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Bees sleep- and like to take naps in flowers. Forager bees sleep for several hours a day and older bees require more sleep than youngsters. This is why you sometimes you can find bees napping in flowers with their little heads down, antennae motionless, enjoying a quick snooze.
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Domestic dogs are one of only a few species that can understand that the human gesture of pointing means, “look in the direction my finger is pointing”. Other animals, including wolves and other primates, don’t understand how it works and will only be interested in your outstretched finger.
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The longest walkable distance on Earth spans 14,334 miles starting from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia. At a normal pace of 12.5 miles per day, it would take 3 years to complete.
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In 2005, a Chinese man found that he could still buy lottery tickets within a 5 minute window after the winning numbers were announced. this allowed him to win over $4 million. when chinese authorities caught on, he was sentenced to life in prison.
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Products made in Japan were ridiculed and thought to be low quality until 1950 when The New York Times reported the excellence of Nikon cameras during the Korean war with the headline “Japanese camera”.
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The Oslo Breakfast was a meal that began to be served to Norwegian schoolchildren starting 1932. A typical version included an orange, milk, whole-wheat bread, rye biscuit, cheese, carrot and a spoon of cod-liver oil. It reportedly increased the average height of 14 year olds by 4 inches.
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Parents are looking for ways to entertain their kids right now. As the parent of two kids under four, I can tell you that we’re definitely on the hunt for age-appropriate entertainment…and also that we’re way more willing for that entertainment to come to us via a screen than we were a few months ago.
And listen. I know Elmo can be a little grating and he’s a Muppet and all of that, but toddlers love him. All of them, no exception, and do you know why?
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Because Elmo is them. Unapologetically. And everyone loves to see themselves on television right?
I’m guessing that’s also going to hold true for social media, and that kids everywhere (with their parents permission) are going to love following Elmo’s exploits there, too.
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As of today, you and your kiddos can follow @Elmo, though so far he’s only posted six pictures…that added up to one big picture of his face.
“Yaaaaaat Elmo’s first picture is done! Elmo is excited to be on Instagram!”
Elmo is the first of the Sesame Street friends to join the social media platform, and we can expect to see him connect with loved ones and celebrities all over the world.
He’s also expected to post about his new talk show, The Not Too Late Show with Elmo, which is set to premiere on HBO Max at the end of May 2020. On it, Elmo will interview celebrities, play music with his friends, do comedy sketches, play games, and highlight Elmo’s bedtime routine.
Don’t worry – if your kids ask why Elmo is allowed an Instagram account and they’re not, his bio clearly states that he’s running it “with the help of Elmo’s mommy and daddy.”
I think we all know how well things would go if three-year-olds ran Instagram.
I mean…probably not that different than it is now. If we’re being honest.
Have fun following @Elmo – I know we’re going to!
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All of us have had those days when the dishes are piled in the sink, toys are everywhere, the kids are probably naked and have dirty hair, and you can’t find the will to care, right?
Sometimes we get up and do it anyway, other times we let it sit until morning (or afternoon or evening), but either way, we feel guilty about all of the ways we’re failing our kids (and what our mothers would think if they could see the house).
What if you didn’t have to, though?
Journalist Tim Harford, author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives, wants you to consider the idea that not only is a little disorder acceptable, it’s necessary for creativity.
One of his biggest tips is one that can be applied across the board in parenting – pick your battles.
“We have a real tendency to try to control other people’s mess and make them tidy up. It’s a very common problem in offices when you have clean desk policies, and there’s really no rationale. It frustrates workers. The same thing is true in the home.”
So, for example, it’s good to have rules that your children help with household chores that must get done, like keeping a tidy kitchen that doesn’t attract mice and bugs, but it’s also okay to let their rooms look however they want.
He says also to keep in mind that things beyond the physical can be making “messes” in your life, and learning how to thrive with one type can assist with handling the other.
“There’s having messy surroundings, but also messiness in other ways. Like having to deal with different kinds of people and things that can’t be planned. Those situations are opportunities to problem-solve differently, and make us more creative, more responsive, human.”
Another one of my personal favorite think-pieces on parenting pointed out that we, as the responsible adults, are forced to say no all the time – we need to keep them safe, we have other people’s schedules to consider, and we would like for our homes to not be destroyed – so when you can say yes, you should.
Harford describes a similar revelation with his daughter.
“At the time she was about 11 and she asked, ‘Can I walk to school?’ And my initial instinct was ‘I can’t deal with another change to the routine right now,’ and I caught myself and I thought, ‘Why can’t she walk to school? She knows the say, she just told me she wants to do it, and this actually makes my life easier.”
Some people, Harford says, are a little too attached to their binders and planners, and it’s not doing anyone any good.
“I think it’s really tempting to overschedule our children. And, I think it’s really tempting also to let them overschedule themselves.”
