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Have You Ever Wondered Why We Give Standing Ovations?

There are certain things in life that we just accept without really questioning. That is, well, until someone questions them and then you can’t get it out of your head.

So…even if you haven’t ever wondered why people stand up to clap after a particularly good performance, chances are that you’re wondering now that I’ve brought it up, right?

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Here’s the answer: 

Like many random pieces of culture, the standing ovation dates back to Ancient Rome. The word “ovation” is derived from the Latin word meaning “I rejoice,” and was commonplace during ceremonies for returning generals who won important but not huge victories for the Empire.

No word on whether standing ovations took place in the intervening centuries, but in a New York Times op-ed piece from 2003, Jessie McKinley supposed they became common in the theater in the 17th century – though McKinley also notes that some historians place them much more recently, in the years following WWII.

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The “Big Lady Theory,” named by American musical scholarEthan Mordden, purports that as musicals evolved to showcase a star performer, the producers arranged to allow time for a longer bow. He says that:

“The whole curtain call is built to a climax. The ensemble bows and sings. The male leads bow, and supporting women, and everything builds and builds and builds, and then when everyone’s attention is focused, the star comes out in her 37th Bob Mackie gown of the evening. By that point, you have no choice but to get to your feet.”

Similarly (or not), my family used to go to a live country music show at the Lake of the Ozarks that received a standing ovation every night…after they sang God Bless the USA and dropped a giant American flag behind the stage. Talk about having no choice!

Some fun facts: 

The longest standing ovation at the Oscars was given to Charlie Chaplin – it took place when he was given an Honorary Award at the 1972 ceremony and lasted a full 12 minutes.

They’re more common in sports, but the record there belongs to Cal Ripken, Jr. On September 6, 1995, Ripken broke the record for consecutive MLB games played and people stood and cheered for 22 minutes.

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No word on the longest standing ovation required to bring a band back out on stage to play their encore, but however long it was, it was too long.

Just play the damn songs we all came here for already so we can go home.

And also, get off my lawn.

h/t: Mental_Floss

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15 People Reveal the Most Awkward Things They’ve Ever Seen – Or Been a Part Of

There’s nothing better than an awkward situation. Well, as long as it isn’t happening to you! So sit back, read up, and enjoy living vicariously through these intensely awkward moments.

#15. We slowly and quietly left.

“Went into my girlfriend’s dorm to chill. We saw that her roommate was fully under her covers probably watching some TV show, so we said “hi” and laid down and chat for a bit.

She probably had her headphones on really loud or something because then we hear a vibrating sound while we were talking.

Neither of us address it and just go “ah ha ha, what’s that sound?” After 10 minutes or so it gets heavier and it looks like she’s moving under the covers. Then we addressed it to each other and decided rather than letting her know loud and clear that we’re in the room, we just slowly and quietly left.”

#14. She cut the cake right there.

“Oh boy, oh boy do I have a story. My cousin was turning 30, so we were all(uncles, cousins etc, about 30 people) meeting at my grand parents house to celebrate and cut cake. An hour or two before we all made our way there, some of us coming from that far away, my grandfather had a heart attack. Before I got there, EMTS had come and gone and grandpa was pronounced dead. While waiting for the funeral home to come and collect the body, we all crowded around and left offerings/said prayers (traditional in my culture) and it was all very sombre. My 30 year old cousins mum(eldest daughter of the deceased), however, has some problems with narcissism, so while we’re all praying she insists that we must still cut her daughters cake and sing happy birthday. She set up a stool to hold the cake OVER MY GRANDFATHER’S CORPSE and made her protesting daughter cut the cake right there while we all sit around the body and cake singing happy birthday through barely contained tears. They used this big-ass butcher knife too and the whole time all I could imagine was somebody slipping and impaling grandpa. Honestly the absurdity of it all kind of distracted from the sting of grieving, so all in all it kind of worked out alright.”

#13. While working on math homework.

