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Just beacuse these riddles are meant for kids doesn’t mean they’re gonna be a walk in the park. Think you’re smart enough to handle them?
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Continue reading when you want the answer!
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“Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.”
While we hope that we’ll never find ourselves in any dire situations, it certainly doesn’t hurt to make sure you’re prepped with some of these handy gadgets.
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They say that your chances of being attacked by a shark are extremely small, but I have to think that percentage goes up the more time you spend in the ocean. So, if you’re a diver or surfer or just someone who spends tons of time in the salty water, you might want to invest in this bracelet that emits ultrasound signals that will put off any nearby sharks looking for a snack.
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Extra important if you or someone you love is allergic to bee or wasp stings, but it could also work for ant bites, small snake bites, etc.
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Hey, you might think we live in a world where clean, available water is a given, but just ask the people in Flint, MI how true that turned out to be. This handy straw has a built-in filter that makes any water safe to drink.
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Perfect for those apocalyptic days when you need to bring down a rabbit for dinner or knock out a member of a rival gang in the new world order.
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You should have one of these in your car and in your bag, because you really never know when you’re going to need to be found in the middle of nowhere. Make your mother happy. Try this one on for size!
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If you throw this bad boy out to someone who has abandoned ship or fallen overboard, you can guide it to them – and back – by remote control. It’s also self-propelled in case they’re too weak to move.
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If you’re someone who spends time in the woods or off the grid (or again, someone preparing for the inevitable breakdown of Western society), then this puppy could be the thing that saves your life. The goTenna works when there are no mobile networks to speak of but allows smart gadget users to stay online even without a link. You can send messages and GPS coordinates on a private network up to 50 miles.
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There are only 45 men in history who have had the honor of serving as President of the United States.
And they’ve each had fascinating life stories and years in office. Take a look at these 10 facts about American Commanders in Chief.
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If you’re like me, you love a good scare.
Enjoy these facts about random, weird, haunting things.
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Most people use Twitter to make jokes or keep up with the news, but when lovelyjessij asked Twitter users to share their deep, dark, family secrets, people really jumped on the thread.
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And when I say jumped, I mean in an all-out, honest, really disturbing way.
I can’t wait until some movie or television producer finds this thread and starts making offers because, dang, I need more details than 140 characters (or however many we get now) can provide.
Since she knew most people would be more apt to share anonymously, she encouraged DMs (private messages), which is where the responses came from.
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Even though I’ve never wanted to be a model, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t wish I looked like a model. Well, with the help of these 7 tricks, it might be possible – but only if I (and you!) find the motivation to follow them!
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Because the only thing worse than deodorant smears is foundation smears around the collar.
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This is helpful for diminishing the appearance of a double chin in photographs, but also for keeping good posture and checking that the skin around your chin and neck doesn’t sag. Give it a try the next time you’re just sitting around!
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Use a scrub on your legs both before and after you shave to keep them silky smooth and soft.
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Soap-based products remove your makeup…along with the outer layer of your skin’s protective layer. For a gentler approach, use wipes or a hydrophilic oil you follow up with toner.
Fun fact: you can swap sparkling water for toner and save some serious $$!
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Pick something nude that fits close to the skin, in a fabric that doesn’t cling to other fabrics – you’ll have the confidence to sport any outfit in a photo!
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The trick? Use something with reflective particles, like glittery eyeshadow or a bit of highlighter. You can mix it in with your favorite moisturizer for a one-stop-shop!
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A simple dab of vaseline on your lips will keep the color shiny – and right where you want it.
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While some friendships last a lifetime, the truth is that most of them fall apart in one way or another. Perhaps you moved too far away from each other, or maybe someone did something wrong. Whatever the reason, it’s never easy to lose a best friend.
These 12 people remember the exact moment it happened…
“We were both in the military when we were younger. I still to this day owe this guy a debt of gratitude. I was a pretty shy kid growing up but this guy, I’ll call him A, would always pump me up by quoting the movie Swingers and telling me: “You’re so money. You’re so money and you don’t even know it.” Maybe he was paraphrasing. We got into our squabbles as young guys in the military will do, but for the most part he was an absolute standup guy.
The years progressed and he visited me at my next duty assignment on the west coast; we were originally on the east coast. We didn’t see each other as much but when I deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan he’d always let me stay the night with him in his apartment, taking me out on the town and just being a really good dude.
The years continued to go by and he even came out to stand as one of the groomsmen in my wedding, giving me a great toast and telling me how proud he was of how much I’d changed since we first met.
