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These People Are Living Their Best Married Lives

Audrey Hepburn once said “If I get married, I want to be very married.”

She was married and divorced twice in her life, so it seems like maybe she accomplished the goal of being very married, and good for her.

A lot of other people who fit that description seem to be mostly hanging out on Twitter, complaining/venting/joking about it to the rest of us.

Just take these very married tweets for example.

13. Special delivery

Ya gotta keep things fresh, yanno.

12. Flavor of love

Kinda sounds like you’re both childish but ok.

11. Folding in

Pay attention, because this is going to be extremely important, apparently.

10. Not ok

These are the signs that you are officially slipping into old age.

9. Play the fool

You gotta pay attention.

8. Very alarming

If this were me we’d be sleeping in separate bedrooms. Maybe separate houses.

7. Sleepy time

You set a new record!

6. I scream, you scream

How else am I to enjoy a cool Summer treat in the winter?

5. You’ve been replaced

Your one function on this earth has now been eliminated.

4. A toast to you!

Look don’t make me say it again.

3. A special meeting

Now, if you’ll all open up your binders…

2. The reason for the season

He’s gonna be real confused when those fifty boxes turned out to be one tie, somehow.

1. Must see TV

You know that you can’t look away.

Welp, it doesn’t get much more married than that.

What’s your best bit of marriage/relationship advice?

Tell us in the comments.

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Frugal People Share Tips They Use to Save More Money Than You’d Expect

Do you want to save more money? Yeah you do! Otherwise, you wouldn’t be reading this, right?

It’s time to spend less and save more with these frugal tips from AskReddit users who know how to save some serious dough.

Let’s take a look!

1. Caffeinated.

“Brew your own coffee.

If you live in a city and drink a cup/day that’s about 2-3 bucks a day.

Over $700-900 a year.

Easy to cut that down to roughly $150 with a nice coffee machine and a dark roast.”

2. Switch hydration

“Drink water.

It costs less than soda, and it’s better for you.

It also helps to stop hunger!

Double win!”

3. Foodies unite!

“Crock pot meals!

Even if you’re just one person, You set it in the morning and then you have a home-cooked meal once you come home and most likely leftovers for the next couple days! You can also get a small crock pot for 1-2 people for about $20 (at least in my area you can). Yes it can be boring but you get far more out than in the effort you put in. It also helps for unexpected guests.

Also, Labeling all food so that the expiration date on each is ridiculously obvious. You do this so you know when to go grocery shopping and you can get a little at a time versus buying a ton all at once. If it doesn’t have an actual expiration date, you can also try writing the date of purchase on it otherwise, try to find out online what the ‘expiration date’ would normally be.

Ex: Oranges usually last about 1-2 months in the Fridge/2-3 weeks on the counter.”

4. Don’t. Shop. Hungry.

“Do not go shopping on an empty stomach.

Personally, I don’t even drive anywhere until I’ve had a good meal.

This way, less chance if wasting money on sh^tty junk food or impulsively going to restaurants where you end up spending more than your budget allows.”

5. Repairs aren’t that difficult

“This post may seem out of the ordinary and somewhat non frugal, but invest in tools, a car jack, and jack stands.

Learning to fix your car yourself is a great way to save money on labor.

When you buy car parts, I recommend using sites such as rockauto or autopartswarehouse since they sell parts much cheaper than stores such as O’reilly, AutoZone and Napa.”

6. Happy with less.

“Learn (or convince yourself, whatever) to be get by and be happy with less. There are tons of sh^t that people buy that are just simply not necessary.

Being frugal consistently is like eating healthy consistently. There’s no special trick. No fad.

Just committing to making smart decisions on an hour-to-hour, day-to-day basis while keeping your long term goals in mind.”

7. What do you really need?

“Stop buying anything you don’t need … and really start evaluating what that word means.

Change your mindset to loathe materialism.

No matter your religion, you can’t take it with you, so why does it matter?”

8. Budget! Budget! Budget!

“It took me a long time to figure out how to budget but I use mint.com which is a free website by the same company that makes Quickbooks. Basically you link it to your bank account and every time you use your debut card it categorizes the purchase. Really forces you to are where you waste money. The first month I had it I saw I was wasting almost $150 a month at a coffee shop near my work!!

Tricks that work for me: Don’t use cash unless absolutely necessary. Cash is harder to track. If you make tips at work, deposit them in the bank and use your debit card.

I keep my budget on mint.com linked to my phone. It texts me to let me know I’m getting close to my chosen limits for dinners out or stuff like that.

