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Tommy Hilfiger’s new line of clothing includes a weird feature. You can earn reward points by wearing the clothes, thanks to a smart chip embedded in them. You can eventually redeem these points for Hilfiger gift cards or merchandise. 00
In Guiyang, China, you can now view the world’s tallest man-made waterfall…and it’s on the side of a skyscraper.
The 350-foot tall wonder requires four large pumps to carry the water to the top of the building before it flows down the edifice. The waterfall is only in use for special occasions because it costs over $100 an hour to power the technological marvel.
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Residents of the Chinese city have been split over the waterfall. Some see it as a nice tourist attraction, while others view it as a huge waste of money. Take a look at some photos of the project:
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Watch this video to see the amazing skyscraper waterfall in action.
What do you think of this addition to Guiyang’s skyline?
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We all love our Gifs, but how on Earth is that word pronounced? I don’t know about you, but I’ve been hearing this debate quite a bit lately.
Some say it like “Jif.” Others pronounce it with a hard “G”. So which one is correct? I’m here to report to the world (sorry if you’ve been saying it wrong the last several years), that the proper pronunciation is “Jif” just like the peanut butter.
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Even Steve Wilhite, the guy who created the GIF, confirms that it’s pronounced “Jif.” It’s easy to see why some are die hard proponents of the hard “G.” Gif, after all, is short for “graphics interchange format.” So we can forgive those who have been, and will continue to, say it that way. But acronyms work differently. Think about the acronym JPEG. It’s short for “Joint Photographic Experts Group”, but we don’t pronounce it “jay-pheg.” It’s “jay-peg.”
This video sums it up. Let’s put this issue to rest FOREVER.
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Everyone likes a cool, new gadget, but how do you know whether or not something is actually useful or just a shiny piece of junk?
These 12 kitchen products have been tested and loved, though, and people really think they’re worth the money. In the end, you’ll still have to decide, so check them out and start thinking!
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If you don’t have a fridge that offers filtered water, this pitcher is awesome and your water is always chilled.
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Have you ever cursed out your regular can opener? Just me? You need one.
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Yes, they’re pricey. But yes, if you’re someone who bakes regularly, you’ll also use it on a weekly basis and it makes your life so much easier.
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If you love La Croix but are going broke feeding your habit, this might be the investment for you.
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If you’ve never tried it, here’s why you should – and you’ll never go back to any other kind of cookware, either. It’s an investment, but if you spend time in the kitchen, it’s worth it!
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You’ve seen your friends talking about these, no doubt, and trying their best to grab one on sale. The reason? You can cook your entire dinner in one pot, from frozen, in like 30 minutes. A must for busy parents who still want to cook healthy at home.
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If you’re over your Keurig and have gone to a French press or Aeropress (love both), or if you just prefer tea to coffee, why haven’t you already bought an electric kettle? They make pretty ones these days, too.
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Make your daily smoothie from the comfort of your own home!
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Because we all have both kinds of people in our lives, and everyone needs a treat now and then. If you’re a family who eats ice cream on a weekly basis, this beauty will make it fresh and delicious in less than 20 minutes.
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If you’re someone who sees a good deal and buys in bulk, you’ll need to invest in one of these to make sure your food tastes as good coming out of the freezer as it did going in. Trust me.
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They’re stainless steel, are different sizes, have lids, and have built in graters. I mean. What?
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Once again, if you’re not someone who cooks regularly, then this would just take up counter and/or storage space but if you do, it’s an investment that’s going to make your life a whole lot easier.
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Parents tend to record the memories of their children via photographs and videos, however, James Breakwell has been documenting his time with his four daughters on social media in a different way. The comedy writer and family man from Indianapolis has been using Twitter to share his daily conversations with his daughters – and it’s earned him over a million followers since he started in April 2016. Here are some of the best posts he’s shared.
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Imagine having to pay a daily tax to use social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp. Well, that’s exactly what is happening now in the country of Uganda because it’s the law.
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In May 2018, the government of Uganda passed the new tax law that forces citizens to pay roughly the equivalent of 5 cents U.S. to use social media.
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People were shocked that the law was real and expressed their displeasure on, you guessed it, Twitter.
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Many in Uganda believe the tax is meant to control young people and to stop the spread of ideas through social media. And Ugandans are worried about how it will affect the economy.
