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Nostalgia

A hundred years ago, everyone wore hats. In 1960, they suddenly stopped. Here’s why.

Old footage from the ’50s shows men, women, and children wearing hats everywhere they go.

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workplace, workers rights, malicious compliance, NDA, toxic workplace
Culture

She was fired for taking 10 minutes to reply to emails. Then she made sure they’d regret it.

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Pop Culture

Video of two brothers Irish step dancing to Beyoncé’s country hit ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ is pure delight

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Culture

Romeo is ‘cringe’: English teacher shares what Gen Z thinks about ‘Romeo & Juliet’

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California brought back beavers for the first time in 70 years, and the results are already amazing

Native wisdom and ancient rock paintings save the day.

Kat Hong – 09/25/25
California brought back beavers for the first time in 70 years, and the results are already amazing
Checking in on California's beaver project.

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Family

Trendy ‘grandma showers’ get a lot of flack online, but when can they be a good thing?

Heather Wake – 9/30/2025
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Music

Legendary 2000s pop punk band fights the ticket monopoly with throwback ‘house party’ tour

Evan Porter – 5/27/2025
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Internet

Artist makes everyday spaces magical by cleverly adding pixelated, old-school pop-culture icons

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff – 2/5/2025
gen z slang, millennial slang, generational humor, high school, teachers
Humor

High school teacher gives his students a pop quiz on 90s slang words and it was ‘on fleek’

Heather Wake – 3/6/2025
Sketches from an 1893 magazine predicting what clothes would be like in the 1980s
Culture

In 1893, a popular magazine predicted how fashion would change over the next 100 years. It is wild.

Annie Reneau – 3/17/2026
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Pop Culture

Man who raised and released an orphaned otter films her swimming to his kayak for cuddles

Annie Reneau & Upworthy Staff – 3/16/2026
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Pop Culture

Chinese teacher shares 18 American names with delightfully awkward meanings in Mandarin

Annie Reneau & Upworthy Staff – 3/16/2026
90s, 90s misconceptions, 90s true and false, 90s history, 90s nostalgia, reddit, ask reddit history
Internet

Adults who lived through the 90s share 15 things we all misremember about the decade

Heather Wake & Upworthy Staff – 3/16/2026
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Pop Culture

6 super-popular survival and safety myths that are in dire need of busting

Evan Porter – 3/16/2026

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