Imagine it’s the year 1500, and you are stepping into the elevator of 1 World Trade Center.

Okay, you’re going to have to use quite a bit of imagination for this one (or click the video below). A videographer imagined what it would be like to ascend to the top of 1 World Trade Center and progress through time as it happened. So, naturally, the video begins with a green expanse of land as of the year 1500. If you remember your history lessons correctly, the Dutch originally claimed New York and named it New Amsterdam back in 1626. In 1664, the city (which was hardly more than a town at that point) was sold to the English.

History progressed and buildings rose with it.  The incredible time-lapse accurately shows the expansive elements of the city rising at their correct periods. It even takes the tragedy that happened on September 11 into account. “The event is certainly a key part of history,” chairman and chief executive of Legends Hospitality David W. Checketts said, referring to the attacks. “We did not think you could ignore it. Having it appear in the year it did and disappear in the year it did was the respectful way of addressing the fact that it was part of the landscape,” he told BGR.

Watch the beautiful NYC landscape unfold before your eyes:

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I pose the following hypothetical scenario:

The year is 2020. Mark Zuckerberg has just unveiled the latest feature on Facebook: time travel. But before he can put it into use, he needs a test subject. So, Mark Zuckerberg in all his almighty wisdom comes to you, and he says, “despite your lack of knowledge in the field of time-travel, computers, German, German history, stealth operations, and killing people, we’d like you to test this new feature that involves traveling back in time. Oh and by the way, we’re going to have you kill Hitler while you’re there.”
Confronted with this ethical dilemma, would you accept?

According to a psychological study published by Sage, men are more likely to accept a very basic version of this hypothetical than women. The research shows that, given the opportunity, women generally feel uncomfortable with the idea of killing one person to save millions, while men are much more open to compromising their morals if it means bettering society.

“Women seem to be more likely to have this negative, emotional, gut-level reaction to causing harm to people in the dilemmas to the one person, whereas men were less likely to express this strong emotional reaction to harm,” says lead research author Rebecca Friesdorf, a social psychology student at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario.

The academic study, which was a meta-analysis of 40 different studies posing a series of moral dilemmas, was conducted by researchers from the United States, Canada, and Germany. 6,100 people were polled and asked questions on topics ranging from murder and torture, to lying and animal testing.

Bill Nye the famous and greatly-loved science guy, knows how to relate to his audience.

If they won’t listen when you explain it with science, maybe they’ll listen when you explain it with Emojis. So that’s exactly what he did. Bill Nye the ever-humorous science guy, explained why climate change is a problem now, compared to way back when. Watch below:

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A cosmetics company called The Balm created an eyeshadow palette called the Nude ‘Tude, and then a second palette called the Nude Dude.

The first palette- the Nude ‘Tude comes with 12 scandalous eyeshadow shades positioned over the women on the packaging to cover up their bodies.

And because the product was such a big hit, The Balm created a second palette called the Nude Dude, which features 12 eyeshadow shades covering up naked male bodies.

But wait.

If you look closely at both palettes, words like “Stubborn” and “Selfish” are used to describe the women, and words like “Faithful” and “Flawless” are used to describe the men.

Let’s take a closer look:

You have to wonder why this company would use such negative words to describe women, and such positive ones to describe men.

Is it a ploy to create social media buzz and attention around the product and brand? Or is this really how these women (aka creators and marketers) view men and women?

What do you think?

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So you’ve been in a relationship for a while now.

And you and your boo are both totally comfortable with one another, and things you could never imagine yourself doing, you are now doing with your babe.

You thought to yourself, never will I be that person. And now you are that person, and you oftentimes make yourself nauseous.

Ashamed? Maybe. But you secretly love it and the closeness that the two of you share.

Here are 10 Weird Little Things Couples In A Long-Term Relationship Do:

1. Share a toothbrush

If it was an emergency, you both totally shared each other’s toothbrush, and you probably didn’t even wash it off before you used it.

2. Leave the door open when you pee

While this is utterly disgusting, you know you do it, because it just takes too much energy to close that door.

3. Stay in and watch movies

Because there’s nothing besides the obvious that is more enjoyable then cuddling with your boo and watching Netflix.

4. Use each other as an excuse to skip out on plans

You blame each other as being the reason that you cannot hang out with other people. It’s as simple as pie. I’m sorry I already made plans with ___.

