Internet Riddles That Just Might Trip You Up

People love to put a riddle out into the universe and sit there with a smug smile while people throw out wrong answer after wrong answer.

Shut up, you know I’m right.

And so I imagine that these 7 people had a really good time before someone guessed correctly.

7. This one is very tricky!

Tried and failed to win a free egg roll – numbers puzzle from puzzles

6. Never have I ever…

5. Lose me twice, shame on you.

Lose me once i’ll come back stronger, lose me twice i’ll leave forever, what am I? from riddles

4. A not-so-hidden word.

Can you guess the word? from puzzles

3. How to save a life?

Just found this one a while ago-What am I? from riddles

2. Don’t push it.

As a stone inside a tree, I’ll help your words outlive thee. But if you push me as I stand, the more I move the less I am. from riddles

1. A little cipher with your tea?

Thought you guys might appreciate this cipher I got from a box of tea today! from puzzles

Continue reading when you’re ready to check your answers!

7. Answer: Rock Paper Scissors, the number represents the fingers you hold up.

Tried and failed to win a free egg roll – numbers puzzle from puzzles

6.

5. Answer: A Tooth

Lose me once i’ll come back stronger, lose me twice i’ll leave forever, what am I? from riddles

4. Answer: multitasking? (Multi task in g)?

Can you guess the word? from puzzles

3. Answer: n: widow, donor.

Just found this one a while ago-What am I? from riddles

2. Answer: A pencil

As a stone inside a tree, I’ll help your words outlive thee. But if you push me as I stand, the more I move the less I am. from riddles

1. Answer: Clever Clogs

Thought you guys might appreciate this cipher I got from a box of tea today! from puzzles

 

How long did it take you to get it right? It’s okay if you just look at the answers – sometimes that’s just the sort of day it is!

Come back again for more riddles like these!

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Examples Of Karens Behaving Like Total Karens

Whether you agree with it or not, some people get called Karen behind their backs for always trying to get their way.

It would be infuriating if it wasn’t just downright funny sometimes. Here are 15 times Karen just went out of her way to be such a, well, Karen.

1. Classic Karen

She’s fierce y’all! Don’t try to tell her about soccer!

How to stop karen from FuckYouKaren

2. Museum Karen

Come on, Karen, crack open a book. Or, you know, crack open your head. Either would work.

fuck sake Karen from FuckYouKaren

3. Solar Eclipse Karen

You … just can’t make this stuff up. But she apparently can. Out of thin air.

I want to speak to the manager of the solar system from FuckYouKaren

4. Insensitive Karen

We hope she read this reply! Because that is JUST what she deserved.

God I hate people who are like this. from FuckYouKaren

5. Sighing Karen

I mean, just come on now lady. Sit yourself back down and wait your turn!

Facebook Memory from 2015 from FuckYouKaren

6. Karen Critique

Ah! We did not see that plot twist coming!

Get fucked karen! from FuckYouKaren

7. Sushi Karen

Oh my word.

“THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!!” from FuckYouKaren

8. Those Shoes Though

“Live Love Laugh”

Whoever made these should be executed from FuckYouKaren

9. No, Debra

Such a great comeback.

Debra seems like a Karen from FuckYouKaren

10. He Doesn’t Even Work Here

Gosh, Karen. Chill.

When karen is the manager from FuckYouKaren

11. That Hair

Classic Karen.

I don’t mean to alarm anyone but THEY’VE STARTED FARMING KAREN’S!!!! from FuckYouKaren

12. Just Wow

What a surprise! They’re annoyed with you!

A 100 dollars says her name was Karen from FuckYouKaren

13. Shut Down

Yikes. That’s gonna burn.

Damn Karen from FuckYouKaren

14. Good Point

What’s up with that, Karen?!

Doggone from WhitePeopleTwitter

 

15. Couponing Karen

Get it together lady.

Madlad with a quarter from madlads

Apparently, some people just can’t help it. They must Karen at all costs.