“my junior year of high school i was at my tutor’s house. in the middle of the session her husband called her to tell her their dog had died while he and his friends were camping. she started profusely crying on the phone and, once she hung up, instead of asking me to leave said that she was glad i was there to take her mind off of it. i guess i’m glad i could help, but god i’ve never been so uncomfortable while working on math homework.”

#12. The last time I went there.

“I would go to a 2nd language tutor once a week & she was married to a cop. One day I arrived for my session & it was very clear that they were in the middle of an argument & she had been crying but urged me inside anyways & started going over the lesson. He then walked into the room, stood over me & told me to leave whilst she told me to stay. They then started arguing over me. It was very, very uncomfortable.

I left & that was the last time I went there. To be completely honest I have often thought back & wondered if I should have said something to someone… but to who? And what..? That something ‘felt’ off? I’ve been curious if they stayed together or if they broke up.”

#11. Alarmed and horrified.

“A group of three ladies that I recognized as regular customers were shopping. Three of the ladies are sisters but there is a significant age gap between oldest and youngest, maybe 10-15 years. The youngest sister was carrying her newborn who was a bit fussy, and at various points, she would hand the baby off to the oldest sister.

My newish coworker came up to chat with/help them and to fuss over the baby. Not knowing these women, she assumed that the oldest sister who was helping with the baby was actually the baby’s grandmother (rather than aunt) and commented good-naturedly on how sometimes babies just want their grandmas and grandmas know best sometimes.

This was, of course, the exact wrong thing to say because:

Oldest sister was of course dismayed at being an aunt being mistaken for a grandma
All three sisters were shopping for something for the youngest sister (who was still adjusting to her post-pregnancy body) to wear to their mother’s funeral. The baby would never see their grandma and here’s this saleslady waxing on about how important grandmas are.
The three sisters burst into tears which of course set the baby off as well, which caused everyone around to stare. They were still staring when the middle sister (not being flooded with post partum hormones or the adrenaline that comes from being mistaken for your sister’s mom) eventually was able to explain the situation to my very alarmed and horrified coworker.”

#10. They just looked shocked.

“Not my story but a family friend.

He’s a school principle, and he goes to a wine festival and on his way home (slightly drunk) on the train he runs into the parents of a boy he used to teach. They get to talking this and that when my family friends asks how the boy is…

The parents just look shocked and say “he passed away last year… you were at the funeral… you spoke” .

He apologised profusely, but I think that’s the most awkward story I’ve ever heard.”

#9. I’ll never get that image out of my head.

“In college I lived really close to my grandparent’s house so they gave me a key and told me to “Stop on by anytime, don’t worry about calling.” So I did. My grandma was giving my grandpa a bj in the living room. I ALWAYS call now. It’s been 10 years. My grandma’s favorite marriage advice is to “keep it spicy”. More power to them I guess but I’ll never get that image out of my head.”

#8. Teenage me.

“Teenage me didn’t have a car yet. I went to go ask my mom if I could take it to go get ice cream with my sister. Got to my mom’s room and she was crying really hard. Her best friend’s son who was my age and I had been familiar with growing up had just committed suicide by stepping in front of a train. I don’t know how I could’ve been that heartless, but I still asked to go get ice cream.

Edit: spelling”

#7. The stink eye.

“Attended a memorial/funeral in Japan for an American sailor. His wife was there, and his ex-wife was there also, and his Japanese “wife” was there as well. It was rumored that there was also another girlfriend but if there was, she didn’t show. The best part was the poor dude giving the eulogy talking about what a great person this guy was while these three women are giving each other the stink eye.”

#6. It was my mom.

“I was on a road trip (passenger) and sexting with my girlfriend. During the steamy conversation I got a text saying “Please stop somewhere and get some sleep tonight, don’t try to do the whole trip in one day”. I assumed it was another text from my girlfriend, so I replied “well judging from how horny you made me, I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep”. It was my mom.”

#5. They weren’t taking chances.

