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If you are experiencing a lower leg cramp, lift your toes as high as possible while actively pushing your heel in the opposite direction.
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Willis Carrier invented the first modern electrical air conditioning unit as a way to solve a moisture problem for a publishing company. In the 1930s, 40s and 50s, movie theatres figured out that introducing air conditioning was the best way to fill seats on hot days which ended up popularising them.
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If you have added too much salt to a soup or stew, adding chopped-up potatoes will help leach a lot of the salt out.
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Keanu Reeves often foregoes some of his paycheck so that producers can bring on other notable actors. On The Devil's Advocate, he reduced his salary by a few million dollars so that they could afford Al Pacino, and he did the same thing on The Replacements to be able to work with Gene Hackman.
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A homebuilder in Texas couldn’t find an amusement park that would accommodate his daughter with special needs so he sold his business and built a 25-acre (10 ha) non-profit accessible theme park for kids with special needs called Morgan’s Wonderland.
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In 2013, a surgeon in the UK was struck off and convicted of assault after branding his initials into two patients livers. It was only discovered when 1.6-inch (4cm) initials were discovered by another doctor on an organ which failed about a week after the operation.
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Wearing swimming or ski goggles while chopping onions will keep the tears from flowing.
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American actress Marilyn Monroe is pronounced dead at 3.50 am in her home from a drug overdose. Monroe died between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on August 4. She was a top-billed actress for a decade, and her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2 billion in 2021) by the time of her death in 1962.
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During the month following Marilyn Monroe's suicide, the national suicide rate rose 12%. One suicide victim left a note saying, “If the most wonderful, beautiful thing in the world has nothing to live for, then neither must I.”
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A glass of cold water will actually wake you up faster as it helps your blood vessels dilate. Cold water will get the body working and can boost your alertness and low energy levels.
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If you are trying to cut down spending, put the items you want in a virtual cart. Leave it. Mull it over for a few days. The urge usually passes, and that’s when you will realize it wasn’t a real need and something else — boredom, insidious advertising, etc.
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If you are trying to remove a smell from your water bottles, place some denture tablets in the bottle and fill with with hot water. Empty, rinse well and let air dry. Do the same for the lids.
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Australia has 0.3% of the world's population, and 18% of its poker machines (also known as slot or fruit machines). Pokies, as the machines are called there are everywhere. They have 80% of the world's poker machines situated in non-gaming venues (e.g. clubs and pubs).
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A Georgia teacher who bought a $400 travel insurance policy was rewarded $10,000 because she read the fine print of the contract. After reading page 7, she saw a “Pays to Read” section that said the first to email and mention the fine print contest would win 10K.
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If you want to clean your white shoes, use a small amount of toothpaste and gently scrub from top to bottom. Wipe with a damp cloth.
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In 2016, McDonald's announced that it would be limiting public appearances of its clown mascot, Ronald McDonald, due to the 2016 creepy clown sightings that was happening at the time. The incidents involving reports of people disguised as evil clown started in the United States, Canada, and subsequently in other countries and territories.
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Coat shaving cream on a shower screen and wipe with a cloth to remove hard water stains.
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Humans swallow at between 500-700 times a day, around three times an hour during sleep, once per minute while awake and (obviously) even more during meals. In one Japanese study, adults swallowed an average of 2.9 times an hour during sleep (compared to swallowing spontaneously about once every minute when awake).
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Bring baby powder when you are planning to go to the beach. It works to remove sand (wet or dry) off your feet so you can put your shoes back on.
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If you are trying to prevent yourself from over or under watering your house plants, place a moisture meter deep down into the soil so you know exactly how much water your plant is getting.
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Separate your bananas (and store them away from other fruit) to prevent them from going off quicker.
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Rubbing vegetable oil (or any cooking oil) on your hands after you cut up hot peppers gets rid of the unpleasant sensation that would normally be left on your hands from the peppers. Rinse with dish soap after.
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If you want your salad mix to last longer, place a paper towel in the salad box, flip it over and place it in the fridge.
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Put a dish towel or damp paper towel under your cutting board to keep it from slipping and wobbling.
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One of the best ways to get rid of termites naturally is to expose them to sunlight. Termites thrive in moist, dark conditions making them averse to sunlight. Leave your wooden furniture in sunlight for two to three days continuously as treatment for termite control. This method also helps get rid of the moisture in the furniture, thus getting rid of termites permanently.
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Store bananas separate from other fruit and separate from each other! Bananas release gases which cause fruits (including other bananas) to ripen quickly. Separating them will keep them fresh longer.
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Always peel hard-boiled eggs when they’re freshly cooked. If you refrigerate with the shell on then try to remove it later it’s nearly impossible to peel.
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Netflix paid Disney $300 million to stream its content on the platform before the release of Disney+ making it a key draw for Netflix users to have exclusive access to Disney's content. Five years later, Disney has edged past Netflix in total streaming customers.
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Give a little: Giving has been linked to increases in resilience and happiness, even if it’s costly. Giving can mean many things, from giving your time to an elderly neighbour, or helping your parents more, or giving something to somebody who is homeless.
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Only 5% of residential homes in the UK are thought to have air conditioning while many buildings are designed in a way to keep heat in. In comparison, three quarters (75%) of Californians have air conditioning, but this is 16 % lower than the average rate of 90% AC ownership across all other states in the U.S.
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If you usually feel groggy after waking up, our sleep cycles generally last 75-120 minutes and average around 90 so after you first wake up, set an alarm in increments of 90/180/270 minutes from then so you wake toward the end of your sleep cycle. It works best on your days off.
