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Desmond Doss, a WWII medic, was teased for his choice to not harm the enemy or wield a weapon. He would go on to win the Medal of Honor for saving more than 50 men after a mortar attack, and the heroics were made into the award winning movie “Hacksaw Ridge”.
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When Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t get booked by clubs and TV because she was black, Marilyn Monroe offered to come to a nightclub every night and sit in the front row if they let Ella sing.
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Most people in the ancient city of Rome lived in apartment buildings that lacked kitchens. Thus most people relied on prepared food was sold at pubs, inns, and food stalls. Some establishments had counter tops fitted with openings for pots that may have kept food warm for extended serving.
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Commerical Flight Attendants and Pilots are 4x more likely to get cancer in their lifetime, because of the time they spend flying, with a thinner atmosphere and more solar particles. They recive 3x more radiation a year than a nuclear plant employee.
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If you’re not someone who loves books and loves to read, you may be fine with what you’re about to see. It may not bother you one bit to see books in states such as these, I don’t know.
What I do know, as someone who drinks books like water, is that every last one of these sparked an inexplicable, white-hot rage in my soul.
Do you really still mean “anything,” though?
the downside to checking out books from the public library from WTF
A series of books should all be the same size! Duh!
Three books in the same series produced by the same company from CrappyDesign
Or just a regular old annoying thing that happens.
The perfect book for a price sticker that won’t come off from mildlyinfuriating
It’s RIGHT THERE.
Folding a page in a library book when it has a built-in bookmark. from mildlyinfuriating
But still, that’s egregious.
This Harry Potter box set doesn’t fit all of the books if any of them have actually been read or taken out from mildlyinfuriating
but you just can’t let it go, can you.
About finishing the book only to discover that 10 pages are missing from Wellthatsucks
He showed you, I guess. *tears*
And the rest of us, but mostly for them.
Polish catholic priest and kids burning religious symbols and fantasy literature. They burned stuff such as Harry Potter books, Lord of the Rings, buddhist figurines. from trashy
I guarantee she hasn’t read them.
Image Credit: Instagram
We need them to print more books!
Books that have this much paper before Chapter 1 even starts from mildlyinfuriating
Although maybe this is some kind of fun mystery buying experience?
Newman is your mailman.
Dammit USPS… Go ahead and stuff a hardcover book in my mailbox! from pics
There is something wrong with people, y’all. Make it stop.
Which one of these made you the most uncomfortable? Tell us in the comments!
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People enjoy a good book now and then – on vacation, when they’re waiting in line at the DMV – but other people live for books. They prefer them to Netflix, and if they’ve got a spare 10 minutes, they’d rather read than scroll through social media.
They’re a quiet but passionate lot, and that description extends to the treatment of books and other odd things that surround a book lovers life.
If you’re one of us, you know what I mean – and you’ll quickly realize that there is so much wrong with these 14 pictures.
It’s called an editor. Does no one do their jobs anymore?
This Hardcopy ELA book is complete with useless hyperlinks and and unwatchable videos. Go American Education System from CrappyDesign
It’s some kind of reverse marketing ploy?
The only book in the store that’s wrapped in plastic is this one.. from mildlyinfuriating
Why would you never want anyone to enjoy that book again?
Got bumped to first class (super sweet) only to witness this lady TEARING off the pages of the book she’s reading. from mildlyinfuriating
And the jury is out on the “proper” way to shelve books.
You think you're having a bad week? My poor colleague has just been in to do her weekly check of the library building. The cleaner has stared deep cleaning the space (so far, so good) and has cleaned the shelves but has put 18.5 bays of books back on IN SIZE ORDER.
— Krystal Vittles (@KrystalVittles) April 23, 2020
This makes me so, so angry.
Those boxes also look rather large to house a single book.
Ordered 27 books from Amazon on a single order. Got 27 boxes with 1 book each delivered. from mildlyinfuriating
That’s not how any of this works.
This hotel doesn’t allow you to use books for their intended purpose. from mildlyinfuriating
But also, why on earth doesn’t everyone use the easy peel price stickers? Argh!