“I was visiting my girlfriend (now wife) in college one weekend. We went to a party and I ended up having WAY too much to drink and blacked out. We get back to her dorm room and both fall asleep (I’m definitely in her room next to her at this point).

I wake up on the floor with a bunch of blankets on me and a trash can next to my head. Must have been getting sick? I stand up to crawl back in bed to my girlfriend, but there is a woman with different color hair in her bed, and the sheets are different, and the shit on the walls is different too. That’s when I panic and sprint out of the room, but I’m still super drunk and I tripped on the blankets on the floor and fall flat on my face. I walk out into the hallway with a bloody nose and I’m out of breath. Girlfriends room is right across the hall.

I walk in and she is sitting on the bed pissed. Apparently I got up to pee an hour earlier and never came back. She went looking for me and couldn’t find me. She talked to the girls across the hall the next day and apologized on my behalf. They both apparently just laughed and said it was fine.

Their account (according to my wife): I just barged in the room complaining about something when I sat on the bed and realized that person wasn’t my girlfriend. I apologized to them and said I was lost and that the best thing to do when you’re lost is to stay put. So I sat on the floor waiting for my girlfriend to come find me, fell asleep, and they put blankets on me. Didn’t get sick, but they weren’t taking chances.

Edit: definitely haven’t gotten that drunk since.”

#4. Through the drive-thru.

“I was working as a bank teller. My allergies were going nuts. In fact everyone was. We all came into work eyes red and sneezing. Apparently the pollen count was at a record breaking high. Anyways we opened up and I help the first customer of the day. It went something like this.

Me: “Hi, how are you doing today?”

Her: “ I’m actually not feeling so good”

Me: “oh, I’m sorry. Is it your allergies? I know me and my coworkers are feeling it pretty bad”

Her: “no, I had a miscarriage this morning”

Me: “……..I’m sorry”

This was all through the drive through. I feel bad, I wish I could have comforted her a little bit, but I had no idea what to say.”

#3. Completely uncontrollable.

“I was at a Starbucks on my commute, waiting for my drink and people watching. I watched a young mother and her toddler, clearly justtt started standing holding onto the back of the chair, and had this silent moment of being charmed by them. The mother took her foot off the bottom rung and stood up to get a stir stick and WHAP, the child went slamming face first into the floor.

There was a moment of silence and then SCREAMING. There was a splatter of blood, panic, the mother screaming for an ambulance.

And I.. started laughing??????????????? It was completely uncontrollable. I wasn’t finding anything funny, I was completely horrified and yet I couldn’t stop flat out guffawing. I was covering my mouth, hysterically laughing this throaty laugh nearly in this woman’s face. I couldn’t keep it down, my face was in a horrified expression but it just kept happening. The tension in that room before I left – easily the most awkward experience of my life. I have no idea what the heck happened.”

#2. They failed to mention it.

“One Halloween I was walking with a group of friends to one friend’s apartment. I don’t remember how it happened, but they got a little ahead of me. I figured it was no big deal, we were entering the apartment complex and I had been to their apartment before.

So I get to the apartment door and knock. Nobody answered, but I knew they were expecting me any second so I just opened the door and went in.

There was nobody in the living room, so I headed to the kitchen, where I scared the crap out of some guy I’d never seen before. I turned around and ran out of his apartment, apologizing all the way.

He followed me out a bit slower and asked me what had happened. I explained, and he said he didn’t know my friends, but was just moving in.

And that’s the story of how I barged into a stranger’s apartment dressed like Velma from Scooby Doo. I texted my friends and found they had moved to a larger apartment within the complex recently, and failed to mention it.”

#1. I pretended I was asleep.

“When I was 11, my family had a BBQ & they invited some friends who had kids that imo were “super cute”. I was a hot mess of a tomboy so I high tailed into the shower thinking I had time before they arrived….boy, was I wrong.

