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Was This Kid Wrong for Moving Out and Leaving His Parents High and Dry?

Hopefully, parents can care and provide for their children as long as they need a hand – so, for most of us, until we graduate from college and find a job of our own. Honestly, with the economy the way it’s been for the past couple of decades, most kiddos need a bit of a hand even longer than that.

Life isn’t always ideal, though, and some parents are forced to depend on their kid’s full- or part-time jobs to help make up the difference when it comes to household bills.

This 18yo kid has graduated high school and is planning to attend community college. He has a full-time job that will become a part-time job when he starts classes.

I (18M) just graduated and gonna be starting community college in August.

Barely started doing full-time hours but that’ll change to part time again once I start my classes.

His parents have informed him that if he expects to continue living with them past his 18th birthday he’ll need to pay rent for his room, plus half of the utilities.

He thinks it’s a lot, since he shares a room with his brother and obviously doesn’t use half of the utilities in the house.

Before my 18th b-day over a month ago, my parents started talking about how they expect me to pay for rent then half the bills if I expect to stay there. That wasn’t the problem.

The issue was they were expecting me to pay $1,300 a month for my tiny ass room that I share with my little brother. Not including the half of the bills they expected me to pay .

In fact, apartments in his area go for far less, but when he tried explaining this to his parents, they didn’t want to hear it.

Most apartments in our city are around that range but that’s for a whole ass apartment, not a single bedroom plus sharing space with everyone else. Most of my paycheck would just be going to that then.

Like I asked my parents I don’t got a problem with helping with the bills and paying for my room if they made the rent to be lower.

They said that’s how much they agreed on so that’s what I’d have to pay if I wanna keep staying there.

So he went looking for a solution, and found a much cheaper one that also afforded him his own room and bathroom.

So I said fine and talked to one of my friend’s I already knew had his own place but was looking for a new roommate for the past 3 months.

Ended up going with him and he added me to the lease.

My own room and bathroom, plus the total for rent and my half of the bills it’s like wayyyy less than the rent by itself that my parents expected me to pay.

His parents are mad at him for moving out, saying that he abandoned their family and put them in financial hardship, and that he should have just helped them pay since they’re struggling.

Now he’s wondering whether it makes him a jerk that he left his parents high and dry, even though the situation is much better for him.

But the thing is they’re super mad at me for leaving. My mom ignored me when I moved out, my dad kept saying how he’s so disappointed in me.

For a while they were hoping to rely on me with helping out with their mortgage payments on the house also with the bills so now that I’ve chosen to leave instead my dad says I’m going to leave them really struggling and he can’t believe I decided to be selfish instead of helping my family out.

So that’s sort of why I’m asking if I’m TA. It was super high what they were expecting me to pay (literally whole paycheck would go to just that) but also I left them to struggle when they were hoping for me to help out so idk.

AITA?

Reddit is weighing in below!

The top comment pointed out that OP is under no obligation to help his parents out, and it’s pretty crappy that they presented everything to him this way and are now angry with him for taking care of himself. (2)

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Financial abuse is a thing, and everyone is proud of OP for not standing for it.

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It’s actually awesome that he was able to draw this very healthy boundary now.

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Parents are not supposed to take advantage of their own kids.

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It’s not the paying rent that’s the problem, per se.

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I totally agree that it’s fine to teach a kid about living expenses and the real world, etc, and to ask them to pitch in financially once they’re adults living at home, but that’s different than taking advantage of your kid and asking them to support you as soon as they’re able.

What are your thoughts? Drop them in the comments!

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If You Cheat on Your Spouse, You Will Suffer the Consequences

Cheating is dirty business. There are plenty of reasons people become unhappy in committed relationships and sure, folks make mistakes, but ongoing affairs have always just smacked of arrogance or cowardice to me. Or both.

This man – a pastor who always answered his phone – was not cheating on his wife when he received a phone call from a woman he didn’t know one night.

In a previous life—before my world came apart about five months ago—I was the solo pastor of a medium-sized church in a large(ish) Southern city. One unhappy side effect of being a solo pastor is that when your phone rings, you answer it even if you don’t recognize the number since you have no idea how important the call may be.

It could be a church member’s grandkid (whom you’ve never met) calling to tell you Miss Bessie has been diagnosed with some horrible disease. Or it could be a church member who just wants to talk your ear off for two hours.

So earlier this evening my phone rings. And since old habits die hard, I answered it.

He was polite but detached at first, figuring that the call had something to do with work.

Me: “Hello?”

Her: “Heeeeeey, what are you up to?”

I want to be clear before I proceed that I don’t recognize this lady’s voice but I just assumed that she was a former church member, member’s kid or grandkid…something. So I was cordial.