Put bills on auto pay- late payments are stupid wastes of money.

Put checking account alerts on your phone. Overdraft fees are wasted money.

Don’t buy groceries in such quantity that your throwing away food. Bulk price is only worth it if you bulk eat.

If you have a credit card leave it home if you are easily tempted. If you’re carrying a balance with interest you’re doing it wrong. I never ever carry a credit card balance- It is for emergency use only. If you have credit card debt, pay off the highest interest cards first.”

9. Banking blues.

“Get out of the big banks! You’re paying fees to hold your own money! Get a credit union. I guarantee there’s tons around you.

I don’t pay ATM fees ever. They don’t charge me to take out my own money. And with my credit union I can use any Walgreens, CVS, Wawa, Hess, or 7-11 atm for free.

I don’t pay fees for transferring from savings. I don’t pay a monthly or annual fee for having a low balance.

Accidentally overdrafting is $25 instead of $35. Loans and borrowing have much lower rates than the big banks.

I can link my account to another credit union account to transfer money, without being able to see their info/balance.

STOP PAYING FEES AT YOUR BANK!”

10. Avoid convenience.

“Stay out of convenience stores.

Eat at home instead of going out or ordering delivery.

Buy in bulk when feasible. The smaller packages/containers are generally pricey per unit.”

11. Just stay home.

“Drink at home more often instead of going out to the bar.

The bar is definitely fun sometimes, but you and your friends could have just as much fun playing games and being anti-social at home.”

13. Cooking saves a lot!

“Learn to cook and don’t eat out at restaurants.

Some occasions are ok but otherwise you save a lot of money by eating in.

There are a lot of videos on youtube of doable recipes and after you get the hang of it you’ll only want to cook for yourself vs ordering or eating at restaurants.”

That’s some pretty great advice, right? Yeah it is!

Do you have any money saving tips you’d like to share?

Let us know in the comments!

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People Talk About the Historical Facts That Make Them Choke Up

History is full of amazing stories, and they can run the entire gamut from joyful and lovely, to completely devastating and sad.

Because human beings are complicated, you know?

These 14 facts, though, are of the variety that make people break down and weep, so gird your loins!

14. And their dogs.

I am in tears, while carrying you to your last resting place as much as I rejoiced when bringing you home in my own hands fifteen years ago

My eyes were wet with tears, our little dog, when I bore thee (to the grave)… So, Patricus, never again shall thou give me a thousand kisses. Never canst thou be contentedly in my lap. In sadness have I buried thee, and thou deservist. In a resting place of marble, I have put thee for all time by the side of my shade. In thy qualities, sagacious thou wert like a human being. Ah, me! What a loved companion have we lost!

To Helena, foster child, soul without comparison and deserving of praise.

Three epitaphs written years ago in ancient rome by men and their dogs.

13. We don’t deserve dogs.

WW1- Mercy dogs, they would go out into no mans land and find wounded soldiers.

They would bring medical supplies for the soldiers to patch themselves up. Or if the soldier was to mortally wounded, stay and comfort them in their final moments.

12. Times were tough.

Through genealogy, I found an old newspaper reporting an accident that happened:

My 4x great grandmother and grandfather were crossing the river into maine from canada when their wagon tipped. He and 5 children survived, my 4x great grandmother and month old baby did not.

That tugged at my heart. I cannot imagine the devastation he and his children felt as they were moving.

There was also a lot of stillborns and a lot of children who never saw past the age of 10

It’s quite a sad journey at times.

11. It’s heavy.

The end of a sappho poem:

Beyond all hope, I prayed those timeless days we spent might be made twice as long.

I prayed one word: I want.

Someone, I tell you, will remember us, even in another time.

That quote always make me tear up.

10. The worst time in history.

Dangerfield Newby, one of the free black men who died in the raid on Harper’s Ferry, had a letter from his enslaved wife on his person.

He had been working to buy her and his children, but her owner kept raising the price.

9. Do not Google this unless you truly want to know.

The torture and murder of Junko Furuta.

What they did to her would make the cartels cringe, but the worst part of her sordid case is that all of the people involved in her death were given slaps on the wrist and are roaming the streets of Japan today.

8. History is full of stories like these.

The Sand Creek massacre is particularly bad. They had so much faith in the peace treaties that had been signed, the signs of good faith from American settlers. Only to be massacred.

The leader of the camp, Black Kettle, desperately holding up the American flag he’d been given with a white flag underneath it, encouraging his people to gather around it- thinking that the settlers would realize they were allies and stop the killings. Only to be shot down.