What do you think of describing some women as Karens? Do you think this nickname is fair, or does it go too far? And are you named Karen? Do you hate it now?

Let us know in the comments!

We’d love to hear from you!

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Scientists Believe Human Eggs Attract the Sperm They Want to Make a Baby With

This seems like common sense to me – if you buy into the idea of evolution and selecting offspring based on what traits best help them survive to procreate themselves, then of course the eggs of biological females have the ability to choose “better” sperm, right?

Well, now there’s a study and evidence and stuff to back up what seems like the obvious.

New research out of Stockholm University found that eggs emit different chemical signals that attract the sort of sperm they want to partner with to create a human.

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Said John Fitzpatrick, one of the professors involved in the study…

“Human eggs release chemicals called chemoattractants that attract sperm to unfertilized eggs.

We wanted to know if eggs use these chemical signals to pick which sperm they attract.”

Non-human animals have been observed picking up on an array of visual, acoustic, and chemical signals that help them choose the best mate, but this is the first study that’s really shown that our bodies can continue to accept or reject those advances after sex is over.

Scientists haven’t yet learned how the process actually works, only that it does.

The researchers examined how sperm responds to follicular fluid, which surrounds eggs and contains chemoattractants for sperm. The samples were obtained from couples undergoing IVF, and sperm was tested against follicular fluid from both partners and non-partners to see how it would respond.

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Said Fitzpatrick,

“Follicular fluid from one female was better at attracting sperm from one male, while follicular fluid from another female was better at attracting sperm from a different male.

This shows that interactions between human eggs and sperm depend on the specific identity of the women and men involved.”

Basically, eggs from a female do not always attract their partner’s sperm, and it has little or nothing to do with the sperm being capable of fertilizing an egg.

“Research on the way eggs and sperm interact will advance fertility treatments and may eventually help us understand some of the currently ‘unexplained’ causes of infertility in couples,” said Professor Daniel Brison, the scientific director of the Department of Reproductive Medicine at Saint Marys’ Hospital.

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This is all brand new information, so expect more research to come. If it holds up, this could change the way doctors approach infertility in couples, and hopefully lead to more people getting those babies they’re dying to hold.

As a woman, it is kind of cool to realize that perhaps our eggs have had some say in it all along – and those babies that came so easily are just really happy genetic matches, maybe.

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11 Facts About ‘The Goonies’

If you’re a person of a certain age, there are formative “growing up” movies that probably stand out in your mind. And if you’re my age (late Gen X, Xennial, early Millennial), those movies include classics like E.T., Stand by Me, the Sandlot, Now and Then, The Princess Bride, and yes, The Goonies.

The kids never said die as they navigated first crushes, found allies in unexpected places, relied on each other’s individual strengths, and supported each other’s crazy dreams – all reasons, perhaps, that our generation came to be who we are as adults.

Or maybe I’m giving too much credit to Hollywood, again. The best art, after all, is a mirror and not a map.

Either way, if you love The Goonies as much as I do, you’ll enjoy these 12 fun facts.

11. It was Josh Brolin’s film debut.

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Now an Oscar-nominated actor, Brolin’s role as the slightly-dumb but still handsome and useful Brand was the first time he appeared on the big screen.

10. Who was Chester Copperpot?

The photo is uncredited, but most believe it’s American actor Keenan Wynn, who was originally set to play Perry White in director Richard Donner’s Superman movie.

9. There’s a small goof in the final cut where Mikey (Sean Astin) calls Josh Brolin by his real name.

Image Credit: Warner Bros.

It’s in the scene after Chunk breaks the water cooler in the basement of the abandoned restaurant.

Have you noticed it before?

8. No, those “bats” weren’t real.

They were bow ties and wads of black papier-mâché blown out of air cannons.

You could kind of tell, right?

7. Jeff Cohen (Chunk) never acted again – but he is still in the movie business.

Image Credit: Warner Bros.

He left acting and, as an adult, pursued a law degree.