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But the people are fighting back.
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Amnesty International’s director for East Africa said, “It is not the place of the Ugandan authorities to determine what discussions taking place on social media platforms are useful. Rather, it is their responsibility to uphold and nurture unfettered enjoyment of the right to freedom of expression, both online and offline. Social media platforms like Facebook and WhatsApp have opened up cheaper avenues of communication and information sharing in Uganda. By making people pay for using these platforms, this tax will render these avenues of communication inaccessible for low-income earners, robbing many people of their right to freedom of expression, with a chilling effect on other human rights.”
“This is a clear attempt to silence dissent, in the guise of raising government revenues.”
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YouTube is the new TV. In fact, they’ve even launched their own version of the standard cable TV subscription that lets you watch live TV via YouTube. And with billions of views across all its videos YouTubers are cashing in.
All this is to say that there’s no doubt that YouTube has become a major launchpad for tomorrow’s celebrities (Justin Bieber was famously discovered on YouTube). If you’re at the top of your game, there are major bucks to be made in the form of YouTube partnerships, endorsements, and exposure to new opportunities.
The list below features 15 of YouTube’s most popular independent stars (as opposed to mainstream music artists, etc.), as compiled by SocialBlade. These stars aren’t just reaching millions of people worldwide – some are also making millions of dollars in the process.
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Fernanfloo (Luis Fernando Flores) is a gaming YouTuber from El Salvador who is known for his wacky video style and occasional appearances by his dog.
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Brazilian vlogger and comedian Felipe Neto has the distinction of being the first Brazilian YouTube channel to hit 1 million subscribers. He also released a Netflix special in 2017.
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Yuya is a beauty vlogger who posts all kinds of beauty tutorials on her main channel. Her popularity has earned her features in Vogue and on TV in her native Mexico.
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NigaHiga (Ryan Higa) was one of the earliest breakout stars of YouTube, producing a variety of content from comedy sketches and music videos to musings on pop culture.
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Markiplier (Mark Fischbach) is a gaming YouTuber who has aspirations of branching out into music and acting. His 2017 net worth is estimated to be ~$9 million.
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Vegeta777 (Samuel de Luque) is a popular Spanish gaming YouTuber who is best known for using video games to create elaborate narratives of his design, including dubbing his own voiceovers.
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VanossGaming (Evan Fong) is a gaming YouTuber from Canada. His signature style features the masterful use of editing to compress hours of footage into a single engaging moment.
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Comedy duo Smosh (comprised of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla) was another one of YouTube’s earlier stars. Recently, Padilla left Smosh to start a solo account.
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Jacksepticeye (Seán William McLoughlin) is an Irish gamer and YouTuber who found fame after getting mentioned by PewDiePie (featured later in this list). I particularly like his videos due to his energetic narration and charming Irish accent.
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Dude Perfect was started by a group of friends and former athletes who all knew each other from college at Texas A&M. Their videos often revolve around sports and trick shots, with a fun, casual style.
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KondZilla (Konrad Dantas) is a Brazilian music video director with one of the fastest growing pages on YouTube.
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Whinderssonnunes (Whindersson Nunes) is a Brazilian YouTuber whose comedy videos and song parodies have been entertaining people for nearly a decade.
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ElRubiusOMG (Rubén Doblas Gundersen) is a Spanish YouTube sensation. As with many of the other entries on this list, his main focus is video game reviews, walkthroughs, and commentaries.
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HolaSoyGerman (Germán Garmendia) is arguably the biggest YouTube star in Latin America. The Chilean comedian and musician can boast having not one, but two YouTube channels in the top 20 list – the main one listed here and another, gaming-focused channel called JuegaGerman.
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You know you’ve made it when South Park is spoofing you. PewDiePie (Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg) is a Swedish YouTuber whose boisterous video game commentary and playthroughs have earned him widespread fame and a sizeable fortune.
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Can you believe we’re almost a decade removed from the 2000s? I guess that’s just how fast things move.
What do you miss about the 2000s? The same things as these folks?
“Nintendo Gamecube – I know it was the third place console, but it had so many games that I played constantly. I still think Rogue Leader is the best Star Wars game ever made – and that was sixteen years ago!”
