15 People Share the Worst Day of Their Entire Life

No one likes to remember the worst day of their life – but these 13+ people are baring their souls for us. The least we can do is read their stories with empathy and compassion.

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#15. A few feet short.

“Finding my father face down on the kitchen floor dead. As best we can tell he’d been in the middle of a very serious heart attack and was trying to get to the phone but was a few feet short of making it.”

#14. I’d probably lose it mentally.

“Really more like a month but it was earlier this year when I was passing a 10 millimeter kidney stone. After a couple days of writhing in pain I went to the ER only to find out it was too big to pass naturally. So I had to wait a couple of days in sheer pain before having a surgery that involved a tube with a small saw on the end going up into me (through the urethra) and breaking up the stone. Luckily I was passed out for the surgery, but after I woke I was in even more pain than before. Peed blood for two weeks straight, and it hurt like you couldn’t believe to go to the bathroom as well. Had to pass around 20 kidney stone fragments over the next few weeks that each hurt on their own. I then had to go back to get the stent they put in me removed, and that involved the doctor sticking another tube in me (also through the urethra) and grabbing a foot-long tube and pulling it out, however I was not put under for that procedure. That was easily the most uncomfortable and painful experience I’ve ever had. To summarize, if someone told me I’d have to go through that again I’d probably lose it mentally. I wouldn’t wish that experience on my worst enemy.”

#13. Just up and left.

“My partner left me after 9 years of living together and 17 years of friendship. Just upped and left in the night, and I later discovered that plans had been in the works for several months. I awoke to the house and car keys and a letter saying “I hated you the entire time.” I try very hard never to think of it.”

#12. She was there and we needed it.

“The night of september 14th and morning of the 15th, 2012.

I remember it quite vividly. I was making tomato soup. One of my favorite things to do is dip toast into soup. Try it.

Anyways my soup was almost ready. I was house sitting my parents house while my dad was in the hospital for surgery. He had ALS and was getting a feeding tube installed because he couldn’t eat anymore.

I’d talked to my mom earlier that day and dad had been doing well. They were talking about discharge.

It was 9:34 according to the stove. I answered the phone and my mother was in tears. She wanted us to say goodbye to dad. The surgery had gone fine, but the ALS had reached his lungs. This was it.

After the phone call we frantically called all of our childhood friends. My dad had always been a mentor for many of them as well and they needed a chance to say goodbye as well. One of them was even there the next morning despite living on the opposite end of the country.

One of them had the brilliant idea of asking someone from the church to aee if we could get a ride to Kingston to see dad. They “happily” obliged.

We got to kingston just before midnight. 11:57. I brought my guitar along to sing to dad as he went. I figured if he sang to us bringing us in to the world, I would do him the same honour.

And so we got to the hospital and they took him off life support. He had requested a do not recessitate order. The hospital ignored that for long enough for us to get there. Thank you Kingston General.

And for the next seven hours I watched my father die. Slowly suffocating as his lungs failed to function. I remember feeling so guilty because I wanted him to just die quickly. But we were afforded no such luxury. His skin got more and more pale, and his breaths weaker.

Worst day of my life. I was 20. He was 52.

In some kind of divine sendoff he died at 6:54. Just as the sun was coming over the horizon. The flag of the hospital was also at half-mast.

Afterwards we dropped by a gas station to pick up a pack of cigarettes. I walked into the store and the clerk made a friendly offhanded comment. “You look like you had a rough night” assuming I had been out drinking or something. Me, my mother, and my brother all broke down and told her what had just happened. That cashier just hugged us as we cried into her shoulder for like 30 minutes.

It’s not normal to cry on the shoulder of a cashier you’ve never met. But she was there and we needed it.”

#11. We knew he was gone.

“August 2nd 2018

The day my dad passed away suddenly and completely unexpectedly. My dad was just about the healthiest he’s ever been, except when he was in his 20’s. He was 69 years old.

My mother called me and said something was wrong around 11pm, I was out of bed and at their house in less than 5min.

He was laying in bed, he wasn’t breathing, his heart wasn’t beating. My mom was on the phone with 911, crying. I was doing CPR, the woman from 911 was counting out the beats. I switched over places and my mom took over, I ran to make sure the front door was open and look for the ambulance or anyone. I ran back inside and continued CPR. Then a police officer was there. She took over the compressions, I ran back outside to flag down the ambulance. They arrived and started working on him. I had to keep my mom out of the way, keep her sane, I had to stay strong, not break.