I got out of the shower in my towel to hear the boys already serving their plates. I quickly go into my room. Now this room didn’t have a lock & my room was the unspoken-designated kids room to eat in & play, I hear their footsteps coming closer & I duck into closet. I’m in a towel, hair frizzy, water dripping on to closet floor…I hear the boys sit on the bed, turn on tv & eat delicious BBQ.

Then, I guess, my mom & aunt notice I’m not there & that’s not possible since I love food I shoulda been first with my greedy ass. Search begins…The boys don’t even bother to leave when their mom came in to tell them to help find me…instead they open closet door to find me. (Now I assume it was a sarcastic attempt in searching lol) I panicked when they reached the closet and pretended I was asleep…they shook me to ‘wake’ me up and told everyone I was asleep in a towel in the closet. Commence house wide laughter, even the boys were laughing!! I still feel the awkwardness and that was like 30 years ago haha.”

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15 People Share Their Best Cheap Purchases

If you’re always on the lookout for the best deals, then these 12 people have you covered with some very seriously cool (and affordable) items you’ll wonder how you ever lived without.

#15. Twenty bucks.

“I spent 20 bucks to find who liked my profile on Ok Cupid. That girl is now my wife.”

#14. Big money saver.

“A box of condoms to protect against child support. Good so far.”

#13. I miss being a kid.

“I spent $5.99 on the mobile Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic game and I play it every single day. I miss being a kid.”

#12. Easy.

“Easy… my Sony MDR-7506 headphones. I live in an apartment building with 59 other tenants and the walls are paper thin. I’ve had mine since 2012 and other than having to replace the ear pads a time or two, they’ve held up very well.”

#11. Decent teeth.

“$40 waterpik water flosser. For the first time in my life I have decent teeth.”

#10. An old fire boat.

“I bought an old fire boat from a scrapyard for $100 years ago, ended up trading it for an amazing jet boat with a 454. I was 16 and all these years later, my $100 jet boat still lives!!!”

#9. I’m never going back.

“I bought a phone charger that is more than twice my height in length by mistake & at first I thought it was really goofy and was gonna return it but it’s actually awesome & I’m never going back to short cords!”

#8. Best dog ever.

“$75 to the pound, got the best dog ever.”

#7. Blasting those a$$holes.

“No question, it’s the Bug-A-Salt 2.0. It’s a pump-action air gun that shoots table salt (costs around $40). They market it for flies but it works especially well for mosquitos. I love blasting those assholes out of the sky!”

#6. Changed the way I cook.

“I have 2 Victorinox knives, a chef’s knife and a paring knife. $40 and $7 respectively, and I got a long honing steel for another $8.

I’d only ever used terrible or dull knives before. Using sharp knives and maintaining that sharpness has changed the way I cook. I’m far more confident and in control in the kitchen, and every time my boyfriend uses my knives he’s jealous of how sharp they are.”

#5. Like a drug.

“A used pressure washer. It’s like a drug using that thing.”

#4. RIP.

“Movie pass until they realized they’re going to go bankrupt.”

#3. Over or under.

“My eno hammock. Best purchase I’ve ever made over or under $100.”

#2. Life-changing.

“Bidet attachment for my toilet. Best $35 I ever spent. Life-changing.”

#1. People like me.

“Coffee cup reheater. It keeps your hot drinks warm for people like me that often forget they’re drinking it lol. Price ranges from like $12-$20 on Amazon.”

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This High School Math Puzzle Is Stumping The Internet

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A math problem went viral in Japan after people were claiming that only 60% of 20-year-olds were able to get the correct answer – and get out your pen and paper because using a calculator isn’t going to work, young whippersnappers!

However, if you’re someone who remembers “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally” to figure out the order of operations here, you’ve got a leg up.

Here’s the full answer in video format:

Basically, since there are no parentheses, exponents, or multiplication signs, you’d go after the division first (and should end up with 9), leaving you with 9-9+1.

Then, you’d move to addition and subtraction – left to right – which gives you 0+1.

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Which means your answer to the problem should be a 1.