The descriptions of the massacre are brutal- children tortured and slaughtered, pregnant women with their children torn out of their stomachs. Genitals torn from corpses and taken for trophies. It really made me realize you can never underestimate the cruelty of mankind.

Especially considering most of the murdered in this massacre were defenseless women, children, and elderly.

7. Everyone loves cats.

The oldest recorded name for a cat was from Ancient Egypt.

The cat’s name was “Nedjem” which means “Sweetie”.

6. He probably should have.

My grandfather was Kalispell, he was taken from his family, sent to “white” school and eventually adopted by a German family. He was about eight, his exact age was not known.

Breaks my heart every day. He was such a good and loving grandfather, and never held a grudge.

5. Humans, man.

There’s no more wolves in Ireland.

They are coming back to Germany.

And there are already groups which want to kill them all again. And they are spreading panic:

There was a news story were a woman reported to be “attacked” by a “wolf wearing a collar”. It was a lost dog looking for help, which sniffed and licked her hand.

4. Seriously, I hope you have a dog.

The story of Hachikō, the dog who waited patiently for his owner 9 years after his death.

I’m sure many are familiar with this story because of the movies and the episode of Futurama (Jurassic Bark) which was inspired by this story.

3. Because they had no choice of their own.

There were approximately 300 infants and children that were murdered in Jonestown, being forcibly fed or injected with cyanide.

I feel so much pain for all the victims but the kids in particular make me ache with despair.

2. It’s called honor.

In WWII an American pilot named Charles Brown was flying a B-17 in a bomb raid over Germany where his aircraft was severely shot up and entered a free fall when Brown passed out.

When Brown awoke, he was only a few thousand feet above the ground and barely was able to recover the aircraft. When the Luftwaffe spotted a limping B-17 far below the formation, they dispatched a pilot named Franz Stigler, a soon to be ace just 1 kill away, with 2 Downed B-17s earlier that day.

As he approached from the rear, Stigler noticed that the B-17s tail gunner didn’t move and after further inspection, realized he and several other gunners were dead. Stigler saw this and remembered what his flight instructor had said years ago,” if you shoot a man in a parachute, ill shoot you myself”.

Stigler saw this limping B-17 as no different from a downed pilot in a parachute. To prevent german flak cannons from taking it out, Stigler flew in formation with the B-17 all the way until the English Channel where it landed safely. Stigler never mentioned the incident, and could’ve been court martialled for it.

Decades later, Charles went looking for the enemy pilot that saved his life that fateful day, and eventually met him face to face, becoming close friends and dying just a few months apart from each other in 2008.

1. It will make you cry.

The story about Sir Nicolas Winton who saved over 600 children from the holocaust

No one knew of his story until 50 years later when his wife found notebooks detailing the 669 kids he helped escape the Nazi’s.

Is anyone else choking up here?

Do you have a fact to add to this list? Share it with us in the comments!

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People Share the Historical Facts That Makes Them Cry

If you think history is boring, I promise that you’ve just never had the right teacher (or read the right books!). History can do all of the things a good movie or book or play can do – it can make you laugh, making you think, make you mad, and sure, it can make you cry.

These 15 people are sharing the moments that always make them tear up, no matter how many times they hear about them.

15. Life isn’t always fair.

It doesn’t exactly make me cry, but Albert Goring, the staunchly anti-Nazi brother of Hermann Goring, spent the second world war helping jews and dissidents to escape.

He was caught several times, but was let off the hook due to his brother’s influence within the Reich. After the war, he was shunned for his last name and his accomplishments forgotten.

14. Mental illness is a thief.

Virginia Woolf’s suicide and the note she left behind makes me f**king weep like a baby.

Just the way she expresses sentiments of happiness and love to her husband, but also her guilt and struggle with mental illness- it just kills me.

13. Human beings are capable of terrible things.

The R**e of Nanking in 1937.

Looking up photos of what the Japanese did there left me silent for a while. They Raped and murdered women, Bayonetted babies, (you can look up a photo of it.) used the wounded as rifle and bayonet practice, forced mothers on their sons and fathers on their daughters, and made a contest out of beheading civilians.

(There is a Japanese newspaper article you can look up about it. It’s disgusting.) and the worst part about it is that the Japanese government denies most of these acts. Along with a lot of other war crimes that they committed afterwards.

It always shakes me to my core to know that human beings are capable of doing such horrible things to one another. And smile while doing it.