He was gone when I got there. They worked on him at their house, in the ambulance, and at the hospital. We knew he was gone. Telling them to stop was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. My mom was… no words can describe her. I had to be strong, make the calls, talk to people.”

#10. The worst 24 hour day.

“The worst 24 hour day was when I was in New York while my husband was in Florida – he was misdiagnosed and died of internal bleeding. I was getting updates from the hospital all day while I was trying to get a flight and he died that evening. When I got to the house in Florida, I found out it had been robbed.”

#9. A year later…

“Sept 11 2017. I got fired, someone hit my car, and I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. A year later I got the all clear tho and a better job with a 30% raise.”

#8. She never came back.

“I’ve had some extremely bad times in my life but the first of them was 31/12 1969. My mum was sewing and said she was going to her friend’s house to borrow her sewing machine. She never came back. She just abandoned 3 young children to be with another man with 5 children.”

#7. The day my son was born.

“20th August 2014, the day after my first son was born (which incidentally was the very best day of my life)

Out of nowhere we were told he has a critical heart condition, would be transferred by ambulance to a children’s hospital and require surgery to save his life.

The bottom fell out of my world with no warning or expectation. Fucking sucked. The difference between the extreme high of the day before (plus hormones, first time mum nerves and post labour exhaustion) made the drop that much harder to bare.

Fortunately the surgery went very well, his doctors are fantastic and 4 years later he is doing great. Although he will require further open heart surgery one day.”

#6. Weird out of body experience.

“4th January, 2018.

The timing could not have been worse. Within literally 60 seconds of one another, I discovered that:

– The only person I have ever loved, my long-term partner, had cheated on me with one of his friends who I had met before, including other inappropriate things that they were sending/receiving – particularly pictures of me.

– My 29 year old sister had stage 3 breast cancer.

I was on his phone and saw the evidence to which my heart just sank and I was trying my best not to show any feelings. I didn’t want to over-react and wanted to think clearly in the moment, so I waited around 30 seconds trying to process what I had just seen and how I am about to go about this. As I am about to call him over to come and sit with me whilst I tell him what I’ve just found, I receive a phone call from my mother telling me that my sister has cancer. I was staying at my partner’s home at the time after spending a few days away at New Year. I’ve never felt such a clusterf**k of emotions. I needed someone to lean on and talk to about the news I just got about my sister, but the only person I could do that with, and the only person I have ever done that with, is now sat next to me, not knowing what I’ve just found on his phone and realising that my trust and love has been betrayed. I felt like I had no control over my life for that moment and when I recall on it, all I can see is me having this weird out-of-body experience, looking at myself from the other side of the room whilst I try and cope with the news.”

#5. Lying next to me in bed.

“Sept 6 2013, I woke to find my 47 year old wife, dead of a heart attack, lying next to me in bed.”

#4. I missed reading the message.

“I woke up to the news of the terrible tsunami in Japan on March 14 2011. An hour later I was told that my best friend committed suicide in another country.

I found out that she actually messaged me on MSN(back in the day when WhatsApp was still new), asking when am I going to visit her. I missed reading the message until the day I found out she committed suicide.

I have a hole in my heart ever since and still have days when I’ll break down. We were like sisters.”

#3. Trifecta.

“My car got stolen and my grandpa died on the same day. When I got back from the funeral my apartment had been robbed.”

#2. He didn’t give any sign at all.

“Today. I just found my room mate who had hung himself in the garage. The house is full of cops & EMTs. He didn’t give any sign at all.”

#1. The same thing.

“When I was 17 my sister died of cardiac failure on her 20th birthday. When I was 28 my best friend died on father’s day of the same thing, he had a 1 month old.”

I don’t even want to think too hard about the question because the answer would be too tough!

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Eight-Year-Old Finds Viking Sword After Skipping Stones on a Lake

Playing in the lake is always fun. But it’s extra fun when you find an ancient artifact!

A Swedish-American girl named Saga Vanecek – her real name – had only moved to Sweden a year ago. She and her family had previously lived in Minnesota and are even big Vikings fans.

While vacationing at Vidöstern Lake in Tånnö, Småland, Saga’s father, Andy, asked her to go grab him a buoy. The lake level was lower than usual due to drought, and he wanted to warn area boaters. Along the way, Saga picked up some stones and skipped them across the lake’s surface.

Andy, according to The Local, was growing frustrated with his easily distracted daughter. “I was getting impatient because the World Cup game was about to start!”

Then Saga found a stick. “I picked it up and was going to drop it back in the water, but it had a handle, and I saw that it was a little bit pointy at the end and all rusty. I held it up in the air and I said ‘Daddy, I found a sword!’ When he saw that it bent and was rusty, he came running up and took it.”

