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The Possible Origins of 7 Instantly Recognizable Visual Clichés

Why do we expect bankrupt people to wear barrels, or bank robbers to carry money bags marked with dollar signs? Discover the origins of these odd visual clichés.

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Everything You Want to Know About Bicycle Gears and How They Work

Test editor Dan Chabanov breaks down the history, types of bicycle gear systems, how they work, and how to use them on your rides.

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8 Everyday Things That Are Much Older Than You Think

Condoms, 3D movies, the name Tiffany ... All of these things have been around a lot longer than you might think. In this episode of The List Show, we're breaking down our favorite deceptively old things, from synchronized swimming to Juicy Fruit gum.

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10 Smart Car Accessories That Will Help You Upgrade Your Old Car

Want to upgrade your ride without dropping a small fortune on a new one? With these affordable smart car accessories, you can.

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20 Paradoxes That Will Boggle Your Mind

A good paradox can befuddle the best of us. If you're in the mood to narrow your brow at seemingly irreconcilable facts, have we got a list for you.

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VHS Resurrection: Why Some Tapes Are Selling for Thousands

The seemingly archaic piece of physical media is making a comeback. Here's why some tapes are currently selling for thousands.

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What is a Supervolcano?

What distinguishes this kind of volcano from regular volcanoes, and what will happen if—or when—one erupts?

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A Brief History of "Auld Lang Syne"

"Auld Lang Syne" is the song that makes you cry, even though you don’t understand it and know almost none of the words.

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Watch a Century of New Year's Eve Ball Drops in Times Square

This video tracks the evolution of New Year's Eve in Times Square since the tradition began.

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How to Preserve Opened Champagne Without a Stopper

A silver spoon won’t save your uncorked champagne, but this trick will.

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Here’s why your Uber driver is going to be taking fewer left turns in the future

Uber said it would be rerouting drivers so they’ll take fewer left turns in an effort to reduce dangerous driving. The company is also expanding its testing of in-car audio and video recording.

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What's the Highest IQ Ever Recorded?

According to Guinness World Records, Marilyn vos Savant's IQ of 228 is the highest ever recorded.

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A Popcorn Shortage Is Hitting Movie Theaters

Following a record-breaking Memorial Day Weekend at the box office, popcorn suppliers are struggling to meet demand.

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11 Rigged Carnival Games You Won’t Win (and One You Might)

To avoid spending $300 on a stuffed purple gorilla, don't play these misleading carnival games.

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The Transit Museum's Nostalgia Trains will ride again after a two-year hiatus

Ride the rails this summer in the same machinery that New Yorkers used in the early 20th century.

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Explore a photographic history of San Francisco

Loved by the likes of Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck, San Francisco has always had an air of romanticism. Delve into these images of its history and arts.

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22 Shocking Facts And Secrets About The Met Gala That'll Make You Watch The Red Carpet Differently

Anna Wintour banned chives, garlic, onions, and parsley from being served at the party because they get stuck in people's teeth and cause bad breath.

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8 Surprising Facts About Bruce Willis

According to John Goodman, 'Die Hard' star Bruce Willis was once one of New York City's hottest bartenders.

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Ways You've Been Fooled At Walt Disney World & Disneyland

If you think about it, Disney is amazingly good at fooling people. Sometimes it’s for good, like when they want to enhance our experience in a park, and sometimes it’s…

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Microsoft Office for free: Get Word, Excel and PowerPoint without paying anything - CNET

You can access every Microsoft 365 tool without spending any money. Just note that there are some caveats.

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A History of Iron-On Transfers for T-Shirts | Mental Floss

The colorful, fun, and sometimes lurid decals were all the rage in the 1960s and 1970s. They also gave kids a chance to play with a hot iron.

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37 Things Americans Do In Movies/TV Shows That Truly Confuse Non-Americans

The answer to 90% of these is "yes, yes we do."

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Twitter is sharing photos from before coronavirus lockdowns and they feel impossible

Twitter users have been inspired by a BBC article to share their last "normal" photo from before coronavirus changed the face of daily life.

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The Office As We Knew It Isn't Coming Back Anytime Soon : NPR

In webinars and conference calls, business leaders and management strategists are discussing what steps must be taken to bring workers back to America's offices. The bar is likely to be high.

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Online Classes and Activities You Can Do During Quarantine | Mental Floss

From virtual field trips to free workout classes, here are the best ways to stay busy while social distancing.

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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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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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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

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.

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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 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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Hear the Interviews that Helped Build the Dictionary of American Regional English | Mental Floss

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.