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  • Remove a Cork Stuck Inside a Wine Bottle With a Ribbon
    You go to pop open a fresh bottle of wine—maybe you don’t have a proper wine-opening tool —and the cork, or part of it, plummets into the bottle. You’re left with two choices: finish the bottle, or use this handy trick.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Flamyngo Simplifies Getting Travel Tips From Friends
    iPhone: If you’re heading out on vacation to somewhere your friends or family have already gone, it’s natural to ask for any suggestions they might have for places to go. This usually results in a mess of texts and emails from various people. Fla…
    - 3 Jul 16, 5:00pm -
  • Get Your Game of Thrones Fix With This Interactive, Spoiler-Proof Map
    Game of Thrones fans, you might not know what to do with yourself now that Season 6 is over. This interactive map will help you get your fix until the next season starts.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 3:00pm -
  • When In Doubt, Mimic the Body Language of Others to Be More Persuasive
    Body language varies from one person to another. Trying to follow a set of specific actions to effectively communicate with everyone is bound to fail. If you’re talking with someone one-on-one, mimic their body language instead to be more persuasiv…
    - 3 Jul 16, 2:00pm -
  • This DIY Wood Beer Carrier Even Has a Bottle Opener on the Side
    Instructables user Herbsco built this reusable, good-looking beer carrier out of solid walnut, which probably explains why it looks so good, but even if you don’t have that available, he has everything you need to make your own—and attach a bottl…
    - 3 Jul 16, 1:00pm -
  • Ambient Noise Showdown: Noisli vs. White Noise vs. Rain Rain
    Ambient noise apps drown out distractions so you can focus on your work, or generate serene, peaceful environments that encourage you to fall asleep. But with dozens you can download, it’s hard to know which is the best. Noisli, White Noise, and Ra…
    - 3 Jul 16, 10:00am -
  • A Video and Graphic Guide to 12 of America's Most Beautiful Natural Parks
    There are dozens of beautiful National Parks in the United States, but if you could only see one, this video and graphic guide from Expedia helps you narrow your choices down to 12 great parks you can explore, all of which are known for specific land…
    - 3 Jul 16, 9:00am -
  • Sunday's Best Deals: Fire HD 6, GreenWorks Tools, Weather Radios
    Weather radios, GreenWorks tools, and Amazon’s Fire HD 6 lead off Sunday’s best deals.Read more...
    - 3 Jul 16, 8:30am -
  • This Week's Top Downloads
    Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 6:00pm -
  • Clean Rusty Grill Grates With Some Oil, Salt, and a Potato
    If you don’t grill very often that probably means you don’t clean your grill regularly either. If your grill grates are covered in burnt food and rust, you can get it ready for a cookout with a few household staples.Read more...
    - 2 Jul 16, 5:00pm -

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  • newA petroleum engineer's joyless lunches went viral in China
    Keith Brown, a British petroleum engineer, ate the same cheerless sandwiches for lunch every day — dry bread, a slice of something, no condiments — and his wife Zhang Jian filmed them. She posted the videos to Douyin, China's version of TikTok, w…
    - 56 mins ago 3 Apr 26, 1:02pm -
  • newUSGlobal Airways: a 29-year airline that never flew
    For 29 years, Baltia Air Lines — later renamed USGlobal Airways — existed as a real company with real investors, real Boeing 747s, and real executives. It never carried a single paying passenger. According to Wikipedia, it also "never generated a…
    - 1 hour ago 3 Apr 26, 12:56pm -
  • newAmerica forgot how to make a classified nuclear warhead ingredient
    The U.S. government forgot how to make a classified component of its own nuclear warheads, then spent $92 million figuring it out again. The material is called Fogbank, and almost everything about it is classified — its composition, its purpose, an…
    - 1 hour ago 3 Apr 26, 12:50pm -
  • newWatch the Attwater's prairie chicken do his mating dance (he's really going for it)
    The mating dance of the Attwater's prairie chicken is truly a display of beauty and grace. If you don't believe me, just watch this video, recently posted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which announced that it's currently mating season f…
    - 1 hour ago 3 Apr 26, 12:43pm -
  • newA website that lets you roleplay as an AI chatbot
    Continuing my trend of writing about Really Cool Websites You've Probably Never Heard Of, here's another, perfect for anyone who's sick of the current AI obsession we're living in. Which is to say, anyone with sense.You may have heard tell of comedi…
    - 1 hour ago 3 Apr 26, 12:42pm -
  • newHistoric cemetery honors circus performers and train victims
    In Hugo, Oklahoma, you can visit the Showmen's Rest area of the Woodlawn Cemetery to see the graves of circus performers from the Showmen's League of America. This video from Cylinderella offers a glimpse of some unusual headstones featuring various…
    - 1 hour ago 3 Apr 26, 12:29pm -
  • newFEMA official claims divine Waffle House teleportation, somehow keeps job
    The man in charge of coordinating federal disaster response says he was once mysteriously transported by God to a Waffle House in Georgia. A claim that, incredibly, is not disqualifying in an administration that seems to treat basic reality as option…
    - 2 hours ago 3 Apr 26, 12:28pm -
  • newMed Beds: the QAnon miracle cure that costs $200 a night
    In case you haven't heard of Med Beds — well, first off, I'm jealous of you, because you clearly aren't cursed with knowledge of what the QAnon right is getting up to nowadays. Let me curse you: it's the latest buzzword to come out of the MAGA cult…
    - 2 hours ago 3 Apr 26, 12:21pm -
  • newReese's backs down, agrees to make candy people want to eat
    After quietly swapping real chocolate for cheaper coatings in some products, Hershey is now reversing course and promising to bring back classic Reese's recipes, a rare admission that customers can, in fact, tell when you cheap out on the good stuff.…
    - 2 hours ago 3 Apr 26, 12:16pm -
  • newThis 1915 ice cream ad told Americans to eat ice cream for their health
    This 1915 ice cream advertisement was featured in a paper. The ad reads "Eat More Ice Cream. It's good for you." Underneath this text, the ad explains how ice cream can be eaten at any time of the day and that you'll feel fantastic afterwards. — Re…
    - 2 hours ago 3 Apr 26, 12:16pm -

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