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Andy decided to take it to his neighbor who had some practice in archaeology. Both concluded the sword might be of real interest and turned it over to authorities. Shortly after, Saga and Andy were told the sword was likely from the 5th or 6th century AD, which makes the relic pre-Viking.

How did the sword get in the lake?

A representative of the museum that took possession of the sword said, “When we searched a couple of weeks ago, we found another prehistoric object; a brooch from around the same period as the sword, so that means — we don’t know yet — but perhaps it’s a place of sacrifice.”

Saga and her father were tasked with keeping the find a secret until now, so that no would-be treasure seekers would come disrupt the site (except of course Saga told her best friend). But now that the museum’s work in the lake is done, the secret is out – and was celebrated at Saga’s school with an ice-cream party.

The work on the sword, however, is just starting and it may take at least a year to complete the preservation of what might be known as “Saga’s Sword.”

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Life to come

Clearly, after pulling a pre-Viking sword from an ancient lake, Saga is the next Queen of Sweden. However, she says her future includes a career as a doctor, veterinarian or actress in Paris. She is not interested in becoming an archaeologist, although she likes to learn about “old stuff.”

We’ll see what the sword chooses. It’s destiny, after all.

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These 6+ Interesting Facts That Will Open Your Eyes

Did you know that chimpanzees can recognize butts? How’d you like to have that power?

And you’ll learn that fact and 6 more when you keep on reading this fact set.

1. Not humane

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2. I know you from somewhere…

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3. Lunch lady land

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4. Get your sleep

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5. Fire Mummies

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6. Whoa…

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7. I need a few of these

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Are your eyes opened and your brain expanded? I thought so.

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Here’s Why Dogs Walk in a Circle Before Lying Down

Dogs do many things that don’t make sense to us humans (enjoying a delightful afternoon snack of poop, for example), but if you remember that our domesticated pets are descended from wolves…their behavior may make a bit more sense. After all, they once had entirely different, feral lives.

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Take, for example, how dogs turn around and around in circles before seeming to find the perfect spot to settle in for a nice nap or snuggle down for the night. It seems odd, since we buy them beds that look more comfortable than our own, but according to University of Colorado-Boulder sociologist Leslie Irvine, the behavior is hard-wired and dates back to the days when our dogs’ ancestors had to build a safe nest.

She explains further in her book, If You Tame Me: Understanding Our Connection With Animals, that wild dogs had to pat down tall grass and underbrush to make a comfortable bed for themselves and their young. They prepared the area by walking in a circle over and over.

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“In the wild, the circling would flatten grasses or snow and would drive out any snakes or large insects. I have also heard that circling the area and thus flattening it leaves a visible sign to other dogs that this territory has been claimed.”

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Even though our pups are safe and sound and comfortable in our homes, the behavior continues. It’s part of their dogginess, so let them be – it makes them feel even better about snoozing safely at our side.

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Fisherman Surprised to Find 10,000-Year-Old Irish Elk Skull on the Other End of His Fishing Line

That’s right – antlers and all.

Pulling non-fish items out of the water is a common occurence for fishermen. Sadly, most of them are some kind of refuse that’s been carelessly dumped, but he’s also caught snakes, turtles, and, once, even a seagull.

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So I’m sure that fisherman buddies Raymond McElroy and Charlie Coyle weren’t surprised to find they’d hooked something other than their intended target in Ireland’s Lough Neagh, a lake near Ardboe – though they were clearly shocked to discover that what they’d snagged wasn’t a piece of driftwood, but a skull and antlers that measured over six feet across.

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Coyle told The Irish Times, “I thought it was the devil himself. I was going to throw it back in. I didn’t know what to do with it.”

That may sound crazy, until you learn that the Irish elk (megaloceros giganteus), which has been extinct for over 10,500 years, once stood over 6.5 feet fall and tipped the scales at 1300 pounds. That’s a pretty monstrous skull to suddenly find yourself facing on an otherwise normal day.

The Irish elk actually roamed much of Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia but is often found in Ireland’s lakes and bogs because of their natural preservative qualities. In fact, the two didn’t dump their find only because McElroy recalled that a similarly-sized jawbone had been found in the same area in 2014. They decided to keep the skull, and presumably some scientist will be by to take it off their hands for some cash.