One study supports this way of thinking, finding that kids and teenagers who were overscheduled tended to quickly become demotivated because their schedule did not account for the many things that could crop up and prevent their “success” of checking all of the boxes every day.
Basically, he’s advocating for a more laid-back lifestyle in which kids take the lead with their own level of messiness, and their own scheduling, and their own activities while we’re supportive but not overly involved.
I don’t know, but I like the sound of that.
How about you? Do you follow this “pick your battles” and “say yes when you can” life? I think I’m going to double my efforts!
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Togetherness is great, but you know…too much is not good. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Have separate activities and jobs and experiences gives us something to talk about at home.
And many married couples are finding out just how true those statements are now that we’ve all been stuck inside together with our spouses and families far more hours than we’ve been out and about with others.
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This woman, an uninterested audience of one to her husband’s spontaneous performance of the Golden Girls’ theme song, is wearing an expression that is going to hit most of us right in the feels.
She is us. We are her.
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We have had enough togetherness.
TikTok user John Randazzo (aka pappajohnnydukes) recently posted this video of himself belting out the tune, and unlike most of his videos, this one really resonated with people.
I am legit CRYING
When he broke it down…"knewknewknewknewknewknnneeewww'"
Posted by Amber Janae on Sunday, 10 May 2020
It’s not his enthusiastic performance, though – it’s the woman’s expression in the frame with him.
This woman (we’re assuming his wife), is just trying to do her own nails in peace, but he just won’t take a hint.
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The remote for a microphone, the charming personality, the halfway decent rendition – none of it is working for her. Eventually she puts down her polish and picks up her wine, giving the camera a long suffering, unamused stare that spoke right to my soul.
We’re going to be okay, you guys. We have Netflix, she has wine, and we all presumably have locks on our doors.
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When something crazy happens in life, it’s hard to believe it’s really happening. There’s a surreal aspect to these moments where it almost feels dream-like, especially if it’s something very shocking.
I’m sure a lot of you have had these experiences before. Perhaps it was a death, or a phone call about sometimes awful happening, or maybe an accident of some kind.
Here are some true stories from AskReddit users for you to check out.
“The first time I walked up to a plane I’d rented for the day, signed off, did a preflight, got in and took off.
I legally took an airplane out for a spin, and noone was monitoring me. It just seemed like an insane thing.”
“That would probably be having a conference call with my boss and HR telling me I was one of 50 people being laid off due to restructuring, while my (now ex-) wife was in the other room packing her things to move out of the house.”
“I live in an apartment with a balcony overlooking a canal. One evening my partner and I were out on the balcony having a smoke, there was nobody around except for a drunk guy stumbling down the path along the canal.
My partner commented that he’d fall in if he wasn’t careful, and sure enough, he did. We immediately called an ambulance and my partner ran outside to look for help – the guy was twice our size and if we’d tried to help by ourselves, we all would have drowned.
Emergency services arrived in less than ten minutes and pulled him out. He lived. Still gives me shivers to think about what would have happened if we hadn’t been outside.”
“Diagnosed with an incurable cancer at 33.
I was given 2 months to live. One year later almost and I’m still kicking it. As sick as I was, I’m glad I’m standing here being the bad ass I am. My prognosis is much better now.
I won’t beat this, but it’s really given me a push to live life and love big.”
“I got a message one day from a stranger that said “there’s something we need to talk about that is important to both of us”.
The stranger called me. “Hi. You don’t know me, but I think it’s important that you know that my husband is sleeping with your wife. I know this, because he left his Facebook logged into our computer at home, and I see everything they have been chatting about for months.” BOOM. Life upended.
I was good to my wife. Really good. Then my life exploded. Children were involved, and families destroyed on all sides. That was the start of the worst year of my life. Over the next 6 months, I lost 40 pounds of weight and probably shortened my life by 10 years due to stress.
Bonus points: it turns out that in my appointed position with the local government, I had given the guy an award the year before for his service to children.
Good news: it’s all good now. It was bound to happen, as I learned later she was a serial cheater before me, so it’s not like it wasn’t going to happen at some point. I am with a great person now, and family life is great.”
“Head on collision with my motorcycle and a sewage drain. I had 1 second to decide to super man off the front.
The I cant believe this is happening right now moment came when I was mid air.”
“I got caught in a rip-tide, a current that drags you deep into the ocean away from shore. I’ve never experienced one, so I fought the current and swam against it.
I’m a poor swimmer, so I ended up exhausting myself. I’m out in the ocean with two of my friends when I realised Im too exhausted to float.
I remember that thought going through my head and was 100% prepared and expecting to die. I turned to them and said “guys don’t panic but I have about 30 seconds left”
Thank God a surfer saw me stuggling and helped my friends throw me on his board. A lifeguard boat came a few minutes later.”