This price sticker that ruined the cover of this 1908 book from mildlyinfuriating
Or maybe it was the layout person’s fault.
I don’t think I should read this deign chapter in my book. from CrappyDesign
Seriously just wtf is going on here.
Instead of putting in a bookshelf, this coffee shop cut the spines of the books and glued them to a shelf… from mildlyinfuriating
But this makes me want to cry.
Yesterday my colleague called me a 'book murderer' because I cut long books in half to make them more portable. Does anyone else do this? Is it just me? pic.twitter.com/VQUUdJMpwT
— Alex Christofi (@alex_christofi) January 21, 2020
No one who reads would ruin the last page of a book.
This is the last page of a book in my schools library. This isn’t the only time it happened either. from mildlyinfuriating
I wonder if they open the packaging on everything ahead of time.
This store sells books wrapped in packaging so readers can pick a book from just a sentence. Somebody opened all of them. from mildlyinfuriating
It looks far past the smelling stage, too.
Looking through an old cookery book I just found and there’s a squashed frog as a bookmark :/ from WTF
I’m dying inside a little bit more with every entry! Argh!
Which one of these was the hardest to look at for you? I can’t pick!
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Let me say that I am not judging any of these people. I have found ancient food in my fridge, my freezer, and in one unforgettable moment, a potato that had fallen behind a cabinet and was no longer recognizable (except for the stench).
That is how I know, with 100% certainty, that some finds just have to be shared – and I think these 16 items definitely fall into that category.
Nothing about this is okay.
My Dad ate 17 year old ribs from his chest freezer and his response to my abject horror was: “Just whack em in’t microwave. They’ll be reet.” pic.twitter.com/y2wo9OL7zg
— ?∴?∴ DESTROYER! DESTROYER! (@allyallyally_) May 10, 2020
I’m not sure that’s still going to puff up.
One of the advantages of the lockdown is that the mother is finally getting to the bottom of her giant chest freezer.
Behold: 25 year old puff pastry. pic.twitter.com/lyIArR7d0V
— Michael Patrick (@micktheejit) May 9, 2020
Because no one keeps that anymore.
Maybe it could go nice with this 33 year old cod liver oil we found cleaning out my grandmothers fridge pic.twitter.com/f2zd7uABQh
— Nels (@bluetigerlefty) May 10, 2020
They are corndogs, though – barely food – so they should be fine.
I found 10 year old corndogs…..I am eating them on the 24th of this month when they are exactly 10. the headlines will read, ‘buffoon defeats covid but succumbs to 10 year old carnival fare’. pic.twitter.com/REo7cYRiV4
— Mini Mao (@monotonous65) May 10, 2020
Cheese was a bit congealed but nobody died.
Made this mac and cheese with something I found in the freezer and later realized it was from 2006. At least it tased good, but whoops. pic.twitter.com/Joscm2X6GP
— PLUMPKIN (@PLUMPKIN) May 10, 2020
I should know; it’s older than I am.
thats nothing mum has found this in the cuboard from 1976 pic.twitter.com/dBsb0FWw2h
— Anthony Mcdonnell (@MrFluffy2) May 10, 2020
As long as you don’t eat the jelly.
When my stepmother’s mother passed away, my parents cleared out the basement with all the preserving jars full of stuff. They dated back to the early 60s or something. My stepmother kept a glass of jelly from each year her children were born – 1983, 1988, and 1991.
— Katta Strophe (@ginfizzlybear) May 11, 2020
Which makes sense, because who on earth would eat it?
Shush all and regard the catering size tin of ox tongue in my mother’s fridge. It’s been there since 1971. Houses and fridges have changed around it. And yet it watches and waits … pic.twitter.com/Bv3XIK6FZo
— Julia Christie (@JuliaChristie11) May 10, 2020
Too bad. Throwing out alcohol is tragic.
I found this yesterday… would have tried it, but couldn’t actually pour it out of the bottle so took that as a sign
pic.twitter.com/OVx6RIV7uZ
— Andrea Baker (@ajbaker2011) May 11, 2020
From turkey heaven, I suppose, but still.
