Redditor pepelangelo posted this image of her costume and asked others to rate it. See a side-by-side comparison here. When people started taking a good look, they noticed a few details that made them rather appreciative of the effort. Notice the house slippers on her cheeks. The red hat is a bikini bottom. The headdress incorporates trash bags. This is the kind of thing that happens when you stay inside and look for something to do. Can you find other anomalies?  

Would you like to stick you head out of the train as it passes through the station or tunnel? Swiss Rail designers would like to gently remind to remain inside the vehicle in a way that does not decapitate you, which would impair the tourism industry. Think of the broom in your face as being a prompt more subtle than a tunnel wall.

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The world's gone crazy, not enough over infecting each other, but over toilet paper. Funk Turkey wrote a little song about it, set to the tune of "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath.

I've been quarantined for a week and I'm running out of beanie weenies and Tang, but I made this song for you.

I did this because the "My Corona" suggestions were getting old.

Funk Turkey has plenty of other clever parody songs. He came to my attention recently with his song "The Jedi Went Down to Tattooine."

Times of crises can bring out the bad in people. For example, some people would buy lots of toilet paper rolls and then sell them at a higher price.

However, these same times of crises can also bring out the good in people. An example of this is Becky Hoeffler’s deed.

Becky knew that the elderly are more prone to acquire the coronavirus than young people, and so she volunteered to make the grocery runs for the elderly people in her neighborhood. She got the idea one day when she talked to her grandfather on the phone, who happened to be grocery shopping.

She was concerned for him because the elderly population is most at-risk of catching the novel coronavirus, but he lives in New Jersey so she couldn’t help out.

That’s when she got the idea to make grocery runs for her senior neighbors, in lieu of helping her grandpa.

“Am I excited that I’m probably going to get a sweet loaf of banana bread from my neighbor, Patti, because of this, yes,” the spunky Hoeffler told WNCN News. “Either way though, I think being able to help your neighbor is one of the most American things that you can do.”

More details about this wholesome news over at Good News Network.

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When 20-year-old Pawan Bhavsar was suffering from multiple oral issues, such as jaw-ache, gum swelling, and blisters in his mouth, he decided to pay a visit to the dentist. The doctor was able to identify the root cause of his problem upon closer inspection, which were two of Pawan’s teeth. Nothing seemed to be odd during the appointment, until the doctor pulled out one of them.

At roughly 3.89 centimeters (1.53 inches), the tooth extracted on February 29 is believed to have set a new Guinness World Record for the world’s largest tooth. The record is currently held by Mijo Vodopija, from Croatia, whose 3.72 centimeter-long (1.46 inches) tooth was removed in 2018 by Dr Max Lukas at a clinic in Germany, although it was over a year later that the Guinness World Record itself was awarded.

For comparison, the two front teeth of humans are on average around 2.25 centimeters (0.89 inches), around 1.63 centimeters (0.64 inches) less than Dr Srivatava’s recent removal.

Since the extraction, Pawan is reported to have made a full recovery and no longer suffers from oral problems.

Whoa. That is one heck of a tooth extraction!

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Like the case with the word Nevada, both pronunciations are acceptable.

But if you want to be historically accurate, then pronouncing the word “Celtic” as “Keltik” is the right way to go.

Modern dictionaries say both pronunciations are acceptable. All the dictionaries I checked put the “Keltic” pronunciation first, but contrary to what you may have been told, the first pronunciation listed in a dictionary isn’t necessarily the correct or the most common pronunciation.

Apparently, these “Keltic” and “Seltik” pronunciation arguments came from Greek and Latin-derived French, respectively.

Know more details about this over at Quick and Dirty Tips.

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Police have issued a wanted poster on a runaway cow that’s been “roaming loose in Florida” for three months. While not dangerous, the cops are worried that the aforementioned cow might be the cause of a traffic accident if not brought under control. What’s more, the cow is said to be “faster than she looks”.

Police spokeswoman Amanda Conwell told reporters that police officers and specialist cattle wranglers have been unable to catch the animal. Once or twice they’ve got close but been forced to back off when the animal came close to busy roads.

“It jumps fences,” she said. “It goes into pools.”

One Florida resident said she was relieved to see the Wanted poster, because she had seen the cow in the road a few days before and had been worried that she had been hallucinating.

Ah, the weird things that happen in Florida.

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If you thought that people are the only competition you have when it comes to acquiring toilet paper, think again. A kangaroo was just spotted raiding toilet paper rolls in a campground in Australia.

The video shows a kangaroo inside the campground's restroom eating toilet paper from a bathroom stall.

"Maybe word of coronavirus has spread this far into the arid center of our country? Wilpena Pound is about 6 hours drive from the South Australian coast. It's pretty dry, dusty and fly-blown out here and the kangaroos have become tame from interacting with tourists," the filmer wrote.

The campground managers state that they will be putting up a fence in the next month so that the kangaroos can no longer raid the toilet paper.