It’s incredibly simple if you remember your pneumonic device, but almost impossible if you don’t. Score one for the old way of doing things, am I right?

Until next time!

h/t: Mental_Floss

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15 Readers Share the Worst Book They Ever Read

If you’re a reader, I’m sure answering the question “What’s the worst book you’ve ever read” is easier than answering its opposite – because truly, there are so many more good books out there than bad ones. If you don’t agree, well…you might not be looking hard enough.

#15. My anger and disgust.

“Thirteen Reasons Why.

It’s been years since I tried to read it, but I can still vividly remember my anger and disgust. On top of being terribly written, the book handles serious topics like suicide and depression with the emotional intelligence of a fucking twelve year-old orphan. The only two reasons why it was able to become a show are shock value and its ability to tout itself as an “mental health awareness tool”.”

#14. Oprah was into it.

“The Secret. It was big for awhile and Oprah was into it. Basically says if your life sucks you aren’t “envisioning” hard enough. Fuck that.”

#13. Just plain stupid.

“Left Behind. I wanted to enjoy it as a post-apocalyptic thriller, and I don’t mind religious elements, but it was just plain stupid.”

#12. Lazy, boring, and poorly written.

“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, may be a good play (haven’t seen it) but the book is lazy, boring and poorly written. Also the whole Voldy’s daughter is stupid

EDIT: my inbox has been fucking destroyed but almost everything that has been replied to me I agree with. Thanks for the Reddit gold, oh wait…”

#11. Double whoops.

“Twilight: Breaking Dawn

The vampire Cullens being all white and beautiful and rich and valuing education. The werewolf Quileutes being all brown and violent and high school dropouts. The plot is Bella gets knocked up by Edward, decides to gamble Edward’s life (because she knows he’ll commit suicide if she dies) and have this half-vampire baby. Surprise, she succeeds, and is immediately turned into a vampire. Jacob the werewolf gets removed from the love triangle by falling in love with Bella’s baby due to some stupid werewolf sexual mechanism even though it’s likely Bella’s baby is sterile, and he’ll only having to wait 7 years before he can fuck her because she rapidly ages (while conveniently will stop aging as an adolescent). Because Jacob is in love with Bella’s baby, he makes the other werewolves fall in line so they can’t fight vampires on their turf anymore.

Someone spots Bella and her perfect rainbow butt baby and assumes the kid is a vampire, and runs off to tell the vampire council since kid vamps are illegal. But half-vamps age so it’ll be fine once the vampire council shows up and sees she’s obviously not a full vampire. The Cullens collect dozens of vampire ‘witnesses’ to watch Bella’s baby grow up and be an obviously not a full vampire baby, all the while feasting and killing hundreds of humans in the Pacific Northwest but even the pedowolves give a shit about human lives anymore.

Bella gets the ultimate psychic shield power, which conveniently counters almost all of the vampire council’s special abilities. This one guy can expel a mist, and even though that’s physical Bella can still block it with her shield because fuck you, Mary Sue. She also has perfect control over her bloodlust because of course.

The vampire council shows up, sees that Bella’s kid is obviously not a full vampire, and go home.

Meanwhile everyone conveniently forgets that the vampire council now know that Bella’s dad knows about vampires, and the rules are such people either need to be turned into vampires themselves or killed. Whoops.

The book is full of poor writing and grammar, continuity issues, and shit just plain wrong. At one point they travel “West from Rio de Janeiro, into the ocean” which, if you examine a map, is not where the ocean is. Another scene has Bella’s dad eat pancakes in one paragraph, but they turn into cereal a few sentences later.

People say the movie was better because it had some trailer bait scene of the vampires and werewolves fighting….even though that scene was a vision of Alice’s, and impossible for her to see because she can’t see any future with werewolves involved. Like, that was a major plot point of the second book/movie New Moon. Double whoops.”

#10. Every chance I get.

