So, you have your pajamas on, you lay comfortably in your bed, and have your smartphone for one last scroll on social media. Yet, it seems that you can’t fall asleep, right? Well, sorry to say that, but the moment you took your phone with you in bed, you doomed yourself to a sleepless night, …
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Fuel injectors are one of the most important components of a car engine. They are the device that delivers fuel to the engine – without which it wouldn’t work. Most people may be unaware of this, but cars did not always have fuel injectors. 1990 spelled the end of the road for carburetors, which were …
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When you think about deadly animals in the world, images of giant sharks leaping into the air with mouths filled with rows of teeth may come to mind. However, sharks don’t even rank in the top ten. I’d argue these deadly animals are even more terrifying since four of them are unseen. They’re also very …
Weird state laws are sometimes little missives from the past. You discover them and have to wonder what the hell was going on back then. Things like it’s illegal to feed garbage to a pig in Arizona and against the law to fall asleep in a cheese shop in Illinois. Here’s seven crazy state laws …
My boss at one of my early jobs was a slender and intense woman who printed and filed every email she received. I remember her not just for the careful analog documentation of the Internet, but because of her involvement with fad diets of the early aughts. She’d spend days ingesting nothing but lemon juice, …
Kentucky has a reputation of being a little off, a little redneck, and a little southern. Here are some weird Kentucky laws that will surprise you, and probably make you laugh. As a woman, you cannot be in a bathing suit on the highway unless you are either escorted by at least two police officers, …
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While everyone’s becoming more concerned with microplastics, mercury, and lead in the foods we’re supposed to eat, familiarize yourself with this list of items you won’t find in a pantry. But, they’re all things that you could eat if you needed to, in a pinch. Once the world collapses post-apocalypse, it’s useful to know the …
There’s no right way to go about finding a lasting relationship in the world. If you’ve been to the wedding of a Tinder match turned true love than you accept that falling in love is unpredictable. Falling out of love is just as unpredictable, based on these crazy short Hollywood marriages. Maybe it’s not until …
In France they called the twenties the ‘crazy years.’ In part because of prohibition and the rise of the speakeasy, there was a certain lawlessness to the youth of America. Women cut off their hair, got the vote, and rolled down their stocking. Gangsters were everywhere, jazz was all anyone wanted to listen to, and …
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In France they called the twenties the ‘crazy years.’ In part because of prohibition and the rise of the speakeasy, there was a certain lawlessness to the youth of America. Women cut off their hair, got the vote, and rolled down their stocking. Gangsters were everywhere, jazz was all anyone wanted to listen to, and …