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Single men 18 to 55 only change their bed sheets an average of four times a year. Further, the average single guy owns just one set of sheets and can sweat up to a liter a night and sheds thousands of dead skin cells.
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Key Limes were considered a weed until The Great Freeze of 1894–95 destroyed Florida’s lemon groves. Farmers replanted “Mexican” limes and they became known as “Florida Key Limes, a beloved regional crop”.
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Japan converts footsteps into renewable energy in Tokyo train stations and use it to power billboards around the city, using special floor boards that turn vibration into energy.
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Helen Keller was accepted to Harvard in 1900. Mark Twain introduced her to Standard Oil magnate, Henry Rogers, who paid for her education. And in 1904, she became the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor’s degree.
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The inside of the Leaning Tower of Pisa is completely empty.
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Have you ever wondered how one person can make a difference? How the things that you do, as a tiny human being, has the power to transform another person or a space?
Well, if you want proof of how one small difference can affect the meaning of the whole, we’ve got them for you – these 10 signs were meant to say one thing, but a small space put in an awkward place has nudged them into saying something else entirely.
And of course, I think they’re hilarious. So please enjoy.
And explain how you got it into that machine.
How did they get a cow into that vending machine! from keming
Convince me this wasn’t intentional.
Bull Titan U.S. from keming
What a thing to print on a clock. Farmhouse chic!
What a thing to accidentally put on the back of a car.
That’s not what we mean by recycling, Sir.
Thanks a bunch Don from keming
If they did it on purpose.
What was the purpose of that whole ‘I’ situation?
It’s coming. Not sure why.
Whether it was meant to or not.
But this is college, so.
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I refuse to believe no one in real life noticed these before they were posted. Refuse.
Have you ever driven past a sign like this? Tell us what it said in the comments!
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You’re not the boss of me, woman!
You know whenever you hear that, things are gonna get ugly…
And that’s what happened when a guy took to Reddit’s “Am I the A**hole?” page to ask readers about an argument he got into with his wife.
Let’s see what transpired…
AITA for telling my wife she’s not the boss?
“For starters my(M41) wife(F39) have been together 16 years. When she met me I was at the height of my business and starting to go up from there, even during the pandemic my business is still booming.
I had my own house(that I lived in by myself), a couple cars and a cottage although that is unrelated. I own my own factory refurbishing various re-engineered equipment, mostly HVAC stuff. About 3 years after we got married she decided she had enough of working odd jobs and making not-so-great money at it so she expressed she wanted to be a SAHW.
I had no problem with this, we don’t have kids and don’t plan on having any so I saw this as a win-win as she got to stay home, and I came home to a nice house. After 3 years of this she was tired of being a SAHW and wanted to re-join the workforce. Since she could really only find odd jobs I suggested she work at my shop.
I pretty much created a job for her doing small admin stuff, nothing crazy as I used to do all this myself plus work on the floor but this took a load off my shoulders; obviously she got paid a healthy wage for her work and I hired a cleaner to come in once a week to help us clean and maintain the house.
On to the problem: one of my workers accidentally order 20 of one part instead of 2. This was a bit of a big deal as now instead of being out a few hundred dollars I’m now out thousands. While I wasn’t royally pi**ed off this did put a large dent in my overhead so I had to offload these parts. Barely made my money back but that’s beside the point.
My wife however found out and absolutely BERATED this poor guy. I’ve had this guy work for me for over 10 years and his work is solid; he’s a hard working man, 2 kids, another on the way and he’s become my go-to guy for almost anything.
I didn’t hear any of the situation until I heard screaming from my wife that she was going to fire him and he cost her hours of re-work and budgeting etc…(this is simply not true as 2 phone calls and some editing on our books and everything would be right as rain, tops a 1 hour affair).
She and he finally filled me in and I told her to leave the room so I could talk to him. She refused; I asked again and once again she refused. I asked one more time and my worker was on the verge of tears and I yelled at her and told her “You’re not the boss, I am. I make these decisions, now LEAVE”.
I talked it over with him, we made amends as it was an honest mistake and he hasn’t had a screw-up like this since he started so I’m not concerned about it happening again.
My wife was livid and after yelling about his screw-up has refused to talk to me. I’m clearly in the dog-house here but I refuse to think I did anything wrong as she was, in my opinion, being needlessly unreasonable and on a power trip.
AITA?”
And here’s what folks on Reddit had to say about this story.
This reader said that the guy is not a jerk here and that his wife would be fired from any other job for pulling a stunt like this.
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Another person argued that married bosses shouldn’t be bringing their problems and their drama into the workplace. Because you know what that leads to…
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This person said that the man is in charge of this company and it’s up to him to lay down the lay. It’s NOT up to his wife.
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Finally, this person said that the man needs to do some more investigation because it’s likely that his wife has been bullying employees.
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What do you think about this?
Was this guy a jerk or were his actions justified?
Talk to us in the comments and let us know!
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Is there anything better than that moment you read something you’ve never heard before and you hear your brain sort of take off, chasing down all of the other little bunny trails left by the million follow up thoughts and questions that arise?