He’s now a founding partner at a high-powered entertainment firm in Los Angeles.

6. This little Easter Egg…

Chunk calls the police, but they think he’s pranking them due to him telling them stories about “little creatures that multiply when you pour water on them” before.

It’s a reference to Gremlins, which Spielberg also produced, and that was also written by Chris Columbus. Corey Feldman also appeared in both films, so we must believe the two movies exist in the same universe!

5. The “One-Eyed Willy” speech is basically improvised.

It wasn’t scripted; Donner told Astin the story moments before the shot and then Astin re-told it from memory when the cameras were rolling.

4. The Goonies reaction to the pirate ship is real.

Richard Donner never let his actors see the full pirate ship as it was being built, so the moment they walk into the cavern and see the ship, they’re all seeing it for the first time.

It’s meant to resemble Errol Flynn’s ship from The Sea Hawk.

3. The treasure map is speckled with actual blood.

Image Credit: Warner Bros.

Production designer J. Michael Riva was worried the map didn’t look old enough – it was supposed to have survived over 300 years – so he spent an afternoon aging it.

He cut his own finger and dripped blood along the edges as a final touch, so he definitely bled for the craft!

2. No, you didn’t miss a scene with an octopus…well, not really.

At the tail end of the film, during the interview with reporters, Data mentions that “the octopus was very scary.”

If you’ve fleetingly wondered what in the heck he’s talking about, you’re not alone – a scene involving a tussle with an octopus was deleted during editing.

1. The actor who played Sloth was an actual tough guy.

Image Credit: John Matuszak

John Matuszak was the first overall pick in the 1973 NFL draft and won two Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders. You might have noticed (or will now) him sporting Raiders gear early in the film.

This is definitely a movie I can’t wait to watch with my own boys in a few years – fingers crossed they love it, too, and the adventure can live on!

What’s your favorite movie from your childhood? If you’ve showed it to your kids, how did they react?

Tell me all about it in the comments!

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Interesting Things You May Not Know About the Postal Service

We usually go about our weeks and days not thinking all that much about the federal postal service. Sure, we might crab about the lines at the post officer or the lack of employees there to help, as long as the mail is coming fairly regularly and we have somewhere to buy stamps, it kind of slides to the back of our minds, which is normal.

Sometimes, though, like when our illustrious leaders are taking about doing away with an institution established in the Constitution, the post office centers itself in a national debate.

Before you decide which side you want to come down on in this debate (or any debate) it’s a good idea to educate yourself on the issues. So, without further ado, here are 10 things you need to know about your federal postal service.

10. They have good reason to be wary of your dog.

In 2014, 5767 postal employees were attacked by dogs, with Los Angeles bringing home the dubious award for the most bites in the nation.

Mail carriers are instructed to use their bags to protect their bodies, though many also choose to carry mace for their own protection.

9. The mailboxes weren’t always blue.

They began painting them a uniform blue in 1971.

Prior to that, the color of boxes varied from a drab olive green to different shades of blue.

8. Several famous people began their working lives as mail carriers.

Walt Disney, William Faulkner, Steve Carrell, and many others carried mail before they became household names.

7. They have their owns stamp cave.

SubTropolis is a sprawling excavated limestone mine in Kansas City, Missouri.

The caves are home to many companies, and the USPS finds them an idea hub for stamp storage and distribution.

6. And a team to decipher the worst handwriting.

The Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, Utah receives all of the mail that’s deemed impossible to read at a local level.

There are 1000 workers there to decode and solve the mystery – in an average of four seconds, which is insane!

5. The longest route in the nation is nearly 200 miles.

Sidney, Montana has the longest rural delivery and mail route – it’s 190.7 miles long.

4. The shortest is under 3 miles.

In Parker, Colorado, the carrier only has to travel 2.3 miles every day, and the carrier in Carrollton, Texas, only has to go 1.2 miles a day.

3. Some post is still delivered by mule.

Every day in the Grand Canyon, mule trains deliver around 4000 pounds of mail, food, supplies, and furniture to the village of Supai.

