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Who said the academic world is full of stuffy people, void of emotion? Those crazy cats are ready to put up dukes if they get ruffled enough. Especially if orangutans are mentioned at an Edger Allen Poe conference. Why? Read this Tumblr thread to find out more about what makes academic types start to lose...

It’s been a staple of film, television, and literature for years. The cunning criminal who is so bright that they routinely outsmart the police and make them look foolish. But this phenomenon exists in real life too, believe it or not. AskReddit users shared their stories about especially smart criminals. Let’s see what they had...

We love to look at images from long ago, I think because it makes us feel more connected to the humans we came from, however many years are in between us. That said, photography is a fairly new inventions, which means the older the image, the harder is can be to make out the lines...

It’s a cold, hard fact of life that famous people and people with a lot of money get away with all kinds of things when it comes to crime and scandal. Also, sometimes the general public just kind of seems to “forget” about really bad things celebrities do because they’re, well, celebrities and people are...

There’s a lot of good in the world, but there’s also a whole lot of bad things that happen. You know, those things that might make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. There are too many disturbing things to sort through out there, but people on Reddit decided to fill us...

I’m gonna go on the record here: I love charts! And graphs! And pie charts! I love all of it. Any kind of interesting information laid out in a compelling way just gets me every time. I guess I’m what you might call a…NERD. I hope you are, too! Enjoy these cool guides to all...

If there’s one good thing about our current situation where we’re all locked down at home, it’s that you most likely have some extra time to spend on learning new things that you probably don’t usually have the time for. That’s where we come in! Our fact sets always do the trick and here are...

Use it or lose it. I’m talking about your brain, people. It’s very important to keep studying and keep learning about new things because that thing rattling around inside your head needs to be stimulated! Trust me on this one, okay? Let’s look at 10 great facts that’ll get you started on your journey to even...