5. You communicate telepathically

If the two of you are on either sides of a room, you know just what facial expression to do to let your partner know exactly what’s going on in your brain. And the best part is no one else knows a thing except think to themselves that you guys are weird.

6. You send each other text messages when you are in the same area

Either you’re saying things that you can’t say out loud in front of other people, or you’re really lazy and don’t want to physically get up to talk to your babe.

7. You people watch and make up stories

You sometimes eavesdrop on other peoples convos and analyze dates, and try and decipher if it’s a first date, or how the couple met. People watching is fun with your boo because you can make up stories, and no one will ever know.

8. You binge eat

Because it isn’t bad if you’re doing it together. Right? Although it means you both might get fat, but at least you won’t be alone.

9. You relive your childhood

Which consists of making tents, tee-pees, playing old boardgames/card games, and watching old movies from your childhood days.

10. Morning breathe doesn’t bother you as much and bodily smells are normal

While this is totally gross, most can attest that when you’re in a long-term relationship you just have to accept these things, and especially when you are with someone everyday and every morning. This is real life folks.

The moral of the story is- some things are just funner together.

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If you’re a book-lover, you’ll love this. Readers are happier than those who avoid flipping through books, and it’s proven by science.

The New Yorker published an article in June 2015 that brought up the little-known practice of bibliotherapy. It shared the idea that “regular readers sleep better, have lower stress levels, higher self-esteem, and lower rates of depression than non-readers.”

Bibliotherapy is simply defined as “is an expressive therapy that uses an individual’s relationship to the content of books and poetry and other written words as therapy.”

Because that definition is very broad, there have been many forms of bibliotherapy throughout history. From the Ancient Greeks, who referred to their libraries as a place of peaceful worship, to more modern times, when bibliotherapy was more associated with self-help books and guides, it is a practice that has remained important around the world. But what does bibliotherapy mean today? Well, a few things. But most importantly, the practice seeks to connect the reader with works of fiction that will help him or her overcome their problems (like feeling stuck in a rut at work, or fear over becoming a parent), or otherwise, to simply make the reader a better person, with a better understanding of life around them.

How? Because readers have been shown to be masters of empathy. New research in the past 10 years has shown that reading does have a positive effect on the brain. “Mirror neurons” are neurons that fire in the brain both when you complete an activity and when you see someone else doing the activity. When MRIs were conducted, these “mirror neurons” fired the same way when reading about an experience in a book. 

So where does fiction come in? Studies showed that people who read fiction novels are better at empathizing with others than non-readers. Another study showed that reading literary fiction improved social perception. Basically, those who read books have a better understanding of the world–because they don’t just sympathize with other’s bad experiences, but they can understand and empathize with them.

Whether you participate in professional bibliotherapy, or simply are an avid visitor of the library and bookstores (or own a Kindle or Nook for that matter), one thing is for sure: reading is an important and positive step in developing into a kind and understanding adult.

Besides being happier and healthier, it’s also proven that readers are more successful than non-readers, so keep it up bookworms! And if you haven’t read a book since 12th grade English class, maybe it’s time to start. Here’s a good list to get the ball rolling.

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The Disney movies we all grew up with have certainly set us up with high expectations of what love and our ‘prince charming’ should be like. These two-dimensional charmers taught us that you can fall in love with someone after singing a duet or dancing until midnight at a ball, but really everything about it is pretty unrealistic.

Thanks to Jirka Väätäinen, now we can see what those unrealistic princes would look like in the real world. Through a process of digital compositing, photo-manipulation, and digital painting, the artist reimagined some of our favorite princes like Prince Eric, Aladdin, and John Smith to show what they would look like in real life.

Trust us, these transformations are jaw-dropping.

Take a look at Jirka Väätäinen’s reimagined creations of what these Disney princes would look like in real life.

John Smith from Pocahontas

From this:

To this:

Prince Phillip from Sleeping Beauty

From this:

To this:

Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid

From this:

To this:

Hercules from Hercules

From this:

To this:

Prince Charming from Cinderella

From this:

To this:

Tarzan from Tarzan

From this:

To this:

Prince Adam/Beast from Beauty and the Beast

From this:

To this:

Aladdin from Aladdin

From this:

To this:

Take a look at the rest of Jirka Väätäinen’s Real Life Disney here.

Are you amazed at these characters’ transformations? Share with us in the comments below.

