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Six Years Of Golf In One Shot
This encapsulates my six-year experiment with golf...
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Americans' Annual Hamburger Consumption Circles Earth 36 Times
If all the hamburgers that Americans eat each year were positioned in a straight line, they would circle the globe 36 times.
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How To Impress A Woman
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Solar power is the most abundant energy source on Earth
* Solar power is the most abundant energy source on Earth. There’s enough solar energy hitting the Earth every hour to meet all of humanity’s power needs for an entire year. Every ounce of oil, every lump of…
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The Depth of Animal Companionship and Connection
It's hard to observe this and believe that this relationship isn't as meaningful as any human one.
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More Than Half Of All Movies Are Rated R
About 55% of all movies are rated R.
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PragerU Videos Mix Partisan Politics With Genuine Intellectual Provocation
About half of the PragerU material is standard Republican fare... not particularly novel and very debatable. But some of what they do is thought-provoking, regardless of your political orientation.
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Pokémon's Literal Translation Reveals Its Simple Origin
Pokémon stands for “pocket monster.”
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Shawn Achor On Happiness And Workplace Success
An amusing introduction to positive psychology... https://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
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Chernobyl And Fukushima: History's Nuclear Disasters
The Chernobyl accident is generally regarded as the most catastrophic nuclear power plant event in history – one of only two classified as a level 7 (the maximum). The other one was the Fukushima disaster in…
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Screaming Strawberries And Other Delightful Moments
Lots of good moments here…I think my favorite is the screaming strawberries!
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Burger King's Original Whopper Cost Just 37 Cents
Burger King served its first Whopper in 1957. It sold for 37 cents.
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Mexican Fine Art Collection Debuts In Coral Gables
This month, the Rojas Ford Fine Art Gallery in Coral Gables, FL is featuring art from our Mexican collection. The initial evening event brought in a sophisticated crowd.
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Why Electric Razors Buzz In Different Keys
An electric razor in the USA buzzes in the key of B flat; in England, it is in the key of G.
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Anthony Hopkins' Hidden Talent As A Waltz Composer
I didn't know Anthony Hopkins was a composer. I don't know much about waltzes. I'm sure there are some that would criticize this one, but to me it's pretty impressive. The audience seems to enjoy it. It could…
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The Wealthy Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes
1% of US households own 34.6% of all privately held wealth and 42.7% of all financial wealth. But they also pay 38% of all income taxes.
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Four Women Battle Through Vivaldi's Summer
These ladies are quite competitive foursome as they perform "Summer" by Antonio Vivaldi...
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Why Copywriting Is A Booming Career Choice
If you or someone you know is a fledgling copywriter (or wants to be), here are some facts to think about: * The industry is huge – $2.3 trillion by some estimates. That’s almost twice as much as the finance…
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The Hidden Cost Of Giving Too Much
This presentation is naive in a big way. It is very true that giving makes one happier... but she never questions what giving does to the recipient. The answer is that it may make them temporarily happy - but…
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Half of Americans Never Leave Their Birthplace Region
Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace.
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The Timeless Tale Gets a Visual Refresh
A retelling, with graphics, of an old story.
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Freud on Dreams and Repressed Desires
Sigmund Freud postulated that dreams are the symbolic expression of frustrated desires.
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The Best Wedding Photographer
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The Jiffy: A Surprisingly Real Unit Of Time
A “jiffy” is an actual unit of time – 1/100thof a second.
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Bruce Lee's Incredible One-Inch Punch Explained
If you are a Bruce Lee fan (and who isn't?), you'll like this...
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Why Men Wildly Overestimate Their Penis Size
90% of men exaggerate the size of their penis. Less than 1/100thof 1% percent understate it.
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Bobbie Gentry's Masterpiece Deserves A Second Listen
1967, when "Ode to Billy Joe" was at the top of the charts, I liked it but never really appreciated it. Now I see it as a remarkable artistic accomplishment… It’s a narrative and a very compelling one. And…
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Nassim Taleb's Antifragility Secures Four Million Dollar Deal
The sales of Nassim Taleb’s first two books garnered an advance of $4 million for the follow-up book on antifragility.
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Is The Twist Better Than Pulp Fiction's Dance?
Twisting the Night Away video with this intro: Twisting... better than Travolta and Thurman?
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Los Angeles' Surprisingly Long Original Spanish Name
The original name of Los Angeles was El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula (The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River).
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The Greatest Boogie-Woogie Performance Ever
I've never heard boogie-woogie played better than this...
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10 Interesting Facts About Chile
Chile’s Atacama Desert, at 7,500 feet above sea level, is the world’s driest place. It is also the world’s oldest desert. A few truly “groundbreaking” statistics: Chile has 2,300 volcanoes (many of them…
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A Few Photos From Our Trip
Photo #1: Valparaiso Photo #2: The Atacama Desert Photo #3: The Atacama Desert Photo #4: The Central Market in Santiago
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Crash Dieting And Hair Loss Connection
Your hair falls out faster if you are on a crash diet.
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The Career Advantages of Taking a Dump on Joan Didion
“The Career Advantages of Taking a Dump on Joan Didion” LINK
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Justice Surges As Merriam-Webster's Most Searched Word
Justice was voted “Word of the Year” by the Merriam-Webster online dictionary in 2018. The publisher said the word was looked up on its website 74% more in 2018 than in 2017.
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Do Students Really Prefer Socialism?
Do Students Really Prefer Socialism?.- I’ve read polls that suggest as many as 50% of US college students favor Socialism over Capitalism. That is not entirely surprising. When I was in college (1969 to 1973)…
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McDonald's Serves 68 Million Customers Daily Worldwide
In 2018, McDonald’s generated almost $6 billion of net income serving around 68 million customers per day.
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Woman At Eighty Defies All Expectations
I’ve watched this twice and I cannot believe that this woman is 80 years old…You won’t believe it either.
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Dogs As Human Companions Since Prehistoric Times
Homo sapiens have had dogs as pets since prehistoric times.
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Everything We Need Is Already Here
Everything is already with us - including heaven and hell. Here's a bit of heaven...
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The Longest Single-Syllable Word in English
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is “screeched.”
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Americans Spent $40 Billion While Drunk Last Year
According to a recent survey by Finder.com, Americans spent almost $40 billion in 2018 while drunk. As Jimmy Kimmel observed, it “could explain the popularity of Uggs.”
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NYC Subway Chaos Captured in One Perfect Video
If you have ever been on a NYC subway, you'll love this...
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The World's Staggering Linguistic Diversity
There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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When Is a Vegan Not a Vegan? (Answer: When she has to eat crow.)
My tendency in reading health-related literature is to stay with authors and ideas that support my natural preferences. That’s why I was an early advocate of the Mediterranean diet and then jumped on the Paleo…
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Memorable April Fool’s Day Pranks Pulled by the Media
* In the early 1950s, the BBC aired a “news” item about the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. * In 1985, Sports Illustrated published a story by George Plimpton about a Mets pitching phenom named Sidd Finch…
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Finding Meaning Through Work That Matters
Man’s search for meaning. Most of the human population don’t search. And for a very good reason. Meaning for them is immediate, coming as it does from the struggle to survive. Of those for whom survival is not…
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Lions Can Sprint Up To Sixty Miles Per Hour
Lions can run as fast as 60 miles an hour.
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