Most nursing homes and senior care facilities have peaceful names, like Shady Lawn, Pebble Creek, and Babbling Brookside.  There’s a reason why they wouldn’t choose something like:  Devil’s Tower.   A man in the U.K. was at a bus stop, and he saw an ad for a senior care home, called SKELETON COURT.  He shared…

Here are a few more Good News stories making the rounds. 1.  There’s a magician named John Stessel, who routinely performs magic for shelter dogs at the St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center in New Jersey.  John is allergic to dogs, but he’s doing it for a good cause:  They film the shelter dogs’ reactions to his tricks,…

Think back to the last time a bee stung you:  Did you deserve it, or were you totally innocent? A new poll asked 7,000 people, “Do you think that the reason the bee stung you was justified?”  And in the end, the results were so close that there could’ve been a recount in Florida. 49%…

It’s not officially summer for a couple more weeks still, but it’s never too early for this reminder.  Here are five common summer activities that can be super dangerous for kids . . . 1.  Riding a bike without a helmet.  A lot of older kids don’t think they need a helmet because they’re good…

Here are some random facts for you. 1.  Franklin is the most common city name.  There are 28 of them in America.  Clinton, Madison, and Washington are tied for second (27 each), and Chester, Greenville, Marion, and Springfield at third (25). 2.  There’s no documented case in history of a pirate making a treasure map.…

If your partner accuses you of stealing one of the cookies they made for a graduation party, it probably won’t help your case if you are later caught stealing another cookie. A 34-year-old man in Wisconsin named Daniel Barton was accused of stealing a cop car back in December, and he was awaiting trial in…

If you’ve spent any time on social media over the past decade, you’ve seen a TON of supposed “food hacks.”  Many of them don’t actually work, and the ones that do, are usually kind of lame. Like, “bake cookies in your car on a hot day!”, basically EVERY “hack” involving eggs, and “infuse vodka with…

Here are a few more Good News stories making the rounds. 1.  Britain’s “Daily Mail” is suggesting that we might be on the verge of a cancer vaccine for people fighting colon and pancreatic cancers. In human testing, the vaccine showed the potential to lower the risk of relapse in 100% of patients who had surgery to remove their…

Some beer companies want to be the life of the party, but Samuel Adams is fine being the beer you drink when you bail on all your friends and just sit at home, alone. Samuel Adams is selling a mock beer can toy online called the “I CAN’t Can”, and it’s basically a variation on…

99% of the snail mail we get these days is JUNK mail.  And it seems unavoidable.  But there actually are a few things you can do to eliminate some of it. Going with paperless billing is a good way to avoid bills you don’t really need to see.  But here are three more ways to…