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Nounsense (n.): the grammatical term used to describe a word that is really a few different words combined to linguistically sum up a feeling

(courtesy Urban Dictionary)

Youniverse: term used to describe the state of a self-absorbed person; somebody who is unaware of a world outside themselves

Preclapulation: Clapping before you are even aware of what you are clapping for

Jackintosh: a computer used exclusively for watching porn

Barithmetic: the quick arithmetic one does in a bar when meeting somebody much older than them; calculating how old you were when they were your current age

Beerboarding: extracting information from a co-worker or friend by getting them drunk

Dopplebanger: a person you have sexual relations with who looks similar to a different person you have also had sexual relations with

Bedgasm: the feeling of euphoria experienced when the alarm goes off and you start to wake up, but then you realize it’s actually Saturday so you can sleep in

Cellfish: the act of a person refusing to take their attention away from their phone, despite being in a situation where they should probably put the phone away

Nestflixing: the act of building a cocoon of blankets and pillows around you while you watch Netflix (or related services) for hours on end

Textpecting: When you are expecting a message that isn’t coming, so you keep pressing the home button on your phone only to see your blank background with the time (counting the hours it’s taking this person to text you)

Nonversation: the conversation (or lack thereof) you have with co-workers in the coffee line or similar circumstance; pointless small-talk

Wheredrobe: the nonexistent, abstract location that contains all the misplaced clothing you’ve lost throughout the years to laundromats, locker rooms, and drunken nights

Hiberdating: when somebody gets a new boyfriend or girlfriend and goes unseen for days or weeks at a time because they are with their new squeeze

Columbusing: when white people think they invented or found something that has actually been around for years (i.e. Miley Cyrus “discovering” twerking)

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Answer: so they can be on fleek.

Have you ever looked in the mirror and wondered why those fuzzy little caterpillars are hanging out on your forehead? As human beings evolved, we lost a significant amount of hair that once covered our entire bodies, but we grew concentrated patches of hair above our eyes. Why?

They act as a detour

The most important job an eyebrow can have, is protecting the eye. We rely a lot on our sight. We need it to spot a gazelle running on the plains of Africa. We use it to navigate our way through the woods at night when we’re running from a hungry lion. Or, in more modern times, we need it for those thirteen and a half hour periods where we binge watch the first two seasons of Sex and the City (not that I’ve ever done that).
As far as evolutionary purposes go, eyebrows are nature’s deterrent. When sweat runs down your face and threatens to spill its saltiness into your eyes, your eyebrows force the sweat elsewhere, leaving your eyes clean and salt free.

They’re helpful little communicators

You ever make eye contact with somebody across the room, you look up ever so slightly, and you raise your eyebrows judge a smidgen as a flirtatious gesture? Well, you are acting on 200,000 years of human evolution coming into play to tell a potential partner you’re interested.
Scientists who study nonverbal communication say that eyebrows are really useful for communicating anger, surprise, and happiness. Some people also have the ability to raise a single eyebrow at a time, signaling they don’t understand or they would like to know more. If you’re one of these people, your eyebrows are more effective communicators are more evolved than the rest of us lowly people.
Additionally, those who rely on sign language use eyebrows for very complex nonverbal gestures.

So bear in mind friends, when you’re having a conversation with somebody, your mouth isn’t just doing the talking, your eyebrows are too.

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This baby was pretty surprised to receive a potato in the mail- I mean look at that surprised face!

This adorable baby’s parents received a potato in the mail from an anonymous person congratulating them on the baby’s birth.

They have no idea who sent the potato, and as I would be, they are pretty curious to know.

The baby’s father posted this on their Instagram via Potato Parcel’s website:

As written in a previous LifeDaily article: this potato trend is a new wave of sending messages to one another, think ‘the modern day telegram.’

It was created by a company called the Potato Parcel, which is the only website in the world specializing in communicating through potatoes.

Just think how this trend encourages us to go back to the olden days when people had to send each other telegrams in the mail to communicate!

Forgot cell phones and computers when you can just send someone a message on a potato!

Would you ever send someone a potato?

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Want to succeed like Oprah?… I think it’s safe to say most of us do.

Oprah Winfrey is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of her generation, and if you were to judge by her upbringing you would never guess she would be as successful as she is today.

