On Tiktok, a minor traffic accident has captivated the attention of millions, and viewers are picking sides in a complicated incident of road rage. The story starts five days ago… Read the rest of the article: An accident between an Audi and a Lamborghini leads to viral videos, Tiktok sleuths, and a lawsuit

Tiktok user @bennymofodavis wants you to know that recipe blog preambles are "ubiquitous, purposeful, and deliberate" and that your complaints about them are not funny and certainly not unique. In… Read the rest of the article: Watch: an incredible song about why recipe blog preambles are so long

Facebook's been having a rough few weeks. WSJ reported that it knew about the app's harmful effect on teen girls, which led to a Senate trial as well as media… Read the rest of the article: Instagram has gone down once again— the second time this week. Twitter is flooded with memes.

With a hunched stance and a weird backwards-walk, Chicago comedian Kim Quindlen plays the character of an awkward campus tour guide. Commenters call her a female version of Dwight Schrute.… Read the rest of the article: TikToker satirizes campus tour guides

Exciting vaccine news that's not about Covid: there's now a WHO-approved vaccine for malaria, a disease caused by a single-celled microorganism of the Plasmodium group— not a bacteria or virus. According… Read the rest of the article: WHO approves the first malaria vaccine

If a proposal passes, Spanish Millenials may finally get the opportunity to move out of their childhood bedrooms. A housing bill announced on Tuesday includes a program to pay young… Read the rest of the article: Spain wants to pay 20-somethings nearly $300/month to move out of their parents' homes

If you say "DC Comics" you're really saying Detective Comics Comics. The same thing happens with "MLB baseball," "EDM music," and "HTTP" protocol. "PSA announcement." "LCD display." "POTS syndrome." "CAC… Read the rest of the article: ATM machines, PIN numbers, and other redundant acronyms

Underhand free throws aren't stupid— they just look stupid. According to Curtis Rist in Discover Magazine, more players should try throwing "granny style" like 1950s basketball star Rick Barry. One… Read the rest of the article: In defense of granny style

According to an Insider report, youth ministry giant YoungLife has repeatedly mishandled sexual assault allegations brought forth against their volunteers. The massive nonprofit tasks young, unpaid volunteers with the frontline… Read the rest of the article: Former YoungLife members allege sexual misconduct

British graphic designer Gary Cordery has a passion for both cardio and art. Thanks to fitness trackers and the internet, he's combined his interests and created "the nichest collection of… Read the rest of the article: Check out this massive repository of art made by the GPS maps of runners and cyclists

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to David Julius at UCSF and molecular neurobiologist Ardem Patapoutian at Scripps Research. Julius used capsaicin— the spicy compound… Read the rest of the article: Spicy peppers helped one of this year's Nobel Prize winners learn about the science of touch

A Youtube video titled "THE MOST BORING VIDEO EVER MADE (Microsoft Word tutorial, 1989) has accrued over 1.5 million views despite its self-proclaimed boringness. The video, an hour and forty-seven-minute… Read the rest of the article: 1989 Microsoft Word tutorial is "the most boring video ever made"

I had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything I ever wanted. I visited Eminem's new restaurant Mom's Spaghetti. The restaurant, which opened up this week, comes after several years… Read the rest of the article: I went to Eminem's new Detroit spaghetti restaurant

Siamese cats are walking heatmaps. Their characteristic coloration results from a delightful mutation (maybe I should call it a mew-tation) in tyrosinase, an enzyme that makes melanin. A deleted cytosine… Read the rest of the article: Siamese cats are heatmaps of themselves

Giving money to strangers on the internet certainly has its risks. A Washington Post investigation into a viral fundraiser from Instagram user @quentin.quarantino has raised red flags. In August, 25-year-old… Read the rest of the article: Instagrammer who raised $7M to evacuate Afghans struggles to use funds effectively

Journalist Chloe Angyal wrote a piece in Feministing ten years ago titled "Marry me, Zach Wahls." She reported on a 19-year-old's passionate defense of his same-sex marriage household to the… Read the rest of the article: A journalist jokingly proposed in a headline. A decade later, they're married

Humans have been dehusking, steaming, and flatting oats to make oatmeal for millennia. Here are some facts I learned about my favorite breakfast! In Quaker Instant Oatmeal, the "strawberries" and… Read the rest of the article: Facts I didn't know about oatmeal

Big news for digital diagnosis: a company called Paige.AI offers software that scans biopsied prostate tissue for cancerous cells. Launched in 2018, the company has previously worked with Memorial Sloan… Read the rest of the article: FDA gives a green light to cancer diagnosis AI

Due to supply chain bottlenecks and higher costs, Dollar Tree is officially done limiting itself to $1 prices. Founded in 1986 in Virginia, it had been true to its name… Read the rest of the article: Dollar Tree kills $1 price limit, joining other major chains

I love trivia! I also love trivia about trivia! Like sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, and roads, the word "trivia" is a gift from the Roman Empire.… Read the rest of the article: Fun facts about fun facts