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In 2006, a mother and son were convicted of trying to extort money from Cracker Barrel by claiming they found a dead mouse in her soup. Charges were filed after a necropsy showed the mouse had no soup in its lungs and had not been cooked, signs that it was dropped into the soup after its death.
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If you want to cook bacon in a mess free way and without getting oil around your cooker, try putting the slices of bacon into an air fryer or oven to get them cooked and evenly crisp.
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The founder of Hyundai was born to an impoverished family of peasants in what is now North Korea. In 1998, he sent 1001 cows to his hometown in North Korea as a repayment 1000 times over for a cow that he stole in the early 1930s to afford his train ticket to Seoul and escape from poverty.
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It you start to cough while eating or drinking, essentially if it 'went down the wrong pipe', immediately lift both your arms up in the air and keep them held up for a few seconds. The act opens your airways and will allow you to catch your breath.
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In 2009 an American tourist was almost left behind by his transcontinental Australian train. He clung to the outside for two hours and 124 miles in only a t-shirt and jeans while the temperature dropped below freezing.
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To ripen fruit overnight, place it in a paper bag with an apple. Apples release ethylene gas that hastens the maturing process of other fruits.
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A pilot's 16 year old son was allowed to sit at the plane's cockpit of an Aeroflot flight while it was on autopilot. He disengaged the autopilot, triggering a series of events which led to the plane crashing and the death of all 63 passengers and 12 crew onboard.
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To prevent a messy stovetop when canning, cover it with heavy-duty aluminium foil, making holes for the burners. When you’re done canning, simply remove the foil to save yourself a lot of scrubbing!
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Steam clean your microwave by adding 15 drops of lemon essential oil into one and a half cups water to a microwave-safe bowl, and microwave on high for five to 10 minutes, allowing the steam to condense on inside walls/ceilings of your machine
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The Mona Lisa holds the Guinness World Record for the highest known painting insurance valuation in history at US$100 million in 1962 (equivalent to $870 million in 2021). It has been on permanent display at the Louvre in Paris since 1797 and before its theft in 1911, it was not widely known outside the art world. But a few days after the thiefs' trial, World War I broke out.
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If you want to make a good impression, it is important to make eye contact with the person you are speaking to and be authentic. The ability to lean into your weaknesses shows that you are self-aware.
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In 2021, the number of cinema attendees in the EU and the U.K., were at an average of 394 million tickets sold for the full year which amounted to just 40 percent of the pre-pandemic average. While gross box office receipts grew 38.2 percent year-on-year to an estimated $3.05 billion (2.9 billion euro) across the region in 2021, this was still a 59 percent drop from the average annual revenue recorded in the pre-pandemic period between 2017 and 2019.
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If you want to release tension in your back, stand in front of a door frame with your toes touching it and holding on to it, look down and lean back with your rear sticking out. Hold for 10 seconds and repeat 3 times.
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The US is now the world’s second largest Spanish-speaking country. A study by Instituto Cervantes says there are 41 million native Spanish speakers in the US plus a further 11.6 million who are bilingual, mainly the children of immigrants. This puts it ahead of Colombia (48 million) and Spain (46 million) and second only to Mexico (121 million). It also says that Spanish is the 2nd most used language on Twitter in London and New York.
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When meal prepping, assemble your salads with their dressing on the bottom. This prevents the salad from getting soggy and keeps everything fresh.
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Instant noodles have replaced cigarettes as the most traded item inside American prisons. They’re so important, inmates use them as money.
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When cooking things on aluminium foil, first scrunch the foil up, then lay it loosely flat again out on your baking tray. The juices will stay put - and the food will not stick to the foil half as much, if at all.
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In 2013 a climber found a box full of rubies, sapphires, and emeralds on a remote glacier on Mont Blanc. Authorities determined they were likely from an Indian plane that crashed there in 1966 and gave the climber half the gems (worth $169,000) to reward his honesty in turning them in.
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Add olive oil to your pasta water so that your pasta don't stick together. This is especially helpful for lasagna sheets.
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Neutralize garlic and onion smelling hands by rubbing them with lemon juice, baking soda, or simply rub them on a stainless steel spoon (or on your stainless steel sink). When you touch the material, the molecules in the steel bind with the stink-causing molecules (such as sulphur from garlic).
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Pheasant Island is an island between Spain and France whose administration alternates every 6 months between both nations.
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Can't fall asleep? Close your eyes until just barely open. Now concentrate on keeping them that way. If you catch yourself closing or opening your eyes, go back to concentrating on just barely open. This not only puts you in a near-sleep position, it gets your mind to let go of other things.
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The word "Bookkeeper" is unique in the sense that it is the only word in the English language with back to back to back double letters.
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Show, don't tell. We judge ourselves by our intentions while others judge us by our actions.
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One of the big defenses for the idea of DNA carrying memories is the fact that some butterflies, when migrating south, stop abruptly in the middle of a lake and seem to go around something. This is because thousands of years ago, a mountain was there and it was coded in their DNA to go around this mountain.
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The term “pipe dream” is a reference to the strange dreams people have when smoking opium.
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In 2021, London has recorded its worst ever annual death toll from teenage homicides after two boys were killed within an hour of each other in stabbing incidents, bringing the total to 30,exceeding its peak in 2008. Of the 30 teenage homicides in the capital, 27 of them were stabbings while two have been shootings and one was the result of a suspected arson attack.