Do you know what’s sexier than the photos you see in fashion magazines? It’s a clean house. That’s right. A clean and organized house is much sexier than anything else, and this man is promoting that kind of sexy on social media.

Meet Corey Peters, a dad from Rehobeth, Alabama, who has decided to share his insights on what “sexy” means when you’re a family man.

No, it’s not about striking sexy poses for pics with fancy Instagram filters in exotic locations with a kid in your arms. It’s actually as simple as cleaning the house and showing a positive example as a husband who helps out around the house as well as a dad who’s showing what a clean and tidy home ought to look like. When you think about it, it brings a whole new meaning to “talk dirty to me”.

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“After being with a woman for 7 years, I promise you there ain’t nothing sexier than sending her some [hot flame emoji] pics like this…”

Now that’s hot.

See the photos over at Bored Panda.

What are your thoughts about this one?

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Funen, Denmark — It was the winter of 1984, and Timothy Tangherlini was hard at work at the dairy farm. One day, as he was brushing cattle in the barn, he spotted a tiny man in a hat, who was sitting on the back of one of the cows. Tangherlini tried to talk to the stranger, but the tiny man immediately jumped out the barn window. He then told about his strange encounter to the couple who owned the farm. The couple then told him that it was “the nisse.”

Tangherlini is now a professor of Scandinavian folklore at UC Berkeley. Whether or not one truly believes the tales, the barn-dwelling “house elves” often known as nisse have been figures in folklore across the Nordic region since at least the late Middle Ages. Farmers believed that surviving a hard winter depended on the nisse’s whims, which were mercurial. Keep your farm’s nisse happy, and he’d make sure your milk stayed fresh and your livestock remained healthy. Disrespect him, and you might find your cow dead in the morning.

A family that wanted to stay on their nisse’s good side could offer him a tasty present. On Christmas Eve, before the harsh winter had truly set in, farmers left a bowl of porridge in the barn. Everyday porridge was made by boiling barley, rye, or oats in water. But the nisse received something special: a luxurious, sweet porridge of rice boiled in milk and topped with butter.

Take note of the ingredients stated above, especially to the butter on top.

Woe to the person who forgot the nisse’s butter. In one story, a milkmaid decides to play a trick on her farm’s nisse, hiding the butter beneath the porridge. Seeing his offering ungarnished, the nisse flies into a rage and kills the family’s cow. When he finishes his meal and realizes his mistake, he “solves” the problem by stealing a neighbor’s cow and delivering it to his family’s farm.

Today, most Danish families no longer live in farms. However, the tradition of leaving a bowl of sweet porridge for the farm nisse still continues.

Learn more about this over at Atlas Obscura.

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Caylee Gilson realized that it was time to say goodbye to her large sectional when she moved to her new apartment, and so she put it up on sale on her local Facebook Marketplace. On the social media site, however, she saw a smaller grey couch, and she fell in love with it, and so she bought it. Upon bringing the old-new couch to her home, however, Gilson and her boyfriend did not realize that they brought something else with them.

Gilson knew the springs on the bottom of the sofa were exposed but didn't think anything of it. "[The seller had] already told me there was no liner under the couch because her Boston terrier liked to rub on the underside of the couch,” Gilson told The Dodo. “We packed all of it up in the truck and thank goodness we didn’t have to take a highway to get home. But it was about a 30-minute drive.”

The next day, Gilson worked from home and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. But that night, as she was preparing dinner, her young son called to her from the living room. “The next thing I know my son says, ‘Mama, there’s a cat in here,’” Gilson said. “I didn’t think anything of it because he is always talking about this imaginary cat named Ender Dragon.”

As you may have guessed, Gilson’s son really was not making stuff up; there was a real cat in their house.

Gilson couldn’t figure out where the mysterious cat had come from since all her doors and windows were closed. “I started thinking, ‘The only thing I’ve changed is the couch. Maybe the cat came in with the couch,’” Gilson said.

Sure enough, a quick text to the couch’s former owner revealed that the cat had caught a ride to Gilson’s house via his favorite sofa.

The couch’s previous owner, who was also the cat’s mom, rushed over to Gilson’s house to retrieve the cat, which apparently was hiding inside the couch’s arm as Gilson brought it home.

What an adventure for the cat.

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Because if there’s something that you should do if you have big muscles, it’s to show them off, and this 5-year-old kangaroo named Jack knows just how to do that. When his name was called, he gave a look at the camera and started flexing, perhaps to assert dominance.

I got to be honest. Kangaroo Jack looks terrifying.

Well, what do you think?

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Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network in the Solar System recently. Through this “celestial highway”, comets and asteroids near Jupiter are driven to Neptune’s distance in less than a decade. These routes could be used to send man-made spacecraft to the ends of our Solar System rather quickly.

In their paper, published in the Nov. 25 issue of Science Advances, the researchers observed the dynamical structure of these routes, forming a connected series of arches inside what's known as space manifolds that extend from the asteroid belt to Uranus and beyond. This newly discovered "celestial autobahn" or "celestial highway" acts over several decades, as opposed to the hundreds of thousands or millions of years that usually characterize Solar System dynamics.

Whoa.

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This is the Simeis 147, a supernova remnant known by many names. It is also cataloged as Sharpless 2-240, and the Spaghetti Nebula, probably because of its reddish appearance.

