When we were kids, every Saturday felt like a holiday. Because it meant that our favorite cartoon heroes were off on another adventure. Whether they were saving the planet or just going to school, we wanted to know what they were up to. In some cases, our entire personalities were based on some of these shows. Let’s be honest: Beetlejuice was never a phase. So, let’s go back [...]
25 Items Everyone Had in Their Kitchen Back in the Day
Stepping into your grandparent's house always felt like entering a different world. In the backyard, they’d let us run wild without batting an eye at our inevitable chaos. But the real magic could only be found in Grandma’s kitchen. A wonderland of tastes and gadgets that, looking back at it now, were actually cutting edge for their time. Here's a collection of vintage items [...]
22 Weird and Wonderful Facts About Skittles
Whether they’re your absolute favorite candy or you only partake on special occasions, we can all agree that Skittles has been a significant culinary and cultural phenomenon for the last fifty years. Even so, there are probably a great deal of things you don’t know about the colorful treat, so here are some weird and wonderful Skittles facts. #1: No one knows who actually [...]
28 Foods That Make Us Question What Our Grandparents Were Thinking
Like fashion, technology, or TV, what we eat changes throughout the generations. Sure, you have your evergreen foods, like the hamburger, but other foods that were once popular now make people raise an eyebrow. For example, our grandparents ate some pretty weird things. I try to be empathetic about it; these meals often are rooted in The Great Depression or World War II or were [...]
20 Famous Figures Throughout History Who Curiously Lived at the Same Time
We usually learn about the lives of historical figures in isolation, without regard to the context of what else was going on in the world unrelated to them. So, it can seem very surprising when we find out that one historical figure lived at the same time as another, even though the events of their lives seem to us to be from different centuries. If you want to see what we [...]