Most college kids have part-time jobs in between classes and study sessions, but this senior at Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University started his own lawn care company for the elderly. Here’s the thing, though. He doesn’t actually make any money doing it. It started as a simple act of kindness, but once Rodney Smith Jr.…
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As if the popularity of gifs didn’t already make you feel like you were behind the times, there’s now a whole new genre of web-based art that takes things to a creepy new level. Like guitarists distort sound with amps and pedals, broken gif enthusiasts distort pixels. Pieces of frames are strategically moved to create…
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When you think about it, New Year’s Eve is kind of a bizarre holiday. What better way to celebrate the coming of the new year than by waiting for a light-up ball to drop, macking on each other, and drinking weird carbonated wine from France, right? But there are some New Year’s Eve and New…
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Imagine that you’re a taxi driver in Ishinomaki, Japan. You pick up a young passenger and ask for her destination. She tells you that she’s headed to the Minamiyama District, which is strange because no one ever goes to the Minamiyama District — not since the tsunami, anyway. You tell her this and she asks,…
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We are all familiar with Babe, the story of a pig who wants to be a sheepdog, but that’s all fiction, right? Well, it turns out there is a REAL pig out there with a penchant for bossing around sheep. Her name is Squeak and she lives on Edgar’s Mission, a non-profit sanctuary for rescued…
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Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the Bermuda Triangle mystery, and in December, we reported that we were “no closer to knowing the truth.” If you believe these findings, however, that’s no longer the case. The truth behind all of the disappearances in the deadly space between Florida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda may be…
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Redditor seltsame just inherited a very old house from her mother’s aunt Greta. She was born in East Prussia in 1921, but fled to Germany in the 1940s. Along with the house, seltsame inherited a creepy metal chest. She knew that Greta had lived an interesting life, but she didn’t know that it was on…
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