Seen toward the boundary of the constellations Taurus and Auriga, it covers nearly 3 degrees or 6 full moons on the sky. That's about 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. This composite includes image data taken through narrow-band filters where reddish emission from ionized hydrogen atoms and doubly ionized oxygen atoms in faint blue-green hues trace the shocked, glowing gas.

Looks more like a brain to me, but what do you think?

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Toby Turner, also known as Tobuscus, made an excellent literal trailer of Assassin’s Creed: Origins, and in his version of the trailer you’ll learn at least two things: one, the bad guy’s feet should never touch the ground, unless he’s introducing another bad guy. Two, arrows should always be recycled.

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“With the exception of Shakespeare and Spinoza, I know no one among the no longer living who has influenced me more strongly.” These were what Goethe, the famous German poet, has to say about this man. Throughout this man’s life, he was praised across Europe and was considered one of the greatest minds in the said continent. He influenced many scientists after him, such as Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Alfred Russell Wallace.

He was a botanist and a zoologist. His pivotal work: the binomial classification system. His name: Carl Linnaeus.

Learn more about Linnaeus’s life and legacy over at Live Science.

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In order to keep people safe from each other, masks are required at all times at Walt Disney theme parks in Florida. However, this protocol doesn’t seem to be strictly implemented in the parks, and so there are still some who manage to get inside these places without wearing one. Disney is trying to address this health concern, but not on the way that you’d expect.

… Disney is reportedly taking an eccentric approach to mask enforcement: editing a digital mask onto visitors’ faces in photos. The bizarre practice, first spotted on social media by industry blog Walt Disney World News Today, has left guests confused about why the park is doing something about masks but not actually enforcing them.

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WDWNT suggests that the digital masks are being added to remind guests that they are in fact supposed to keep their masks on.

A Twitter user commented that this is a waste of time and programming. Another asked if this was even necessary.

What are your thoughts about this one?

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Here’s your daily dose of cuteness: tiny kittens. Because if there’s something that could make you say “awww” easily, it’s them. And if you don’t have a reason to smile today, this could serve as one.

Have a good day ahead!

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It is common for a store to try to make you buy stuff from it. After all, it is a store and that is its job. And then there’s this store which discourages you from buying any stuff that it sells. Talk about unique.

That, or it’s just reverse psychology.

Well, what do you think?

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Smartphones, gaming consoles, cash, and computers (including tablets and laptops). These are the most popular gifts that parents plan to give to their teen kids, according to a survey conducted by SellCell in 2019. But are they prepared for such a thing? Can they handle the responsibility of having a smartphone?

Psychology Today provides you five questions to ask yourself before you give a smartphone to your teen kid. See the questions over at the site. For now, here is one of them.

“Does your child know how to manage his digital reputation?”

Everything we post online stays online forever. It can be seen by anyone and everyone, and even if you decide to delete whatever it is you posted, it can be still saved and shared by others. Today, our digital reputation is often the first impression we give the world and the Internet is flooded with examples of kids whose posting mishaps have cost them dearly. Lost opportunities to attend that dream college or to get the perfect job are not uncommon. This may be too much for a new smartphone owner to wrap his young head around. 

What are your thoughts about this one?

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Giant hornets are a threat to Asian honeybees. The hornets scout for bee nests, chew through them, and feed on the poor bees. To stop the hornets from doing this horrible thing, the bees smear animal poop around the entrance of their nest.

It's still not clear how this dung actually protects the colony, but in the field, it appears to stop scouting hornets…

This is the first ever documentation of bees using tools in a natural setting.

Scientists have known for several years that honeybees can learn how to use tools in the lab, but such skills have never been observed in a natural setting with non-plant matter.

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Traditionally, the definition of a tool requires an object to be found externally, before being altered in some way to give it purpose. Wielding this newly arranged material, the animal must then orient the object to make it most effective.

'Faecal spotting', or the smearing of dung on nests, ticks all four of these boxes and is the first clear cut example of bees using a tool in nature.

Learn more about this over at ScienceAlert.

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Many people know that pandas are cute, but only some know that these cute creatures can be gross at times. Apparently, they like to cover their whole bodies in horse poop. That’s right. Horse poop. Let that sink in for a moment. “But why?” you might ask. It would seem that scientists themselves aren’t sure why pandas have this kind of behavior. However, they might have an explanation.

The horse poop contains compounds that might help the animals deal with colder temperatures.

In other words, horse poop keeps the pandas warm during the winter.

Learn more about this over Science Magazine.

Can someone just give them sweaters? Thanks.

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Not satisfied that your paper airplane only lasts for a few seconds in the air? The guys from PowerUp felt the same way, too, and that’s why they made motorized paper airplanes. Now with many years of making these airplanes, PowerUp is now on their 4th generation of paper airplanes.

The PowerUp 4.0 consists of a lightweight airframe, along with a pair of motors at the rear and a sophisticated flight control computer in its nose. Working in concert with a smartphone app, it can automatically smooth out flight thanks to the use of both a gyroscopic sensor and an accelerometer. It can even stabilize flight in windy conditions.

The kit includes a design for a basic, reliable paper airplane, but it will work with your own custom designs too, and the motors are powerful enough to fly models made out of cardboard, styrofoam, or balsa wood as well. While the app and computer smarts aboard the plane should keep your flight stable, the frame’s durable nylon and carbon fiber construction means it’ll survive in the event of a crash landing.

Now that’s epic.

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