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…
This Viral Tweet About Pens Is Dividing the Internet
A recent Twitter post that asks social media users which pen is their favorite writing utensil has gone viral and it has stirred debate among modern-day scribes. Chris Grosse, a sports marketer from Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, shared a photo-attached tweet that displays seven pen options – each of which has an assigned number. “OK, you can only…
A School Cafeteria Worker Stole $1.5 Million Worth of Chicken Wings
Elderly, suburban high school cafeteria workers may seem harmless, but some are capable of high-stakes avian thievery. 66-year-old Vera Liddell was the “food service director” at a school district in Illinois. But she was arrested, for stealing $1.5 MILLION worth of chicken wings. She’d been working there for at least a decade, but during the…
Good News: Cars, Grenades, and Helping 1,000 Blind People See Again
Here are a few more good news stories making the rounds. 1. YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a., MrBeast, is making waves for all the right reasons. He helped 1,000 people see again by getting them cataract surgery. He started with 40 people at homeless shelters and free clinics in Florida. Then a group helped him find more than…
The Top Things Pets Like to Watch on TV Are Sports and Cartoons
Super Bowl Sunday is less than two weeks out, and it’s a big day for football fans, including your cat? Someone polled 2,000 pet owners, and 83% claimed their dog or cat has a favorite sport they like to watch. Football was number one with 40% of the vote. The top five sports pets like…