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14 People Share Their Thoughts on Whether or Not Unpaid Internships Should Be Illegal

For years there has been this perception that unpaid internships are a way to “pay your dues” and “get a leg up,” or even just boost your resume before applying to college or looking for a job post-graduation. Lately, though, people have become more and more vocal about the privilege a person has to have...

13 People Weigh in on How Citizens Can Make Daylight Savings Time Permanent

For many people, Daylight Savings Time is just one of those things. It’s a minor inconvenience, but with everything else going on in our lives, we just deal with it twice a year and move on. We adapt, we adjust, because that’s what human beings are good at. That said, other people are flat-out fed...

13 People on Why Chronic Lateness Doesn’t Necessarily Equal a Lack of Respect

There are two types of people in the world – those who aim to be early everywhere they go, and those who are chronically late. The latter almost always annoy the former, but as one of those people who is usually running late, I swear it’s not because I don’t respect the people I’m meeting…though...

12 Times People Really Messed up While Doing Their Laundry

Do you think maybe we should all just go back to the old days when we washed our clothes in rivers and streams? By the looks of the photos you’re about to see, I think that might not be the worst idea in the world. We’ve all had our laundry mishaps during our lives and...

When Doing Laundry Goes Bad: These People Learned the Hard Way

These photos all brought a tear to my eye…and not in a good way! Seeing a routine laundry endeavor go wrong really makes me upset for some reason…maybe it’s because I can relate to the hardships these folks are going through… I’ve definitely had my fair share of laundry mishaps in my day, and when...

Parents Explain How They’ll Tell Kids Santa Exists During a Very “Covid” Christmas

Well, here’s a question you don’t see every day, right? Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’re aware that the entire planet (and especially the United States) has been decimated by a deadly pandemic that caught all of us by surprise earlier this year. Things seem to be getting better here slowly, but it...

15 People Share the Interesting, Dark Facts About People’s Favorite Cartoons

If you think cartoons are all fun and games and rainbows and sunshine, think again, friend. There is some pretty dark and disturbing material embedded in those seemingly innocent and fun TV shows and movies that might surprise you…or even shock you. Let’s get weird with folks from AskReddit. 1. That’s a little weird. “There...

People Open up About How They Got the Scars on Their Bodies

I have a pretty wicked scar on my chest that’s about 4 inches long and looks vicious. People ask me how I got it and I always say jokingly, “a knife fight”. But the truth is far less impressive, my friends. Here’s what happened: we were on a family vacation in Florida when I was...

This One Time an Astronaut Smuggled a Corned Beef Sandwich To Space

I write a lot of articles, y’all, but that’s definitely one of the best headlines I’ve ever had the privilege of typing. This tale begins with astronaut John Young. The 9th person to walk on the moon, Young enjoyed the longest career of any astronaut before – or after – him at NASA, flying 6...

Grab Your Kids and Try Solving These 6 Fun Riddles

One of the most fun thing about having kids is getting to share the things we love with them – and if you love solving riddles and brainteasers, chances are you’re always on the lookout for some you can solve with your young’uns. If that’s the case, we’ve got ’em – we think the six...

This Gamer Took Petty Revenge to a Whole Other Level

I think there are two types of people in the world – those who get slighted and shrug, moving on and figuring that they were better off, and those who get slighted and spend time devising sweet, sweet revenge. This gamer, who was unjustly killed in the game within in days of joining the first...

How a Single Tumblr Thread Implodes the Conservative Image of Humans Past

For some reason, people have this idea that all, or at least most, past humans were super prim, proper, and conservative. Though this isn’t true, so many people believe it’s true that authors, filmmakers, and artists of all sorts are basically unable to write the truth because what’s real would generally read as anachronous to the average...

This Scotch Whiskey Was Salvaged From an 80-Year-Old Shipwreck and Went up for Auction

Here’s something I didn’t know until today – there’s a whole category of booze known as “sunken scotch,” and it’s all been recovered from the cargo holds of wrecked ships. Pretty cool, you have to admit, and the prices these casks and flasks fetch at auction is no joke. The latest find, which was dredged...

The Racist Origins of the Ice Cream Truck Tune

WARNING: Hey all, fair warning… there’s discussion of racism and really, really disturbing racist terms. So proceed with caution. Okay, deep breath… If you’re like me, you’ve probably never thought too hard about why the ice cream truck rolling through your neighborhood plays that familiar, jaunty tune to call all the kids out into the...