“How Things Work”: 50 Facts And Curiosities More People Should Know About

When I was a kid I asked Dad if I could see his high school yearbook. He said, "I didn't have one. It was Depression days and there was no money." I never forgot that. Years later, I was looking at eBay and saw a yearbook from the high school and year my father graduated. I bought it for a small sum. When it arrived, I opened it to see my father's senior photo, and was shocked to see he had signed the yearbook! I sent a letter to the person who sold it to me explaining how pleased my father was to receive it.

That is just so sweet.

Time will teach us all .. hopefully

Awe. That is SO sweet.

At the age of 53, I open up my Ancestry.com account to do a little work on my family tree. We were orphaned and what family we had left were very secretive and distant. Anyway, first screen that came up was a newspaper article about a woman artist 2,000 miles away who had purchased a scrapbook on Ebay. She discovered the previous owner was a young woman who died at 34, leaving behind 3 young girls. Turns out, it was my mother's high school scrapbook. This artist called a local reporter, who did the story so we could be found and the scrapbook returned to us. I tried to find that artist but never had any luck. I wanted to tell her she was successful, and to thank her for her efforts, but it had been over ten years by then. I was 6 when Mom died, so memories were few and definitely not fresh. So, that's my story.

if only Turkiye had a few more people like şehmuz.

Remind me of Yacouba Sawadogo, a Burkinabé farmer who used traditional farming technique to stop desert and create forested areas.

bless this man

Good man !

Wow,

The one on the right is not only healthier, but a more attractive specimen. I don't understand how people can breed for genetic deformity and find it cute.

the poor first dog seems to be amputated

This is how they should always have looked!

French Bulldogs are one of my least favorite breeds, from a vet standpoint. Their entire body makeup is genetic nightmare on top of genetic nightmare on top of genetic nightmare. Because of overbreading the form on the left, Frenchies are prone to: cardiac & respiratory issues, cleft pallet, hydrocephalus, chronic arthritis that starts at an early age, chronic skin and ear infections, luxating patella, spinal issues & dysplasia, they often drown easily because their body shape, heavy heads, & short legs, they often can't have natural births. I could be here for hours listing what I've seen or treated. They are really cute, and I would love to see them back in their original form. That goes for the English version as well, both are a genetic mess.

Breeding dogs (or any other animals) for looks only should be outlawed. Especially when they breed for deformities that make animals suffer. Who find it cute? Dogs can't breathe, overheat, have joint problems... is that cute?

It was a prototype tested in 2016, from a concept developed by Samsung Electronics Argentina. Road safety was kind of a second thought, the primary scope was advertising of the upcoming Large Panel LCD line from Samsung. The prototype is no longer operational and has been retired after the testing/campaign ended. While the idea is cool, actual real world applications have much more severe conditions that I doubt would be suitable for the technology.

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Once it gets popular, they will have 2min commercials every 30 sec.

Come on Apple/Elon that was a challenge if I ever saw one!

Til it glitches and somebody sues

Genius and lifesaving!

I can't work out if this is helping or not. I read fairly quickly anyway. Now I want to do a proper scientific test with different paragraphs and a time.

It works for me, except the mix of bold and normal hurts my sense of consistency. Also speed is not the only factor of good reading. I would be so annoyed with the font, I would not enjoy the text.

Honestly, the first time I read this a few weeks ago, it slowed me down a lot (ASD, looking to get tested for ADHD). Now… I think it might be slightly faster than my regular reading speed, though that might just be because I know what it says now. Interesting either way!

This is awesome.

I'm neurodivergent and it slows me down. It makes me read every word separately instead of reading whole line at once

Here's an idea; I recently I found out about "sundown towns", racist all-white towns. This is where all these racial discrimination settlement checks should be cashed.

This guy stumbled on an infinite loop of profitability.