We would normally expect children to have their birthday party theme based on their favorite princess or superhero. But, that is not the case for 3-year-old Lucia. Lucia asked her mom for the 2018 horror movie The Nun-themed birthday party. 

So how does a 3-year-old get into such a terrifying movie? It turns out, Lucia saw The Nun on TV at her grandmother’s house and immediately began bugging her mother for the film to be the theme of her upcoming party.

“Lucia’s mom made sure to go all-out for this party theme, baking her a cake with the demon nun Valak on it and creating a costume for her daughter to wear. The party was complete with decorations and a gigantic homemade Valak. Lucia’s friends even got into the party theme, dressing up and donning face paint. Lucia’s cousin Andrea documented the event, posting the photos to Twitter which immediately went viral. Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele even commented on the photos!”

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Most people, especially the young generation of today, cannot part ways with their smartphones for some reason. These people suffer from cellphone addiction, colloquially known as “nomophobia” (fear of not having a mobile phone). According to Gifographics, 85% of smartphone users would check their device while talking to friends and family. This restaurant aims to at least lessen the people’s interaction with their phones.

Curry Pizza Company, a pizza place in Fresno, California, is offering customers a “Talk to Each Other Discount”, which requires customers to agree to have their smartphones locked up while they are in the restaurant and simply talk to each other during their meal. The discount is only applicable to groups of four people or more, all of whom must be carrying a working smartphone. If they qualify for the offer, diners will receive a free large pizza that they can enjoy on their next visit, or, if they’re in a giving mood, donate to the homeless in downtown Fresno.

“Our goal is to get families/friends to stop using their phones while eating and talk to each other and communicate more,” a Curry Pizza Company announcement on Facebook states. “If you like you may receive a free large (per group) on your next visit (must be at least 24 hours) or you can donate your free large pizza to the needy. We donate pizzas to the homeless in downtown Fresno every month, so we would add your donated pizza along with the many others or you could do it yourself.”

Co-owner Varinder Malhi told FOX News that he was inspired to implement the discount by his own phone usage. Wanting to seat a good example for his children, he decided to only use his phone at home for emergencies and, after experiencing the benefits of a smartphone break, he wanted to incentivize others to try it as well.

Are you up for the offer?

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Don’t be fooled. It’s just the same ol’ ranch dressing. But Kraft’s audience is not us — it’s the children who don’t want to eat vegetables.

"Kids will eat anything with frosting, right?" the company states in a news release. "It's a match made for dinnertime bliss."

Those Kraft-y bastards.

The question, however, is what if those kids have already tasted ranch dressing before?

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Forty-one fifth graders and their adult chaperones were stranded at Oklahoma City's Will Rogers World Airport when their flight was cancelled.

The group was set to travel from Tulsa to Richmond, Virginia, when American Airlines announced their flight was canceled. After being told there were no alternative flights available, KOCO News reports, the entire party received full refunds on their tickets.

The students remained at the airport for six and a half hours, with no promise that they would be able to make their long-awaited trip. However, Delta gate agents eventually intervened.

Two agents reached out to the airline's headquarters in Atlanta and were able to acquire a spare plane. The plane was flown to Oklahoma City just for the students.

Read teacher Shantell Barbour's Twitter thread regarding the incident here. via-Yahoo!

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As we all know, the far side of the Moon always faces away from Earth, and so it cannot be seen from the naked eye when you’re on Earth. On the far side of the Moon lies the Moon’s — nay, the solar system’s largest crater: the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin. Just recently, a lunar lander made its touchdown on the crater and collected samples there.

The crater itself is oval-shaped, as wide as 2,000 kilometers — roughly the distance between Waco, Texas, and Washington, D.C. — and several miles deep.

This latest news, however, could perhaps be bigger news than the previous one. A study from Baylor University discovered a mysterious mass on the Moon’s crater.

“Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That’s roughly how much unexpected mass we detected,” said lead author Peter B. James, Ph.D., assistant professor of planetary geophysics in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences.

It is still unknown what the gigantic mass is, although scientists have a few theories of what it could be.

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Between the 15th and 18th centuries, hundreds of women -and some men- were tortured and executed for witchcraft during the age of witch hunts. It was an accusation you really couldn't defend yourself against. Brian A. Pavlac explains what happened and why in this TED-Ed talk. -via Laughing Squid

If you have a few years behind you, think about what TV was like when you were a kid. The landscape has changed a lot since then. Those changes came about because someone somewhere took a chance and did something different, whether it was a method of production, an experimental format, imaginative casting, our writing that pushed the envelope. Vox takes us through 25 episodes of TV series that broke new ground, in chronological order, with an explanation for each and a link to watch when a video is available. -via Digg

Considering what animal you want to be friends with? The octopus makes for a good candidate!

For decades, researchers have been caught off-guard with the abilities exhibited by the octopus such as “pulling levers to get food, stacking rocks to hide their dens, escaping from aquarium tanks, and using tools to lure and kill their prey.”

The cherry on top of these abilities is the octopus’ personality, which researchers have described as “playful, clever, mischievous, and even rebellious.”