But when I got stationed overseas back in 2011 we really lost contact. We talked off and on for the 3 years I was away but when I got back I heard from his sister what happened.
He got out of the military and took a job as a civilian contractor. He was doing well but had to take a lifestyle polygraph test in order to get a better job. He failed miserably. He lied about soliciting prostitutes and smoking weed after he got out of the military. The polygrapher knew was lying and then he admitted to it, thus screwing himself even more. Not only did he not get the clearance but he lost his existing clearance.
He left the east and moved down south, trying to finish his masters degree. But he couldn’t. Strike number two. He failed out of that program. He was still able to get a decent job working at an IT company but he got fired from that after it was found that he was behaving inappropriately with a few of his female co-workers. He was always a lothario but apparently had gone too far in this case.
This all ended up with him getting super depressed and threatening to kill himself, pointing a gun at his head while the cops stood him down. He was involuntarily committed to a mental institution and was just never really the same.
I was flabbergasted when I heard all of this and immediately tried to make contact. A kept avoiding my calls but I was finally able to get a hold of him. He just sounded so different and distant on the phone. I told him I was here for him and would do whatever he needed, but he told me in an ice cold voice something that still kind of haunts. “I’m not the same person that you used to know.”
And he was right.
I kept trying to engage with him over the next couple of months but he’d never pick up or answer my calls. Finally I was able to get a hold of him when he was able to get in work in Texas but he was gone by this point. But I told A how much he meant to me and still means to me, how he brought me out of my shell and was a big part of becoming the person I was today. He didn’t really care one way or the other and after that day (which was around 3-4 years ago now) we haven’t spoken since.”
“I had 2 best friends through grade school, middle school and the start of high school, they didnt know each other, two unrelated friendships, but basically when i was doing something i was with one of them or one of them were at my house. My parents had pointed out a few times that I was always the one to call them (this was before mobile phones and texting), and why did they never contact me to play over (or hang out as we got older). It started gnawing at me and at one point I decided to see if these guys who called me their best friend cared enough to contact me.
So one day I stopped calling them to hang out. Weeks went by and then months. I never heard from either one again. I guess we weren’t that good friends or there would have been some contact.”
“I let him stay with me for a week while he was in between apartments. 3 days in, he loses his headphones but doesn’t tell me, and 2 days later he looks through my stuff and finds my pair of headphones of the same brand, takes them, and claims they’re his. I ask for them back and he says I can borrow them. The next day he marches into my room at 1AM and yells at me for 10 minutes about how I’m an asshole for stealing his headphones and I’m a terrible friend and I’m an idiot, etc. He leaves for 2 hours and then comes back like nothing happened. I give him the headphones (they were only like $30, I just bought another and didn’t care too much) and politely tell him that our friendship means more to me than headphones, so he can take them but can no longer stay with me due to his behavior, even though he only had a couple more days. Haven’t talked to him since, but several mutual friends are pissed at me because he told everyone I stole his headphones, yelled at him, and then kicked him out for no reason. Fun.”
“We’d been best friends for 20 years+ years. Knew everything about each other. Our fears, our hopes, our dreams, our kinks. About the only thing we didn’t know is what the other looked like naked.
We were always there for each other. Every time she met a guy, dated him, and ended up dumping him or getting dumped i was there for her.
Then she hooked up with her current guy. He’s someone we’ve known since high school. They dated for about 6 months, then got married back in March.
She hasn’t spoken to me since. I’ve tried calling her a couple of times, but she won’t answer her phone. I’ve texted her a few times, no response.
I miss my best friend, but as long as she’s happy I won’t press the issue.”
“She never believed I was sexually assaulted as there was no video proof of it happening, and she has continued being friends with my assaulter, even after the assaulter is now stalking me.”
“I knew my best friend since middle school. Went to the same college and graduate school. We both moved across the continent to Silicon Valley. We’d go out biking every weekend and sometimes even during the work week in the early morning or afternoon.
After his girlfriend cheated on him (baby included) he decided to stay with her. No problem for me: it’s not my woman… We’d still hang out once per week for a couple more years, though I never once saw her or the new kid. It was as if he was leading two completely separate lives.
We could finish each others sentences.
And then, 4 years ago, they got married and she decreed that he couldn’t see me anymore. She’s so insecure about her earlier cheating that she thinks everyone of his friend judges her for it. I’m truly indifferent about it. It’s none of my business. Whatever makes them happy.
