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There’s nothing quite as disconcerting as losing your wallet. It contains money, your ID, a bunch of cards that will have to be canceled and then updated on various sites, and on and on – it’s more than a little annoying, basically. That annoyance and stress doubles when you lose your things on vacation, away...

I’m the first person to admit to being a huge history nerd, and I’ve gotta say…I’m not that embarrassed about it, either. History is interesting, it’s fun, and most importantly, once you’ve studied enough of it you can validate your depression because you can see exactly how our current society is hurtling toward destruction. Fun,...

When you hear a word like “megalodon” to describe an animal, ancient or not, you’re probably picturing something – in this case, a shark – that’s really, really big. Just how big megalodon likely was, though, really only comes into a clear focus when we compare it to things we’re relatively sure of the size of...

People sure do get worked up over names, don’t they? And it’s kind of weird (to me, at least) when people get worked up over names that DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THEM. And that’s exactly what happened here. A man shared his story on Reddit’s “Am I the *sshole?” page about an interaction...

Disney is an indelible part of most of our childhoods, whether or not we ever visited a park in person. If your parents didn’t have the money for a trip like that, no problem – there were new films, all the time, being delivered to a movie theater right down the street. Now, kids don’t...

You’d be hard pressed to find people in the world who don’t like Disney – or, at the very least, who don’t have to admit that Disney is extremely good at what they do. You’d have an easier time finding people who are absolutely bonkers for all things Disney, in my experience, but you don’t...

There are some things, like seeds and weapons and gold and certain medicines, that we expect governments around the world to keep strategic stockpiles of, in case of a global natural disaster. There are many things that don’t fit in those survival sort of categories that it turns out the people in charge don’t want...

Things sure do move fast, huh? One minute you’re playing Atari and the next minute the Atari’s out the window and you have a Nintendo. And then a Sega Genesis. And on and on it goes. My point is that things are always changing and some things just fall by the wayside. AskReddit users talked...