2. They also employ boats.

In Michigan, a 45-foot mail boat called the J.W. Westcott II delivers mail to ships passing on the Detroit River.

The post office has a legal obligation to deliver mail to all Americans. Boats also deliver mail on Alabama’s Magnolia River.

1. It’s part of the Constitution.

Benjamin Franklin was the country’s first Postmaster General, and when the Constitution was ratified in 1789, part of it gave Congress the ability to “establish post offices and post roads.”

In 1792, President Washington signed the Postal Service Act, which created the Post Office Department.

Today, it employs more than 7.3 million people.

I have to admit, I either didn’t know these things, or I never really considered them until now.

Did any of these surprise you? Which ones? Tell us in the comments!

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Years of Negative Thoughts Could Increase Your Odds for Contracting Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s Disease is one of the most awful illnesses that families go through – you’re often forced to mourn the loss of your loved one while they’re still alive, and to steel yourself to go into a room with a parent, aunt, grandparent, who no longer knows you from Adam or Eve.

The good news is that the disease has a decent amount of funding and research, and this most recent study things they may have a lead on what makes people more susceptible.

The research concludes that persistent worrying about the future, or an inability to let go of past regrets, can have a detrimental effect on cognition of all types later in life – including an increased risk for dementia and/or Alzheimer’s disease.

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Scientists largely accept the idea that our thoughts can and do influence our physical health, even though there’s little understanding as to how and why. Still, the Cognitive Debt hypothesis, which states that certain negative thoughts and mental states somehow contribute to the risk of cognitive decline and dementia, exists for a reason.

Researchers conducting this most recent study spent two years analyzing the mental states of 360 people over the age of 55, mostly following their tendency to fall into repetitive negative thinking (RNT). They were also screened for depression and anxiety.

High levels of RNT were strongly associated with cognitive decline in a wide range of areas, including episodic memory and global cognition, which are two big predictors of a person’s likelihood to develop Alzheimer’s.

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In the patients who consented to brain scans, a harmful buildup of protein plaques in the brain was also associated with high levels of RNT – more specifically, a protein called tau was increasing in the entorhinal cortex, which also is an early indicator of dementia.

Another protein, amyloid-beta, was found to present in higher amounts in the brains of people who tended to have negative thought patterns; it’s strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, especially.

Author Natalie Marchant clarified their findings in a statement.

“Chronic negative thinking patterns over a long period of time could increase the risk of dementia.

We do not think the evidence suggests that short-term setbacks would increase one’s risk of dementia.”

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There’s no concrete evidence as to how repetitive negative thought patterns can damage cognition so thoroughly, though they posit that high stress levels could be to blame. High blood pressure and the repetitive release of hormones like cortisol have been shown previously to stimulate creation of the harmful proteins.

Basically, maybe your hippie yoga friends are really onto something – some meditation and yoga might be just what the doctor ordered.

Therapy is also awesome, I’ve heard, or just a stiff drink now and then.

Pick your poison, as they say. But it looks like it’s in your best interest to choose one that helps you chill the eff out.

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How a Black Mathematician Named Benjamin Banneker Helped Design Washington D.C.

There’s a fairly common saying: history is written by the victors.

Well, as a historian in another life, I can tell you that not only is it written by the victors, but it’s also almost always written by the rich and the European (in the case of Western history) – the traditionally educated, basically. The people who were allowed to read and wrte.

This means that, the farther back you go, the harder you have to dig to find the stories about people of color, women, indigenous people, enslaved people, et al who, in another world, would have dominated the history books.

Even so, there are surely hundreds, thousands of stunning stories that have probably been lost forever.

One story that I’m so glad has survived belongs to one Benjamin Banneker, a highly accomplished mathematician, astronomer, and scholar who was also Black at a time in America when it was quite dangerous to be born that way.