“The old-fashioned PC, Windows XP and the pre-Facebook Internet.
I get such nostalgia pangs when I remember sitting on my Dad’s old PC, playing computer games and watching old, non-professional videos.”
“Borders bookstores.”
“MSN Messenger.”
“Harry Potter being in its heyday and theorizing about what would happen in the next books.”
“Cartoon Network. It used to be awesome back then.”
“Myspace. The site was flawed, but it was so much fun. The crazy layouts, the “top 8″ friends, the surveys, the music.”
“Buying a game at the store, reading the manual on the car ride home, then popping the disc in the console and immediately playing it, the entire game and what it had to offer, nothing more.”
“I miss the flip phone era from like 2006-2010, for me at least.
I was just better at communication back then. I was on 7th grade to mid high school back then and if I wanted to talk to a girl I’d call her. Texting wasn’t unlimited for a lot of people.”
“I graduated high school in 2001. I’ll always remember my yellow Sony Discman connected to the tape deck in my ’94 Saturn SL2. It was a stick shift too! The anti-skip didn’t work great, but I loved my collection of CDs I had going in the visor.”
“Checking my translucent blue VTECH answering machine when I got home from work.”
“Just enough features on phones where we can make plans and figure out where we’re going. But not SO much functionality that we stare at our phones when we hang out with people.”
“Overall I just miss the overall aesthetic of the 2000s. Everything was all gritty because it was barely a new millenia and nobody knew how the future would look like. Companies back then had over complicated logos to help them stand out from the rest of the crowd. Everything felt more real than the over-simplicity of today, and I truly miss that.”
“The old Vh1 with all of the stupid reality shows and the “I Love the XX’s” decade shows.”
“I miss the messy culture of the 2000s. People wore ugly accessories, too many layers, messy makeup. Now, everything has to be so perfect, so “instagrammable”.”
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Hollywood has loved to imagine what it will be like to discover intelligent alien life one day, as have books and comics, and most other creative mediums for as long as we can remember. Sadly, science is starting to wonder whether or not the chances are actually good that we’re not alone.
According to a new study out of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, researchers applied existing knowledge of biology, chemistry, and cosmology to the Drake equation, created by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961 in an attempt to calculate the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy.
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The equation takes into consideration things like the average rate of star formation and the average lifespan of intelligent civilizations, among other things. Using Drake’s model combined with modern astronomy, the researchers at Oxford estimate there’s a 53%-99.6% change we’re alone in the galaxy and a 39%-85% chance we’re the only intelligent life to be found in the entire universe.
They’re also relying on the class Fermi Paradox, which asserts that intelligent extraterrestrial beings exist and that they should have visited earth by now. Since they have not, the conclusion is that they are “probably extremely far away and quite possibly beyond the cosmological horizon and forever unreachable.”
Others, like Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, are dismissive of the recent claims, mainly because there remains too much unknown about the universe to make any such claims.
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“I could walk outside here in Mountain View, California, and not see too many hippos strolling the streets,” he told Mental Floss, “but it would be incorrect for me to say on that rather limited basis that there’s probably no hippos anywhere. It’s a big conclusion to make on the basis of a local observation.”
Not only is so much of the universe still shrouded in mystery, there’s also the idea that scientists and astronomers here on earth aren’t even looking for the right type of communication. So far, we examine potential radio and light signals, but there’s a chance that alien beings are trying to contact us in ways we haven’t designed yet.
The bottom line is that the truth may still be out there, just waiting for our feeble human science to catch up enough to find it.
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You might not be someone who is super into sneakers, but after you see what Adidas and Parley for the Oceans have teamed up to create, you just might change your tune. The new, innovative line of shoes is made using upcycled waste from beaches and coastal communities – which prevents the plastic from entering the oceans.
The shoes, called Ultraboosts, not only look cool but each pair prevents 11 plastic bottles from littering the oceans. They’re made with Adidas’ custom “boost” cushioning, too, so no worries about losing performance in your quest to better the environment through your choice of kicks.
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If you’re convinced (and why wouldn’t you be?) you can grab a pair of these shoes on their website today – and while you’re there, make sure to sign up for the Adidas x Parley Run for the Oceans. Adidas will donate $1 to Parley School for the Oceans for every kilometer run!
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