12. What a night for everyone involved.

RMS Carpathia was the first ship to arrive on the scene when the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank. Every one of the Titanic’s 705 survivors were rescued by Carpathia, which made a tremendously heroic effort that night in the North Atlantic.

The scene is dramatized in A Night to Remember, the classic film from 1958 (and one of the more accurate, especially given the constraints of technology at that time) — Harold Cottam, the radio operator on Carpathia, had already gone off-duty when the Titanic’s distress signals were received.

He immediately conveyed the message to Captain Arthur Rostron, who jumped out of bed and ordered the ship to change course.

11. Well that’s horrifying.

After the Pearl Harbor attack, at least some men were alive in a pocket of air inside one of the capsized ships.

Navy personnel could hear them banging on the hull and trying to signal for help, but there was no way to get at them safely.

The water was full of fuel and oil, so blowtorches weren’t a workable idea. And there was no way for divers to get into the ship because the damage had rendered the whole thing a deathtrap of twisted steel. There wasn’t even any way to communicate with the trapped men.

So the guards at Pearl Harbor had to listen to those calls for help getting weaker and weaker, while inside everyone slowly suffocated.

When they hauled the ship up for scrap later, there were 16 notches scratched onto the wall of that compartment, which means at least one casualty of Pearl Harbor lived until December 23, 1941.

10. People don’t talk like this anymore.

A letter from the Civil War by Sullivan Ballou:

“My very dear Sarah: The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days — perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more …

“I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans on the triumph of the Government and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution. And I am willing — perfectly willing — to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt …

“Sarah my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me unresistibly on with all these chains to the battle field.

“The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them for so long. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our sons grown up to honorable manhood, around us. I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me — perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar, that Ishall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battle field, it will whisper your name. Forgive my many faults and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have often times been! How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness …

“But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the gladdest days and in the darkest nights … always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again …”

Sullivan Ballou was killed a week later at the First Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.

9. Imagine if they’d just…refused.

A story from my great grandfather who fought in WW1…

Soldiers would cease fire to pick up their men’s bodies and would have a smoke together, go back to their trenches and start firing again.

Neither side of front line soldiers actually wanted to be there. Just drafted for war.

8. It’s hard to know how to feel.

The kneel down of Willy Brandt, German chancellor of 1969-1974.

He was visiting the ghetto of Warschau and kneeled to apologize for the German war crimes, surprising everybody.

The thing that really gets to me was the backstory: Brandt emigrated Germany in 1934 for being a social democrat and for having been in the resistance. He spent his time in Oslo until he was captured by Nazi soldiers there and was able to flee to Sweden.

The press releases of the time really capture the strength of the moment and I’m sorry for my translation, this is what Hermann Schreiber wrote in Der Spiegel:

„Dann kniet er, der das nicht nötig hat, da für alle, die es nötig haben, aber nicht da knien – weil sie es nicht wagen oder nicht können oder nicht wagen können. Dann bekennt er sich zu einer Schuld, an der er selber nicht zu tragen hat, und bittet um eine Vergebung, derer er selber nicht bedarf. Dann kniet er da für Deutschland.“

“There he kneels, he, who does not have to, for those who would have to, but who are not kneeling – because they can not, or because they do not dare to or because they can not dare to kneel. There he admits to a guilt, he does not have to bare and asks for a forgiveness he does not need. There he is, kneeling for Germany.”

7. Finally a happy ending.

Sacagawea, who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition to explore the lands we now know as the Western United States, had a vital coincidence on the journey that always makes me emotional to think about.

She was born a Shoshone but was taken around the age of 12 and made a slave to the Hidatsa. After being with them for 3 or so years, she was sold to a French man named Toussaint Charbonneau who took her as a wife. When Lewis and Clark met her, she was about 16 years old and pregnant with Charbonneau’s child. The birth was a tough one and Lewis helped with the child’s safe delivery before Sacagawea and Charbonneau joined them on the expedition.

Lewis and Clark knew they would meet the Shoshone on their journey and were hoping Sacagawea could help them procure some supplies, especially horses, to help them cross the Rocky Mountains.

Sacagawea didn’t speak English. She spoke Shoshone and Hidatsa. Charbonneau spoke Hidatsa and French and one of the members of Lewis and Clark’s expedition spoke French and English. Suffice to say, translation was complicated and complex.

When the expedition finally came upon the Shoshone’s territory, they agreed to meet and hear Lewis and Clark’s proposal. They sat down around the fire and began negotiations.

The Chief of the tribe began to speak with Sacagawea and the conversation proceeded rapidly. The others, unable to really understand what was going on, were confused when she and the Chief began to cry, and then to embrace.