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Today I'm going to go way back in time and talk about Benjamin Banneker. He was a free black man who owned a farm near Baltimore and was largely self-educated in astronomy and mathematics. He was later called upon to assist in the surveying of territory for the construction of the nation's capital, Washington D.C. He also became an active writer of almanacs and exchanged letters with Thomas Jefferson, politely challenging him to do what he could to ensure racial equality. His early accomplishments included constructing an irrigation system for the family farm and a wooden clock that was reputed to keep accurate time and ran for more than 50 years until his death. In addition, Banneker taught himself astronomy and accurately forecasted lunar and solar eclipses. Banneker's true acclaim, however, came from his almanacs, which he published for six consecutive years during the later years of his life, between 1792 and 1797. These handbooks included his own astronomical calculations as well as opinion pieces, literature and medical and tidal information, with the latter particularly useful to fishermen. Outside of his almanacs, Banneker also published information on bees and calculated the cycle of the 17-year locust. Banneker's accomplishments also extended into civil rights as well. He once wrote to Thomas Jefferson, respectfully citing Jefferson and other patriots for their hypocrisy, enslaving people like him while fighting the British for their own independence. #celebrateblacklives #BenjaminBanneker

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Washington D.C. was styled after famous European locales first by architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant, then completely by Andrew Elliot after L’Enfant was fired in 1792. Sometime after, a Black man stepped up and forced even the likes of Thomas Jefferson to recognize that he had something to say.

According to oral histories that are much-debated, both sides of the Banneker family suffered under enslavement in the pre-United States. Most believe that Benjamin’s maternal grandmother, a woman named Molly Welsh, was (possibly falsely) convicted of theft in England and banished to the servitude in the fledgling colonies. She landed in Maryland, earned her freedom, rented land in Baltimore County, and purchased two slaves to farm it.

Several years later, after she’d established herself in the farming business, she freed both men – one of whom was said to have been abducted from a royal African family earlier in his life. His name was either Bannake or Bankka, and he and Welsh married despite the laws that forbade it. Their daughter Mary and her husband (also a freed slave baptized as Robert) adopted the surname Banneker and purchased a 100-acre farm.

Benjamin was their son, and grew up as one of only 200 free African-American people in Baltimore County. He attended a one-room, mixed-race Quaker schoolhouse and, with his doting grandmother Molly’s help, learned to read. At an early age he began to excel in mathematics and mechanics, spending time crafting experiments on his own.

In his mid-twenties he was forced by his father’s death to focus on the family farm, but even there, he put his brain to work. Their farm employed crop rotation and irrigation techniques that didn’t widely catch on in the States for many decades, and managed to grow a profitable tobacco crop that he swapped out for wheat when American soldiers needed food during the revolution.

He still found time to read and continue his education, becoming well-versed in topics that ranged the science and humanities, a man regarded as one always soaking in knowledge from watching those around him.

This 1979 journal entry is a sample of those thoughts:

“Standing at my door I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.”

He was a capable astronomer, but math was where he really shined – and, according to a 1912 article, what he was known for in the region. Benjamin traded problems with other mathematicians, near and far, and maintained a constant correspondence.

In 1772, a Quaker family, the Ellicotts, bought the land next door and built gristmill facilities. Fascination with the mechanisms led Banneker to visit often, and the Quaker tradition of believing in racial equality led to Benjamin and George Ellicott becoming friends.

Ellicott was also a student of astronomy, and he and Banneker shared resources, tools, and deep conversations on the topic for years. Banneker predicted a near-solar eclipse in 1789 and began writing technical treatises and building atlases of his own.

In 1789 he was thrust onto the national stage when George Elicotts cousin, Major Andrew Ellicott, needed help with a new job – surveying land along the Potomac River that would become the nation’s new capital.

L’Enfant, as previously mentioned, planned and laid out the city, but he took those plans with him after he was fired over a lack of progress in 1792.

At least, that’s what some believe. Others believe that he continued to work with both Banneker and the Ellicotts as they took over the project – which was unnecessary if you also believe Banneker had the city’s layout completely committed to memory.