“My best friend was murdered.
I found out from a phone call from a detective. It really hit me when I saw her picture on the news that evening.”
“When I was 14, just playing the newly released Arkham City, the doorbell rang and the police came to our house in order to tell us our dad died in a car accident.
Just ran into my room to have the loudest and longest holler of my entire life.”
“I was 9, my mother and step father had gotten into a fight and she decided that everything that caused them to argue had to go, including me.
She got the rifle and chased me, I hid for hours until she lost interest. As I hid in the barn, I was wondering if this was a normal thing or not.”
“Watching the water slowly creep into my house during Hurricane Matthew…I had taken every measure to block the doors with sandbags etc…it was in vain as the water came in through my foundation.
Scariest experience of my life and not knowing how to answer my 8 year old son when he asked “mom, are we gonna be ok?””
“A while ago at my college we were put on lockdown for a potential gunman on campus. When they announced over the loud speakers “There is a gunman on campus, shelter in place.” I had a surreal “I can’t believe this is happening right now moment.” Its always something that you think will never actually happen to you.
Thankfully there was never any actually danger on campus ( just a potential threat ) ,but sending those texts to my family/ friends is something that I never wanted to do. The scariest 2.5 hrs of my life was not knowing whether someone was gonna come into my lecture hall to shoot it up.”
“Alcohol detox.
After 20 years as an alc*holic and trying many many times to quit on my own, I finally decided to get help. I went to a doctor that does surgical implants of naltrexone, which eliminates the craving for alcohol. The idea is that if you can get rid of the cravings, you have a chance of staying sober long enough (like a year) to kick the habit.
Before they do that though, they do a rapid detox session where you stay in a room on an IV drip for like 8 hours. I remember sitting in there with my wife and just thinking I never thought I’d fall this far. I was really and truly and the bottom. I was hopeless and truly suicidal.
But the implants helped me stay sober, I got into weekly therapy to deal with the CSA, and I got my antidepressants dialed in. I also started exercising regularly and eating healthy.
Now I’m 2.5 years sober, and I’ve largely healed the emotional trauma from the CSA. I’ve also lost a bunch of weight and finally have a decently muscular physique going. The depression (which was later identified as bipolar type 2) is under control as long as I stay vigilant. Life is actually looking pretty good now.”
“The February 2010 8.8 earthquake in Santiago, Chile. I was on the 9th floor of a high rise building, my wife about 5 months pregnant at the time.
At first, I didn’t think much of it. When I had moved to Santiago a few years prior, I’d felt the first tremor I’d ever felt in my life, a little 3.1 rumbler that barely shook the bookcase, but to me felt like the birth pangs of the great apocalypse.
I walked around all day long with a fevered excitement asking everybody I saw what they thought of the morning’s earthquake. Nobody else had apparently even felt it, despite my insistence that the US Geological Survey’s website did in fact prove that it happened.
“This is Chile, we don’t get out of bed for anything under a 6.”
So when my wife had nudged me awake upon feeling the first perceptible waves of the coming megaquake, I calmly informed her that “It’s not big deal honey, go back to sleep, nobody gets out of bed for anything under a 6.”
A couple of seconds later the plaster began raining down from above and I knew this one meant business. We scurried out of bed and began fumbling around with the door handle like fish attempting to pick the lock.
After we got it open, I realized I’d left my cigarettes inside (I used to be a smoker), so before the door slammed shut I risked digits to hold it open, dash back in, and grab my stumps, only later in the aftermath realizing that I’d left the keys on top of the microwave.
Once we got out into the hallway to make it to the staircase, the horror of the quake began in earnest. The building was literally jumping up and down, the floor felt like walking through marshmallow like the stairs in Nightmare on Elm Street, it was the only time in my life I was ever honestly convinced that I was going to die.
My wife tells a tale—and I have no recollection of this—that once we reached the end of the hall, she froze and grabbed onto the wall, refusing to move. Apparently I grabbed her, threw her over my shoulder, and carried her down 9 flights of stairs, bearing in mind she was 5 months pregnant.
I’m not going to say it happened, as her perception of the events could be equally as skewed by all the excitement and fear as my own, but that would classify as the “I can’t believe this is happening moment”, because I literally can’t believe it actually happened.”
Wow. Life sure can change in an instant, huh?
Now we’d like to hear from the readers out there.
In the comments, please share a true story with us where you could hardly believe what was happening.
We’d love to hear from you!
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. Anyone else’s house just feel destroyed at the end of everyday? It’s seriously a problem for me. I’m naturally a messy person, but ever since becoming a mom and starting a YouTube channel, I feel like I just run around like a chicken with my head cut off constantly! I always feel like I’m behind on basically everything. I do everything so fast and frantically, that at the end of the day the mess is overwhelming and I’m exhausted. So this is my house.
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