Helping my Belfast mother clean out her chest freezer, we found a nearly 6-year old turkey at the bottom. It got thrown out but not without us adult children holding mock funeral for bird’s tragic wasted life. Mam was mortified!
— Johanne Devlin Trew (@jd_trew) May 11, 2020
If you’re into gross stuff.
Somewhere I have a photo of the bottled raspberries we threw out when we cleared Grandma’s house in 2015.
Dated in the mid 60s. Now battleship grey floating in viscous plasma.
They went off like incendiary bombs when I threw them into the skip.
— BettyStovesEyes (@BettyStovesEyes) May 10, 2020
Maybe the only year.
amate*r. What does she have from the early 1980s?! pic.twitter.com/EB4J3GCJf5
— Carl Robert Keyes (@TradeCardCarl) May 10, 2020
If it’s like shelf-stable creamer here I’m pretty sure it lasts forever.
Clearing out the shed and found coffee whitener that expired in Dec’99.
1) I don’t drink coffee
2) I don’t shop in asda
3) Moved here in Jan 2004 pic.twitter.com/CmjxQGex2U— Dave Wilson (@dave_wilson78) May 11, 2020
I wonder if she’s improved or was still insulted.
Hahahaha. I found lasagne cooked by my 11 year old daughter in 2001 when we cleaned out our freezer last year. She turned 30 last month.
— Pat Tyrrell (@PatTyrrell1) May 10, 2020
Isn’t that the whole point of drying herbs?
This ended up in our dinners last week, 30 year old dried herbs found in the back of the cupboard
pic.twitter.com/VODtXu9V31
— Nick Carpenter (@nickyc101) May 11, 2020
Not the flat and worthless cola, but the bottle.
amate*r! pic.twitter.com/EZ1ag1GoFh
— Dank Neo-Traditional Arch Memes (@THICCtorianChad) May 10, 2020
I am as stunned as I am amused – great combination.
What’s the oldest thing you’ve ever unearthed from a freezer? Tell us about it in the comments!
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What do you do when you’re a penguin and you have nothing to do because all of the humans that usually come see you are in lockdown?
Why, take a trip to the art museum, of course! Because there are no people there either!
Hey, birds need a little art and culture every once in a while, too. These penguins from the Kansas City Zoo took a little field trip to the nearby Nelson-Atkins Museum.
You can see how much they thoroughly appreciated the fine art exhibits in the video below:
These cute little tuxedo guys are Humboldt penguins, and their names are Bubbles, Maggie and Berkley.
“Humboldt penguins in human care can live well into their thirties. In the wild, Humboldt penguins are facing habitat loss and suffering from overfishing which depletes their food sources,” a Kansas City Zoo spokesperson said. “Unfortunately, our penguins can’t speak for themselves, but we think they found the experience at the museum very enriching!”
After the penguins went back home to the zoo, museum staffers got curious and went looking for any penguin-themed art in the museum’s collection.
They found at least one painting they could have shown the little birds, but somehow I doubt the penguins would have recognized their feathered brethren in this dark painting.
After our little visitors from the Kansas City Zoo, we thought we'd uncover whether we have any penguin-related art in…
Posted by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Art and penguins really seem to be the perfect match. Although someone at the art museum did probably have to clean up a few “messes” here and there after the visit. Oh well — no pain, no gain.
What’s your favorite zoo animal?
Let us know in the comments!
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You’ve been here before: someone gives you a compliment and then a few minutes later it dawns on you…HEY, THAT WASN’T A COMPLIMENT! THAT WAS AN INSULT!
And then you get offended and start crying and you’re not friends with that person anymore…at least that’s the way it works for me…
What are some insults that people throw out that are cleverly designed as compliments?
Here’s what AskReddit users had to say.
“I love what you’re trying to do with your hair…”
“Good for you.
This is passive aggressive through and through.”
“My grandma used to tell us that if you ever met an ugly baby you should said “wow that is SOME BABY”.”
“My grandma always says people are “good and kind” when they get on her nerves.
They think shes a sweet old lady, when shes really saying they’re “good for nothing and kinda stupid”.
I got it engraved on a mug for her.”