Oprah was raised in rural Mississippi by her grandmother, and then her mother from age six and up- her mother was a maid in Milwaukee. She overcame tremendous challenges to reach this unbelievable level of success that she has today, and everything about her story is inspiring.

In reading over many of Oprah’s famous quotes, it became hard to choose the ones that fit best for this article because all of her advice is valuable. We chose the ones we thought were best fit to help you to succeed.

Oprah’s Best Advice To Help You Succeed:

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.

O

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

O

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.

O

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

O

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

O

For everyone of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn’t always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school.

O

I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

O

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

O

Learning to trust your instincts, using your intuitive sense of what’s best for you, is paramount for any lasting success. I’ve trusted the still, small voice of intuition my entire life. And the only time I’ve made mistakes is when I didn’t listen. It’s really more of a feeling than a voice—a whispery sensation that pulsates just beneath the surface of your being. All animals have it. We’re the only creatures that deny and ignore it.

O

And I often tell friends: When you don’t know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice—your inner GPS guiding you to true North.

O

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

O

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

O

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Share Oprah’s fantastic advice with your friends.

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The price tag attached to the New Horizons space probe weighs more than the actual planet.

At $720 million, Pluto was certainly not a cheap vacation (especially since the probe didn’t even bother to get a hotel room and park itself on the beach for a few days). New Horizons costly trip to Pluto is the equivalent of you spending ten years and a million dollars hitchhiking to Washington DC, simply so you can drive by and take a picture on your Nokia flip phone. Many people would probably say that the trip to Pluto was too costly, but actually those high quality photos New Horizons took will be extremely valuable to scientists. All kidding aside, traveling to Pluto and finally exploring the furthest reaches of our Solar System will create a new dawn of space exploration and continue to propel us forward.

It’s fortunate that NASA has very deep pockets to fuel such a mission, but it turns out, the exorbitant price tag is nothing compared to some of the stuff we’ve wasted our money on right here on Earth.

7. Daylight Savings Time ($434 million-$1.7 billion per year)

How could daylight savings time possibly cost more than going to Pluto? If you’ve ever experienced daylight savings time, as I’m sure you have, you’ve probably experienced the inconvenience of it. You or one of your co-workers forgets about it and is late to a key meeting, or you miss your flight as a result. Say you’re waking up an hour earlier than usual and you’re exhausted while sitting in traffic. Since you aren’t paying attention, you get into a fender bender. While it’s hard to place an exact figure on how much money it costs us each year estimate range to almost $2 billion, according to the Things That Cost More Than Space Tumblr page.

6. Pirates of the Caribbean Films ($1.04 Billion)

Hollywood has shelled out a lot for the sake of Captain Jack Sparrow. There was $140 million spent to make The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), $225 million to make Dead Man’s Chest (2006), $300 million to make At World’s End (2007), and $378.5 million for On Stranger Tides (2011). In 2017, we can expect Dead Men Tell No Tales.

5. Trump Taj Mahal ($1.1 Billion)

That’s right, the man currently running for President with the campaign slogan, “make America great again” poured over a billion dollars into the world’s most expensive casino, according to The New York Times. The facility itself cost $500 million. The huge building covers 17 acres and was dubbed the “8th wonder of the world,” by its publicists. The costly business venture in Atlantic City was Trumps third casino in the gambling capital of New Jersey.

4. The Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium (1.2 Billion)

The Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium features a max capacity of 105,000 people and the world’s fourth largest TV screen. Completed in 2009, Jerry World could have financed the trip to Pluto, plus another trip to Neptune if we’re counting at a dollar per mile rate (NASA’s 3 billion mile trip to Pluto cost lest than 50¢ per mile).

3. ATM Fees ($8 Billion)

Those $2 charges here, and $3 charges there really begin to add up when the entire population of America has to contribute. According to 2010 data, Americans completed about $2.1 billion fee-carrying ATM transactions that year, at an average cost of about $3.85, which totals just over $8 billion.

2. Spam emails, $21.58 billion

Information Week shared the toll that spam took on America in 2004. The National Technology Readiness Survey estimated that the roughly 170 million adults who were online that year spent three minutes a day deleting spam, for a lost productivity cost in the tens of billions for that one year.

1. Hangovers, $160 billion-ish 

The CDC in 2011 published a study (based on 2006 data) that put the cost of excessive alcohol consumption that year at $223.5 billion. Some 72% of that, or about $160 billion, “largely resulted from losses in workplace productivity.” That Atlantic’s take “suggests that the economic drag from hangovers is about $160 billion.”