In the years since her capture, it turned out, Sacagawea’s brother had become Chief. He had believed her dead and she did not recognize him at first.

The celebration, when the tribe learned who she was, and the appreciation bestowed upon Lewis and Clark for returning her, is hard to completely express.

6. I like these happy endings.

Just a slightly happier letter for those needing a recovery. From a former slave, so writing not as eloquent.

Samuel Cabble, a private in the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry (colored), was a slave before he joined the army. He was twenty-one years old.

Dear Wife i have enlisted in the army i am now in the state of Massachusetts but before this letter reaches you i will be in North Carolina and though great is the present national difficulties yet i look forward to a brighter day When i shall have the opportunity of seeing you in the full enjoyment of freedom i would like to no if you are still in slavery if you are it will not be long before we shall have crushed the system that now oppresses you for in the course of three months you shall have your liberty. great is the outpouring of the colored people that is now rallying with the hearts of lions against that very curse that has separated you an me yet we shall meet again and oh what a happy time that will be when this ungodly rebellion shall be put down and the curses of our land is trampled under our feet i am a soldier now and i shall use my utmost endeavor to strike at the rebellion and the heart of this system that so long has kept us in chains . . . remain your own affectionate husband until death—Samuel Cabble

Samuel Cabble returned to Missouri for his wife, and together they moved to Denver, Colorado.

5. It’s definitely not funny.

One of the girls in the Donner Party was fed her dead mother and told afterwards. They had an agreement to not feed people their family members, but they had broken off from the camp in an attempt to find rescue. She would randomly burst into tears about it at school years later.

The whole story of the Donner Party is so horrible and sad and it bothers me that it’s just used for cannibal jokes.

4. What is the matter with people?

One that really stands out to me from the sub is this image of the Filipino Zoo Girl that was on display in the Coney Island Zoo in 1914. She was bound by ropes and people tossed peanuts at her.

It’s just heartbreaking to see something like that happen, especially to a child so young, but human zoos were a thing up until as late as 1958.

3. A heavy heart.

Teddy Roosevelt’s mother Mittie and his wife Alice, who had just given birth days before, both died in the same house on the same day, hours apart from each other.

In his diary entry that day, he drew a large black X and scribbled “The light has gone out of my life.”

That’s some heavy s**t right there, man.

2. Bless her heart.

When Alexander Hamilton’s eldest son died, his second child Angelica Hamilton had a mental breakdown and she never recovered.

Sometimes, her family would walk into a room with only her in it, and she would be speaking to her dead brother.

1. Heartwarming and tragic.

During the German-Soviet war, there was a Red Army soldier who sang each night with a hauntingly-beautiful voice. His comrades would give him their tea rations and scarves to protect his larynx.

One night, he couldn’t sing because he had gotten sick. A German soldier crawled across no-man’s-land and tossed something into the Soviet trench; the Soviet soldiers thought it was a grenade.

However, it was a package containing a letter asking if the singer was okay and if he needed medicine. A truly heart-warming moment in an otherwise horrific front.

Is someone cutting onions in here? Ugh!

If there’s a historical fact that makes you cry (and it’s not on this list) share it with us in the comments!

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Check Out the Tricks Zookeepers Use for Weighing Animals

Fair warning – these pictures are about how zookeepers weigh all kinds of animals, but mostly, they’re an excuse to look at adorable baby animals mugging for the camera.

I have a feeling you’re down for both, though, so check out these 17 tricks zookeepers use to make sure they get accurate weights on all of the animals under their care.

17. Be a good pupper, get a treat.

That’s how we weigh our seal lions.

Sea pupper gets weighed from aww

16. The next time you puppy won’t stay still.

This will only work for a couple of months with the bigger breeds, though.

Weighing a stray puppy I took in from aww

15. Upside down on a can?

The turtle looks like he thinks this is undignified.

14. I have a hunch he’s not going to stay that little for long.

But he’ll still be cute.

13. Brand new baby.

This world is confusing, isn’t it?

12. That hedgehog does not look amused.

Then again, someone stuffed him in a jar.

11. He’ll be ready for his first frat party soon.

But not too soon.

10. How is that a porcupine?

Is someone punking me?

9. It’s best to let him sit where he likes.

Or he might decide he prefers your head.

Image Credit: Demilked

8. Baby hummingbird.

Maybe the only bird that’s cute.

This is what a baby hummingbird weigh in looks like from aww

7. Just stay now.

Don’t move…please.