The “Georgetown Weekly Ledger” noted Banneker’s achievements and contributions, pointing out that as “an Ethiopian whose abilities as a surveyor, and an astronomer, clearly prove that Mr. Jefferson’s concluding that race of men were void of mental endowments, was without foundation.”

In a 1791 letter, Banneker challenged Jefferson’s beliefs directly, after he had completed a table of the position of the celestial bodies for publication.

“Sir, I have long been convinced, that if your love for yourselves and for those inestimable laws, which preserved to you the rights of human nature, was founded on sincerity, you could not but be solicitous that every individual … might with you equally enjoy the blessings thereof, neither could you rest satisfied [short of] their promotion from any state of degradation, to which the unjustifiable cruelty and barbarism of men may have reduced them.

Sir, I freely and cheerfully acknowledge that I am of the African race … and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the supreme ruler of the Universe, that I now confess to you, that I am not under the state of tyrannical thraldom, and inhuman captivity to which many of my brethren are doomed, but that I have abundantly tasted of the fruition of those blessings, which proceed from that free and unequalled liberty, with which you are favored, and which, I hope you will willingly allow, you have received from the immediate hand of that being … [and] that the present freedom and tranquility which you enjoy, you have mercifully received, and that it is the peculiar blessing of heaven.”

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Jefferson responded, though probably not exactly as Banneker would have hoped:

“SIR, I THANK you, sincerely, for your letter of the 19th instant, and for the Almanac it contained. No body wishes more than I do, to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to those of the other colors of men ; and that the appearance of the want of them, is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa and America. I can add with truth, that no body wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced, for raising the condition, both of their body and mind, to what it ought to be, as far as the imbecility of their present existence, and other circumstances, which cannot be neglected, will admit.

I have taken the liberty of sending your Almanac to Monsieur de Condozett, Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and Member of the Philanthropic Society, because I considered it as a document, to which your whole color had a right for their justification, against the doubts which have been entertained of them.

I am with great esteem, Sir, Your most obedient Humble Servant,

THOMAS JEFFERSON.”

Banneker never shied away from defending the others in his race from the assumptions and cruelty that resulted from those assumptions in America.

He appears to have been the pioneer in the movement in this part of the world, toward the improvement of his race; at a period of our history when the negro occupied almost the lowest possible grade in the scale of human beings, Banneker had struck out for himself a course, hitherto untravelled by men of his class, and had already earned a respectable position amongst men of science.

Banneker himself surely suffered discriminated in his life, having his great achievements dismissed and belittled by people who couldn’t probably have understood them but still considered themselves superior because of the color of their skin.

All records indicate, however, that Banneker never let them get him down.

“His equilibrium was seldom disturbed by the petty jealousies and inequalities of temper of the ignorant people,”A Sketch of the Life of Benjamin Banneker notes, “with whom his situation obliged him frequently to come in contact.”

Benjamin Ellicott, who knew him personally, remembered him similarly in a letter:

Although his mode of life was regular and extremely retired, living alone, having never married,–cooking his own victuals and washing his own clothes, and scarcely ever being absent from home, yet there was nothing misanthropic in his character … [He was known as] kind, generous, hospitable, humane, dignified and pleasant, abounding in information on all the various subjects and incidents of the day; very modest and unassuming, and delighting in society at his own home.

A variety of parks, schools, awards, streets, businesses, and other facilities in Maryland and Washington D.C. bear his name, and people who want to learn more about the early scholar can do so at the Benjamin Banneker Park and Memorial (in D.C.) or the Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum (in Maryland).

If he could visit one place named for him today, though, he might choose Maryland’s Banneker Planetarium, where he could once again muse about those celestial bodies hanging in the heavens.

The next time you and your family visit D.C., check out one or more of these places that celebrate a man without whom the city under your feet might not have existed in its intended form at all.

I think he deserves at least that.

