Students at Oberlin College…

Students at Oberlin College can rent original paintings by Picasso, Monet, and Dalí (among others) to hang in their dorm rooms for $5 per semester. On top of the $5 each student has to cough up, only a minimal liability agreement is signed, although the full consequences for damaging a work are unknown to the […]

September 1, 2018

Korean college students once…

Korean college students once protested against the amount of air in potato chip packets by building a raft out of them and sailing across a river. 00

September 1, 2018

These 20 Hilarious Tweets Are Just For the Ladies

Just because these tweets were written for women, by women, that doesn’t mean men won’t still find them funny. But seriously, ladies, listen up…cause these tweets are here to make you laugh.

Enjoy, my female friends.

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August 31, 2018

This Huge Supermarket Chain Plans to Stop Using Plastic Bags in Less Than 10 Years

Supermarket chain Kroger, which owns 2,800 stores across America, recently announced that they’ll soon start phasing out plastic bags in their locations. By 2025, the company plans to eliminate plastic bags from their stores completely.

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The Ohio-based supermarket giant will begin their phasing out process next year in Washington state. Kroger will push customers to use cloth bags or bags made from other reusable materials.

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Out of the nearly 1 trillion plastic bags used around the world each year, only about 5% end up being recycled. Kroger’s plastic bag plan is part of its larger initiative called Zero Hunger Zero Waste. The plan aims to fight hunger in local communities and to reduce landfill waste by 90% by 2020.

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August 31, 2018

Why Do Planes Takeoff at Such a Steep Angle?

Planes are feats of modern engineering and we are so thankful they exist. But why the heck do they have to have such a steep takeoff?

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The answer, as you might have guessed, is for practical reasons. Planes are at their most efficient when they are at their cruising altitudes, so pilots do their best to take off, ascend sharply to around 35,000 feet, and cruise until it’s time to make that final descent.

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Because the airlines and pilots have to keep customer comfort and other plane traffic in mind, the pilots can’t take off as steeply as they’d like to, but obviously, that ain’t gonna…fly…

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August 31, 2018

Goats Are Drawn to Happy People, According to Research

Good news, goat lovers. If goats are drawn to you, that means you are a happy person. That’s an obviously self-fulfilling statement, but it also may be scientifically true that goats prefer you because you’re happy.

At least that’s what a recent study says.

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The study says that goats prefer “positive human emotional facial expressions.” In other words, if you’re smiling, goats are more drawn to you. In the study, goats roamed and explored an area that had two black and white photos at goat-eye level. One was of a smiling human face, the other an angry face.

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The goats preferred to approach the smiling face. This suggests that goats have the ability to read human facial expressions. Companion animals such as dogs are recognized as able to read human emotions, but this is the first research to show that goats might have that same ability. So get out into the country today and go smile at some of these adorable fluffers!

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August 31, 2018

These 5 Puzzles Will Warm Up Your Brain

Your brain could always use a good workout, and these five puzzles are just the thing to do the trick. Enjoy!

#5. A kingdom far, far, away.

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Far, far, away lived a king who didn’t allow anyone in or out of his kingdom. There was a single bridge that connected them to the outside world, and royal orders stated that anyone moving outside should be killed, and anyone coming in should be turned back.

There’s a single guard on the bridge and he’s allowed to take rest breaks inside a hut of no more than 5 minutes. It takes 8 minutes to cross the bridge.

Even so, one woman manages to escape the kingdom. How?

Continue reading for the answer!

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August 31, 2018

When Exactly Did the First Internet Search Take Place?

We use search engines like Google and Bing (jk, no one uses Bing) so often that we almost take them for granted. So, have you ever wondered when the first internet search ever took place?

Was it Google back in 1998? No. Was it ARPANET in 1969? Try again. Most people aren’t aware of it, but the fact is that the first Internet search occurred all the way back in 1963. That year, two men sent the first known long-distance computer query: Charles Bourne and Leonard Chaitin at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.

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The project was funded by the Air Force in a time when most information retrieval – no matter what it was – demanded physical objects. Bourne and Chaitin designed their program to search for any word in a database of 7 memos that Bourne had typed onto punched paper tapes and converted to magnetic tape. Chaitin went to Santa Monica, 350 miles away, and put the files onto a military computer. Then, they sent a query from that massive computer terminal (no one can quite remember what the question was). The data went out and came back through telephone lines, and the right answer appeared. Bourne and Chaitin had proved that online search was possible.

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Although the initial experiment was a success, the Air Force shut the program down. Everyday use of the pioneering experiment was still more than a generation away. But at least we can now thank Bourne and Chaitin for their foresight.

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August 31, 2018

These Rarely-Seen WWII Photos are Breathtaking

World War II lasted for 6 years and took the lives of millions of people in the process, changing the world forever.

The conflict is still studied and will be examined for the rest of human history due to its impact on every aspect of life.

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1. Star Wars opened in 1977, the same year as the last guillotine execution in France.

2. Harriet the Tortoise was collected by Charles Darwin in 1835. She died in 2006.

3. The University of Oxford was established hundreds of years before the Aztec Empire was founded in 1428.

4. George Washington died in 1799. The first dinosaur fossil wasn’t discovered until 1824. Washington didn’t know dinosaurs existed.

5. Woolly Mammoths still roamed the Earth while Egyptians were building the pyramids (2660 BCE)

6. The world’s oldest tree was already 1,000 years old when the last Woolly Mammoth died. The tree is in California.

7. Anne Frank and Martin Luther King, Jr. were both born in the same year, 1929.

8. Harvard didn’t offer calculus for a few years after it was established because calculus hadn’t been invented yet.

9. You could take the London Underground to the last public hanging in the UK in 1868.

10. Ecstasy was invented in 1912, the same year the Titanic sank.

11. When the Pilgrims landed in America, there was already a ‘Palace of the Governors’ in what is now New Mexico.

12. Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler were both born in 1889. In 1940, Chaplin satirized Hitler in The Great Dictator.

13. Women didn’t get the right to vote in Switzerland until 1971.

14. Orville Wright was still alive when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan in 1945. He died in 1948.

15. Microsoft was founded while Spain was still a fascist dictatorship in 1975.