6. Give him a treat, of course.

That’s the way to get me to stand still, too.

5. You have no right to be so cute, little penguin.

NO RIGHT, I say.

4. He looks kind of angry.

Maybe he just has resting b*tch face.

3. Wait until they’re asleep?

The puppy life is a hard one.

Image Credit: Reddit

2. Snacks seem to be a good trick.

I can see how that would work.

Image Credit: Demilked

1. The second one wants to know what’s going on.

What’s in the box?

 

I warned you, and I delivered in the best possible way, right?

Which one of these baby animals made you awwwwww the hardest? I know it’ll be a tough call, but give it a shot!

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Clever Tricks That Zookeepers Use to Weigh Animals

Anyone who has ever owned a dog or a cat knows that it can be tricky to get a good weight for them. They’re wiggly, they’re uncooperative, and that’s just for relatively small animals, right?

Now think about being a zoo vet and having to weigh things like hippos and giraffes…it would get pretty complicated, right?

Luckily, people have learned plenty of tricks over the years – here are 20 clever ones you probably never imagined.

20. Just weigh the whole cage.

I mean, you could totally catch him if he got out, though.

19. If you don’t take have to take the koala out of the tree, don’t.

I guess that’s probably a good rule of thumb.

Its weigh day! Regular weighing of the koalas, especially the joeys, is important to make sure they are staying healthy, putting on weight and keeping it on. Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park

Posted by Kangaroo Island Koala and Wildlife Rescue Centre on Tuesday, April 7, 2020

18. Little baby is big mad!

You put him in a bowl!

17. Are you weighing the human or the giraffe?

That takes one confident zookeeper.

16. That is a very large rodent.

But also somehow cute?

This baby bat sitting patiently whilst being weighed from mildlyinteresting

15. I know this probably is supposed to keep them calm.

Maybe owls always look panicked.

I work at a bird banding station, and we use burritos to weigh the owls we catch. from aww

14. Look at his little face!

Don’t take his blankie!

13. Just like weighing a human baby.

He looks just about as thrilled about it, too.

12. A frog in a spoon.

So tiny!!

Forbidden cocoa puff from forbiddensnacks

11. I cannot get enough of these owls.

Their faces are priceless.

Image Credit: The Raptor Center

10. Convince him it’s a trick!

They love tricks, because they’re bored out of their minds.

Image Credit: Perdue.edu

9. A penguin in a bucket.

A penguin is cute anywhere.

8. Who knew they started out so small!

Just keep him in the water!

7. I cannot with this.

The cuteness is way too much.

6. It fits, he sits.

For a few seconds, anyway.

Our new kitten had to be tricked into being weighed from aww

5. He looks so happy!

He could teach my kids a thing or two.

4. That lion cub doesn’t look like it wants to sit.

There’s a cat for you.

3. Bless his heart.

Baby just wants to stay with his mama.

Image Credit: ZooBorns

2. Can we have a whole page of these?

Or more than one?

1. I guess anything with long legs gets held.

It’s probably the safest route.

I love the idea of working at a zoo, but I don’t think I could hack it.

Which one of these surprises you the most? Tell us in the comments!

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These Interesting Images All Happened Totally by Accident

We don’t have to make art on purpose for it to be beautiful – sometimes, the stuff that happens by accident can be just as amazing as the things we create on purpose.

If you’re not sure what accidental art looks like or what that might mean, these 13 images should totally prove my point.

13. Thin your carrots.

Or they’ll hold on for dear life.

This is what happens when you fail to thin out your carrots. from mildlyinteresting

12. Windmills in the fog.

Ethereal.

What happens to windmills when there’s fog from pics

11. Careful with your food in Antarctica.

I don’t even know what this is supposed to be.

Image Credit: Bored Panda

10. M&Ms in water.

Going to try this with my kid!

What happens when you put M&Ms in a dish of water. Diffusion force barriers from mildlyinteresting

9. A candle on a hot patio.

Do you think they make a pill for that?

This is what happens when you try to display candles on a hot patio from mildlyinteresting

8. Nature will always reclaim its space.

I love this image.

What happens when nature takes over- This boat on a river in Frankfurt, Germany from Damnthatsinteresting

7. An 8-year-old’s hands in a petri dish.

This is unsurprising, except for the part where it’s kind of pretty?

What happens when an 8-year-old puts his hand in a petri dish of agar from interestingasfuck

6. When the triple foam breaks at the car wash.

Psychedelic, man.