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Underground Salt Mine in Poland Looks Like a Fairy Tale

Hidden treasures exist all over the world. It would take a lifetime to visit them all in person – which is why it’s so fantastic that we live in this digital age, a time when we can glimpse magic over the internet and never have to leave our homes.

I mean, sure, traveling is still preferable but it costs money and time and stuff!

If you haven’t had a chance to travel to Krakow, Poland, then you haven’t had the chance to visit these truly stunning salt mines.

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#wieliczka #wieliczkasaltmine

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But for now, at least we have pictures to make us believe in magic once again.

The Wieliczka salt mine was first opened in the 13th century, and today, it’s a part of the First UNESCO World Heritage List.

The mine plunges 1072 feet at its deepest point, and everything – every little thing in over 2000 chambers – is made of salt.

That includes the underground lakes…

The chapels….

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La più bella, la più imponente, la più fantastica. La luce delle lampade di cristalli illumina il pavimento scolpito in sale. I bellissimi bassorilievi e gli altari decorati tolgono il fiato ai visitatori. La Cappella di Santa Kinga è una vera e propria perla della Miniera di Sale “Wieliczka” e l’orgoglio dei minatori. Ogni evento organizzato al suo interno ha il carattere unico e indimenticabile, da ricordare ancora per tanto tempo dopo il suo termine. La Cappella di Santa Kinga è ubicata 101 m sottosuolo, ha le dimensioni di 31 x 15 m e la sua superficie calpestabile è di 465 m2. E’ un posto ideale per organizzare santa messa, matrimonio o concerto di musica classica o sacrale per il gruppi fino a 400 persone. . . . #wieliczka #saltmine #poland #krakow #salt #wieliczkasaltmine #travel #visitpoland #polska #minieredisalewieliczka #story @krakowexperience @krakowplaces @igerskrakow

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And even the chandeliers.

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Minas de sal es un imprescindible en vuestro viaje a Cracovia ? • Solo para llegar al primer nivel ya bajas 378 escalones, lo cual sería como 54 pisos en un edificio ? • Para mi lo más sorprendente de esta visita fue la cantidad de construcciones que han llegado a reproducir bajo tierra ? • Y sin duda, la sala de la foto, me dejó sin habla. Se trata de la Capilla de St. Kinga ? Paredes, suelo, relieves… todo es de sal, menos las impresionantes lámparas ? • Se puede asistir a misa todos los domingos y en Nochebuena, incluso las parejas se pueden casar aquí ?? • ¿Habéis visitado una mina alguna vez? ¿Dónde? Contadme! ? • #wieliczka #wieliczkasaltmine #krakow #poland #visitkrakow #visitpoland #travelphotography #traveltheworld #soychicaviajera #sheisnotlost #speechlessplaces #globetrotter #passport #passportready #igersspain #neverstopexploring #wanderlust #travelwithme #followmearoundtheworld #beautifulvew #travelinspiration #hastaluegomaripuri #girlslovetravel #iamtb #solotraveler #backpacker #thetravelcouples #wonderful_places #bestcitybreaks #bestplacestogo

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It all exists because everyone around the world uses salt on their breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, but it still kind of looks like a level in Tomb Raider instead of real life.

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Mieliście okazję odwiedzić kopalnię soli w Wieliczce? Dziś możecie pospacerować najsłynniejszym w Polsce labiryntem solnych korytarzy – bez konieczności schodzenia pod ziemię ? Zapraszamy na wirtualną wizytę w najciekawszych miejscach kultury w Polsce: muzeach i atrakcjach turystycznych. Link do artykułu znajdziecie w naszym BIO. https://bit.ly/Muzea_2020 • • • #kopalniasoli #kopalniasoliwieliczka #wieliczka #saltmine #saltmines #podrozuje #podrozepopolsce #podrozujemy #podrozemaleiduze #podrozowanie #ciekawemiejsca #miejscawpolsce #zwiedzamy #zwiedzamypolske #zwiedzajpolske #ciekawemiejscawpolsce #underground #sól #unesco #heritage #WieliczkaSaltMine #travel #poland #unescoheritage #polandsights #visitpoland #igerspoland #pocztowka_z_polski #igerspolska #magicalpoland

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There are plenty of wonderful things to see in Krakow, and in Poland, so you wouldn’t be booking that trip for the mine alone.