A few times per year, we do a short lunch bike ride. She doesn’t know about those. (Those are his only rides on Strava that he marks as private so she can’t see them.)
But I’m essentially out of his life. He hasn’t been to the new house that we bought 3 years ago. I haven’t even seen his new kid yet. (He’s 2 now.) My request to visit them due to the new baby was rejected. (“Maybe later…”)
I still bike multiple times per week, often the same trails as the ones we did together. It still bothers me that this was taken away from me.
(When I’m in a really bitter mood, I wish she’d cheat again. I’d be a bad Nelson Mandela.)”
“We were best friends from preschool to 8th grade. One night while her parents were at a wedding, her older cousin was staying the night with. Her cousin was downstairs all night and my friend invited her friend (boy) who was two years older than us over. I was already a little uncomfortable because my friend lied to her cousin saying this boy was the same age as us. While we were upstairs in her room, we were listening to music and reading magazines. Out of no where my friend took her shirt off and was dancing around in her bra. This boy told her to dance in her underwear too so she did. He asked me to and I said no. My friend started making fun of me and calling me a prude. He then held me down and kept trying to yank my pants off, I kept kicking him, so my Friend started helping him. He got my pants half way down and he kept reaching in my underwear and under my bra. So I started yelling for him to stop and I kicked him hard in the face. He stopped and went home. when he left I got in a fist fight with my friend. Her cousin (who was asleep the whole time) never found out. I walked home and I was too embarrassed to tell my mom. The next day I felt like I needed to talk to Someone so when I went for a walk with another friend, I told her what happened. She told her mom, her mom called my mom, and we went to the police station (bc my other friend told the boy my mom called her mom and told her what happened, so his mom ran to the police station to press charges on us for making up lies about her son). Of course, word spread around school and I was completely embarrassed and depressed. My friend lied to everyone saying that I was the one who was taking my clothes off and trying to get him to have sex with me, and he didn’t want to so I made up lies about him. Ended our friendship and it made it hard for me to become close to any other friend again.”
“Drugs. Promised we wouldn’t let that ever come between us. We did. But now we’re both trying to put it back together again. This time without drugs.”
“Money. As we got older money borrowed didn’t get paid back and the person started treating me like a second income. Forgiving past debt didn’t do it, but cutting them off from using me as secondary income did.”
“My best friend of almost 20 years told my 13 year-old child that she’d need plastic surgery, to diet, and an entire new wardrobe to fit in at her new school. He also tried to convince me that I wasn’t an addict, I had 2 months clean at the time and was fresh out of treatment. Multiple times offered me numerous substances trying to get me to break. He had agreed to let us move in to escape the unsafe home we were in but he went maniacally insane. The last straw was him making some off the cuff remarks to me about “not wanting to associate with anyone who didn’t fit his image of celebrity”.
I wrote a Dear John note, packed my shit and took my kid while he was at work. Blocked him on every conceivable social media and haven’t spoken to him since. No regrets.”
“He came up to me at lunch one day and asked me if I knew a girl. I said no and he said that he thought she was super hot but had no classes with her, no friends in common, nothing to talk to her but he found out that she goes to the church his mom goes to so he asked if I wanted to go to church so he could get at her. Go to church to pick up girls? My sixteen year old mind thought that was fucking genius. So Sunday rolls around he picks me up and we go.
He was a good looking guy, super athletic but socially awkward. I’m okay at best looking, pudgy, but pretty outgoing so pretty solid combo when it comes to spitting game, he brings them in I keep them entertained. So we spot her and we join the group get to talking and making friends and it was actually really cool so we went back the next week and the week after that. All of a sudden it’s been six months and we’re heavily invested in this church youth group. That girl turned out to have a boyfriend but we liked all the other people anyway.
I’m an atheist so I was just there to kick it with my boy and other people my age but he got super invested in the religion aspect. Decided he wanted to be a pastor and started cutting off all our friends besides me since they were in his mind the cause of sin in his life. He then would only ever talk to me about God not our actual shared interests so eventually I told him I wasn’t going to attend the youth group anymore. He got furious and cut me off too. I kept being friends with a few of the girls there but not him. The friends that he all cut out and I got even closer after Highschool and now he’s in the navy.
Tldr: Went to church for the pussy, he stayed for the religion. I left.”
“We went to college, and she found newer “cooler” friends and froze me out. Sucked since we had been friends since kindergarten and lived together in our first dorm freshman year.”
