16 entertaining and useful websites you never knew about

Free Rice

1Free Rice

This is a website put out by the United Nations Food Program. Every time you answer a question correctly, you feed a person who is starving. This website is a really neat way to help someone in need whenever you have free time.

Here Is Today

2Here is Today

This website is an interactive timeline that will certainly put your day into perspective.

The Thoughts Room

3The Thoughts Room

If you need a break from a busy life, put down your electronics and go to this website. Unload the things that are weighing on you into the “status box” and they “will disappear by literally bursting into thousands of stars so you can finally find some rest.”

Word Checker

4 Frequency Counter

Great for finding words and phrases you may use too often in your writing. Just copy and paste the text you want to check over.

Click the Red Button

5 Click the red button

Click the red button to add a great boost to your day.

This is Why I’m Broke

6 this is why im broke

Unique products on the Internet that you never knew even existed. Stuff like an iPhone case that doubles as a bottle opener, sandals that resemble computer keyboards or a boat from World War II that you can actually buy.

Man In the Dark

7 Man in the dark

Not necessarily a useful website, but there’s something about the color blend that is soothing to the eye.

Screenr

8 Screenr

Easily make screencasts and share them. This website is free and easy to use.

Feed the Head

9 Feed the head

Waste some time feeding a head its own body parts. There are lots of neat things to figure out.

The Dawn Room

10 a dawn room

If you’re feeling down, visit the dawn room for a touching reminder of what we hold in our hearts but should always say aloud to those we love. Seriously, prepare the tissues for this one.

LOL My Thesis

11 lol my thesis

This site, created by a Harvard University senior, creates funny and lighthearted one-line summaries of thesis like this one submitted by a Sociology student – “It turns out, an only child never fights with its siblings.”

Splatter Pollock

12 paint like pollock

Splatter paint like Jackson Pollock. Create cool backgrounds for your desktop, or simply waste some free time by clicking the screen to change colors.

Weave Silk

13 weave silk

This interactive art generator plays calming sounds as you get lost in the art that you built.

Useful Science

14 useful science

This site provides useful one liner science facts. Interesting and you can learn something pretty neat.

Paint a Nebula

15 paint my nebula

Make the universe your coloring book with this cool site.

Rainy Mood

16 rainy mood

Just sit and listen to the rain. Great for those who need background noise to study or fall asleep.

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