I think not – rabbit holes might be time sucks, but if you ask me, it’s time better spent than scrolling your social media feeds.
Again.
If you feel the same way, brace yourself for the deep dives that follow these 11 random facts.
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They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but Major Walter Summerford would disagree – he was struck three times while he was alive…and then his tombstone was struck by lightning after his death.
No fooling, y’all.
French software engineer Fayçal Ziraoui may have cracked the Zodiac killer's code. https://t.co/ScBb6wJeNu pic.twitter.com/kGIRJUme3L
— Nick Spence (@Nickfromupnorth) June 22, 2021
The Zodiac Killer continued to send letter and ciphers to San Francisco newspapers a decade after his last (purported) killing, but more than 50 years later, his crimes remain unsolved.
Recently, though, his ciphers have started to be unraveled.
A team of cryptologists solved one that the FBI later confirmed, and a French engineer claims to now have solved the final two – one of which reveals his identity at last.
Here’s what the first one revealed:
“I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME
THAT WASN’T ME ON THE TV SHOW
WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME
I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER
BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADISE ALL THE SOONER
BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME
WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADISE
SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH
I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS
LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADISE DEATH”
The second two are very short and lack context, which has made them tough to solve, but French engineer Faycal Ziraoui claims he’s finally done it – and here’s what they say:
“LABOR DAY FIND 45.069 NORTH 58.719 WEST”
“My Name is KAYR.”
Experts believe the second is meant to say KAYE and is a typo.
One of the primary suspects in the case was Lawrence Kaye, who lived in South Lake Tahoe. Harvey Hines, one of the lead detectives on the case, was convinced Kaye was the killer but they never had enough evidence to arrest him before his death in 2010.
Is it solved? You decide!
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Rodney Alcala murdered 7 women in the 1970s, and in 1978 he appeared on The Dating Game as Bachelor Number One.
Backstage, he told Bachelor Number Two “I always get my girl,” but even though Alcala was chosen by bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw, she never went on a date with him,
According to producers she backed out, saying “I can’t go out with this guy. There’s weird vibes that are coming off of him. He’s very strange. I am not comfortable.”
He was arrested a year later.
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You can’t just stick your nose out and take a big whiff, but astronauts have confirmed that the smell clinging to their spacesuits is very distinct.
That said, they also say it’s “hard to describe,” but say it’s “metallic, like the fumes of a welding torch,” or even like a “seared steak.”
I guess most of us will never smell it for ourselves and it doesn’t sound like something that will be made into a candle anytime soon.
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The average elephant’s brain has 257 billion neurons – our own look pretty puny in comparison!
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You know she led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, but you might not have been taught that she also led a successful raid on Combahee Ferry during the Civil War, freeing 700 slaves in one go.
She also worked as a spy for the Union, and was referred to as “General Tubman” by John Brown.
Tubman was a shrewd and careful strategist whose work was eventually recognized with her induction into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.
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They fought on opposing sides at the Battle of the Somme (or the Somme Offensive), one of the largest and deadliest conflict in the first World War.
Other veterans of the battle include Otto Frank, Harold Macmillan, and Ralph Vaughn Williams, all of whom were lucky to survive – close to a million others did not leave the battlefield.
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The most widely-accepted theory on how the moon was formed is called the “giant-impact hypothesis.”
It posits that a Mars-sized object crashed into Earth, shooting huge chunks into space, and forming the moon as we know it in the process.
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Alexandre Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower as the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair in Paris, and nearly 2 million of the attendees came just to see that one attraction.
When the 1893 World’s Fair rolled around, Chicago held an open competition for architects and designers to try to beat its success.
The winner was George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., an engineer from Pittsburgh, and the rest is history.
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This might be the most bizarre fact on the list – a rooster named Mike (later Mike the Headless Chicken) was beheaded (presumably ahead of dinner) on his Colorado farm in 1945.
He failed to die for the next 18 months, during which he was fed a liquid diet straight into his esophagus and paraded around the country as a minor celebrity.
America is so weird, y’all.
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It moves at 5 miles per second, which means it doesn’t take long for it to take a spin and enjoy the view.
I just hope anyone taking a ride doesn’t get motion sick.
I’ll see you later – I’ve got some research to do.
Which of these are you going to follow first? Tell us in the comments!
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We’ve all had bad jobs with sh**ty bosses.
It’s like a rite of passage!
That’s why you know when you find a good one because you’ve already dealt with a bunch of BS in the past.
And today we have a story from Reddit that will make all of us who’ve worked sh**ty jobs in the past smile and nod our heads.
Take a look at what happened.
Give two weeks notice? Fine, bye.
“I was working at this clothing store years ago, no commission.
It was the brand’s first store in my area, and I stayed with them for about 2 years. They were pretty desperate too as they hired me on the spot.
Anyway, all the supervisors I liked ended up quitting and the remaining ones were just plain not nice. I was the youngest on the team and they always excluded me and bullied me. I guess jealousy?
Which I never understood, because although I got positive reviews and customers making sure to point out that I helped them, we did NOT have sales commissions.