“That outfit is really brave.”
“You’re much smarter than you look.”
“I was doing a timed work skills test a month into a new job and it took me forever so he let me do it again.
It took just as long the second time and he said, “Well… at least you’re consistent.””
“Someone once said to me “you aren’t as horrible as everyone told me you’d be”.”
““You look…. healthy” where I’m from, the nice way of saying someone has gotten fat.”
“You’re so confident!
This has got to be a kick to the nuts. Said in the right tone that must suck.
Cuz you know homeboy built up quite some courage to rock those assless chaps and now Aunt Karen just dropped that bomb on you at the family Christmas party…”
“I love my mother, but she used to hit me with this.
She’d say, “You know what I love about you – you just don’t care what other people think” when I’d leave the house without makeup.
”
“Your sister is beautiful and you are…smart”
“With all due respect,…” when it’s clear none is due.”
“You are impossible to underestimate.”
“One of the guys I was dating told me ‘you share your emotions and feelings quite often’.
I took it as I probably talk too much about things and shouldn’t, but he told me that no it’s a good thing and it helps. Still made me think twice the next time I wanted to share things.”
“Classic chubby girl insult: “But you have such a pretty face!””
“While waiting tables, an old woman told my coworker that he’s “handsome for a Mexican”
Biiitch he’s just handsome.”
“That reminds me so much of “you’re a lesbian?? but you’re so pretty!!”
Like, good job insulting both my people and my taste in people in one swift blow.”
“I hope you have the day you deserve.”
“You’ve got a face for radio.”
“In the line at Walmart there was an old lady and a man trying to figure out how much money they needed to pay and when I said the amount,
He told me that I was pretty smart for being a girl.”
“It’s understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.
-Abe Froman”
“You have completely met my expectations”
“You talk so eloquently” “you speak so well” towards a black person as if we all talk like we’re from the depths if the hood.”
“If you are in the South, “Bless your heart”.”
“You haven’t changed a bit!”
“You look so pretty I didn’t even recognize you.” My mom said that to me one day when I was leaving for high school. She totally didn’t mean it to be an insult, but I felt that one.”
“I love how you just wear anything!”
“Oh, I see you’re finally growing into those ears.”
“You carry your weight well.
Said to me by a much thinner friend.”
“I’m a little surprised this isn’t on here.
I heard that stewardesses will say “See you next time” to airline passengers that have been particularly troublesome. Sounds innocent until you abbreviate it “C U Next Time”.”
““You look tired”.
Just another way of saying you look like shit.”
“You really are something else.”
“Well, aren’t you precious?”
“Cool story bro.”
Ouch…those really leave a sting, don’t they?
Okay, now it’s your turn!
In the comments, tell us about insults you’ve received in your life that sound like compliments.
Please and thank you!
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I’ve had people tell me about getting stalked by people who became obsessed with them and it is downright scary.
For some folks, a switch just flips and they become infatuated with people to such an unhealthy degree that something needs to be done about it.
Has this ever happened to you?
Here are some pretty creepy stories from AskReddit users about when they realized someone was obsessed with them in an unhealthy way.
“I was bartending at a local hole in the wall and I had a regular that was nice & flirty (typical bartender/customer stuff). One day he says to me “You were at John’s* house Sunday morning. You guys a thing?”
I asked him how he knew I was there & he said he saw my car. I was a little taken aback but I was parked on the main road & my car was fairly distinctive, so I didn’t think much of it. A couple weeks later he’d made a joke that I was never home, cos my car was always gone when he passed by.
That made the hair on my neck stand up, but again I don’t exactly live off of the beaten path, so ok. When I really ???? that it was more than casual observations was when he started complimenting me on different outfits & hairstyles I wore on my days off or prior to my shift.
He’d also make comments about receiving packages or coming home with after shopping (“You should find someone who would carry those groceries into the house for you. I’d never make you carry the bags in the house after all that shopping you did on Saturday.”)
It was really creepy and I couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched for a long time.”