This is what happens when the triple foam breaks at the car wash from interestingasfuck

5. Even dirty coffee cups can be pretty.

You still have to clean it up, though.

What happened to my coffee cup after I left it sideways for a while… from mildlyinteresting

4. Mesh patio furniture in an ice storm.

Ice storm photos are the best.

This is what happens to mesh patio furniture in an ice storm from mildlyinteresting

3. A highlighter in the microwave.

When stoners or teenagers get bored.

this is what happens when you put a highlighter in the microwave in case you were wondering from pics

2. This is the inside of a bike seat that’s been left outside.

It’s like a whole little world in there.

PsBattle: This colony of moss growing inside a bike seat. from photoshopbattles

1. After lightning strikes asphalt.

It looks like some kind of fungus.

This is what happens when lightning strikes asphalt from interestingasfuck

 

I could honestly scroll through these forever.

Which one amazed you the most? Share your awe in the comments!

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People Whose Experiments Were Interesting and Very Accidental

If you know anything at all about science then you know that some of the greatest discoveries in history happened by accident – the microwave, x-rays, LSD, and more than a few more – so there’s nothing to say that there can’t be happy accidents in the world.

These 16 people are sort of different, because they really didn’t even mean to do the experiments at all, but that doesn’t mean we can’t love the results!

16. Frozen waterfall mist.

It looks like something out of a fantasy film.

What happens when the mist around a waterfall freezes from pics

15. He grew a pumpkin inside a mold.

This is pretty incredible.

What happens when you grow a pumkin inside a plastic mold. from pics

14. When lightning strikes beach sand.

In case you haven’t seen Sweet Home Alabama.

This is what happens when a lightning hits beach sand from interestingasfuck

13. When a cat touches a plasma ball.

Cats remain the best part of the internet.

This is what happens when a cat touches a plasma ball from interestingasfuck

12. The result of 50 mph winds and freezing temperatures combine with Lake Erie.

How do you even know which house is yours?

What happens when 50 mph winds, freezing temperatures and Lake Erie hits your house. from Damnthatsinteresting

11. This is an ordinary marble…

Heated over an open flame and then dropped into cold water.

This is what happens when you heat an ordinary marble over a flame then immediately drop it into cold water from mildlyinteresting

10. Someone is about to be mad about their chalk drawing.

But at least your tires look cool.

Sidewalk chalk on tire. from accidentalart

9. This totally looks Photoshopped!

It’s someone swinging a string of glow sticks with burning steel wool at the end, taken by a long-exposure photo. Why? Obviously because we can.

What happens when you swing a string of glow sticks with burning steel wool at the end and take a long exposure photo [photo by Chris Matthew Brady] from interestingasfuck

8. Life will find a way.

Even when that life is a half-eaten cabbage.

Here’s what happens when you leave half a cabbage in the fridge too long. from pics

7. You think you’ve seen cold water.

But you haven’t seen water THIS cold.

What happens when water gets really, really cold. from interestingasfuck

6. Pipes burst under the floor.

Everyone get those roller-scooter things from gym class!

This is what happens to a basketball court when the pipes burst from pics

5. When a frog eats a firefly.

It looks sort of magical. Unless you’re the firefly.

? This Is What Happens When Frogs Eat Fireflies from NatureIsFuckingLit

4. High voltage burns in wood.

I never get tired of these.

What happens when wood is burnt with high voltage from mildlyinteresting

3. Horizontal mirrors on a desert shack.

Almost makes you want to live in the desert, right?

This is what happens when you put horizontal mirrors on a shack in the desert from interestingasfuck

2. Lightning meets golf course flag.

That probably ruined at least one round of golf.

This Is What Happens When Lightning Strikes A Flag On A Golf Course from interestingasfuck

1. A polished coconut.

It looks so…naked.

This is what happens when you polish a coconut from mildlyinteresting

 

Some people are just charmed in this life, I suppose.

Has anything like this ever happened to you? Tell us about it in the comments!

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These 3D Printers Are Creating Items Out of Steel Instead of Plastic

We’re just getting used to the wild technology of 3D printers, which can print plastic copies out of thin air.

Like seriously, our great-grandparents even would have had zero idea what’s happening and probably have accused us of witchcraft.

Now, HP is coming out with 3D printers that create things in a sturdier steel.

The company announced their Metal Jet printer, which is built on an industrial scale and creates items in steel, not plastic. Previously, the method has been relatively slow and expensive when compared with traditional mass-production techniques, and has only been able to use plastic materials.