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There are things in the TV shows and movies we watched when we were kids that we didn’t ever question. But now, as adults, some of us can’t help but think about how strange they were. And now that we have the beautiful thing called the internet, we can put our heads together to come up with the most outlandish, but totally plausible, theories.
So buckle up and check out some of the what-ifs and might-have-beens of some of your childhood faves.
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In this super dark theory, Angelica made up all the babies, who actually died or were never born in the first place. Chuckie died with his mother, which is why his dad is always so nervous and Tommy Pickles was stillborn, explaining his father’s “inventions” meant to help him cope with the son he never had. The twins aren’t twins but were aborted, and Angelica never knew whether it was a boy or girl, so she made up both.
If this totally freaks you out (it should), rest assured that co-creator Arlene Klasky confirmed it isn’t the slightest bit true.
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For something not exactly safe for kids, so read on with that in mind.
There’s an entire episode where both Spongebob and Patrick have an insatiable appetite for karate. The person explains his (or her) theory like this on Reddit:
“The episode starts with Spongebob coming home, looking for Sandy to do karate with. Why would Sandy already be in his house, if they were not in a relationship? He looked around, sees she isn’t there, then sits on the couch. She appears shortly after and tries to tackle him. Before Spongebob starts to go at it, he runs off, puts on his safety helmet and gloves, says ‘safety first,’ then winks at the camera before charging at Sandy,” the cartoon theory-crafter wrote on Reddit, making it obvious that Mr. Squarepants had another kind of “safety” in mind.
He later gets fired because all he could think about was karate with Sandy.
I’m buying it. Are you?
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Sid is everyone’s nightmare as a child, and poetically grows up to be a garbage man….but is he the intentional hero, as well?
The argument goes that Sid is the only person who knows the toys are alive, so he eventually gets a job that helps him ensure no toy is actually thrown out in the trash (we see toys he personally salvaged in the movie), and so he’s the person who saves the toys instead of destroying them.
Team Sid, anyone?
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The show has been around for over 20 years, yet Ash Ketchum remains a sweet 10-year-old boy. Well, here’s why: in the first episode, Ash sees a Ho-oh in the sky and “it is said that anyone seeing it is promised eternal happiness.”
What’s happier than forever being free to follow your dreams and ambitions at 10? Nothing, obviously!
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This popular theory holds that Bill “The Candy Man” secretly worked for Wonka and knew which candy bar had the last Golden Ticket – a ticket he was instructed to give only to a poor, local, unselfish kid who might be the best person to inherit his factory.
Supporting facts include the winning bar being displayed in a case where only Bill could choose it and Wonka telling Charlie – and only Charlie – that he read about him in the “papers.” Who’s to say he meant the newspaper and not a secret report?
I like it.
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We all love our feline friends (even when they give us the cold shoulder for no reason at all), but how much do you really know about them?
Take a look at these 15 cat facts so you can try to better understand your furry companion.
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Let’s be honest: it’d be pretty sweet if magical creatures existed in our world. I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t love to ride a dragon to work every day.
Most of us won’t ‘fess up to really believing these creatures exist out there in the world, hidden from our puny human eyes, but these 12+ people aren’t scared to go on the record!
“While I don’t believe that they actually exist, the way that Native American refuse to ever talk about Wendigos/Skinwalkers always seemed interesting to me.
Perhaps the original tribes has some loonies among them and therefore was deemed as “supernatural” or it simply served as a way to keep children away from the woods? Who knows.
Edit: Does writing about these creatures on Reddit also draw their attention to you? Because then I just fucked us all.”
“Unicorns.
The earliest written accounts of unicorns describe them more akin to deer in looks. There’s also a abnormality they can have with their antlers where they curl together into what looks like a single pointed horn instead of two twisting antlers.
It makes sense that they could be changed into myth.Also, there’s a REAL species of flying dragon!
Ok, so Gliding dragon is a better description…. and it doesn’t breathe fire. Its native to indonesia”
“Aralez. Mythological dog angels from Armenian culture. With the widespread stories of dogs saving people’s lives, providing companionship, and giving their very lives for people I can only believe that the Armenian tales recount tales of dogs in prehistory. Before we could understand the depth of their emotion and mental lives fully.”
“Kraken.
Wouldn’t surprise me if one appeared from the watery depths.