“This guy at college would follow me EVERYWHERE. One day, I just went out to buy my lunch and he came with me. He didn’t buy anything, just followed me. Even when I told him he was making me uncomfortable, he still would not leave me alone. I didn’t wanna sound rude though.
Eventually, I started trying to get on the bus with me when I would head home. That was the last straw for me. The next time He tried to follow me onto the bus, and actually managed to step on, I pushed him off and urgently told the driver to close the doors.
The driver instantly took the hint and shut them. I told him the guy was stalking me, showed my student ID which allowed me on the bus for free, and took a seat.
The next day, the guy had the audacity to ask me why I didn’t let him to home with me. I told him to stop following me around from then on.”
“When she started sending nudes to my work email because I asked her to stop contacting me. I changed my snapchat account and blocked her number, but my work email is on my company’s website, so she found it.
That was a awkward conversation with my IT guys.”
“When I was stationed in Korea and my ex girlfriend kept emailing my wife from different emails pretending to be women in Korea that I was cheating on her with.
My wife and I had a pretty good laugh about it and she eventually came clean. Her husband was not happy about her still obsessing over me.”
“My husband was deployed in Afghanistan so I had to go to church alone. One week, an older man (maybe 65) approached and said, “Can I sit here?” I said sure. We had a bit of conversation and he said, “My wife died a few weeks ago and I was just praying this morning for God to send an angel I could sit with at church today.” He seemed like a sweetheart, I felt bad for him.
He sat next to me for a few weeks in a row. It didn’t bother me too much. I brought him some homemade jam. He told me about how his son was also deployed.
I mentioned he should really try getting into a church small group, that it would be great company for him. I set him up with one of the best. He said he wasn’t sure how to get to the venue. If he gave me his number, could I tell him where the place was? He was confused. I said, sure.
Well, once I texted him the directions, I don’t think he ever went to the group, but he had my phone number. He started calling 8+ times a day, saying “Hello beautiful” and begging me to meet him at Waffle House.
For the remainder of my husband’s 6-month deployment, I did not go to church. I was really worried about running into that guy. I blocked his number and luckily have never seen him again. Months after my husband got back, I told him what happened and of course he was livid.”
“I broke up with a physically abusive boyfriend, and at the time I worked about a 25 minute drive from where I lived (always drove the same road home).
My schedule never changed and I began seeing his car and occasionally his friends’ cars along my drive, always parked off from the road a little and around some seriously sharp corners. At first I didn’t think anything of it, until it began happening at night (I’d do inventory every Tuesday night and be at work until 10pm; this was my only full night shift).
This went on for about a month, until I started switching my routes to and from work because I was getting creeped out. Easter ended up rolling around and I, again, had to stay late to help my coworker change the signage (I worked at Subway). It was getting close to 9pm, and the work phone began ringing off the hook (was my ex).
My coworker, who knew what was going on, just muted the phone and we continued doing what we needed to do. Shortly after we saw my ex standing outside, in the middle of the road staring into the restaurant.
I hid behind the counter as soon as I could and my coworker ended up telling me when he left. Got calmed down until we got to my car to find out he broke into my car and left a bunch of weed and a threatening note.
I bought a new car the next week; fully equipped with a very loud alarm.”
“As a bus driver you’re expected to be cheerful and chat with whoever while idle. A regular passenger started riding around, always in the front seat. Over a week or two the conversation got quite personal, always by her initiative.
I told my supervisor about this just to cover my ass. Then she started to bring me gifts, cookies, candy beverages. Finally, she invited me over for a meal, so her mom could meet her boyfriend! I had zero interest in the young woman, didn’t want anything to do with her.
Luckily, she moved or just avoided the bus during my shift.”
“When my dad showed up to my place of work.
We had been estranged, but he knew I worked at Starbucks and had traveled from location to location to figure out where I had transferred to and when my shifts were scheduled.
Even had the balls to call the store and pretend to be me to get my schedule information. I saw his vehicle parked out front and freaked out and ran inside.
He followed in after about thirty minutes (right as the morning rush was hitting full swing) and started berating me in front of all my coworkers and customers.
Thats the day I went and learned about restraining orders.”