HP has been working on the issue of mass production, launching their Jet Fusion plastic 3D printer back in 2016 that was made to do more than one-off jobs. Their hoping the Metal Jet will let 3D printing enter the big manufacturing sectors like automobiles and medical devices in the near future.

For now, the products they’re printing are cosmetic – key fobs with custom engravings, for example – but Tim Weber, head of HP’s head of 3D metals, thinks this ability to print metal will save costs and enable companies to create new products faster in the future.

Other companies, like GE Aviation, have been in the 3D metal printing game for years, making things like a fuel nozzle for a jet engine with a similar process. It’s remained a slow and expensive way to go, though, which means that it’s not practical when it comes to metal items that are more proliferate.

HP’s process is different. It’s called binder-jet printing, and it’s cheaper and more efficient, spreading layers of metal powder before spraying it with a binding agent to solidify it. The initial items have to be placed into a furnace to solidify them into something strong enough to use, but the end product is pretty light, smooth, and can include fine details.

Other companies have used binder-jet printing before, so there will be competitors when this one enters the market. The marketing folks at HP believe they’ll have an edge because of their experience making conventional printers, which share many of the same components.

The question of how big the market will be remains, but HP says Metal Jet should be cost-effective for small runs like 50,000-70,000 items.

So, medical facilities will be more likely to jump on the bandwagon than, say, auto manufacturers, who make billions of parts every year.

Whatever happens, I think it’s clear we’ve not seen the best of what 3D printing has to offer, so everyone, prepare to be amazed on the regular.

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Enjoy These Fascinating Examples of Old Technology That Look Pretty Strange Today

We like to think that the age we’re living in is highly advanced and that the people who came before us we’re simpletons, but we have a feeling the photos you’re about to see will completely change your mind about that.

Because you’re about to lay your eyes on amazing examples of OLD technology that was way ahead of its time and is honestly still pretty impressive today.

Are you ready to go back to the future? Let’s go!

1. I’ve never one of these before!

But I like it!

300 year old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla) from interestingasfuck

2. Wow. Pretty impressive.

And I’m willing to bet this is extremely rare.

350 year old pocket watch carved from a single Colombian emerald from interestingasfuck

3. That is so cool.

But I bet that poor officer got tired of sucking in fumes all day.

In 1955, this tiny electric narrow gauge train was installed in New York’s Holland tunnel to monitor traffic speed. from interestingasfuck

4. This is kind of crazy.

But also pretty brilliant.

A British couple sleeps inside a "Morrison shelter” used as protection from collapsing homes during the WWII ‘Blitz’ bombing raids… March 1941 – [1280 × 965] from HistoryPorn

5. The forerunner to the Roomba.

I wonder if it was ever popular…

Robo-Vac, a self-proppeled vacuum cleaner part of Whirlpool’s Miracle Kitchen of the Future, a display at the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959.[1600×2116] from HistoryPorn

6. Wow! Get a load of this thing!

That is awesome!

This car is a French ‘Delahaye 175S Roadster’, introduced at the Paris Motor Show in 1949. Only one was ever made. It was recently sold at auction for around five million dollars. from interestingasfuck

7. I bet you sank all the way to the bottom.

Looks pretty heavy, doesn’t it?

The world’s oldest surviving diving suit: The Old Gentleman, from 1860. from interestingasfuck

8. That is one HUGE cell phone.

Zack Morris style!

Motorola Vice President John F. Mitchell showing off the DynaTAC portable radio telephone in New York City in 1973 [495×622] from HistoryPorn

9. Not too easy to lug around.

But it got the job done.

Kodak K-24 camera, used for aerial photography during WW2 by the Americans from Damnthatsinteresting

10. A rail zeppelin.

German engineering at its finest.

A rail zeppelin and a steam train near the railway platform. Berlin, Germany, 1931 (more info in comment) from interestingasfuck

11. I wish this would make a comeback!

I’m all about this!

Motorized roller-skate salesman in California, 1961 [1600×1666] from HistoryPorn

12. You don’t see something like this every day.

Time to hit the open road.

Jay Ohrberg’s ‘double wide’ limousine. Built by the man who also created the ‘american dream’ superlimo from WeirdWheels

13. I think a lot of us could use this right about now.

I need my alone time!

The ‘Isolator’ , by Hugo Gernsback: a helmet for insulating the senses against distraction; from the journal Science and Invention, vol. 13, no. 3, July 1925 [850×717]. from HistoryPorn

Those are so cool!

And now we want to hear from you.

In the comments, share some more photos of old technology that you think we’ll enjoy.

Thanks in advance!

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