And as lovely and wonderful as these images are, I don’t know…there’s just something about seeing places like this with your own two eyes, don’t you think?

Have you visited this salt mine? Did it blow your mind? If you have, please share your firsthand experiences with us in the comments!

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People Share How the Police Responded to Their Criminal Complaints in the Past

You may have noticed that a revolution seems to be happening in the streets of America. People of all races, ages, and religions are marching in the streets demanding change, and one of the things we’re discussing is what role the police should play in our everyday lives going forward.

Most people feel like it would still be helpful to have police to call in the case of, you know, a crime being committed. In a fit of curiosity, though, Twitter user @IllyBocean tweeted, asking their followers to recount their own experiences.

These 14 replies seem to suggest that the police response to crime is lacking, to say the least.

14. I hope he at least got it back for free.

This is outrageous!

13. Ah, the classic blame the victim why not.

You shouldn’t have been out here anyway, you know?

12. I think this is maybe the preferable outcome.

Knowing what we know now, of course.

11. Seems as if he wasn’t even paying attention, honestly.

Maybe he was just out of shape.

10. This was surely a defining moment for the next generation.

And not at all in a good way.

9. It can be hard to tell who they’re after until it’s too late.

Maybe best to just not say anything.

8. Imagine being ghosted by the police.

And not a darn thing you can do about it.

7. Well that’s a bit awkward.

I hope the other bloke ended up alive and okay.

6. I guess valuable means different things to different people.

I mean. It makes sense, though.

5. Maybe our communities would knit tighter together again without them.

You never know until you try, I guess.

4. Hahahaha yeah hilarious.

Get a real job, losers.

3. It was literally just sitting there for months.

I don’t even have a joke.

2. I’m sorry, how does that work?

I’m not lying on nobody.

1. It might have something to do with their response rate.

It’s just a theory, though.

Clear as mud, right?

We don’t have to have a political discussion in the comments, but if you want to tell us what your experience with the police and reporting crime has been, we’re all ears!

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People Share What Happened When They Reported Crimes to the Police

There’s a lot of talk out there about the role the police play in society, whether or not it should change, if some more training could do the trick, and everything in between.

Part of the conversation is whether or not the police are really willing or able to do anything for the average citizen who finds themselves the victim of a crime, and Twitter user @IllyBocean kept the conversation going on Twitter, asking what people’s personal experiences were.

He points out that, if the response of the police to middle class white people was lacking, things could be, you know, significantly worse in poor communities of color.

These 11 people’s replies honestly only served to bolster the argument against keeping the policing status quo, but you read them and you decide!

11. I suppose you have to cover all of your bases.

This still sucks, though.

10. That sounds…objectively terrible.

And no, they weren’t dealing drugs.

9. It’s almost like they think it’s not worth their time.

$800 would be worth my time, though.

8. I mean you can’t expect them to science, too.

But honestly, did you check the backseat of his car?

7. Not sure I would have even bothered calling the second time.

Maybe you just hope you get someone who’s interested?

6. What a horrifying thing to tell anyone, nevermind a child.

I honestly wish I could believe this wasn’t true.

5. That doesn’t sound like the whole story.

I bet she never got her phone back, either.

4. I mean obviously you need proof.

But maybe at least try to find some?

3. Regular people out there just doing their part.

It’s not so hard, is it?

2. Sorry I’m not really here to discuss beverages.

Maybe pick some up in your spare time you have not interviewing my neighbor.

1. At least Lowe’s was on their game.

But obviously they don’t have to follow the law and stuff.

I don’t know what the answer is, guys, but I hope some people who are smarter and more aware than I am come up with a good one!

Have you ever had to call the police for help? What happened? Let us know in the comments!

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