Have you ever heard of Sarah Rector? If not, you’re not alone: Most people haven’t. In 1914, however, at the age of just 12, she became an overnight millionaire. Scared of a little black girl being one of the wealthiest people in the country, the authorities legally declared her white. This is her story. Sarah...

Comedy is an interesting genre. More than just making people laugh, it can be satirical, brutally honest, and can often rub some people the wrong way. What is funny to some can be offensive to others, and there are blurred lines between what is and isn’t okay to make a joke about. Back in 2008,...

Most of us, at certain points in our life, must have wondered how useful our math classes were in school. Some of us probably never have to utilize more than half of what we learned to survive. But there is a certain individual who used basic trigonometry, which we learn in schools to guess the...

Teletubbies were a big part of many children’s lives growing up in the 90s. In fact, most of us sitting in front of the TV in the morning to catch a glimpse of Dipsy, Tinky-Winky, Po, and Laa Laa frolicking around, all without a care in the world. However, there has been a single instance...

Imagine having searched for years for the love of your life, and you finally found them. The only thing is, they have just been offered a job overseas. Now, you face the reality of losing them just as things are about to get serious. The good news is technology has made long-distance dating seem a...

For a long time, everything on the internet and in the news about millennials and homes was just about the fact that it seemed impossible that they would ever be able to afford them. While this may still largely be true, millennials are starting to buy homes. As it seems that people enjoy picking on...

If you have never heard of Leona Helmsley, she was a hotel heiress who left most of her money to her dog and almost nothing to her family. She was known for being a mean woman, and her dog got the bulk of her estate. After she passed, she left a trust fund of $12...

Technology is moving fast. So quickly, in fact, that some experts suggest a possible trend in which artificial intelligence (AI) will reach the singularity within seven years. At this point, there will be no distinction between human and machine or physical and virtual reality. They say this could be by the end of this decade. ...

Bizarre things happen n a daily basis. We read about them all the time in the news and watch videos of them on social media. One woman was scrolling through social media one day when she stumbled across a promotional video from a restaurant. She swears her late husband was at the beginning of the...

Time flies, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in the United States over twenty years ago. Most youths in the country said that the change in the name of the title was just a quirk. But interestingly, it was entirely the marketing team behind the books that decided that a difference in the...

Have you heard of Jack the Ripper? He was an infamous serial killer in London in 1888 with a serious vendetta against women. The creepiest thing is that after his last murder, he was never seen or heard from ever again – no one ever found out who he was. Recently, however, some British police...

Growing up in school, at some point you likely learned global geography using a world map. Perhaps you even had a big world map on the wall in your classroom. While the map you used is useful for many things, one thing it is not is accurate about the actual sizes of each country in...