“The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett. Basically, this teenage girl who we’re supposed to think is likeably quirky but is actually a huge bitch thinks that a girl she didn’t even like turned into a werewolf when she disappeared. This is not played for laughs and this is not a world in which werewolves or fantasy shit exists. She becomes obsessed with the missing girl and falls in love with the girl’s 30 year old boyfriend when she’s 16 (though acts much younger. This isn’t a book about a descent into madness either, THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE SEEN AS NORMAL). Hated it, and I’ll bash it every chance I get.”

#9. Atrociously written.

“Very possibly Armada, by Ernie Cline. It’s a shame, because I unabashedly love the cheesy retro nostalgia bomb that was Ready Player One, I was really hoping he’d knock it out of the park with the follow-up.

Nope. This book is fucking awful. It’s not a sequel, doesn’t tie in at all, it’s just trying to do the exact same thing all over again by stealing plots from The Last Starfighter and Ender’s Game and cramming in as many 70s and 80s references he possibly can. The main love interest, Alexis “Lex” Larkin, is the most obnoxiously typical manic pixie geek fantasy one could imagine:

She was just off to my right, sitting all alone in a deserted row near the back, taking brazen pulls from a chrome hip flask painted to look like R2-D2 […] Her pale, alabaster skin contrasted sharply with her dark clothing – black combat boots, black jeans, and a black tank top (which didn’t fully conceal the black bra she was wearing underneath). She had a spiky wave of black hair that was buzzed down one side and chin-length on the other. But the real kicker was her tattoos, on each arm: on the left was a beautiful seminude rendering of the comic book heroine Tank Girl, adorned in postapocalyptic rock lingerie and smooching an M16. On her right bicep, in stylized capital letters, were the words EL RIESGO SIEMPRE VIVE.
He then charms her by proving how nerdy he is, recognizing that her tattoo is from the movie Aliens and making bumbling nerdy pickup lines.

This book is so fucking terrible. The only joy I got out of it was reading various passages aloud to friends who laughed their asses off at how atrociously written it is.”

#8. I couldn’t even be bothered.

“Mickey by Chelsea Martin.

I picked it up randomly at a local bookstore because what little I read seemed promising. I took a creative writing class in college, and one thing my professor said that stuck with me is to read the kinds of books that I’d be interested in writing, so anything written in vignettes (my preferred style at the time) was what I’d usually end up buying/renting because I rarely stumbled upon them.

I’ve never wanted to trash a book so fast in my life. The writing was actually okay, but the narrator was incredibly narcissistic and unpalatable. The book itself could’ve been easily finished within an hour, but I couldn’t even be bothered to waste time slogging through it.

My options were to throw it away or have it recycled, but instead I drove the 45 mins back to the bookstore to get my money back.”

#7. A very big mistake.

“Anyone ever heard of Wraeththu by Storm Constantine? Yeah… when I was a teenager I saw it at my local library and thought “oh neat, scifi/fantasy stuff I haven’t heard about.” Within a couple hours I knew I’d made a very big mistake.”

#6. Ravings for cash.

“Valis by Philip K. Dick. This isn’t because the book is terrible per se. It’s because I think the book is evidence that the man was very unwell and I think that, in publishing it at all, his publishers and agent were milking a mentally ill man’s ravings for cash.”

#5. Whenever convenient.

“The Compound is an edgy teen post apocalyptic shelter book in which every character undergoes immediate overhauls of their entire personality whenever convenient.”

#4. I literally threw the book.

“Dianetics. Someone bet me I wouldn’t read it. The final straw was the part where people’s weight disorders stem from you being in the womb and your pregnant mom says how she hates being overweight. Yes, because a baby in the womb understands language and the concept of being fat.

I literally threw the book across the room. I did collect on the bet though because my friend was shocked I made it as far as I did.”

#3. So obviously faked.

“Go Ask Alice…I know it said it was taken from the REAL diary of an actual teenager, but it was so obviously faked that I rolled my eyes hard enough that I’m surprised they didn’t stick in the back of my head that way.”

#2. Go figure.

