Fake news who?

Citation needed

Sending an angry letter to my 3rd grade teacher

Blurting these out at the dentist to diffuse tension

What a versatile dog actor

Words are wild

Not-so-fun facts

Did you know that Ernest Hemingway used to shoot sharks with a tommy gun while fishing for marlins? Neither did I until I found @weird_hist, a Twitter account that drops random little-known historical tidbits and fascinating images from the past. Each one of @weird_hist's tweets is a gateway to a historical k-hole. First, you'll naturally want to fact-check the information. Did the CIA really equip cats with radio transmitters to try and spy on the Soviets? From there you're just a few more clic

An eye-opener

Did you know if you slap a chicken at a certain speed it cooks? Did you know there are only 25 blimps in the world? Look it up!

Did you know that Mario first appeared in a Japanese Donkey Kong arcade game in 1981? Though some say he was originally called "Jumpman," he was actually unnamed in the original Japanese game. Mario's creator, Shigeru Miyamoto didn't expect one of his modest side characters to become so popular, but when the little plumber started gaining a fanbase, Miyamoto decided to call him "Mr. Video." Mario was originally intended to be a sort of recurring background character who would make cameo appeara…

How is it that someone can be perfectly affable and charming in person, but an absolute nightmare of a human on social media? Why does it feel like we're all walking around in a cloud of paranoia all the time? Why is it hard to tell which information is true and which is fake these days? Psychology buff @g_s_bhogal might have some answers. In a follow-up tweet to an insightful mega-thread of 40 psychology concepts, @g_s_bhogal explained that his goal “is to help people avoid the psychological t…

Wikipedia is a goldmine of strange & funny facts

Ever walk down Main Street in Disneyland and get the sudden, unbearable craving for vanilla ice cream in a giant waffle cone? Or maybe you can't quite remember what happens in the Haunted Mansion, but you can still recall the smell of that musky elevator. According to TikToker @hangryblogger , Disneyland is brainwashing its patrons with devices called 'smellitizers' that emit intoxicating aromas and manipulate you into buying their churros. Uh, what? Is that even necessary? I mean, churros smel…

Yikes.