Month: September 2018

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The Massive Effort Behind D-Day in One Infographic

The Allied invasion of France, otherwise known as D-Day, is one of the most important events in modern history. There’s no telling how World War II would have turned out and how the world would have been affected had it not been for that operation.

D-Day saw thousands of casualties on both sides, but it signaled the shift of power to the Allies and the war in Europe would be over in less than one year.

Take a look at this infographic that details the numbers behind D-Day.

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Dad Waves Goodbye to His Son in Front of the School Bus in the Most Dad-Way Possible

Dads have an uncanny ability to embarrass their kids in ways more embarrassing than we thought to be humanly possible. Of course, as we all know, this is all out of love. But that doesn’t make it any less mortifying when you’re a kid.

16-year-0ld Rain Price of American Fork, Utah learned this lesson the hard way when he told his dear old dad to not wave goodbye to him on the school bus in the morning.

So naturally, Rain’s dad Dale decided to humiliate his son in epic fashion. Dale dressed in hilarious costumes for 170 STRAIGHT SCHOOL DAYS to see off Rain every morning. These have to seen to be believed. Also, I nominate Dale Price for Father of the Year.

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Pet Rats Will Make Kids Happier Than Cats or Dogs

Have you ever thought about getting a pet rat? It might sound kind of strange at first, but the science behind these little rodents might change your mind.

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Most of us get creeped out when we think about the little rodents that run through our alleys and eat our trash. But a study shows that kids are actually happier with pet rats than they are with dogs or cats. Rats are cheap, smart, and easy to take care of. The study was conducted over the course of 8 years in 113 countries with over 16,000 people. Kids between the ages of 10-17 preferred rats over other pets.

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As people age, their preference for rats decreases and they start to fancy dogs and cats. And, for the record, the pets people care for the LEAST are geese and scorpions. So, maybe think twice if you’re in the market for one of those…

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Two Friends Put Up a Fake Poster of Themselves in McDonald’s and It’s Hilarious

What do you do when there’s a big, blank wall inside your local McDonald’s? Just ask Jevh Maravilla…

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That’s right, without telling the manager or the employees, Maravilla hung a fake poster of himself and a friend. And while it is funny, the two friends also did it for a very specific reason. Maravilla said, “If you haven’t noticed, there isn’t a lot of Asians represented in media. And hopefully one day I could see someone like me on the big screen. So one day, my bud Christian and I were eating at McDonald’s, munching on some snack wraps. I look up and I see a blank wall and I tell Christian, ‘Hey, what if we put a picture of us on there? Look around, there are literally no Asians in any of these walls. Maybe we can change that.’”

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Hopefully, the poster will remain up for quite a while. Maravilla added, “Remember, folks: all races deserve recognition. And I guess I did my part.” Yes, you did. Nice work.

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You Can’t Resist These 12+ Mouthwatering Facts About Pizza

Pizza: it’s the best. People all around the world love pizza with all different types of crust, sauce, and toppings.

If you live in the U.S., statistics say you’ll eat roughly 6,000 slices of pizza in your life. I did the math and I’m currently on track for 38,000. It’s not good.

Anyway, here are 15 facts about one of mankind’s favorite foods.

1. Lombardi’s in New York City was America’s first pizza place. The grocery store started selling pizza in 1905.

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2. Only three people in the world have a degree in Pizza-ology. One of them is Domino’s founder Tom Monaghan, who also founded the business management program that offers the class.

3. After World War II, American soldiers who had served in Italy brought home a craving for the pizza and its appeal broadened in the U.S.

4. There’s a mini pizza for dogs called the “Heaven Scent Pizza” from Blissful Biscuits. It’s made of made of flour, carrots, celery, and parmesan cheese.

5. Chicago’s first deep dish pizza was made in 1943 by the restaurant that later became the Pizzeria Uno chain.

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6. During the early 20th century, pizza was mostly eaten by working-class immigrants from Italy.

7. The Domino’s “30 minutes or less” guarantee is still offered in some places around the world, including in Turkey.

8. The first frozen pizza hit the market in 1962.

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9. Although pizza is an Italian invention, countries around the globe give it their own spin. Brazilians like their pizza with green peas, you can find fried eggs as a topping in France, and a crust made with mini hot dogs is popular in China.

10. The first pizza was ordered by computer in 1974. Michigan State’s Artificial Language Laboratory tested its new “speaking computer by ordering a pizza from a local restaurant.

11. The same guy who founded Atari founded Chuck E. Cheese’s as a way to make more money off of the game consoles.

12. A pizza delivery guy in Florida was confronted by robbers and threw a hot pizza at them in self-defense.

13. There’s a pizza museum in Philadelphia called Pizza Brain.

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14. The largest pizza in the world weighed 51,257 pounds and was 131 feet in diameter.

