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You can hide people from your Facebook News Feed, but that won’t stop Facebook from popping up elsewhere, constantly recommending that you view photos of your ex and his/her new flame. Here’s how to completely hide someone from Facebook. When Facebook first implemented some of its new recommendation features, a lot of people found their [...]
On Christmas, 42-year-old British charity worker Simone Back posted a Facebook message reading, “‘Took all my pills be dead soon so bye bye every one.” 148 comments—many of them mocking her—followed. The next day she was found dead.
You may think that the ATM you’re using is perfectly normal. After all, it may even be in the bank building. And you cover your hand while typing your PIN, anyway, just in case there’s a hidden camera. Well, think again.
An Indianapolis woman, Shemicka McVey, stabbed her boyfriend, Maurice Davenport, during an argument after he wouldn’t let her see his Facebook page. That takes Superpoking a step too far. Doesn’t he know he can just erase things from his wall?
Ah, batteries. They always die sooner than you think, right? Not this one! Called Karpen’s Pile, this battery has been working uninterrupted since the 1950′s. That’s 60 years of charge! The perpetual motion machine was built by Vasile Karpen and it should have stopped working decades ago. But when a Romanian newspaper went to check out [...]
I’ve never thought about this before, but when your hands are tied up and you need to hit the button to call the elevator, isn’t it smarter to kick the button instead of elbowing it? Those clever Japanese! Actually, if there was a kickable elevator button, I’d probably kick the thing every single time. It [...]
Peter Jalowiczor is a gas worker from South Yorkshire, England. He’s also the discoverer of four giant exoplanets, according to the University of California’s Lick-Carnegie Planet Search Team. But he’s not an astronomer and he doesn’t even have a telescope.