Me: “Not much, honestly. I actually just walked through the door with some food. How about you?”

Her: “I’m hanging out with {girl whose name I don’t know}.”

Me: “Great. I’m sorry to have to ask this, but with whom am I speaking? I don’t recognize your voice and I have no idea who {other girl} is.”

It didn’t, and hoo boy, he had stumbled into a circus full of someone else’s rabid monkeys.

Ladies and gentlemen, apparently that was the wrong thing to say.

Her: “Darren, you know who this is! This is Jessie!”

Me: “Well, Miss Jessie, I hate to break this to you but my name isn’t Darren and I don’t know any women named Jessie. I believe you’ve called the wrong number.”

Her: “No I didn’t! This isn’t funny Darren. What happened? Did you leave your ringer on again and you’re worried your wife is going hear us talking?”

Me: “Ma’am, I’m very sorry but now I know you’ve got the wrong number.”

Her: “I want to come over there and tell her all about us and how you’ve been screwing me behind her back for two years. I’m sick of this s*%t.”

Instead of trying to backpedal or to convince the woman that perhaps confronting a sleeping, clueless woman and her crappy husband in the middle of the night, she just sleep one it herself and re-evaluate in the morning.

Cue malicious compliance.

Me: “…you know what, that would be great. By all means, come to my house and wake my wife up and tell her all about our torrid sexual affair.”

Her: “I’m leaving now.” engine cranks in background.

Me: “Okay. See you soon!”

His decision was likely influenced by the fact that he had recently found out that his own wife had been cheating on him for the duration of their marriage, like some kind of sociopath.

He has no regrets, at least not about the phone call.

Five months ago I discovered that my wife of ten years started cheating on me eighteen months into our marriage. She racked up a grand total of 16 affairs in a decade.

Somewhere in my immediate area a man’s wife was just awakened by her husband’s sidepiece banging on the front door. She deserves to know what kind of man she married.

I’m just sorry I can’t be a fly on the wall for the very special episode of the Jerry Springer Show that just started in her driveway.

I have a hard time feeling sorry for this Darren person, though maybe that’s wrong.

Do you think he should have stayed out of business that wasn’t his? Tell us why or why not in the comments!

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Posts Comparing American Work Culture to Other Countries Are Hilariously Depressing

If you don’t realize that Americans are one of the only cultures in the world that revel in a work culture that’s 24/7/365, you haven’t been paying attention. Those in the States are expected to be available literally all the time, even on their vacations, which most of them don’t actually take anyway.

Things are different in places like Europe, when people clock out and mean it, and also take extended holidays with their families during which they are literally and functionally out of the office.

If you’re wondering what those differences really look like, these 16 posts should give you a really good idea.

16. I think they enjoy rubbing it in a bit.

No one can really blame them.

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15. No one is going to violate that out of office.

Unless something is literally on fire.

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14. How did we get here?

If anyone has answers, I’m truly curious.

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13. It’s all about time management, my friends.

And also setting healthy boundaries for yourself.

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12. Trust me, there’s no prize.

There’s honestly usually not even more money in the end.

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11. It’s not about working less, or not as hard.

It’s more about working on your terms.

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10. I’m totally stumped.

Maybe she just thought it was something she had to say.

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9. If you’re going to work internationally, you’ll have to compress your schedule.

No one is going to answer your emails in the evenings.

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8. Imagine your government having your back.

What a wonderful world that would be.

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7. Not only do they have five weeks a year…

They actually take five weeks a year and enjoy them, too.

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6. Laws to actually protect employees.

Just sit with that for a moment.

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5. Wouldn’t it be cool to have summer vacay as an adult?

You could actually, like, hang out with your children.

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4. Proof that it works.

Everyone survives quite successfully.

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3. When you put it that way…

It sounds pretty depressing, right?

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2. It seems luxurious to us.

But it’s really quite normal and also healthy for everyone involved.

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1. They fiercely protect vacation time.

And why shouldn’t they?

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Y’all. I think we’re doing it wrong here in America. I’m just saying.

What about you? Do you see anything wrong with the way we’re doing it, or do you think Europeans just need to work harder? Sound off in the comments!

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You Can Combine 4 States That Touch Into a New Country: Which 4 Would You Choose?

I love “what-if” questions – the ones that have no actual consequences or right or wrong answers, but can be fun to think about and answer.

Also, the answers can tell you a lot about a person, I think.

If you’re curious how other people responded, here are 16 replies to the question of what 4 contiguous states would make the best new country.

16. I like the way she thinks.

What is more important than yummy food?

15. Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio

I’m honestly not sure what the reasoning on this one would be…

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14. I’m ok with that.

Texas needs to be messed with once in a while.

13. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas

But she wants to live somewhere else. Ha!

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12. Decisions are hard.

Then again, this is a game.

11. This person is thinking about access to fresh water.

That’s smart. And of course, New York is the coolest.

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10. There’s always one anarchist in the bunch.

They make the world go ’round. Or not.

9. More references to the drinking water.

I suppose that’s pretty important.

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8. Do you think this is a game, sir?

I mean. I guess it pretty much is.

7. There’s always one joker in the bunch.

What would we do without them?

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6. Poor Michigan.

The Big 10 is really going to miss them.

5. This person is out to make some cash.

It’s the American way.

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4. Oops.

Still, there’s no need to be that person.

3. I hope they have plans to combat the drought.

And also the electrical grid in Texas.

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2. Idk if it’s a complete package.

But it’s some kind of package.

1. I’m not sure this is allowed.

You can’t just sneak in a bunch of Canadians.

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These replies are really making me think, y’all.

Tell us in the comments how you would answer this one – we’re dying to hear your reasons!

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People Discuss How Working in Europe Differs From Working in the United States

You might know that people in other parts of the world get way more time off every year than people who live in the United States – and if you didn’t, I’m sorry. That’s something you can never un-know now.

Basically, in other places employees are allowed to turn off their email or their phone and take more than a week’s vacation and also when they have babies? They get to stay home and recover and bond with them for like, an entire year.

I know. Sounds fake, doesn’t it.

These 14 people are sharing more details, so if you’re working in America, gird your loins.

14. They’re not going to change for you.

We should be more like them, to be honest.

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13. You might think this is an exaggeration.

It’s not.

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12. Five weeks a year.

AND they actually take them.

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11. You cannot flap them.

They are unflappable.

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10. Summer vacation as an adult.

Now there’s an idea.

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9. I think you know who has the better quality of life.

It’s not even close, as a matter of fact.

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8. Anyone else feel called out?

It can’t be just me.

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7. You’ve gotta take advantage.

You never know when the next nice day is coming down the pike.

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6. You can get really good at time management.

Which is never a bad thing.

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5. It’s absolutely shameful.

Seriously, not good for anyone.

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4. No one is using that contact info.

Nor should they.

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3. It sounds crazy.

Until you realize it sounds amazing.

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2. Imagine your employer wanting you to be gone for a month straight.

And not making you feel badly about it, either.

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1. It can be a bit of an adjustment.

But in a good way.

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I guess there’s not room for all of us in Europe, huh? But there’s probably room for me…

Are you ready to move? Tell us why or why not in the comments!

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Fascinating Facts to Put Your Thoughts on Hyperdrive

There’s a pretty good chance that one of the reasons you follow this page is because you love facts of all kinds – and we all know we could go on for days if started listing all manner of random facts.

These 10 facts are some that are not only wild, but will get your brain juices flowing in a way that will have you clicking onto another page, then another, and another, until oops! Rabbit hole.

We’re not going to apologize, though, because we love a good rabbit hole, right?

10. We have created a zonkey.

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Why? Apparently because we can – it’s what you get when you breed a zebra and a donkey.

I guess if it works it can’t be too much against nature.

9. A mysterious, vintage Coke machine used to live in Seattle, WA.

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For decades, there was a vintage Coca-Cola machine in Seattle, and if you put in 75 cents, it would give you a mystery can of soda. Sometimes you’d get a newer can, but other times your prize would be a can of soda that had been discontinued years earlier.

No one knows who stocked and maintained the machine – or who removed it in 2018. It was there for nearly 30 years, and then it wasn’t.

8. The oldest animal alive was born in 1832.

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Jonathan the Tortoise has lived his whopping 189 years in the Galapagos Islands.

7. Sperm whales don’t like to sleep alone.

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They sleep in large pods, and they all snooze while vertical.

I’m not sure why I never imagined whales sleeping, but I never would have guessed they sleep like this, either!

6. Shakespeare may have lost his head.

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A group of archaeologists got together in 2016 and used ground-penetrating radar to study the contents of Shakespeare’s grave, and get this – he doesn’t appear to have a head.

This seems to confirm a tall tale that circulated for years, that a group of thieves in 1794 broke into the coffin and stole Shakespeare’s head in order to sell it for 300 pounds.

It doesn’t, of course, tell us where that head might be now.

5. The world’s oldest wine survived for almost 2,000 years.

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The 1700-year-old bottle from a gravesite in Speyer, Germany, is still in its liquid form, which is basically unheard of.