15. In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first company to deliver a pizza to outer space when it delivered to the International Space Station. The pizza rode to the ISS aboard a Russian rocket.

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Hotels Reveal the Books Most Frequently Left Behind by Guests

When you’re staying in a hotel for the night and need to kill some time, it’s great to have a book with you. Unfortunately, many of these books end up getting left behind.

Travel + Leisure put together a list of the books that hotel guests leave behind the most and some of them might surprise you. Take a look at the list and ask yourself a question: do you think some of these books might have been left behind on purpose? Just a thought…

1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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2. Paul O’Grady’s Country Life by Paul O’Grady

3. Bad Dad by David Walliams

4. Origin by Dan Brown

5. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

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6. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

7. The Couple Next Door by Sharri Lapena

8. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

9. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway by Jeff Kinney

10. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

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11. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book by Johanna Brasford

12. IT by Stephen King

13. The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump

14. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them by J.K. Rowling

15. Big Little Lies by Liana Moriarty

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16. All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class by Tim Shipman

17. Harry Potter: Coloring Book 

18. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

19. The World’s Worst Children by David Walliams

20. Disney Princess Beauty and the Beast Magical Story

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The Salem Witch Trials, Explained

While they only lasted a little more than a year, the legacy of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts continues to resonate in the American consciousness. And although we hear the trials referenced quite often, what actually occurred during the paranoia and hysteria that led to the execution of 20 people?

In 1689, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts saw an influx of refugees from New York and parts of Canada because of a war between New France and New England. The conflict was known as King William’s War. The refugees added fuel to a rivalry between wealthy people in Salem and those who still relied on agriculture for their livelihood. Salem Village’s minister, Reverand Samuel Parris, was widely disliked because of his rigidity and greed.

In January 1692, Parris’ 9-year-old daughter Elizabeth and 11-year-old niece Abigail Williams alarmed their friends and relatives by throwing fits, screaming, speaking gibberish, and twisted themselves into weird positions. A third girl named Ann Putnam had similar experiences.

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A local doctor believed the girls’ calamities were supernatural. In late February, the three young girls were pressured into admitting the source of their madness: they said it was Tituba, the Parris’ slave from the Caribbean; Sarah Good, a homeless woman; and Sarah Osborne, a poor, elderly woman.

The three older women were brought before local magistrates. Good and Osborne denied any association with witchcraft, but the slave Tituba admitted she had been contacted by the Devil himself and was doing his work. Tituba also said there were other witches intent on destroying the Puritans. All three women were imprisoned.

After the women were put behind bars, rumors and paranoia gripped the town. People of all ages were accused of being witches. The first “witch” convicted and hanged on Gallows Hill was a woman named Bridget Bishop, even though she adamantly denied practicing witchcraft. As the summer of 1692 wore on, 18 more people were hanged for supposedly being witches and many more imprisoned.

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Eventually, well-respected people in the area, including Massachusetts Governor William Phips, prohibited the arrest of accused witches. By May 1693, the Governor pardoned all people accused of witchcraft. The final toll of the hysteria: 20 people executed, several died in jail, and over 200 accused of practicing witchcraft.

It wasn’t until 1957, over 250 years after the trials, that the state of Massachusetts formally apologized for the events of 1692-93.

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Older Millennials Remember Formerly Popular Websites That No Longer Exist

It’s important to remember that millennials are not teenagers. Many of them are grown-ups who still remember the early days of the internet. You know, when it was still a novelty and didn’t control every aspect of our lives?

Here are 15 websites we thought would never fall by the wayside, but that no one under the age of 25 would remember at all.

Cheers to getting older!

 

#15. Flash is dying.

“I didn’t learn about this website until a few years ago, but I would say homestarrunner.com mainly since Flash is dying.”

#14. Cards and chess.

“yahoo games used to be the best place for cards and chess and a ton of other games online.”

#13. Digital bubble wrap.

“Bored.com. Just for the digital bubble wrap alone!”

#12. Loved it.

“Wondering if anyone was gonna bring up livejournal. I got one when you still needed a code from a friend. Loved it.”

#11. So much angst

“Xanga. I kind of want to go back and read what 16 year old me wrote, but I think I’d die from the embarrassment.”

#10. By trial and error.

“Angelfire and Geocities were sites where you could make your own “website” and they would host them for free. It was fun back in the day learning really basic html by just trial and error. I don’t think anything like that exists any more, maybe blogspot would be the closest thing like it today.”

#9. Chatrooms.

“Napster. Not just for music downloads. I spent a lot of time in the chatrooms there.”

