Be careful what kind of legacy you leave, or you'll be remembered forever for something you totally despise.

Shockingly, only one of these is German.

These people not only managed to remember their dreams for more than five seconds after waking up, but actually used them to change their lives.

If you take a moment to stop actively focusing on the negative, it's easy to see that, despite our collective insistence to the contrary, the world as a whole is chugging along towards a better place.

If the universe operated by any of these Hollywood rules, life on Earth would become a nightmarish carnival of death and destruction.

Some languages have words for concepts so weird or off-putting that we can thank the stars we don't have any use for them in everyday English.

There are babies out there who have survived dangerous situations that would have likely killed a grown man, sometimes because their smallness actually protected them, and sometimes because we're pretty sure they're just indestructible.

We're not saying these people are all liars or that their books should be tossed in the garbage. It's just interesting to see how the human mind works.