Posts by Kim Wong-Shing

Let’s face it: no vacation feels complete anymore without the perfect travel photos. If you want to take your travel photography up several notches, these travel Instagrammers have some advice for you. Part of the magic of photography is all about timing. One Berlin-based travel photographer, Theodora Melnik (@______theo), tells HuffPost that sunrise is the...

If you dry clean your clothes often, you likely end up with a surplus of extra hangers on a regular basis. But those hangers don’t have to end up in the trash. Depending on what type of hanger it is, you can find a way to recycle it, Lifehacker reports. Hangers come in three basic types: wire,...

IRS scammers have some new tricks up their sleeves! Scammers have long impersonated the IRS to try to trick people into handing over their personal information or paying money. They often do this by calling people on the phone and asking about an overdue “tax bill.” The IRS very rarely calls people on the phone...

White T-shirts are cute — until the inevitable yellow pit stains. The stains can be super annoying to get out, and many people think they’re caused solely by sweat. So, antiperspirant or deodorant should prevent them, right? Wrong. On the contrary, yellow pit stains are actually caused by antiperspirant.  They develop from a chemical reaction...

A physicist in Mexico just solved a problem that has plagued scientists for over 2000 years. Even Isaac Newton couldn’t crack this case — but Rafael G. González-Acuña did. For centuries, lenses have faced a problem: the corners and edges are always a little soft and out of focus. It’s called “spherical aberration,” and it’s...

The world is a trash fire, so here’s some good news: some horses can grow mustaches, and they look ridiculous! If horses were hipsters from Brooklyn, they would look exactly like this. Mustaches are common in a horse breed called the Gypsy Vanner. They have a long, luxurious mane and big voluminous hair on their...

If you wanna have a baby, you gotta have sex (usually). But exactly how much sex? About 78 times, according to a 2017 study. ChannelMum.com, a parenting website, surveyed couples to find out how often they had sex, and for how long, before they got pregnant. They found that it typically took 185 days from...

Thailand is a popular destination for adventure lovers. Hundreds of thousands of Westerners visit the country each year, and one of the “must-try” activities is riding a majestic elephant. But tourists are now being urged to stop, thanks to the revelation of some truly heartbreaking photos. A Twitter user posted several photos of elephants in...

The really cool thing about sexism is that it never fails to hide in a million little places that you’d truly never even expect to find it, such as car safety. It’s like a fun game of hide-and-seek! Researchers from the University of Virginia found in 2011 that women who wore seatbelts were almost 50...

Every time you check out of a hotel, you leave a tiny, mostly-unused bar of soap behind. It may even be untouched, if you’re the type of person who has strong soap preferences. So what happens to it? The answer is pretty disappointing: hotels generally just throw the soap away for sanitary reasons. And all...

Interspecies adoption isn’t really a thing in the animal kingdom. The only creatures who routinely take in babies of other species are, well, humans. But recently, a real case of interspecies adoption was observed in the wild: a bottlenose dolphin who adopted a whale calf. Scientists in French Polynesia observed a wild bottlenose dolphin caring...

Calling all private plane owners! There is now a way to fly that’s even more extravagant than the most extravagant private jet out there. It’s basically a mansion with wings. It’s called the Airlander 10, and it’s a hybrid airship/plane/helicopter. It’s the world’s largest aircraft at 302 feet long. https://www.instagram.com/p/B0QC20RB13Y/ The Airlander 10 will host three-day...

Death in the age of social media is a strange phenomenon. Long after people pass away, their social media accounts stay online, which can be both touching and eerie. In case you’d like to prepare, here’s what you can and can’t do with your parents’ social media accounts after they pass away. Facebook is the...

Remember that girl who licked a carton of Blue Bell ice cream and put it back, sparking a nationwide panic about tampered-with products? Yeah, apparently people are out there tampering with hair conditioner, too, as one poor woman in Wisconsin learned the hard way. Taffy Jo Trimm and her daughter Ashley Rose bought a bottle...

Americans throw away about $62 million each year by tossing coins in the trash, and pennies are the most frequently discarded coins of them all. A lot of people just don’t see pennies as valuable, and mostly they’re right. But some specific types of pennies are worth up to $200,000. Coin collectors are willing to...