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Photo credit: Canva – Southern women and the Southern etiquette rules that still apply today.

Life Hacks, Skills

8 old-fashioned Southern etiquette rules are still relevant today

Emily Shiffer

10/7/2026
Clara at Shriners Children's showing her strength.

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Health

Clara knows what it’s like to grow up inside a hospital. Now, she’s helping other kids find comfort.

Sarah Watts

10/8/2026
Photo credit: Photo by David Shankbone/Wikipedia – High schoolers in the 2000s.

Culture, Generations

Video of students walking into high school in 2006 is bringing Millennials back to a more carefree time

Upworthy Staff

10/6/2026
Photo credit: Images via Canva/Photodjo, Andy Dean Photography – Millennials are frustrated with their Boomers parents about real estate.

Culture, Generations

Millennials struggling to buy a home want ‘out of touch’ Boomer parents to get their reality

Emily Shiffer

10/6/2026
Photo credit: All photos courtesy of the USO – U.S. Army Private Louis "Speedy" Weber (left) and his wife, Frances (center right), wrote over 300 love letters to each other.

Culture, Nostalgia

Newlywed couple sent over 300 love letters during World War II. Their 1940s romance was unmatched.

Emily Shiffer

10/6/2026
Photo credit: Images via Canva – Boomers and Gen Xers discuss the things they don't miss from the 1980s and 1990s.

Culture, Generations

Boomers and Gen Xers share 30 things they don’t miss from the ’80s and ’90s

Emily Shiffer

10/5/2026
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr & Maria Slough/The Pawtraits ExhibitionQueen guitarist Brian May's nature reserve is a wildlife sanctuary.

Conservation, Nature

Queen’s Brian May turned 157 acres of private land into a 100,000-tree reserve and animal rescue

Emily Shiffer

10/5/2026
Photo credit: Canva – Slogans, phrases, and jingles that Boomers and Gen X will remember.

Culture, Generations

22 forgotten slogans and phrases from commercials that Boomers and Gen Xers will instantly recognize

Emily Shiffer

10/4/2026
Photo credit: TaurusEmerald/Flickr & CanvaActor Matthew Lillard spoke about about "abysmal" teacher salaries in the United States.

Culture, Pop Culture

Matthew Lillard calls out ‘abysmal’ teacher salaries in passionate interview

Emily Shiffer

10/3/2026
Photo credit: А. О. Бауман & HronoFyodor Dostoevsky and his wife Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina had four children together.

Life Hacks, Skills

After Dostoevsky’s daughter died, his devastating letters to a friend captured the raw pain of grief

Emily Shiffer

10/2/2026
Photo credit: Instagram/@breakroom.chronicles – The Breakroom Chronicles (Linisha “Esha” Smith and Melissa “Melly” Turner) perform The Prodigy's "Firestarter."

Culture, Pop Culture

Grocery workers’ breakroom recreation of The Prodigy’s ‘Firestarter’ video is comedy gold

Emily Shiffer

10/1/2026
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore & Csonstitutional ConventionBill Nye the Science Guy speaks about the word "science" being in the U.S. Constitution.

Culture, Pop Culture

Bill Nye whips out the Constitution to make a powerful point about cuts to science research

Emily Shiffer

10/1/2026
Photo credit: Canva – A woman scrolling on her phone.

People Skills, Science

Psychologists explain 7 personality traits of people who prefer not to share their private lives online

Emily Shiffer

10/1/2026
Photo credit: The Guardian & DB King / Flickr The Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Culture, Pop Culture

True crime fans can stay in ‘haunted’ Victorian home where Lizzie Borden’s parents were murdered

Emily Shiffer

9/29/2026
Photo credit: Harald Krichel / WikiPortraits & CanvaTom Cruise surprised a woman he thought was having a bad day.

Culture, Pop Culture

‘Downcast’ kitchen staffer blown away to realize the man who checked in on her was Tom Cruise

Emily Shiffer

9/29/2026
Photo credit: Pixar Animatioin Studios & Paolo V / Flickr Taylor Swift's song from 'Toy Story 5' is titled "I Knew It, I Knew You."

Culture, Pop Culture

Voice actor perfectly mimics 28 Disney characters singing Taylor Swift’s ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’

Emily Shiffer

9/28/2026

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