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He Played ‘Biff Tannen’ in Back to the Future. See Thomas F. Wilson Now At Age 63 – Ned Hardy

A Look At All The Delicious Street Foods You Might Encounter On Your Travels Around The World – Van Life Wanderer

Apple’s AirPods are 50% off today! – Amazon

Citizens chant “CCP, step down” and “Xi Jinping, step down” in the streets of Shanghai, China – Reddit

Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi declares bankruptcy, a consequence of FTX’s collapse – NPR

Meet a first-generation attorney with $347,000 in student debt who can’t land a job and says ‘there are a substantial number of people like me that are being forgotten’ – Yahoo

ood news: scalpers are struggling to profit from Nvidia’s RTX 4080 – Digital Trends

Germany – burned by overrelying on Russian gas – now vows to end dependence on trade with China – Insider

15 Outstanding Household Tips and Tricks – Linkiest

Mom stabbed pedophile to death after he abused her children – News

The MASSIVE 49” Odyssey G9 Gaming Monitor is 36% off today – Amazon

Everything We Know About Joplin Sibtain, ‘Brasso’ From Andor – Ned Hardy

This Instagram Account Collects Terrible Real Estate Photos, Here Are The Worst Ones – Sad And Useless

People Are Sharing The Most Bonkers Old Phone Designs And The Early 2000s Were Wild (20 Pics) – Ruin My Week

When is the best time to exercise? – Big Think

The History Of Treasure Planet, Disney Animation’s Biggest Ever Flop – SlashFilm

Want to sound more confident? Ditch these 10 phrases that make you look ‘insecure’ and ‘arrogant,’ say word experts – CNBC

The Most Expensive Car Ever Sold Is 67 Years Old and Cost $143 Million – Mental Floss

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What’s It Like To Be A Kleptomaniac?

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I didn’t steal because I was destitute. I stole because I had different emotions — fear, anger, frustration, and desperation — all banging up against one another. Shoplifting became the release, and the release became an addiction. I felt entitled to shoplift because I felt that I had suffered unfairly in my life and that stealing redressed these wrongs. Let someone else be the victim.

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How Do Dividends Work If I Buy Stock?

Dividends are actually quite simple, they’re just a cash payment to the stockholders.

For the most part public company’s that are making a healthy profit will keep that profit and reinvest it either in R&D or in acquisitions, but sometimes they give a portion of that profit directly to the shareholders – thats a dividend.

Typically if a company decides to pay a dividend it will be either annual or bi-annual, and the payout will be X% of the share price. So if you own 100 shares at a value of $10/share and the dividend is 1% you’ll receive a payment of $10.

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Ever wonder why most staircases in medieval castles were built to be extremely narrow and spiraling in a clockwise direction?

Since medieval castles were built mainly as fortifications, staircases were designed to make it extremely difficult for enemy combatants to fight their way up.

Since most soldiers were right-handed, they would need to round each curve of the inner wall before attempting to strike, inevitably exposing themselves in the process. The clockwise spiral staircase also allowed the defenders to use the inner wall as a partial shield and easily allow them to swing their weapon without being hindered by the curvature of the outer wall.

The stairs were also intentionally poorly lit and built to be uneven, making it even more difficult for the attackers to gain any sort of balance or momentum during their fight up to capture the castle.

 

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Meterologist Colleen Peterson – Van Life Wanderer

She Played ‘Meg’ on Supernatural. See Rachel Miner Now at 42 – Ned Hardy

One of the best blenders ever is 45% off right now! – Amazon

Massive protests break out in Zhengzhou, China, as protesters use barricades and guardrails to attack police who come to crack down on them – Reddit

How to Survive Encounters with Dangerous Animals – Outside

At-Home Ketamine Treatments Could Be a Game-Changer—or a Big Problem – Gizmodo

Holiday scam email season is here. Don’t fall for it – VOX

The 7 Most Famous Psychological Experiments of All-Time – Linkiest

10 things that made us smile this week – Upworthy

10 Worst Times A Movie Character Returned From The Dead – What Culture

This 55" 4K UHD smart TV is only $299 right now! – Amazon

Artist Reimagines Celebrities as The Subjects of Classical Paintings – Sad And Useless

There’s No Fixing Meta’s Metaverse, Scrap It, Start Over – Forbes

Ranked: The World’s 100 Biggest Pension Funds – Visual Capitalist

What else Qatar has built with its absurd wealth besides the 2022 World Cup – VOX

Grandma And Man She Accidentally Texted Spend 7th Thanksgiving Together – Sunny Skyz

Flossie, 26, officially crowned world’s oldest living cat by Guinness World Records – EuroNews

Everything We Know About ‘Willow’ Actor, Dempsey Bryk – Ned Hardy

10 Major Villains Whose Grand Plans Don’t Make Any Sense – Listverse

 

For Anyone Considering Starting Jiu-Jitsu, Read This

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I don’t know you, but if you are here reading this letter, you are probably at least somewhat curious about BJJ and maybe considering training.

This letter is for you, and I hope that you will read it. Technically, this letter is actually to me, to the “me” of just over two years ago, but I want you to consider that this letter could just as easily have been written by you, about two years from now. I hope you will continue reading.

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Dummy head used by John Anglin to fool prison guards during his escape from Alcatraz Prison. Him and his 2 companions whereabouts are still unknown. The head was made of cloth, soap, toothpaste, concrete-dust and human hair.

On June 11, 1962, three Alcatraz inmates used dummy heads to pull off perhaps the most daring prison break in recorded history. That night, brothers Clarence and John Anglin and their friend Frank Morris managed to make it off “The Rock” — but whether they made it safely to shore remains a mystery to this day.⁠

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15 Things You Didn’t Know About ‘Willow’ Star, Ellie Bamber – Ned Hardy

19 Things You Will Only See In South Korea – Van Life Wanderer

Drink one before and after a drinking session and you will greatly mitigate the effects of a hangover – Amazon

‘Andor’ Finale Breakdown: We Love This Show More Than Anything It Could Ever Do Wrong – The Ringer

TikToker Raises $186,000 To Help Elderly Walmart Employee Retire Thanks To Viral Video – Ruin My Week

Funny And Very Relatable Thanksgiving Tweets – Sad And Useless

New CRISPR cancer treatment tested in humans for first time – FreeThink

7 Tricks to Lose Weight No One Ever Told You About – Linkiest

FIFA tells Belgium to remove word ‘love’ stitched on World Cup away shirts – ESPN

Crazy rumor says Bob Iger might want to sell Disney to Apple – CBR

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX spent $300 million on homes and vacation properties for senior staff – Insider

The kitchen trash can with the foot pedal that flips open the top. We lived with the press-lip-to-open trashcan for years because we were too cheap to spend some extra dough. No longer having to manually open and close that thing like an animal is a pleasure I could not have predicted – Amazon

Colorado Club Q shooting suspect is ‘non-binary,’ public defenders say – Fox News

Mercedes Will Make Your EV Quicker . . . If You Pay $1200 a Year – Car and Driver

You Could Get Paid $30,000 to Move to This Italian Town – Inside Hook

10+ Times Our Favorite Stars Reunited and Sprinkled Nostalgia Everywhere – Bright Side

The Sequoia article singing SBF’s praises is one of the worst things I’ve ever read – Sequioa

Too much testosterone at the gym leads to fight – Reddit

He Photobombed His Girlfriend For A Month, Taking Engagement Ring Pictures Without Her Noticing It – Sunny Skyz