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Robin Williams died on Aug. 11, 2014, and today marks the one-year anniversary of his passing. The Oscar winning actor and comedian, who was 63 years old when he died, is known for his infectious smile, as well as his roles in both film and television like Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society and Mrs. Doubtfire. 

Today we remember his charm, humor, and talent by celebrating his life and work.

Take a look at the top 20 quotes from Williams‘ long and illustrious career:

20. “So what? The important thing to remember is not to go to pieces when that happens. You have to react like a man, calmly. You have to say to yourself, ‘Albert, you pierced the toast, so what? It’s not the end of your life.’” – Armand Goldman, The Birdcage

19. “Gooooooood morning, Vietnam! It’s 0600 hours. What does the ‘O’ stand for? O my God, it’s early!” – Adrian, Good Morning, Vietnam

18.“Carpe dentum. Seize the teeth.” – Daniel Hillard/ Mrs. Doubtfire, Mrs. Doubtfire

17. “Oh, no. To live… to live would be an awfully big adventure.” — Peter Banning, Hook

16. “You’re not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense: this girl you’ve met, she’s not perfect either. But the question is whether or not you’re perfect for each other.” – Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting

15. “You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.” – Patch Adams, Patch Adams

14. “But if there’s love, dear… those are the ties that bind, and you’ll have a family in your heart, forever.”– Daniel Hillard/ Mrs. Doubtfire, Mrs. Doubtfire

13. “What’s wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.” – Patch Adams, Patch Adams

12. “That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society

11. “I just want to know one thing. Are your kids well-behaved? Or do they need like, a few light slams every now and then?” – Daniel Hillard/ Mrs. Doubtfire, Mrs. Doubtfire

10. “You have to break in half to love somebody.” – Chris Nielsen, What Dreams May Come

9.  “The game is not over yet, Sarah!” — Alan Parrish, Jumanji

8. “But oh, to be free. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world.”– Genie, Aladdin

7. “You’ll have bad times, but it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.”–Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting

6. “Carpe. Hear it? Carpe. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society

5. “You don’t know about real loss beacuse it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.” – Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting

4. “No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society

3. “I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.” – John Keating, Dead Poets Society

2. “My first day as a woman and I’m getting hot flashes.” – Daniel Hillard/ Mrs. Doubtfire, Mrs. Doubtfire

1.“Thank you for choosing Magic Carpet for all your travel needs. Don’t stand until the rug has come to a complete stop. Thank you. Goodbye, now. Goodbye. Goodbye. Thank you. Goodbye.” – Genie, Aladdin

Can you believe it’s been one year since America’s funny-man passed away? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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If we’ve learned anything from the dress that broke the internet, first posted to Tumblr by a 21-year-old singer from Scotland, it’s that anyone can become an internet sensation overnight.

And all by simply starting a global conversation…

While it may help to be actually famous, it’s not necessary as the internet stands as a platform for both celebrities and regular people alike. It’s right here at our fingertips waiting for us to start a conversation and make an impact.

Here are LifeDaily’s 30 Most Influential people on the Internet:

Life is boring.

Well–no, not really. Life is actually really complex and wonderful, but it’s pretty easy to look at your regular routine and say, “my life is boring.” We often fall into a rut that can be difficult to climb out of. We do what is easy and we do what is the norm.

However, if you want to escape the norm and make a slight (and very simple change) I encourage you to do one thing (well, technically 15): challenge yourself.
If you can challenge yourself in small ways, you can change yourself in big ways. The following are 15 very minor challenges that while they appear small, they could have a significant ripple effect.

1. Leave a chocolate bar next to your bed. Wait for a month to go by before you eat it.

2. When you arrive at somebody’s house, do not text them. Get out of the car and knock on the door (like the cavemen used to do).

3. Strike up a conversation with a stranger in public.

4. Go 5 days without watching TV.

5. Pull a piece of clothing out of your closet that you really like…now give it away to charity.

6. Next time you drive somewhere, do it in total silence. Radio, music, and phone calls are not allowed. You have to sit alone with just you and your thoughts.

7. Have a conversation with yourself in public (yeah, out loud, where people can hear you). They’ll think you’re crazy and it will embarrass you. Oddly though, if you can intentionally embarrass yourself in public, you can learn to love yourself when you unintentionally feel shame.

