#1. Use tape to hold a bracelet in place while you fasten it. #2. Whiten the rubber soles of your shoes with nail polish remover. #3. Use stale bread to remove stains from suede shoes. #4. Use rounded-shoulder hangers (or ideally…
This is Malplaquet House in the East End of London, UK, built in 1741 and uninhabited for 126 years. It’s one of London’s “forgotten” mansions, built in the eighteenth-century by a bricklayer and furnished to his (slightly creepy) taste. The house…
#1. A serving size for Nacho Cheese Doritos is a measly, mouse-sized portion of 11 chips. #2. Double-dipping spreads no more germs than single-dipping. #3. All Froot Loops taste exactly the same, regardless of color. #4. Girl Scout cookies are…
Back in 1998, a pot-bellied pig found fame after the clever pet saved her human’s life and became known as Lulu the Life Saving Pig. Lulu lived with Jo Ann and Jack Altsman when Jo Ann collapsed to the floor suffering…
#1. Kawagoe. DeMilked Near Tokyo, Kawagoe is known as “Little Edo” for it’s rivers and similarity to the town during the Edo period hundreds of years ago. The Kawagoe Festival in October is not to be missed. #2. Fushimi Inari-Taisha.…
A 10-year-old boy brought home his mathematics homework and, stuck on section 6, asked his dad for help. Equally stumped, dad turned to mathematician friends, who couldn’t help either. Can you solve this tricky puzzle? “I spent an hour trying…
Traveling with your dog or cat is soooo mainstream now, so Guirec Soudee decided to buck (cluck?) the trend and take his trusty pet hen Monique round the world. 24-year-old Guirec, from France, has been sailing the world with his…
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) have come up with a handy list of all those hip-but-hard-to-pronounce foods so you can impress everyone with your spot-on pronunciation. #1. Espresso — eh-spress-oh. Head of pronunciation at the OED (yes, that is a…
#1. Oh, and it’s the 166th day of the year. #2. This wishful thinking… Mom holding crying baby: He just needs to be changed.Me: Yeah hopefully into a puppy or something quieter. — The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) July 5, 2015…
For the Queen of England’s official birthday celebrations in London last week, Elizabeth’s choice of outfit sparked an Internet frenzy. Beady-eyed Twitter users were quick to notice that the vibrant green of her Maj’s suit was very similar to that…
Clearly fed up with pictures of human babies, the Internet is going wild for this adorable dachshund’s photoshoot with her newborn pups. The snoozy pups are all wrapped up in a puppy-sized crib. Oh, and they’re wearing teeny tiny knitted…
If after heavy use you find your laptop is hot enough to fry and egg on, this simple trick could help keep your overworked computer cool. Twitter user Akinori Suzuki posted a photo of his MacBook Pro covered in 10 yen coins…
#1. You took music lessons. A 2011 study found that the verbal intelligence of 4- to 6-year-olds increased after just one month of music lessons. #2. You’re a healthy weight. A 2006 French study of obese and healthy weight subjects…
If you consider peeing in the shower some kind of crime against hygiene, you might want to rethink as dabbling in, er, golden showers, could in fact save the planet. Unlike number twos, urine needs hardly any help getting down…
Anabelle, 24, and Gabriel, 25, met at university in Portsmouth, UK, four years ago. Despite studying different subjects, the couple would meet for adorable study sessions in the library. N’aww. Their relationship blossomed and the lovebirds tied the knot last…
This is Redd, a pit bull who was on the kill list at a shelter in Massachusetts, US. That is, until he broke the Internet’s collective heart by adorably tiptoeing down a hallway. The big softie didn’t want to wake…