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In case you’re curious, the Irish elk died out largely because of environmental change, according to Mike Simms at the Ulster Museum, who noted for Belfast Live that “giant antlers aren’t great in the forest.” They’re part of a club of giant extinct mammals (called megafauna) that includes giant sloths, giant beavers, saber-toothed tigers, mastodons, and mammoths, though I’m quite sure that none of them applied, or is thrilled about their acceptance.

Lesson learned – don’t get angry the next time you hook something weird on your next fishing trip. You never know what you’ll unearth from a watery grave.

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Why The Salem Witch Trials Happened, According to Tumblr

Nowadays, we know that witches are nothing more than a bunch of hocus-pocus, but back in the 1600s, it was a different story. The Salem Witch Trials were a real thing that led to over 200 people being accused of witchcraft, 20 of whom were eventually executed.

While many theories exist as to the actual reason behind this strange moment in history, they’ve all been based on rumor, speculation, or ridiculous fiction. But some of the best evidence we have lies in medical reports that attribute “possession” to hallucinogenic effects.

So, a group of Tumblr users put their heads together and attempted to offer up their best guess as to how the Salem Witch Trials came about. If you ask me, it makes a whole lot of sense!

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So, what do you think? Are you as convinced as I am?

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The Peanut Butter And Mayo Sandwich Debate May Tear Us Apart

Peanut butter and mayonnaise: two sandwich toppings that you don’t often see together in the same sentence.

But what if I told you that not only are peanut butter and mayo sandwiches a thing, but they’re wildly popular? Does that thought make you gag? Or maybe it sends you running to the kitchen to whip one up for yourself?

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Let’s take a look back at where this strange combination got started. Just like with every other food, someone had to be the first person to try it, so what brave soul first thought to slather peanut butter and mayo between two slices of bread?

Likely, it was born from the Great Depression, when poor families didn’t have much on hand and needed to combine what little food they had into meals that were high in calories and easy on the palette. Of course, necessity is often the mother of invention, and what started as a utilitarian food quickly evolved into something people enjoyed eating on a regular basis. As someone who has grown up in the South, I can tell you that people down here love their mayo. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if Southern families in the early 20th century were putting mayonnaise on just about everything in an attempt to make it better.

Today, the peanut butter and mayo sandwich (often referred to as a PBM) endures on, with an entire Facebook group and several Reddit threads devoted to singing its praises. There’s no denying, however, that it hit peak popularity in the time between the Great Depression and the 1960s – all leading up to this gem of an ad that Skippy and Hellmann’s ran together:

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Forget Infinity War, this is the crossover event of the century. They even tried to spritz it up with fancy toppings like bacon, apples, and even hard-boiled eggs. You might be able to convince me to try peanut butter and mayo, but throw a pickle on that bad boy and you’ve lost me.

If this combo still sounds nasty to you despite overwhelming evidence of people eating it throughout history, you’re not alone. The Independent recently conducted a reader poll that revealed 62 percent of its readers would never try a PBM.

But for those who love it, PBMs are more than just a sandwich…they’re a tradition. Athens, GA native Burns Sullivan told the Huffington Post that his great-grandmother would always send his great-grandfather out to work in the fields with a peanut butter and mayo sandwich.

“It was always government white bread, untoasted, specifically Duke’s mayonnaise and peanut butter,” said Sullivan. He went on to say that, “…there’s a rift in the family on smooth or crunchy [peanut butter]. My dad swears that crunchy is best, but claims that when my great-grandparents were eating them, it was creamy.” Sullivan currently works as a sous chef at Farm in Bluffton, South Carolina, though I don’t think we’ll be seeing PBMs on the menu anytime soon.

Sullivan was lucky enough to meet his great-grandmother, who he claims lived until she was 102 years old, and sample one of her famous PBMs with iceberg lettuce.

“I’m not going to do it justice, because it is — I don’t know if I’d say it’s great — but it’s a pretty good sandwich,” said Sullivan. “It’s like a sour peanut butter. The lettuce is there purely for texture, and it sticks to the roof of your mouth, anyway. It doesn’t make it sound very tasty, but, I promise, it’s decent.”

While he may not have done the best job of selling us on the flavor, Sullivan’s reasoning makes sense. To someone who’s never had it before, a PBM sounds like a random mashup of ingredients that could taste anywhere from decent to horrendous. But for Sullivan and many others like him, the PBM is a doorway to the past – a way for you to taste exactly what your ancestors ate while they were working the fields, enduring the Great Depression, or simply needing an after-school snack in the 1960s.

So, even if it doesn’t quite sound like your type of thing, don’t knock it ’til you try it. After all, what’s the worst that could happen? It’s just peanut butter and mayo.

