Young women in China are paying for fake maternity photoshoots because they want “beautiful” pregnancy pictures while they’re still at their physical peak.
What percentage of day traders lose money?
97%
A key study (we'll refer to it as “Barber”) found that 97% of day traders are likely to lose money in futures trading. Remarkably, a second, unrelated study (“Chague”) found the exact same thing. It monitored nearly 20,000 day traders over a period of 300 days, and 97% of these day traders lost money. Just 7% of day traders continued trading for 300 days: most gave up within 50 days.
Fred Rogers, the star of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, weighed 143 pounds for most of his adult life and used the number as a code for "I love you" - based on the number of letters in each word.
Here's an "elevator pitch" template you can use:
"I help ________ (customer/client) ...
_____________ (result) ...
so they _____________ (benefit)."
"I help Seattle homeowners keep their windows clean so they can enjoy the sunshine — when it comes out."
The first email was sent in 1971:
“In 1971 Ray Tomlinson was working with ARPANET, the internal network of the Advanced Projects Research Agency, which connected various research organizations around the United States. He was looking at “ways in which humans and computers could interact,” and wanted to find a way to send files between computers rather than just between different users on the same computer (which was already possible at the time). His message-sending protocol made it possible for one person to write to a specific other person on a different computer within that network.
When asked about his first computer-to-computer message 25 years later, Tomlinson had a hard time remembering the exact date or content. What was in the first email ever sent? His recollection was a test message, something along the lines of “test 123” or ‘QWERTYUIOP’ “ ~ https://www.mail.com/blog/posts/fiftieth-anniversary-of-email/20/
Probably the heaviest album ever -
$650,000 USD for the FZED Rodin - Your own F1 car for a fraction of the cost.
Stephen Hawking lived longer after diagnosis (55 years) than any other known individual with ALS.
Walmart, Amazon, and Costco now represent 17% of retail sales.
Unfortunately our eyes come with a built in ‘best before’ date. Have you noticed that on or near your 40th birthday you’ll need reading glasses?
A Favorite quote, from Red Adair:” If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur”.
2025 AD
BCE stands for "Before the Common Era" and CE stands for "Common Era". BCE/CE is used instead of BC/AD for a number of reasons, including:
Religious neutrality
BCE/CE is a more neutral alternative to BC/AD, which has Christian origins. AD stands for "Anno Domini", which is Latin for "in the year of the Lord". This implies that Jesus Christ is the Lord in question. BCE/CE is a more secular way to tell time.
Inaccuracy
Scholars generally believe that Jesus was born several years before AD 1. Using BCE/CE avoids this inaccuracy by not explicitly referring to the birth of Jesus.
Commonality
BCE/CE acknowledges that the Gregorian calendar is used by many different groups including Jews, Muslims, and Hindus.
Sensitivity
BCE/CE is a more sensitive way to date events for people who use the same year numbering system as Christians but are not Christian themselves.
BCE ends and CE starts with the year 1, so the dates from BC/AD are the same as BCE/CE.
Families with people using GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic, spent 6% less on groceries over six months. They also spent less at fast-food places, especially for breakfast and dinner. On average, each household saves $416 a year, mostly by buying fewer high-calorie and sugary foods. The weighted average (pun intended) monthly cost for Ozempic, considering the insured vs non-insured is approximately $332.52.
Quote “As per a recent study, 50% to 70% of Ozempic, Wegovy and Rybelsus users discontinued use within one year. Reasons for discontinuation include gastrointestinal distress, injection frequency, less weight loss for oral versions and a preference for other GLP brands. These trends are showing up in analyst revenue projections which are flat-lining before the end of the decade. Novo Nordisk will end 2025 below current consensus analyst price targets of $127 per share, even if the CMS covers GLP costs for a larger pool of Medicare/Medicaid patients as discussed earlier.” ~ JP Morgan Newsletter - EYE ON THE MARKET | OUTLOOK 2025
https://assets.jpmprivatebank.com/content/dam/jpm-pb-aem/global/en/documents/eotm/the-alchemists.pdf
If you ask a doctor “When We Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?” 98% do not know the answer. But now you will:
A: When you burn fat, it turns into carbon dioxide and water. You breathe out the carbon dioxide, and the water gets absorbed into your body until it leaves as sweat or urine. If you lose 10 kilograms of fat, about 8.4 kilograms is exhaled, and the other 1.6 kilograms becomes water. So, most of the weight we lose is actually breathed out. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/when-we-lose-weight-where-does-it-go
Ancient inscriptions are often mysterious. Stone writings from thousands of years ago can be hard to read and may have missing parts. Now, a neural network (an AI system) trained on many old inscriptions can help historians figure out where and when they were made and fill in missing words or symbols.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04161-z
“Doesn’t make sense not to be using this.” Well it turns out don’t use it! PayPal's Honey browser extension lost more than 3 million Chrome installs in two weeks since MegaLag's investigative video shining a light on how Honey scams influencers and brands.
Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 – March 15, 2007) was an American contract killer and organized crime figure who was convicted of assassinating federal judge John H. Wood Jr., the first federal judge to be assassinated in the 20th century. Charles Harrelson was the father of actors Brett and Woody Harrelson
Canada’s Best Pizza? In Windsor, Ontario.
60% of the world's population, or 4.5 billion people, do not have a toilet in their home that safely manages human waste. The similar number of 4.88 billion smartphone users worldwide, accounting for about 60.42% of the global population.
Shower Facts:
More bathing stats: https://www.soakology.co.uk/blog/bathing-habits-of-the-world/
Lightbulbs in the NYC subway and other train systems have left-hand screws. The backwards design is to prevent people from stealing bulbs for use at home.
Florida residents are being warned to prepare for falling iguanas as temperatures drop. When it gets colder than the mid-40s, iguanas become inactive and may fall from trees where they like to perch.
Party Trick: In his blog post, Daniel Wirtz describes discovering a technique to quickly identify differences between two images by crossing his eyes to create a combined third image. This method makes discrepancies appear as shimmering details, facilitating rapid detection. Inspired by a 9-year-old girl's performance on a German TV show, Daniel practiced and refined this skill, ultimately sharing it with his fiancée.
In the example below, she was presented with two images of hundreds of coffee beans spread out on a table. To my eye, both images looked exactly the same. But it took her only a couple of seconds to call out that one coffee bean was missing on the left side of the image:
He provides step-by-step instructions and offers three spot-the-difference puzzles—easy, hard, and superhuman—for readers to practice this technique.
Daniel also mentions that his post sparked discussions on Hacker News, where readers shared interesting comments and stories related to this technique. I can confirm that with a bit of practice, I can now spot the differences between 2 side by side images.
https://danielwirtz.com/blog/spot-the-difference-superpower
People have extra parts:
You can still have a fairly normal life without one of your lungs, your spleen, appendix, a kidney, gall bladder, colon, stomach, adenoids, tonsils, plus some of your lymph nodes, the fibula bones from each leg and six of your ribs.
A Japanese company, Kirin, just introduced an electric spoon at CES 2025 that enhances the taste of low-sodium food through mild electrical stimulation, making it taste saltier without adding salt. The device, priced at $127, aims to help reduce sodium consumption, targeting the Japanese market where sodium intake is double the recommended daily amount.
Cher is the only artist to have a Billboard number one hit in each of the past 7 decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher_singles_discography
The Facebook layout is blue due to Mark Zuckerburg is colorblind and he sees blue colors best.
During the 2008 financial crisis…After a few hours of phone calls and arrangements, the Mitsubishi bankers returned to Morgan Stanley's headquarters with a check for $9 billion. It is the largest cheque ever signed, delivered and cashed.
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/biggest-check-written/
! Loud. An F-35 at 1,000 ft and 500 mph can produce a sound of 121 decibels. But this Belfast primary school teacher, Annalisa Flanagan, shouted her way into the world record books in 1994 with a thunderous bellow of the word 'quiet!'. The scream clocked up an earth-shattering 121.7 decibels.
The BBC once convinced people Spaghetti grew on trees. On April 1, 1957, BBC broadcast a 3 minute program about Switzerland farms growing Spaghetti trees. The farmers harvested them and put in the sun to dry them. The presenter explained Spaghetti always grows to the same length. People believed it. LOL, everyone knows Spaghetti grows in the ground from bulbs…
Chuck Norris doesn’t say “who’s your daddy,” because he knows the answer.
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...dude...got so doomed and stoned seeing dopesmoker here i forgot to comment...yet another baller edition...in the movie gummo they play that song while the kids bmx around town...epic...
The BBC April Fools Day film was (is) a work of genius!
For those who might not know, the idea came to the creator (Charles de Jaeger) from something his teacher had said to him when he was a child. Apparently she told some boys they were silly enough to believe spaghetti grew on trees.
P.S. My spaghetti bulbs are doing really well!