8. Count the amount of times in the day you say the word, “I.”

9. Take the stairs for a full week.

10. Leave your phone at home one day–just unplug and see how it goes.

11. Order take-out: leave a tip that’s bigger than the entire cost of the meal (or at least significantly more than 15%).

12. Drink 2 liters of water a day for a week (warning: it’ll make you pee a lot). Take notice of how it makes you feel and how soft your hands suddenly are.

13. The amount of lies the average person tells in a day is insane. It’s hard to pin down an exact number, but researchers say, in a ten minute conversation, the average person lies three times (most are harmless white-lies). Try going a full day without lying.

14. Go a full day without using your credit card once (it’s harder than it sounds).

15. The next time you have an irrational fear, force yourself to overcome it (for me personally, this is picking up bugs and putting them outside).

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Flirtationship: you’re not dating in any form, but you’re also not just friends. You run in the same circles as this person and interact often enough. Naturally flirting ensues

Use it in a sentence: Pauline and I are involved in an intensely heated flirtationship. Every time I walk past her knitting circle, we have really intense eye-contact. I just want to throw my walker against the wall, and then pin her to it.

F*cktationship: the complex realm commonly called “friends with benefits.” Is it a relationship? Are there feelings? Nobody knows…

Use it in a sentence: I hear Clarence is in a f*cktationship with Thelma after they hooked up at Gertrude’s retirement party last week. Thelma told me she doesn’t want to date anybody though, so they just sleep with each other once or twice a week.

Expectationship: When you meet somebody that you vaguely connect with. You like them enough to text them once or twice a week, but it’s too inconvenient to actually make plans with them. One day, it’ll happen, I swear…

Use it in a sentence: I met this girl Mildred in the gift shop three weeks ago and we keep saying we’re going to meet up, but she lives all the way on the third floor. I’ve got this great expectationship going with her, though, so I know we’ll meet up eventually.

Desperationship: when you date somebody because you don’t want to be alone, or because you need to be with somebody for some oddly specific reason

Use it in a sentence: The more I think about it, I’m pretty sure I’m in a desperationship with Gladys. I’m seeing my wife from my second marriage next week at my former step-sons wedding, and I can’t go to that alone.

Consolationship: when you go though a break-up and you need a rebound to get over your ex

Use it in a sentence: Clyde is definitely using Agnes for a consolationship, but after what happened with Maybelle, who could blame him?

Infatuationship: when you’re head over heels infatuated with somebody that barely registers your existence, and definitely does not think of you as a sexual being

Use it in a sentence: I’m in an infatuationship with Dr. Fitz. He thinks I keep coming into his office because I’m in pain from my hip replacement, but really I just like looking into those dreamy blue eyes. I feel like I’m 47 again!

Elationship: when you are involved with somebody that keeps you at arms length. Because you are a lot more invested than the are, you feel giddy excitement whenever they reach out to you

Use it in a sentence: I know Edgar is stringing me along with an elationship and I should tell him to stick it, but I just like him so much and it feels so good when I see his name pop up on my cell phone (providing I have my reading glasses, of course).

Affirmationship: when you sleep with somebody because you like them, but also because they think your insanely hot (and they aren’t afraid to vocalize it).

Use it in a sentence: Hattie isn’t really dating Maxine. She’s just using her for her own affirmationship to prove that she’s still got it going on.

Associationship: When you interact with an attractive person very regularly, due to having a similar routine, but you don’t actually know them. You just frisk each other with your eyes every time you pass by.

Use it in a sentence: I’m in an associationship with this really attractive guy. I see him every time I walk into the cafeteria, just as he’s walking out, but I’ve never met him and we don’t know each other.

Levitationship: When you date Harry Potter

Use it in a sentence: After the doctor gives me my pills at the end of the day, I feel like I’m in a levitationship with Harry Potter.

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There are more benefits to drinking water than you may realize.

We not only forget to drink water, we forget how absolutely important it is for us.

LifeDaily shares 9 Pretty Convincing Reasons To Drink More Water:

1. Control weight

Sometimes when you feel hungry, you are actually thirsty. I know, hard to believe right. Try it for yourself though and drink a large 16oz glass of water right now and see how full you feel immediately after. If we would just drink more water, we wouldn’t need to consume as many calories with food, or even carbonated beverages.