#8. Every Wednesday morning.

“The Onion used to publish a new edition every Wednesday morning. I was chomping at the bit by Tuesday night.

They had a better format back then, too.”

#7. Ready and waiting.

“AskJeeves. Just imagining a man named jeeves staying awake 24/7 to answer all questions.”

#6. Random forums.

“Webrings, almost every single band in the world had an forum with thousands of people, so many forums for other random shit. Bonzai Kitten and other joke sites, then there are the citrus extravaganza and other sites that weren’t so jokey but went viral nonetheless. In the early 2000s you saw websites like what Reddit would base itself on: Something Awful (which I could never stand), Fark (which used to be pretty great until terrible mods drove it into the ground and the owner stopped caring and decided to try politics instead), hell at once point there was this Reddit thing that would pop up but most people were like “meh, I already got something better” and just let it be.

Chatrooms in general are something that seem to be long gone. So many bots, so much chaos, but it was a bit wild wild west back then. Using bots and tools to clone names and accounts, kick people off chats, log them offline, etc (AOHell was probably the biggest known one if any of you want to look up what it was like).

And I remember websites/programs like The Palace and such which were chatrooms that allowed people to move around and be seen as avatars, oh how amazing the future was then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Palace_(computer_program) Again you could use a lot of bots to mess with people, one you’d commonly see was a bot that stole people’s avatars which usually angered the entire lot as there seemed to be a general rule of “ask if you want it”/”trade” etc. as a lot of them were made by the person “Wearing” them.

Good times, actually. I think one of the most distinctive things, especially of the 90s was the lack of people from every corner of life. It would be extremely rare to run into some old grandparent, there was this active subculture of people while most people just stuck to reading their emails and calling it a day. Now everyone is online, everyone is on Facebook, etc.”

#5. Scan every download.

“Limewire was filled with trojans and malware but Kazaa wasn’t much better. Kazaa Lite was what people used if they didn’t want to do a scan after every download.

Then Torrents came along and no worries.”

#4. Ah, memories.

“Neopets! God I sucked at neopets.”

#3. Over 2 decades.

“The hamster dance

Edit: hamPster dance. Forgot the P cause it’s been over 2 decades.”

#2. Pre-Tinder.

“Amihotornot.com”

#1. Budding weebs.

“gaiaonline. So many budding weebs on that site.”

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Before and After Photos Show How Clothing Can Affect Our Perception of People

Seeing before and afters of men wearing street clothes versus suits definitely proves the adage that “the clothes make the man”.  Even if you think that what you wear (or see others wearing) doesn’t affect perception, these pictures can leave no doubt that we’re influenced by what people are wearing.

For men who have come out the other side of imprisonment or addiction, what they’re wearing out on job interviews is important to two reasons – for the image they present and because of its effect on their own confidence. That’s why non-profit Sharp Dressed Man, an alliance between the Baltimore Fashion Alliance and the Living Classrooms Foundation founded in 2011, custom designs suits for men re-entering the workforce. Normally, they cost upwards of $3,000.

Christopher Schafer, the tailor and founder of the group, collections donated high-end suits from clients and locals and then, on Wednesdays, men come in for a fitting, haircut, and a hot meal. He’s battled addiction himself and knows the meaning of a second chance – and the importance of getting it right.

“I really think that the biggest thing, though, is a guy gets treated with respect. And some of these guys have not been. They have not treated themselves with respect, nor have they been treated with respect,” he told PBS.

Check out 15 of their fabulous, heartfelt, and spiffy transitions below!

#15. Chin up.

#14. Yeah, throw those shoulders back.

#13. The smile says it all.

#12. That bowtie is everything.

#11. What a change.

#10. That smile, though.

#9. Hello, confidence!

#8. I think he actually grew taller.

#7. He makes me want to smile back.

#6. Haircut and pinstripes ftw.

#5. Love the colors.

#4. Gratitude.

#3. Pride shines.

#2. Silly and happy.

#1. I want to give him a hug.

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13+ Married People Share Quirk Their Partner Has That USED to Be Cute

There are probably a thousand examples of things people do that seem really cute while you’re dating, but then once you’re married or living together and they’re doing it multiple times a day, oh my god, would going to jail for murder really be that horrible? Maybe it’s the fact that they leave their towels hanging on the closet doors so they can use them again or they hog the covers? Or how they sneeze?

Only you know.

Here are 15 awesome examples.

 

#1. Forgetfulness.

“His forgetfulness used to be cute and fun. Waking up to fresh gallons of milk sitting on the counter for hours is annoying as fuck now.”

#2. A bag of magic beans.

“His spontaneity.

