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18 Foods And Drinks From Your Childhood That Just Vanished Without You Even Noticing
Where'd you go? I miss you so. Seems like it's been forever that you've been gone.
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6 Gift Ideas Based on the Top Products on Amazon's Wish Lists | Mental Floss
We went through Amazon's wish lists and pulled together the top items in categories like toys, kitchen, electronics, and more—just in time for some last-minute shopping.
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We warned you AirPods would sell out, but 2 deals are somehow back in stock – BGR
AirPods are among the hottest items this holiday season, so we warned you that they would sell out when Amazon slashed prices to all-time lows. Now, we have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that we were correct, and AirPods with Apple's w
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11 Apps That Will Make You Feel Smarter!
Your smartphone is the window to all the knowledge in the world—and these apps will help you unlock it.
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It now costs $350,000 a year to live a middle-class lifestyle in a big city—here’s a sad breakdown of why
You can certainly live on less, but it won't be easy if your goal is to raise a family in a big city, save for your children's education, save for your own home and save for retirement (so you can actually retire at a reasonable age).
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The Most Viewed YouTube Videos of All Time | Digital Trends
After more than a decade of streaming videos, YouTube has built up trillions of views across billions of videos. The streaming behemoth hosts the vast majority of the most watched content ever created. To show you just how much, here's a selection of the
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The Amazon Prime Day 2019 absolute best tech deals: Tuesday morning update
Latest additions: This microwave includes a free Echo Dot and this discounted Nespresso coffeemaker comes with free coffee.
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24 Little Things That'll Help Cheer You Up On A Cloudy Day
Silly, squishy, and happy-making things (all for under $25)!
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8 photographers share the best way to store and organize the photos on your phone
Headlines about crushing student loan debt seem to have made a pretty strong impression on college-bound students in Generation Z, defined as a more-than 70 million strong cohort of teens and young adults born after 1996 — or more generally as those…
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Old & new: Beloved San Francisco spots and what has replaced them - SFGate
If you walk by Columbus and Bay streets in San Francisco these days, you might stare at the Walgreens on the corner for a while and then ask yourself, "Wait, didn't that used to be Tower Records?"
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Disappearing New York, Captured in Vintage Photos - The New York Times
Thursday: A look at how our city has changed since the early 1900s.
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Adorable 3D Sidewalk Chalk Characters That Cleverly Incorporate Surface Cracks, Flaws and Interruptions
View this post on Instagram No haircut, no problems. #streetart #sidewalkchalk #environmentalart #anamorphosis #teen #puffyvest #weedhead A post shared by
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The Infinite Scroll: Life under the unbreakable lure of the screen.
“Phoning it in” means to do something with very little effort or enthusiasm. The idiom seems oddly prescient now, given that it dates back to a time before the internet.
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That Email You Didn’t Reply To? The Sender Could Be Tracking It—Here’s How to Find Out
With a special email tracking service, senders can see if you opened their email and chose not to respond. Here's how to stop that from happening and continue to ignore your emails in peace.
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My Husband Was a Live-In Super. It Opened Our Eyes to a Whole New Side of Renting | Apartment Therapy
Having been longtime renters ourselves, it forced us to look at renting from a new, dual perspective of tenant and proprietor.
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People Are Faking Travel Using Random Objects And It's So Ridiculous It's Kinda Funny
This is why I have trust issues.
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24 Places You'll Never Ever Be Able To Go Again In Your Life
One day you left and never went back.
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16 Great Things to Do in New York (Feb 20–March 6)
Looking for awesome things to do in NYC today? Here’s a frequently updated list of things to do in and around NYC, including Travis Scott at MSG, New York Philharmonic with Yo-Yo Ma, Jerry Saltz on the Armory Show, Independent, Spring/Break and more.
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The Weird Sadness of Aughts Nostalgia
The aughts were a weird time for music: Mixtapes were rampant, a sort of weird sadness hung over everything post-9/11. We now move through nostalgia so fast that we’ve skipped over 1999 and are thinking about 2009.
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23 Things That Happened In January 2009 That’ll Make You Say “OMG, Can’t Believe All That Happened 10 Years Ago”
It was a decade ago that Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga both became the biggest artists in the world and the U.S. got a brand-new president!
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Here's the Salary You Need to Buy a Modest Home in New York City, San Francisco & 22 Other Places | Apartment Therap
If you're thinking about buying a home someday soon, these numbers should offer a little gut check to see how close you are to making The American Dream a reality.
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If You Win Mega Millions or Powerball, Should You Take the Cash Payout? | Mental Floss
Mega Millions has reached a record-breaking jackpot of $1.6 billion, which means your individual chances of taking home the winnings are less than one in 300,000,000. (And, amazingly, Powerball is currently at a not-too-shabby $620 million.) But it doesn't hurt to be prepared: If your ticket matches the winning numbers, here's the first decision you need to make before your life changes.
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15 Secrets of Courtroom Sketch Artists | Mental Floss
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This Hilarious Optical Illusion for Birds Could Save Your Life
Birds and planes are a bad combination, but it’s not so easy to shoo our avian friends away from airport runways. Thankfully, scientists from France have stumbled upon an ingenious solution to the problem—an optical illusion that appears to scare the
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A bigger Amazon Prime Day 2018 arrives July 16 with more deals, devices and longer hours
TechCrunch is a leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.
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How Do Fireworks Actually Work? | Mental Floss
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I'm British, and I experienced the biggest culture shock when I started working in the US
The UK and the US are not all that different. But as a British person living and working in America, I experienced a huge culture shock at work.
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To Brits with knickers in a twist over Americanisms: don't get your panties in a bunch | Science | The Guardian
Many ‘American’ phrases are actually British but a new book argues why we say what we say reveals a lot about our cultures
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10 myths about the royal family that just aren't true
Prince Charles does not need seven eggs each morning.
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10 Ways Americans and Europeans Differ | HowStuffWorks
HowStuffWorks looks at come of the cultural differences between Europe and America, like ice consumption, metric system and portion sizes.
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The Overwhelming Emotion of Hearing Toto’s “Africa” Remixed to Sound Like It’s Playing in an Empty Mall | The Ne
Jia Tolentino writes that editing a song to sound like it’s coming from a specific space—such as “Africa,” by Toto, as if it were playing in a mall—fights against the digital isolation of our times.
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Woman takes mirror selfie, accidentally creates bizarre optical illusion
A woman's mirror selfie has gone viral on Twitter after it created a weird optical illusion.
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Just How Hard Is It to Execute a Triple Axel in Figure Skating? | Mental Floss
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Here's what happens when you don't realize the guy you're nudging out of your photo is Jerry Seinfeld
Broderick was shopping with his pal Seinfeld when a fan asked for a picture -- but Seinfeld didn't make the cut and got nudged out of the shot.
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17 really easy DIY Mother's Day gifts
If you're looking for Mother's Day gift ideas, look no further than these 17 DIY and craft tutorials.
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Apple Will Finally Release Its HomePod to Compete With Amazon's Echo | Inc.com
Preorders for the Amazon Echo competitor start this week.
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Hear the Interviews that Helped Build the Dictionary of American Regional English | Mental Floss
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