Experts think it was able to survive so long because they poured olive oil into the bottle to seal it off from the open air before placing the cork.

4. During prohibition you could get a prescription for whiskey.

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Pharmacists were allowed to fill prescriptions for “medicinal whiskey,” which basically gave them a monopoly on selling alcohol during prohibition.

Running a pharmacy was quite lucrative at the time because of that fact, drugstore owners (like, say, Jay Gatsby) were essentially making money bootlegging whiskey.

3. There was a backup speech in case the moon landing didn’t go as we hoped.

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It’s always good to be prepared, and of course no one knew what would happen if Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made it to the moon but couldn’t make it home.

Here is the full text:

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind’s most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.

They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by their nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations.

In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man’s search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.

2. A frog in your milk can keep it fresh.

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Before modern refrigeration was a thing, people in Russia dropped brown frogs into their milk because they claimed it made it stay drinkable and fresh for longer.

It sounds crazy, but Russian brown frogs actually secrete a gooey substance that has strong antibacterial properties.

So, I have no idea how the first person to figure this out did it, but they weren’t wrong.

1. Some very inept thieves tried to ransom the FIFA Cup in 1966.

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The cup was stolen in London, just a few months before the tournament was set to begin. The police received a ransom note and the public began to panic, but before anyone could decide what to do about the 15,000 pound ransom, the trophy was found.

The hero of the day was a dog named Pickles, a collie who sniffed the trophy out in a bush while on his evening walk – proving once again that dogs are the absolute best.

 

I’ve got to go find out some more details on some of these myself, I swear.

What’s the best rabbit hole you’ve tumbled down lately? Share with us in the comments!

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Images That Prove How Much Word Spacing Matters

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.

10. Please return my cow immediately.

And explain how you got it into that machine.

How did they get a cow into that vending machine! from keming

9. It’s “Bull Titan US”

Convince me this wasn’t intentional.

Bull Titan U.S. from keming

8. For the non-vegetarians in the house.

What a thing to print on a clock. Farmhouse chic!

YOU HAD MEAT. "hello" from keming

7. Definitely don’t follow those instructions.

What a thing to accidentally put on the back of a car.

Hit there from keming

6. I think Don has a problem.

That’s not what we mean by recycling, Sir.

Thanks a bunch Don from keming

5. This is actually quite clever.

If they did it on purpose.

Really smart keming for a local hospital from keming

4. This is glaringly awkward.

What was the purpose of that whole ‘I’ situation?

W I SEMEN STILL SEEK HIM from keming

3. The future hates on spacing.

It’s coming. Not sure why.

Z A R A from keming

2. I refuse to believe this says ‘click.’

Whether it was meant to or not.

you want me to do WHAT? from keming

1. I think that’s meant to say “finals.”

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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Go Ahead and Follow These 11 Facts Straight Down the Rabbit Hole

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.

11. This man was struck by lightning 3+ times.

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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.

10. The Zodiac Killer really tried to help the police catch him.

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!

9. Another serial killer was once a contestant on a dating show.

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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.

8. Space has a very distinct smell.

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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.

7. African elephants have three times the neurons of humans.

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The average elephant’s brain has 257 billion neurons – our own look pretty puny in comparison!

6. Harriet Tubman led troops into battle.

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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.

5. Adolf Hitler and J.R. Tolkien battled each other in WWI.

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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.

4. The moon was terrifyingly made.

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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.

3. The Ferris Wheel was meant to be a giant middle finger.

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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.

2. One headless rooster survived for a full 18 months.

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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.

1. The International Space Station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

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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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A Struggling Uber Driver Explained Why Tips Are Necessary in Emotional Video

A lot has changed in the past few years, and the way most of us get food delivery is definitely different. Although delivery services from a variety of restaurants – and even grocery stores – has been an option in big, coastal cities like New York for years, the concept has just made its way through the middle of the country.

Because of that, some people might not realize how the pay structure works for those folks who depend on delivery driving as a source of income – which is something Uber Eats driver Riley Elliot hopes to change.

@livefreestudios

TIP YOUR DELIVERY FOLKS! #ubereatsdriver #notips #pandemic #homeless #helpme #fyp #deliverydriver #delivery

♬ original sound – Riley Elliot

So let’s get into it.

During the crazy year that was 2020, delivery drivers have become more than a convenience – they became essential.

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But Riley Elliot had a frustrating day at work and took to TikTok, saying that he wished people who ordered “understood what it’s like to be a driver.”

“I just spent 45 minutes on a delivery, and had to pay $3 for parking to bring this person their food because there was no free parking. And they refuse to come out and meet me.”

