It’s always fun when people can’t agree on something you thought everyone agreed on. Folks on Reddit have been arguing about what to call the two ends on a loaf of bread. It turns out there are more ways to describe it than you’d think. Here are the two most common answers: Some people say…
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A Basketball Coach Was Fired, for Impersonating a 13-Year-Old Player in a Game
This sounds like the plot of an ’80s movie, which wouldn’t actually happen in real life. But it did. Two weeks ago, the assistant coach of a girls JV basketball team in Virginia entered the game herself, as a player. Her name is Arlisha Boykins, and she’s 22. She was impersonating a 13-year-old who was…
Good News: Parties, Traffic Jams, and Free Money
Here are a few more good news stories making the rounds. 1. A ten-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Colorado got shut down for five hours on Saturday after a big rig jackknifed in the snow. So a bluegrass band called Elk Range set up on the road and played music while people danced. (Here’s the video. Thankfully, the…
Is TikTok’s “100 Envelope Challenge” Clever, or Stupid?
If you’re on TikTok, you may have seen the “100 envelope challenge” videos. The hashtag has accumulated more than 160 MILLION views. There are several different versions, but here’s the idea: You get 100 envelopes, and number them 1 to 100. On Day #1, you put $1 into the first envelope, on Day #2, you…
A Study Figured Out What Bigfoot Really Is
If you believe in Bigfoot, this might rock your world. For the rest of us, it’s kind of the obvious answer: A new study may have figured out what Bigfoot really is. And the answer is something that definitely does exist. A data analyst took a list of all the reported Bigfoot sightings in the…
Five Random Facts for Wednesday
Here are some random facts for you. 1. “Weird Al” Yankovic got his first accordion from a traveling salesman, and recorded his first hit in a public bathroom. 2. The Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty were both built by the same French architect, Gustave Eiffel. 3. Texas is the only state where the legislature voted for…
KISS Manager Doc McGhee Reveals What Year Farewell Tour Will End (If You Believe Him)
This week, KISS manager Doc McGhee, the band’s longtime handler, said that the continuously delayed end of the group’s farewell “End of the Road World Tour” would finally come in 2023. Do you believe him? The conclusion of the trek “will be this year,” the manager affirmed of the tour’s supposed final-ever dates. However, in previous years, he also claimed…
How ‘Photograph’ Sent Def Leppard Into the Stratosphere
Def Leppard was primed for stardom following the release of their 1981 sophomore album High ‘n’ Dry, which earned the Sheffield quintet its first RIAA gold certification the following year. With the January 1983 release of their third album Pyromania and lead single “Photograph,” they harnessed their momentum and rocketed into the stratosphere. As the second consecutive Def Leppard album…
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni to Star in ‘It Ends With Us’
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni will star in the film version of Colleen Hoover’s popular novel, ‘It Ends with Us.’ Baldoni will also serve as director of the film. The novel center around Lily, a recent college graduate now living in Boston. Lily is dating Ryle, an emotionally distant neurosurgeon; but when her first love…
The New DC Universe Will Feature a New Superman and a New Batman, But Robert Pattinson’s Batman Saga Will Continue
New DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran laid out the future of the DC Universe yesterday. Here are some of the highlights: 1. The big movie that’ll launch the new DCU is “Superman: Legacy”, which will come out July 11th, 2025. And yes, there will be a NEW actor playing Superman. 2. A new Batman movie called “The Brave and the…