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15 Mothers Share the One Thing They’d Wish Someone Had Told Them Before They Had a Baby

I can confirm that there are many, many things no one tells you about carrying, birthing, and raising children before you take the plunge yourself. Some of them I think women purposefully block out so that they can go through the whole process more than once. Then there are other things you just can’t possibly...

Can You Solve Elon Musk’s Favorite Brain Teaser?

Technology companies are known for asking tricky questions when interviewing potential employees. For example, one of Google’s favorite interview questions is reportedly to ask, “how many people are using Facebook in San Francisco at 2:30pm on a Friday,” while Hewlett-Packard prefers, “if Germans were the tallest people in the world, how would you prove it?”...

Ambulance Drivers Honored Dying Man’s Final Request and Made a Special Stop

When 72-year-old Australian man Ron McCartney took his final ride to the hospital for palliative care, his wife Sharon told the ambulance drivers that her husband had been eating very little the previous few days. So the officers, Kate Hanafy and Hanna Hoswell, asked Mr. McCartney what he’d want to eat, if he could have anything....

15 Travelers Share the Biggest Culture Shock They’ve Ever Experienced

Traveling abroad is an exhilarating experience, filled with new sights, sounds, and smells. It’s one thing for an American to go to England or Germany, but quite another to go to places like India or China. Here, 15 travelers share their stories of when they experienced major culture shock. 1. Time to eat! “Visiting family in...

7 Random Facts About Glitter, Guns, and Other Stuff

We actually have TWO facts about glitter in this set, so you’re in luck! Enjoy… 1. I know I have it… 2. Shimmering 3. Lighten up 4. That’s scary 5. Make it fun! 6. Forensic glitter 7. Illusion of truth If you still want to know more about glitter, well, I’d say get crafting and you’ll...

That One Time a Computer Glitch Led to the Philippines Declaring War on Pepsi

Computer errors are annoying, sure, but has one ever cost your company about $8 million and resulted in your headquarters being literally bombed? No? Well, that’s what happened – and more – when Pepsi accidentally announced a winning number in their Number Fever promotion back in May of 1992. Every day, residents of the Philippines checked...

The FDA Has Approved the HPV Vaccine for Adults up to Age 45

HPV is a sexually transmitted disease that, for the most part, has few or no symptoms. While that sounds like a good thing, in reality that leads to a large part of the population being infected – and able to transmit the virus – without being aware of what’s happening. In the long run, those...

Get a Jump on Your Holiday Shopping with These Sweary “Harry Potter” Wine Glasses

Give me everything Harry Potter. Everything. But especially give me items that will hold booze, and that goes double for ones that get swear words into the mix. I mean, I guess some people would argue that these have no place because Harry Potter is a children’s series, but let’s get real – the generation...

15 People Muse on the Mildly Inconvenient Curse They Would Put on an Enemy

We all have that one person that gets on our last nerve – at work, at home, in our kids’ playgroup, you name it. We might not hate them enough to risk Azkaban, but if there was just a way to make sure their days would be a little more difficult, well… These 15 people...

15 People Share Their ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Experiences

Ever had an experience you know is never going to happen again? Mine is probably when I stood in Red Square in Moscow, Russia and just took in the entire scene. It was truly remarkable, and I thought to myself, “This is most likely the only time you’ll ever be here, so enjoy yourself and...

The 20 Most Visited Cities Around the World in 2018

Do you ever wonder who is going where and what the new hot spots around the globe are? Mastercard released its annual Global Destination Cities Index that measures travel to and within 162 cities throughout the world. Visitor volume and spending are used to forecast the growth in visits to all of these cities around...

Women Are Sharing All The Things They Wish They Had Known In Their 20’s

It’s not a big secret that, by the time we reach our 40s or 50s, there are things we would have done differently in our past had we had the same knowledge then. But learning takes time – and understanding takes even longer – so it’s natural to reach middle age with at least a...

15 Chefs Share Red Flags to Look out for at Restaurants

It’s always nice to have some inside info about the food industry, especially when it comes to things to avoid like the plague. In this AskReddit thread, chefs and other food service workers share the huge red flags to look out for when dining out. 1. Keep an eye on those “I worked as a...

You Can Now Rent the Home of Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald on Airbnb

If you’ve been waiting for a chance to live it up like a classic American writer did back in the 1930s, now’s your chance. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, one of the most famous couples of the Jazz Age, lived in Montgomery, Alabama from 1931-1932, and the top floor of their home...