InterestingResearch shows that women with higher levels of education are significantly more likely to report enjoying both giving and receiving oral sex compared to those with less education.6092k16 years ago
InterestingThe average IQ is designed to be exactly 100, with scores above 130 considered gifted and above 145 typically classified as genius-level.1752k16 years ago
FunnyOutdatedEvanston Township High School in Illinois played Justin Bieber's 'Baby' as a fundraiser between classes. Students had to pay to stop it. $1,000 was collected in 3 days.723k13 years ago
InterestingOutdatedA young programmer offered a homeless man the choice between $100 cash or coding lessons. Leo Grand chose the lessons, and now his first mobile app is available to download for $.99.262k12 years ago
WholesomeOutdatedSelf-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.212k12 years ago
InterestingPeople with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.173k11 years ago
WholesomePatrick Moriarty was 22 when he told his 9th-grade earth science students to circle one date on their worksheets: a solar eclipse. He gave the same assignment to every class he taught for the next 16 years. More than 100 former students showed up 46 years later. Rochester was cloudy. Nobody cared.16615 months ago
InspiringWilliam Kamkwamba dropped out of school at 14 years old when famine hit Malawi and his family could not afford the fees. He walked to a local library and taught himself from the diagrams in a book he could barely read. Then he built a 16-foot windmill from scrapyard junk - and it lit up his family home.604 months ago
FunnyLisa Kudrow co-authored a medical study Before Friends premiered, she spent years working for her father, a headache doctor. In 1994 her name went on a peer-reviewed headache study. She also has a biology degree from Vassar.20 days ago
WholesomeDale Schroeder worked as a carpenter at the same Iowa company for 67 years. He never married. He drove a rusty old Chevrolet. When he died in 2005, nobody could believe he had secretly saved $3 million. He left it all to send 33 complete strangers to college. They call themselves "Dale's kids."6 months ago
Mind-BlowingSylvia Bloom worked as a legal secretary on Wall Street for 67 years. Every time her boss bought a stock, she quietly bought the same one. Nobody - not her husband, not the lawyers she worked for - knew. When she died at 96, her estate was worth $9 million. She left $8.2 million for college scholarships.756 months ago
WholesomeLeonard Gigowski spent 50 years cutting meat at a Milwaukee grocery store. He drove the same car for 15 years. He never married. He never took a vacation. He clipped coupons. His friends figured he was just scraping by. He was quietly buying stock in the company he worked for and holding it for fifty years. When he died at 90, the lawyers opened his estate. $13 million went to his old Catholic high school. Nobody knew he was rich.5 months ago
InspiringOn December 26, 2004, 10-year-old Tilly Smith was on holiday at Mai Khao Beach, Phuket when the sea suddenly pulled back. She recognised the sign from a geography lesson two weeks earlier. She screamed at her parents. The hotel was cleared. About 100 people were evacuated in minutes. Mai Khao had no deaths that day.1115 months ago
WholesomeAt his 2019 Morehouse College commencement address, billionaire Robert F. Smith announced his family would pay off the student loan debt of the entire graduating class. The gift covered all 396 seniors and ultimately totalled $34 million - including Parent PLUS loans. He told them: 'I know my class will pay this forward.'5 months ago
WholesomeKristina Ulmer's sister died hours after her final waitress shift, leaving $80 in tips behind. Kristina kept it untouched for four years, then added her own savings, broke it into $20 bills, and handed one to each of her 26 students: use it for kindness. It is now a nonprofit, 350+ acts strong.5 months ago