I just liked to help, and I liked fashion. I also was in school, and they often called me to cover for people (school was close by, so I could be there fast).
I was always adaptable for them, but this one supervisor just had it out for me. My hours got cut, they were messing with my mental health… I needed a change. I applied to this other job and I was quite sure I got it.
I decided I would book two weeks off work, around the time the start date would be. My supervisor did not even want to let me have the time off (despite it being the only days other than exams I had booked off in 2 years). And they are unpaid!
Fast forward to the day before my 2 week vacation. I got the job. I show up at the clothing store (no shift) and ask to speak with my supervisor. We talk, i quit. She had the sarcastic happiness, but I did not care I was over it. The supervisor made it clear that I was still required to work all my shifts for the next two weeks, and that I better not slack.
I smiled at her, thanked her for acknowledging my work ethic, and put my name tag and keys on her desk. She looked confused. I reminded her that I took two weeks off, so this is goodbye.
I turned around and left. Mental health has been so much better without her. The store is now closed permanently.”
Yowza! That really was a good story.
Let’s see how folks on Reddit reacted.
This reader said that this supervisor just seemed downright helpless.
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Another person said that some people never really get past their bullying phase and they perpetually act like they’re in high school.
You know you’ve seen it before!
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One individual said that only someone who can rightfully be categorized as a “loser” bullies workers this way.
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And this reader made an excellent point.
If you don’t know what they’re talking about, go watch “Waiting”!
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Have you ever had a really s**tty boss before?
If the answer is YES, tell us all about it in the comments.
Please and thank you!
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I really don’t like it when people aren’t straight with you about what you’re gonna be doing at a job or how much money you’re gonna be making.
But sometimes beggars can’t be choosers and you have to take what you can get to pay the bills.
But it sure is satisfying to see people get revenge for being jerked around at work and this story made my heart swell!
Let’s take a look.
Take my tips and pay me below minimum wage. See what happens!
“So this all happened years ago when I was still in college. I worked for a delivery joint.
The company seemed super cool, because they provided vehicles instead of forcing you to beat down your own car. Huge perk right? Well in this case no. The owner of the company used this as justification to take a percentage of the drivers tips.
Often this would result in an employee making below minimum wage. If you made below minimum wage, you would have to come and pick up your check in person and sign a document attesting that “you did make minimum wage, due to undocumented cash tips”. Or some such nonsense.
Now this was a problem for two reasons. Number one, in the state I was in, employee tips belonged to the employee unless part of an employee tip pooling agreement.
This was plain as day on the Department of labor website. So that 20% gouge was already crossing a line. Number two, you cannot just hand wave and or force employees to say they made above minimum wage. So pretty shady s**t right?
Now most people would see this situation and run for the hills (which probably explained the delivery driver turnover being so high). I on the other hand saw the potential. See I am pretty well versed in labor law, and decided that I was gonna ride it out. I wanted to see how long they would keep this s**t up.
Here and there I would make comments to the managers about the legality of their practices, and was often told “Our lawyers said it’s ok, so it’s ok” (would love to meet these lawyers one day). So I patiently waited for a year, documenting every red cent they took from me and encouraging the other drivers to do so.
Every new driver that came through that door got a little pow wow with me, and I would give them the skinny. Unfortunately my plan must have leaked because sooner than later the joint decided to fire me after making up three bogus infractions. If you’re interested in those ask and ill explain in an edit.
This wasn’t a problem though, as my plan was already in action. See in this state, unpaid wages collect interest. So What was 20-40 dollars a night, 5 nights a week, over one year; quickly became a decent sum.
So I began collecting the names of current and previous employees whom had been screwed over by the company and collected their documented data then sent it off to the department of labor. At the end of the day it took a couple months, but the company was eventually required to pay a decent chunk of change to all parties and a pretty hefty fine on top.
Overall I believe it came out to a little under 100k. I wasn’t done though. See those shady little documents they had us sign claiming we made over minimum wage effected how the company was reporting it’s payroll tax.
The IRS eventually came in and hit them for a ton of back taxes, and I received a small portion of the settlement (the irs used to pay people who tipped them off, don’t know if they still do).
Finally, I was increasingly aware of the companies under the table agreement with their health inspector. Which I decided to go ahead and tip off to the health department. This resulted in even more fines and a temporary closure for the joint.
All together it ended up costing this dumb little delivery joint a ton of money just to stay open, all cause they wanted 20 percent of their drivers tips. The moral here is this.
Know your labor laws, it’s degenerates like these whom profit off the ignorance or fear of a work force. The more you know about your rights, the less idiots like these will be able to survive in the wild.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.”
And now let’s see how people reacted on Reddit.
This reader was impressed by the revenge doled out in this story and they were also amazed by the GREED.
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Another person offered up an alternative ending that also would have been satisfying.
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This individual said it amazes them what people think they can get away with.
Truth!
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And lastly, this person made a great point: you probably shouldn’t treat employees badly who know all your dirty secrets.
Just sayin’…
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Okay, now we want to hear from you.
Have you ever had to deal with a bad work situation before?
If so, tell us your stories in the comments. Thanks a lot!
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