No matter how much experience you have or how good you are at your job, eventually everybody makes a mistake. And that’s okay — admit your slip-up, make amends, and move on. You certainly shouldn’t try to covertly sweep your mistakes under the rug. Otherwise, you might end up like Major General Artur Kepczynski. In …
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Do you still have your Christmas tree up in your living room? If so, we’re sorry, but it’s high time you got rid of it. That said, it’s kind of a waste to throw a nice tree away. We’re not the only ones thinking that, and recycling Christmas trees in various ways has become something …
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Are you going to get into these strange things to start off the new year? Or maybe you already have? Clear Your Contacts Old bosses and numbers of friends that have since been changed don’t need to be clogging your contacts. If you don’t talk to them or use the number, lose it. Make A …
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You can usually predict what kinds of animals you can see in a given environment. A desert will likely have lizards and scorpions, a northern forest will probably have a moose or two, and so forth. Sometimes, however, you may come across an animal living in a completely unexpected place. It may be due to …
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Losing your child, especially in their infancy, is the worst tragedy a parent can experience. Faced with such tremendous grief, it can be almost impossible to let go of your dearest. That doesn’t go just for humans, either. An orca pod living off the U.S.-Canadian coast in the Pacific got a welcome Christmas present this …
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Who doesn’t like a dip in a swimming pool on a hot day? Yet, even that can get old if you’re always going to the same old pool. Lucky for you, there are many unique and downright strange pools built around the world. Traveling to them — never mind gaining entry to the pool — …
The North Korean government is notorious for restricting the lives of its subjects, but not everything is banned in the country. For instance, divorce and hot dogs were legal in North Korea. Were. In his latest crackdown against insidious Western influence, Kim Jong-Un has set his sights on two wildly different things. As a New …
After a long day, people want to come home and relax. They need the perfect chair to do so. Unsurprisingly, many people turn to bean bag chairs, as they had them when they were younger and remember how comfortable they were. They know they can sink into a bean bag and feel like they are …
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In general, drugs are not good for you. But they’re even worse if you’re not even a human being that’s supposedly meant to consume them. That’s why vets are quite concerned over an alarming trend — more and more pets are ingesting drugs. A recent study examined the rates at which pet owners were calling …
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We all sometimes feel like life is just too short. Compared to many other creatures out there, though, humans live for practically an eternity. Some animals have extremely short lifespans, even after you discount falling victim to predators or disease. They’re simply not built to live long, for whatever reason. That said, we doubt any …