Different cultures have different table manners and eat their food differently. Travel or go to an (authentic) restaurant from another culture and you will notice this right away. In 2019, this woman was angered when her friend’s daughter’s teachers said she needed to improve her table manners after eating rice with her hands at school....
If you get paid vacation at your work, do you actually take them? This employer learned early-on how important taking time off is for employees and implemented a strategy to make sure all of his staff use them. How? He pays them $2000 a year to take a vacation. CEO Pays Staff $2000 to Take...
When you live on a remote island in Australia, chances of your survival are quite slim anyway. Even then, if good luck comes your way and you survive crocodiles, dingoes, and the occasional cyclone, your existence is special. And this is what former millionaire David Glasheen thinks too. As he resides on Far North Queensland’s...
Does an evening spent tasting and discussing different wines sound like the ideal night for you? Well, you’re in luck: According to neuroscience, wine tasting can be a better exercise for your brain than even complex math problems. Before you start popping bottles with reckless abandon, however, read this. Wine Tasting Can Work Your Brain...
If it seems as though we are living in a society that increasingly values image over actual character depth, it’s because we are. This is most apparent in the generation of young people between the ages of 18 and 25. Many people blame social media for creating a generation of narcissists but is Instagram, Facebook,...
I love a good “this image broke the internet” story and this one, an optical illusion from 2016, is among my favorites. In a viral Instagram post, Swiss Photographer Tiziana Vergari stumped viewers with this photo. It depicts 12 girls sitting in a small space. Or is it 4? Or 6? Or 2? Vergari’s Instagram...
It’s no secret that this last year and a half has been tough on the restaurant industry. What has been almost even more difficult, has been reopening. The biggest reason behind this has been extremely rude, impatient, and down-right mean patrons who’ve been coming out to eat. After some particularly verbally abusive customers brought their...
When the world becomes mundane, it should be your main priority to make it exciting again. What better way to do this than to gain a new perspective on things! Here is a group of 30 different pictures taken of things that are ordinary and extraordinary, but from an angle, you might never have thought...
Most young people can’t imagine living in a place where you are surrounded by people 55 and older. For some, it may seem like an absolute nightmare. For this 30-year-old New Yorker, however, it was a learning experience. After two years of living at her parent’s retirement community in Florida, this is what she learned....
Laura Williams, a mother of three asked her husband for a divorce after he had an affair. She took the rest of her life into her own hands and decided to create a Tinder account. After exploring her sex life with eight different men, she realized a lot about herself, and the habits she had...
Finding a diamond in the rough may not be as rare as we think. However, that is only if the “rough” is a place reputed for the site of natural diamonds in the first place. Recently, a man in Arkansas stumbled upon a diamond carrying 4.87 carats. The man was exploring the state’s Crater of...
Skydiving is one of the most popular thrill-seeking activities. Nothing quite beats the scenes you see as you plummet to the ground from an airplane, thousands of feet in the air. Of course, the only thing keeping you safe in that situation is your parachute. In 1999, for Joan Murray, an experienced skydiver, that lifeline...