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“I am Ojibwe. When people in the past faced Starving-Times due to crop failure/drought, or tribal warfare etc-people who had no other choice would eat the dead out of absolute desperation. People would go mad from starvation before they finally did this. As you can imagine, it was deeply shameful for survivors. After the Starving-Time, no one in the community wanted to discuss it, what they had to do to survive.
For our people, the Wendigo legend originated with these experiences. The Wendigo was a euphemism, an ACTUALIZATION of the survivors emotions during and after the Starving-Time, wherein the urge to eat became all-consuming of a person’s spirit. That the maddening hunger possessed them to such an extent that it would cause them to eat the community’s dead.
Instead of discussing their actual feelings about the cannibalism that was caused by starvation, the story of the Wendigo began. It continued to shape in retelling for centuries and centuries since time immemorial between different Ojibway communities.
So picture the Wendigo. A huge, towering spirit that walked the bush. It’s power was so great, that it knocked down trees as it moved. It came to life every winter, especially after drought. When the People could not store enough food in spring, summer and fall-for winter.
When the communities crops had failed. When the forest had been dry as tinder, and no berries and roots could grow. When the fishing had been poor because the fish were not running in the streams. When the hinting was poor because animals starved. Because animal-mothers could not eat enough and they did not produce milk for their babies and the babies died, and the mothers starved. When even the beavers the Land left because the streams dried up and because the birch trees withered.
That was when the Wendigo came to the Land to torment the People. It followed them through the bush as they searched for food, until they could go no further. The Wendigo then ran down the People. Possessed the People. Made them mad with hunger and lust for food of any kind. Made them so evil and mad that they would eat the dead. The Elders. The children. And if the Wendigo entered you, you also became a Wendigo. You could then possess others to become Eaters of the Dead as well.”
“I don’t think it’s necessarily likely per se, but my family are Irish and they hardcore believe in the Fair Folk, or the Aos Si. They’re not exactly fairies, they’re … different? Meaner. You don’t fuck with them, basically, and if something’s going horribly wrong in your life it’s probably because you fucked with them or you made them angry. And you have to be careful how you talk about them, too – kind of like with skinwalkers, you don’t name them. You just call them the Fair Folk, or the Folk.
They mostly hang out and try to get you to owe them a favour. You don’t take anything from the Folk, or you owe them one, and you don’t want to be in that position. There’s lots of different types that do lots of different things, though.
I don’t wanna come off as that weirdo who believes in what is… essentially fairies, but I grew up with the stories and I have a healthy level of skepticism about this. I’m not saying they’re real but I’m also not about to step into a fairy circle any time soon. Especially not at dusk.”
“Anything from the sea really sounds plausible to me considering how little we have explored it. Sea serpents and the Kraken are major examples of something that could realistically be hiding in the depths and only come up to the surface on rare occasions.”
“The Jersey Devil. I’ve dated it.”
“Jackelopes definitely exist. Only they’re not some weird rabbit antelope hybrid. They’re just some poor rabbits infected with the Shope Papilloma Virus which causes strange horn-like growths.”
“Nicholas Cage. Some say it’s all movie magic, but I believe he’s real.”
“It’s not that I inherently believe there is scientific evidence corroborating its existence, but I just really really really want Mothman to exist.”
“Not that I think it’s likely, but I love the Mokele Mbembe legend. Supposedly some sort of dinosaur-like creature living in the swamps in Cameroon or thereabouts. It’s name means “the one who stops the flow of rivers.”
Legend has it that this enormous beast has a long neck, and is bigger than an elephant. It’s supposedly walks along the riverbeds and swamplands most submerged, and has been thought to kill large predators like crocodiles, but then not eat them. There is a story about a small village that killed one of these creatures and ate it, and a short time later, everyone who had eaten its flesh became sick or died.
The main reason it’s so compelling is that the jungle and swamplands where it supposedly lives are so dense and impassable for people that it could have conceivably lived in the relatively unchanged climate for thousand upon thousand of years, and humans would have never encountered it, or even been able to venture into its habitat with any reasonable effort.”
“Trolls are real and they steal your undies.”
“Some form of yeti or Sasquatch, aka “Bigfoot”, most likely did exist at one point in time. It doesn’t seem entirely unreasonable to me, albeit the real thing was probably less exciting.”
“Do aliens count?
I guess aliens.
I don’t think there’s a chance in hell that they’ve visited Earth, or abducted people, but somewhere out there?
Yeah, I definitely think so.
The universe is so mind-bogglingly massive that the odds of us being the only life in the universe are basically nil.”
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