It’s always important to check local regulations when you’re traveling. You might otherwise accidentally end up committing an expensive violation. One globetrotter on their way from Bali, Indonesia, to Australia recently found that out the hard way. They got slapped with a nearly $2,000 fine for accidentally smuggling contraband items to Australia. The unidentified person …
It can take a long time to get the justice you deserve. We’d say 329 years is way too long, though. But that’s the time it took for Elizabeth Johnson, Jr., to get her name cleared of crimes she didn’t commit. Johnson was the last of the Salem “witches” who hadn’t been exonerated for making …
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An overload of out-of-home (OOH) and online advertising media has desensitized people to most ads. This has prompted marketers to opt for creative advertising solutions that distinguish their campaigns. Many successful concepts in the sphere have embraced sustainability, technology and art. Sustainability With LED Technology Sustainability initiatives are vital in the 21st century. Our planet …
TikTok gets a bad rap — and we’re going out on a leg and saying it’s fully deserved. It seems like every week a new trend or challenge on the platform tries to outdo the previous ones in stupidity. If you think we’re exaggerating, just consider how many stories we’ve published about kids injuring themselves …
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Playing chess requires cool, composed thinking. Even in the face of the most difficult situation, you have to remain calm if you want to win. You simply can’t let your emotions get the best of you, and you definitely can’t get violent. At least, if you’re a human. But nobody apparently told a Russian chess …
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Maybe cancel culture can help cancel these challenges, sesh. A legal resource for the relatives of children harmed by social media, the Social Victims Law Center, announced it had filed two wrongful death lawsuits on behalf of the parents. Lalani Erika, 8, and Arriana Jaileen Arroyo, 9, both from Wisconsin, took part in the deadly …
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If you’re like the average person, you probably don’t spend much time thinking about how it’s really your skin that’s holding a lot of essential elements of your body together. In fact, it’s easy to forget how strange the concept of skin is entirely until you start to think about it. Your skin covers almost …
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At the Moscow Open last week, as reported by Russian news outlets. The chess-playing android was apparently “unsettled” by the seven-year-olds fast moves during their July 19th game. The robot grabbed the child’s finger, and broke it. Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, spoke of the incident saying, “The robot broke the child’s …
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With every passing season, Hollie Doyle just seems to be getting better and better. From becoming just the third female jockey to ride 100 winners in 2019, joining Hayley Turner and Josephine Gordon in the history books, to making a name for herself as one of the best jockeys in the United Kingdom and Ireland, …
We all enjoy the comfort and convenience of modern technology, from AC and refrigerators to high-tech gadgets. Life really must’ve sucked for people of the times past who didn’t have access to them. Except that they might have. Many of the technologies and inventions that we think of as modern are actually much older than …
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