“The Zoo. It was a spur of the moment Costco purchase. It’s about animals taking over the world basically. I live texted a friend as I read it. It had every trope you could imagine in it. Story felt like it was written as part of someone’s grade school project.

There is now a TV show with several seasons. Go figure.”

#1. Morbid curiosity.

“Turner Diaries. Out of morbid curiosity. It’s a poorly written racist, anti semitic, conspiracy theory “novel”

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‘Lord of the Rings’ Bridge in Vietnam Is Breathtaking

Bridges have gotten boring. They used to be arched and notched and spoked and made of sparkling metals, they’re now simple, flat, concrete, and flat-out boring. I’ve personally lamented about how this architecture and design has gotten lame and uninspired in the modern age.

Not the case, however, in Da Nang, Vietnam, where the Golden Bridge’s design is wowing natives and visitors alike.

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It appears to be held aloft by two giant stone hands and stands 1400m above sea level, offering stunning views of the countryside around and below it. The gold-colored walkway is lined with purple Chrysanthemums and stretches nearly 150m in elegant curves.

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TA Landscape Architecture designed the bridge, and reveal that the “stone” hands actually…aren’t. They’re steel mesh covered with fiberglass and the faux-stone design, and the construction took about a year.

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The gorgeous bridge is just one more reason tourists are discovering and flocking to Vietnam in record numbers – the Golden Bridge is part of a $2billion investment that aims to bring more than 1.5 million visitors to the area every year.

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Investing in structures like this can’t hurt tourism. In fact, it’s making me want to visit and take a look for myself!

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People Confess to Common Things They’ve Never Done

I’ve never taken a public bus in the United States, but that’s me. The following 15 people also have some doozies!

#15. The whole night.

“Never stayed awake throughout the whole night.
EDIT: Believe it or not, I’m a university student. Yes, I’ve never left my home in the morning without having slept. The shortest I’ve slept was about 2 hours and a half when I had been studying until 3:30 AM. Felt horrible the next day. My only trouble with sleeping is that I usually sleep too much haha.”

#14. Not well traveled.

“I’ve never seen a mountain in person. Currently planning a trip later this year that will correct this, but until then…

And until two weeks ago, never seen an ocean in person. I’m not well traveled.”

#13. Fried chicken.

“I’ve never tried on fried chicken

Edit: just realized my English was off here lol

Edit 2: thanks for gold lol.”

#12. Up and downs.

“Close to 33, never been to a funeral. Estrangement from your family has it’s up and down sides depending on your perspective!”

#11. Matchless.

“College roommate had not once lit a match.”

#10. Props.

“I have never heard Kim Kardashian talk.”

#9. RIP.

“Never been grounded…. And considering I’m an adult I likely never will be.

Edit: looks like I’ll never marry then rip.”

#8. Never been.

“Never been to a concert of any of my favorite bands, or any bands.”

#7. Missing fruit.

“I have never left Philly, or eaten a pear.”

#6. Flying scared.

“I’ve never been on an airplane.”

#5. Just can’t catch one.

“I’ve never had a crepe. They look delicious too, like a thin, sweet pancake with amazing toppings. Everything about them seems incredible yet I’ve never been able to catch one.”

#4. Still alludes me.

“Whistle. I’ve tried for 31 years and it still alludes me.”

#3. Shut your holes.

“I have never been 10 pin bowling.

Edit for all you pedants asking if there are other types of bowling, well hell yes there are so shut your holes!”

#2. Star Wars.

“I have never seen 1 star wars movie.

Edit: I saw none of them

Edit 2: I have planned to binge watch them this friday to saturday.”

#1. Neither have I.

“I have never been stung by a bee or a wasp.”

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Russian cosmonauts pee on…

Russian cosmonauts pee on the rear bus tire before a space launch. The tradition was started by Yuri Gagarin who did it out of necessity and Russians have since emulated him. Female cosmonauts bring along their urine in vials ready to dump on the tire so they can be part of tradition too. 00