That’s inconsiderate, which is something you never want to be to a person who has access to your dinner.

Just saying.

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“They tipped me $1.50 and Uber paid me $2.50. I gotta prove 3 times the rent for income in 2 weeks, and I can’t. And it doesn’t matter that I’m working multiple jobs, it doesn’t matter that I rarely sleep and can barely afford to feed myself.”

Life is tough out there, as is evidenced by his anguish and the tears in his eyes, and that’s something we would all do well to remember.

The video has clearly resonated, earning nearly half a million views on TikTok.

“I’m about to be homeless for the third time since May, and it’s all because people don’t tip their delivery drivers. Like, how hard is it to throw us 5 bucks?”

If you can afford to pay for dinner out and pay extra to have the convenience of having it delivered, it stands to reason that you should be able to tip the people bringing it to you appropriately.

You wouldn’t go out to eat and then stiff the server, right?

RIGHT?

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Even though Elliot said he made the video off the cuff and wasn’t expecting anything, he’s received donations totaling around $55k.

Which must be nice, and also prove to him that not all humans are incapable of extending a helping hand to others.

Riley didn’t even keep it all, because he walks the walk, y’all.

“Once we reached the point where we were like, ‘OK, now we’ll definitely be able to get into a place, we don’t need all of this,’ I started literally just giving money away. We sent money to folks in Texas whose pipes had burst, we send money to folks who needed medication, sent money to friends who were struggling. We spent about $15,000 that first day, just helping people out with their situations.”

Paying it forward. I love it.

Now there are tears in MY eyes.

He also made a followup video that acknowledges that at least some of his money troubles were due to the companies like Uber not paying their drivers enough, not just the fact that some people aren’t the best at tipping.

@livefreestudios

Delivery apps won’t pay their drivers more until you make them #ubereatsdriver #raiseminimumwage #tipyourdriver #tiktokchangedmylife #fyp #grateful

♬ original sound – Riley Elliot

Here’s what he said, in case the video doesn’t play.

“I just wanna take back one thing I said in my video that blew up.

It’s not entirely the fault of people who don’t tip.

It is absolutely the fault of these companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats who don’t pay their drivers very much.”

Either way, if you have the means to help out a fellow human – especially one doing you a solid – you should do it.

So should we all!

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Guy Wonders If He’s a Jerk to Choose Sleeping With His Dogs Over His Girlfriend

Most of us treat our dogs like family, but not everyone agrees that letting them sleep in the bed is the way to go.

We all make compromises when we enter into new relationships, especially when we get to the stage of moving in together, but for this guy, his new relationship with a woman and his decades-long relationship with his dogs have come to a head.

My girlfriend (20) and I (21) have been discussing moving in together in the same city, I have two dogs so we were discussing expectations and roles we’d play in the house. The dogs will be my responsibility only, not hers. She likes the dogs and is sweet to them. But last night we had a disagreement about sleep arrangements.

He has always slept with the dogs in his room. Not on the bed, mind you, but in the room, on the floor.

She says she’s not ok with this, and he’s obviously heartbroken at the thought of upending these dogs’ lives after they’ve been doing the same thing for their entire lives.

She said my dogs can’t sleep in our room. She doesn’t want them on the bed and neither do I, but she won’t even say yes to them on the floor. I have each of them for 8* years and they’ve spent almost every night of their life sleeping in the same room as me. If I were to kick them out of the room they would make a huge fuss and keep us up.

He came up with the solution of sleeping in the second room with the dogs, but she didn’t like that either – she feels like he’s choosing the dogs over her.

She said it’s non negotiable so i said I’ll just sleep in the second room with them, but that upset her too that i would sleep with them over her.

He wants to stand his ground for his heart and the dogs, but is wondering whether he’s making the wrong choice, here.

AITA for standing my ground about this? The dogs are my family, one of them is 11 and on his last few years and I’d feel mean for making my old pups change what they’ve been doing their entire life.

What does Reddit say? You know they love dogs, so…

They say she’s not wrong and neither is he, but this is an issue that could mean living together isn’t the right move. Womp-womp.

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People pointed out that, given the dogs’ ages, she could just compromise for now, and set the rule of no sleeping in the bedroom if there are future dogs.

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It’s probably good they’re having this “priorities and values” discussion now, actually.

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She’s not being cruel, but she’s also not showing a lot of empathy or willingness to compromise.

Just saying.

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This seems to be the general consensus.

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It might seem silly to think about ending an otherwise good relationship over where the dogs sleep, but listen – anyone who has been married or lived with someone knows how important it is to know where lines will be drawn ahead of time.

Should OP stand his ground? Give in? Give us your opinions in the comments!

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