It used to be really fun and sexy…but now it’s like living with a real life Homer Simpson/Phil Dunphy hybrid.

No joke, I am just waiting for the day he comes home with a bag of ‘magic beans’.

Edit: I’ve had a lot people asking for more stories of my husband doing crazy shit.

I think my favorite is: on our first date we got caught in a rain storm. I was wet to the bone and wearing a skirt…so he offered me his pants.”

#3. A choral piece.

“Her having to sing everything like it’s a perfected choral piece.”

#4. Some pedantic loophole.

“Debate with me. At the beginning it was great because I felt like I met my intellectual equal. Now I realize she’s just a disagreeable person. I’m 90% sure if I told her the sky was blue, she would find a way to dispute my assertion with some pendantic loophole

EDIT: ok people, it feels like half of these responses came from my wife. I just double checked out the window, the sky is definitely blue. Do you want to know what shade of blue? SKY BLUE!! Explaining WHY it’s blue doesn’t make it not blue. Baaaah!!”

#5. Minecraft mistakes.

“She doesn’t take precautions playing Minecraft. It was funny seeing her wooden house burn down, or her losing all her stuff digging straight down.

But since I ran the server, she would keep asking me to go to use my admin powers to get it all back. A lot.

She also still sends settlers unescorted in Civ V (I just triggered all civ players, sorry). Other than that she is still perfect after 10 years :D”

#6. Get to the verb.

“He can not tell a story. Rambling, unnecessary details, and the listener is three steps ahead the entire time, just waiting for it to slowly unspool.”

#7. Hair.

“Her hair. She has such long, beautiful hair, but it gets everywhere. Drains. Sinks. Carpets. I’ve had to sit and cut hairs out of the vacuum so it would work again because it had tied up the roly bit. Not to mention I’ve had her hair on me and all through my clothing.”

#8. Bathroom stalking.

“Constantly watching me in the bathroom. It was fun at first, we always make/made jokes. But now there are times I just want to be left alone to shit for fucks sake.”

#9. My way’s better.

“First off, still very happily married and in love! However, there is one thing that does cause a ruckus every now and again. When we were dating and living together, we would do diy stuff around the house. I know a little past the basics because my dad made sure to teach me things and of course there is always youtube, so I’m not helpless by any stretch. In fact I owned several of my own power tools before we got together.

When doing one of these projects, he often wouldn’t let me do much. Back then I thought, “What a gentleman, doesn’t want me to get dirty.” or whatever. Nowadays I’ll be watching him do something and know a better way of doing said task, and it’s like he doesn’t believe me. So he’ll try 18 other ways before landing on the way I suggested and it working out just dandy. It’s pretty frustrating. I can do more than hold something while you work!

It’s not a deal breaker, but sometimes I let him know just how stupid he was acting, and how much time it wasted by not just trying my way first. Even if my suggestion doesn’t work, what did you lose?”

#10. Slow eater.

“Takes forever to eat a meal. It was very well-suited to long dates, romantic dinners, those intense getting-to-know-you conversations at the beginning. 15 years later and I just want to have a meal where I’m not done before he’s barely taken a bite!

His whole family is like this and I simply don’t understand. It’s food, you put it on a plate and you eat it and go on with life! Not for them, mealtimes often stretch on for hours, occasionally into the next bloody meal if it’s a family event. I just don’t get it.”

#11. Clumsy

“Clumsily break things accidentally. It’d be a teaspoon one day or a shoelace the next. Little insignificant, ‘how-on-earth-did-you-manage-to-break-that?’ type of things. Started out quite cute and amusing. Now it’s a case of ‘Babe, that’s like the fourth vacuum cleaner this year, and it’s a fucking Dyson.’”

#12. What’s for dinner?

“Her indecisiveness. It was adorable to see her struggle when we were dating but goddammit I’m just trying to figure out what to make for dinner.”

#13. More than me.

“Not married, but engaged and have been together for almost 5 years now? Everyone likes her. She’s a very likable person, but my friends and family like her more than me. Just gets to me sometimes when she tells me something about a friend or family member that I should have heard from them.”

#14. NOW?

“My husband always tries to make me laugh. I honestly hope he never stops trying, but there are times when it’s like “really?? You’re trying to make me laugh NOW?!”

#15. He needed me.

“In the beginning he used to really need me and he always required a LOT of attention.

I loved it, at first.

I loved to feel needed and I 100% absolutely loved to lavish him with my adoring attention endlessly…

I was absolutely devoted.

Fast forward 15 years…

I feel used up and taken for granted.

He has never reciprocated, our relationship has always been strongly one way.

His behaviour was exactly what I wanted and needed – at one point.

Now it’s just something that upsets me. A lot.”

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