“When he started acting like he couldn’t survive without me directly by his side at all times. I had met him a week earlier, only spoke to him briefly, and never flirted or had any romantic or sexual interactions with him.
He literally just stalked me and physically put himself at my side like a Siamese twin, going as far as pushing other people away from “his” spot, and threatening to kill himself when I brought it up with him. Yeah, no thanks.”
“My sister brought home “my” spiral notebook from school.
She thought it was mine because it had my name written and doodled covering every page.
Turns out it was a girl who was obsessed with me.”
“I was chatting with a gal online through a dating site.
She was nice enough and we were having good conversations, but had not yet even began speaking on the phone. It turns out a friend of hers was friends with one of my friends. Small world.
I’m at home one day puttering around and I hear a knock at my door, I look out the window and see a car I don’t recognize. My hink meter starts pinging so I pull a butcher knife, brace my foot so the door can only open a bit and crack the door.
She is standing there and tells me she got the address from my friend and asking to come in. I was weirded out and declined, she got upset and started crying and telling me how this was supposed to be a pleasant surprise. I tried to send her on her way gently and she got pissed and stormed off and drove away.
I thought that was it. Then she starts emailing me saying she loves me, then starts calling me, (my idiot friend gave her my number), and leaving gifts at my door that would be there in the morning.i lived in Mesa, AZ, she was in Tucson about an hour away. I eventually had to threaten her with a restraining order.
My friend had talked to hers about what was going on she said, “Oh yeah, she’s nuts, she’s done this before.”
I felt a lot better when I left the state.”
“Not me but my sister is obsessed with her ex. She cheated on him and is desperate to get him back. She constantly tries to get in touch with him like getting my little brother to FaceTime him through his iPad cause she knows he won’t answer her.
She says she thinks about him every day and will text him on holidays like Easter just to say have a nice day or whatever. They had a conversation and after that she looked up the program he was in at the college he goes to and found out that his program was canceled because of covid19 so she doesn’t understand why he hasn’t gotten in contact with her.
She wrote a letter a couple days ago and is planning to go to his house and leave it at his door. Originally, her plan was to pay me to go ring the doorbell and give it to him but like hell nah lol. Whenever I tell her to back off she just says I don’t understand cause I’ve never been in a relationship:/ it’s been months of crap like this.”
“It was really sad.
It was a High School student I was teaching. She found out where I lived and used to conveniently be in the area and then just parked in front of my house. I had to report her. We all met with the principal and a counselor.
She was a senior so we all agreed if she stopped doing that and take another class I wasn’t teaching, we’d let her graduate at the school.”
“Had a friend.
She was a bit eccentric, we were really close until she started going totally off the edge – hid my bicycle, stood outside my house screaming obscenities, told everyone we had a sexual relationship, belittled my abusive past, screaming right into my face.
Tried to stab our common friend… Twice. The thing that pulled alarms in my head was when i told her I’ll be heading home from my boyfriends soon and she can come for a visit in a couple of hours if she wants.
Got home in under an hour, she was waiting near my apartment building and started accusing me of lying to her, there was absolutely no telling her that I wanted to settle a little, take a shower and eat something, I did not say I’d be home in two hours. I managed to cut her out of my life.
Few years later she started blowing up my mothers phone (one cant find my number anywhere) demanding for her to give my number explaining all this pretty lunatic nonsense, but how she needed me because I’m one of her apostles and she needs me to start her own religion, because she is “his son, another of Adam and Eve”, and this was not even the craziest shit.
Quite confidental seeing that a few years before this she was super paranoid about my mother since she works for the military. And yes, previously this girl had a delusion that she is re-incarnated Jesus.
After this I’ve heard through friends that I’m Peter, Venus and latest probably was that I’m a whore. So yeah that was the point I was more than sure she was obsessed with me.”
“She went to my grandmother’s house and got my phone number from beside the phone on the little board in the kitchen…
…5 years after we dated and I had severed all ties with her and anyone that still associated with her.”
Yikes…be careful out there, everyone.
Have you ever had someone develop an unhealthy obsession with you? Or maybe someone even started stalking you at some point?
If so, please share your stories with us in the comments!
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