2. Increase energy

Because water is used in almost all processes in the body, when you are low on water, you are low on energy. Being hydrated is an easy and pretty inexpensive way to increase energy levels. If you need your morning cup of joe, which most of us do, be sure to drink water before and after, since caffeine is known to dehydrate you.

3. Prevent depression

Water is required to optimal functioning of the brain, so therefore, if you are feeling down, grab a bottle and drink up. Don’t allow low levels of water in the brain to cause you depression.

4. Glowing and radiant skin

If you have never spent a day increasing your water intake, you will know what it’s like for your skin to just glow naturally. Plus, dehydration, or not drinking enough water can make your skin deflated and wrinkled. Drinking enough keeps your skin looking younger, brighter, and healthier.

5. Digestion

Water keeps things flowing in your intestinal tract and kidneys. If you want to keep things regular, down some water.

6. Prevent acne

It has been shown that drinking a glass of hot lemon water in the morning has been shown to help reduce breakouts caused by bacteria.

7. Prevent illness

Since water helps to move things along, it aids in getting rid of toxins and helps to prevent bad bacteria from staying in the body, such as infections that could get you sick.

8. Keep you looking slim

When your body is deprived of water and dehydrated, it compensates by retaining water, which causes you to look puffy and bloat.

9. Keep muscles functioning

Have you ever worked out while you were dehydrated? You may have noticed your muscles did not feel like moving. Drink water to keep your body moving throughout your fitness routines.

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Meet Suda, the painting elephant!

Suda is a 4-year-old baby elephant who has the ability to paint a picture of herself.

She shows off her skills at the Maetaeng Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand where people go to watch her and other elephants paint.

Suda has assistance in her painting by her trainer: her ear is nudged everytime she goes to draw another line, and over time she has learned how to paint with extreme precision.

A zoologist named Desmond Morris who traveled to study these painting elephants in Thailand, explained how they paint:

“Let me describe exactly what happens. A painting session begins with three heavy easels being wheeled into position. On each easel a large piece of white card (30in x 20in) has been fixed underneath a strong wooden frame.

Each elephant is positioned in front of her easel and is given a brush loaded with paint by her mahout. He pushes the brush gently into the end of her trunk.

The man then stands to one side of his animal’s neck and watches intently as the brush starts to make lines on the card. Then the empty brush is replaced by another loaded one, and the painting continues until the picture is complete.

The elephant then turns towards its audience, bows deeply and is rewarded with bananas.”

People are able to buy elephants’ paintings, and some of them come at a pretty hefty price tag.

Many may argue that elephant painting is a form of animal cruelty and abuse, similar to that which occurs in a circus, and some of this is probably accurate as elephants probably have to go through difficult training to learn how to paint.

Watching them paint however is absolutely beautiful, and if some of the money from the paintings go to caring for the animals, then it isn’t a lost cause.

Watch the unbelievably video of Suda the elephant painting a picture of herself:

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While the concrete jungle may not be known for its wildlife, one of its most famous skyscrapers honored over 100 of the world’s endangered animals, including Cecil the Lion, in a light show on Sat. August 1, 2015.

The event, Project Change: The Empire State Building, was intended to bring attention to the dwindling numbers of animals around the world as well as bring attention to Racing Extinction, a documentary created by the Oceanic Preservation Society.

The light show, which merged both art and activism, was created by Louie Psihoyos, executive director of Oceanic Preservation Society, and Travis Threlkel, a filmmaker and photographer.

Take a look at some highlights of the event below:

According to the New York Times, the project used 40 stacked, 20,000 lumen projectors and cost over $1 million in an effort to create “the most dramatic thing we could do to get the world to know about what we’re losing,” Psihoyos said.
Take a look at the entire 3 hour light show from the Oceanic Preservation Society here.

Were you amazed by the incredible light show? Let us know in the comments below.

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Small tattoos have proven to be a lasting trend, and there’s good reason why. These beautiful works of art allow you to compliment your body without being too obvious. Like jewelry, these tattoos adorn your body and the often simple design is the reason why they’re so charming.

Whether you’re ready for your next tattoo or just looking for inspiration, take a look at these 20 amazingly small tattoos that prove that bigger isn’t always better.

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Would you ever get a tiny tattoo? Share with us in the comments.

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