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Here’s a way to earn $1000: you’ll just have to binge watch 15 hours of the mockumentary The Office. USDish is offering $1,000  to one lucky fan to watch the show, and to also take notes on the common tropes that occur in each episode. Of course the $1000 wouldn’t come that easily, right? USDish wants to understand the frequency of repeating tropes in a sitcom, as Geek.com details: 

“We’ll provide you with general guidelines to track your experience, but in true Kelly Kapoor fashion, we also want you to share your unfiltered opinions and reactions on social media.”

If you’re as obsessed with The Office as Michael is with Ryan, apply online by Monday, March 16 at 7 p.m. ET to earn more than $1,000 cold hard cash.

Other benefits include themed swag (which may or may not involve a Dundie award, “World’s Best Boss” mug, Jell-O, and a stapler) as well as a Netflix gift card*.

Add a video submission to boost your chances.

The competition is open only to U.S. residents aged 18 or older; you do not need to be a USDish customer to apply. A winner will be notified within five days of the closing date.

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It seems that our parents are wrong when they say that nothing good comes from browsing on the Internet. Shaun Winterton was able to discover a new species of insect while browsing on Flickr! The California-based entomologist made a discovery by looking at pictures online. He was looking at pictures by Guek Hock Ping when he found photos of a green lacewing that had patterns on its wings that he never saw before, as PetaPixel detailed:  

He then contacted the photographer, who informed him that the image was taken the the jungles of Malaysia. Without a specimen, however, there was no way to learn whether the image was in fact a new species — or simply some kind of outlier.

One year later, Guek returned to the spot, found another identical lacewing, and this time trapped it in a jar. The specimen was then sent to an entomologist in London and confirmed to be new. The discovery was recently published in the scientific journal ZooKeys, with the new insect named Semachrysa jade after Winterton’s daughter.

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Rob Kessler captures the intricate details of plants that cannot be seen by the naked eye. Kessler captures incredibly magnified pictures in his Canopy series. The artist uses scanning electron microscopy to get the zoomed in photos, which he then colors by hand. My Modern Met has more details: 

Despite his penchant for micrography, Kessler is actually a professor at Central Saint Martins and Chair of Arts, Design & Science at University of the Arts London. His current creative practice is based around the desire for collaboration between artists and scientists. Before producing the Canopy series of micrographs, Kessler worked with botanists at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew to examine the artistic potential of microscopic images of plants. The British artist finds that interdisciplinary art, which exchanges different ideas and perspectives, reflects the modern era.

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It turns out that when you prolong your slumber by pressing the snooze button, you don’t get to sleep for ten more minutes. It’s actually just for nine minutes. iPhone’s automatic settings are set to only snooze for nine minutes. Isn’t it weird? Why nine minutes when you can just snooze it for exactly ten minutes? There’s a long history behind that, as Reader’s Digest details: 

Alarm clocks were introduced to snooze buttons in 1956 with General Electric-Telechron’s Snooz-Alarm, according to Pacific Standard. That model’s snooze lasted nine minutes, but there are a few theories as to why. Speaking of your iPhone, learn these hidden iPhone hacks you never knew about.

Alarm clocks did exist before the snooze function, so there was already a standard gear setup that innovators had to work with. Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn’t possible, so they had to choose between nine minutes and a few seconds or a little bit over ten minutes.

Here’s where the theories start to differ. Some people say reports in the 1950s suggested ten minutes was enough for drowsy people to fall back into deep sleep. That would mean they’d wake up cranky again, so nine minutes was the sweet spot between more time in bed without letting it get out of hand. Getting right up is just one of the morning habits of successful people, by the way.

But the most common theory seems to come down to simplicity. A double-digit snooze would be harder to program than a single-digit one, so designers figured the less complicated design was the way to go.

Later clocks didn’t necessarily follow Snooz-Alarm’s lead (Westclox’s Drowse clock let snoozers choose between five and ten minutes), but other clocks—including iPhone’s alarm app—decided to pay homage to the original nine minutes.

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Charis Tsevis has a self-initiated project dedicated to the upcoming Olympics and Japan. Named Kintsugi 2020, Tsevis created digital mosaics such as the Olympic logo, along with athletes in different sporting events (such as gymnasts and track). The details of the mosaics are bound together by gold lines. This is heavily inspired by the project’s namesake, Kintsugi. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending them together with gold.

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With a bite force equivalent to three times its body weight, which means that, relative to its size, it bites harder than the great white shark and the American alligator, the piranha indeed is a terrifying little creature. It is said that about 400 piranhas could potentially turn a human into a skeleton in just around five minutes. But piranhas don’t attack creatures unless they have a reason to, and they tend to go for prey that are around the same size as them.

With these in mind, could you survive in a piranha pool? The answer is most likely.

Watch the full video made by What If.

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Amidst the coronavirus outbreak, where people are recommended to distance themselves from other human beings, temporary measures to make internet access more affordable have been made by internet and wireless providers in the U.S to make up for the loss of human interaction and make online human interaction flourish.

Most notable is Comcast's free public Wi-Fi for all for 60 days, effective Saturday. Major metropolitan areas are thick with Comcast's Xfinity-branded hotspots.

"I don't get to say this often: Bravo Comcast!" tweeted Alex Stamos, a Stanford University internet security expert.

Other service providers, such as AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile also announced their decisions to make internet access more affordable.

More details about this news over at TechXplore.

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