, is exactly that – and a raw, waxy glob of it could be worth up to $20,000. Ambergris forms...

It’s an old joke, right, the jock who goes around daring people to punch him in the stomach?  It’s funny, maybe because it’s true – some people will stop at nothing to prove just how tough they are. And while they usually do the craziest things when they’re kids, sometimes you can watch adults go...

One of the biggest jokes of life is how, as a kid, you can’t wait to grow up. You think it’s going to be so great, doing what you want, eating what you want, no one telling you what to do…but once you’re actually an adult, you quickly realize there are a whole lot of responsibilities that...

When we’re young and brash, we think we know what and who we’re going to be for the rest of our lives. We don’t anticipate what adulthood will do to us, and sometimes, we don’t anticipate the changes that will act on us to turn us into the one thing we hated. These 17 people...

Scary can mean different things to different people, and depending on what’s going on in your life at the time, there is an array of noises that could literally scare you to death. For these 21 people, these are the noises they will never forget as long as they live. 21. Always trust the dog....

If you clicked on this…what is wrong with you? Are you a glutton for punishment? Do you enjoy being angry? Do you need to pump yourself up for a big confrontation? Honestly, it’s none of my business. If you want to look through some pictures that are going to burn your britches right up, go...

Insults should be a bad thing across the board. We’re trained to be polite, to be kind, to not say anything at all if we can’t say something nice, but listen. Some people deserve it, and so when they get what’s coming to them, we all do a private little fist-pump. Or in these 18...