If you find that amusing, there’s more! This octopus showed that they, too, know how to express gratitude. Here's what it did when a woman saved it from being stuck on a sandbar:

The video was taken by Heng Pei Yan, an educator, scuba diver, and nature guide who is from Singapore. In August 2013, Heng was exploring the Cyrene Reef, a coral reef ecosystem full of rare seagrass that provides life for astounding marine creatures, right in the middle of Singapore’s harbor, one of the busiest in the entire world.

The reef area is shallow, which makes it perfect for naturalists like Heng to observe marine life up close but also means animals can be stranded when the tides change. That’s exactly what happened one day in August 2013, when Heng found a beautiful little octopus stuck on a sandbar. Apparently, the creature hadn’t been able to get out to deeper water in time.

Tired of the usual racing events? Tsuyoshi Tahara Tahara from Japan felt that, too. Thus, 10 years ago, he founded Japan’s office chair “Isu” grand prix.

This race was inspired by Formula one and Le Mans endurance racing. For two long hours, the teams comprised of three people each, would compete as to who completes the most laps of the 200-meter course.

“The origin of this race came to my head when I saw a tricycle endurance race,” Tahara explained to Reuters. “Eventually I created the race which we can hold on a street, three persons per team for two hours of endurance."

“I wanted to create something no one has made before.”

Tahara’s idea has proved surprisingly popular, with 55 teams entering the Hanyu Grand Prix alone and hailing from as far away as Wakayama, 600 kilometers to the south.

Try to catch this race if you'll be visiting Japan!

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The rapid pace of technological developments particularly in networks and communication systems has brought about new changes at a regular interval. We have new smartphone models every six months, new system updates almost every month, and now our mobile networks and Internet of Things systems are also keeping up with that pace.

According to an estimate by Ericsson, more than half of the global population would be on 5G coverage by 2024. That wouldn't be surprising as network providers are doubling their efforts to push the latest generation of mobile networks.

By 2024, 45% of the world's population will have 5G coverage, the report found. This number could surge to 65% as spectrum sharing technology allows for 5G deployments on LTE frequency bands. 5G subscriptions are predicted to reach 1.9 billion by 2024—up from the 1.5 billion forecasted in 2018—as operators increase deployments and users switch to 5G devices, the report found.

But what is 5G and what are the benefits to switching from a 4G connection to a 5G one? Tech Republic has compiled a cheat sheet to give us an idea of 5G and the improvements it has done on mobile phone networks.

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Santa Claus won't be so happy once he receives the news that Canada is staking their claim on his residence. Joking aside, though the North Pole may seem like a barren land covered in snow and ice, there are actually resources which could be found underneath it. Canada wants to be the first to get to it. And they filed a scientific argument to the UN backing up their claim.

"The science is strong," said Mary-Lynn Dickson, one of the scientists who took part in the project. "What strikes me about it is that we have different data sets that all point to the same story that the area of the continental shelf we've defined in the Arctic ocean is a natural prolongation of our land mass."

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Oh, to be a five-year-old again and have all the curiosity and imagination in the world. Well, this little girl Kara is actually seven and she asked this peculiar question which, mind you, is a valid one. Raisins are dried grapes after all. But can we actually turn them back into grapes?

Short version is this: Back when you couldn’t just go buy a bottle of wine, folks would, instead, buy a giant brick of raisins, soak them in water to rehydrate the dried-out fruit and then store that juice in a dark cupboard for 60 days.

This is how the alcohol-drinking public pulled itself up by its bootstraps. The important takeaway is that you can make shriveled raisins plump again — but that’s not the same thing as turning them back into grapes.

The difficulty of turning a raisin into a grape isn't just a matter of linguistics but also one of chemistry. At a molecular level, raisins are completely different from grapes and so it's not about making them plump again then they could be called 'grapes'. The chemical composition of the two are quite distinct.

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This kid is a man of action.

Upon hearing that a kindergarten student in Indiana was forced to return her school lunch due to lack of payment, Ryan Kyote Kirkpatrick immediately went to his Mom to express his burden and ask what he could do to help those who face the same situation.

After a bit of brainstorming, Kyote — pronounced "coyote" — decided he would use six months' worth of allowance he had saved up to pay off the lunch debt of his entire class at West Park Elementary School. The tab came up to $74.50.

Though Kyote had been eyeballing a new pair of basketball sneakers, this was far more important to him. So, on May 24, he happily donated his six months of savings to the Napa Valley Unified School District food services department.

Did this child’s act of kindness encourage you to help others as well?

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Let’s face it. Having your picture taken for your graduation is boring. You go to the room, your picture gets taken, and that’s it. But what if you can come alive in those photos? This is what the 12.C class of the Fazekas Mihály High School of Debrecen, Hungary, just did.

We usually see Augmented Reality used in video games such as Pokemon Go. Who knew that you can use it for school? And for graduation photos, to add to that.

Via Daily News Hungary

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Now that Captain Marvel is out on Blu-ray, it's time for Screen Junkies to temporarily set aside their summer blockbuster series and give us an Honest Trailer. I have yet to see Captain Marvel, but I learned more about it from the Honest Trailer than I ever did from the original trailers. What's the deal about her emotions? Was that deliberate satire, or just business as usual in Hollywood?