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20 Hilarious Bad Driver Memes

Bad drivers are EVERYWHERE. And there’s no stopping them. If you can’t beat em’, well, err….we won’t join them, but we can at least laugh at them, right?

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Millennials Look Back on 15 Things They Miss from the ’90s

It’s almost impossible not to look back on the years you grew up as anything other than wonderful, and millennials who grew up in the 90s are going through that right now. If you’re one of them (or just love the 90s) then these 13+ people’s memories are probably going to spark more than a few of your own.

 

#15. When you got home

“I miss being safe from bullies when you got home. Like when I was in school I would get shit from someone, but once I got home that stopped. With the way we are all connected now through the internet and social media, I probably wouldn’t have escaped it like I used to be able to. I feel bad for kids that are bullied in school nowadays because they can’t escape the bullying by going home if they have any sort of presence on the internet.”

#14. The news wasn’t 24/7

“Stop watching the news. I stopped a couple of years ago and I’m happier. Most of it is irrelevant anyway. Think about it this way. What have you learned from the news in the past year that has directly affected your life? Of those things, what’s the likelyhood of you finding out about it through other means. If the answer is high, just stop watching.”

#13. I didn’t appreciate it enough

“I spent the 90s on college and grad school, mostly. I miss having a life where my job was just to think, learn and mature. I didn’t appreciate it enough.”

#12. Instant win

“Instant win contests.

You could buy a bottle of Coke, win another bottle of Coke and immediately turn around to get another one for free.

Now you have to go online, enter some code somewhere and it sucks.”

#11. Like I was at an Irish funeral

“When I would be sitting in my living room apartment and looking at my CD shelf and seeing my Pink Floyd Pulse disk blinking that beautiful red blink. I always wondered when the exact time and date it stopped was because I would have popped that disc in and proceed to drink like I was at an Irish funeral.”

#10. All you had to do

“All you had to do was just go outside. We always found something to do and had a blast. My kids never go outside unless they have a specific activity planned ahead.”

#9. Basic necessities

“Honestly, I miss life before the internet and cell phones/texting became basic necessities.”

#8. The highest virtue

“Vintage clothes were the epitome of cool. It’s still weird to me that now it’s cool to wear expensive clothes, much less ones with obvious labels.

Also related, the idea of “not selling out” as the highest virtue. The idea that the coolest people of the 2010s are influencers with sponsored posts couldn’t be more anti-90s.”

#7. Improvised WWF

“Improvised WWF (it was still the WWF back then) matches on my trampoline with buddies.

Also NOT having the internet for every little thing made stuff like Pokemon game glitches the stuff of legend.”

#6. Having all my hair

“The music. The sense the world was improving. Having all my hair.”

#5. A bit carried away

“Climbing trees, making dens in the woods, knocking on your friends door on a Saturday morning without phoning first, ‘are you playing out?’ Summer holidays spent in the half sunny alleys and fields behind the cul de sac. Asking my dad to record my tv shows onto vcr and him always getting the audio wrong from not turning the volume up on the cable box. Those little blue chocolate wafers my Nan had and the way she made toast. My parents watching Inspector Morse after I went to bed and how the radio was always on in the kitchen. The plum tree outside my bedroom window when it blossomed. School mornings getting colder and how my Mum got the car warmed up in the winter before we left. Our dog. My home. My self when I was young and the world was still magical.

Sorry I got a bit carried away.”

#4. Most of all

“8bit graphics, rainbow windbreakers, roller rinks still being cool, AOL, Nickelodeon. But most of all, just being a carefree kid.”

#3. A sense of innocence

“Amazing music, comfy clothes, cheap gasoline and a sense of innocence and optimism about the future.

Also being around my high school classmates seven hours a day, five days a week September through June could be a mixed blessing then, but I sure miss them now.”

#2. The good stuff

90s cartoons!

#1. Some sort of game

“Starting high school in 1990. Good music. Rap rock and even pop. Getting outside. Calling people on an actual house phone to set up the weekend. Meeting girls by actually meeting and talking to them in person. You actually had to have some sort of game to even get a number. We worked hard and played hard. People weren’t so sensitive.”

Let me know when they invent a time machine, okay?!

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Stick These 7 Cool Facts in Your Thinking Cap

This collection of delightful facts will absolutely wow you.

What are you waiting for?!? Keep reading!

1. I want Samson!

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2. Do you fit the bill?

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3. Whatever works

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4. We could all use some of these

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5. Do the worm

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6. Don’t show your cards, fellas

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7. Now that is a fascinating fact!

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Now go on and use these facts to impress some folks!

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