Be sure to double check your hotel room before handing back your key card. It turns out that almost half of Canadians admit to leaving personal items behind when they check out. A new survey by Leger marketing found that 43 per cent of us have forgotten something in a hotel room. I once forgot …
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Wondering how long you’re going to live, and how it will all end? Here’s what the numbers say – according to the experts. The average life expectancy in North America right now is 78 years. That’s going up, however. By 2030, which sounds like way in the future, but is just fourteen years from now, …
This is how you will die – and when (statistically speaking) Read More »
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. iPhones are just the worst. No, it’s not a joke, I’m just wondering how many people are saying it now that science has confirmed what we all suspected. I’ve never been a big fan of Apple products. Their tight control over every aspect of devices and the content …
I hope you got along with your college roommates. You may have to live with them for quite a while after graduating. You already know that you can’t afford a house. Now you can forget about even renting your own place as well, even after you land your first professional gig. Making a lot of …
The Canadian cities where the average young person can’t afford to live Read More »
Wondering what kind of wine to pair with your Bic Mac? That’s a no brainer. It’s Champagne, obviously. The Big Mac being the Champagne of fast food burgers. That is what the experts say, anyway. Now, I’m not a sommelier, but I would suggest that the perfect drink to accompany a Mac would be rum …
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Do you or a loved one have any upcoming surgeries? See if you can schedule it in the morning. Patients who go under the knife after hours are more than twice as likely to die within thirty days of the operation. Those are the findings of a new five-year study from the McGill University Health …
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Don’t sit so close to the television, you’ll go blind. You have to wait an hour after eating before going swimming. There are tons of health claims that have been thrown at me my whole life, and I’ve never stopped to ask whether or not there was any truth to them. Is the five-second rule …
Most of the health rules you’ve believed your whole life are actually false Read More »
Ever wonder why people cheat on their spouses, when they are most likely to do it, and the excuses they use to cover their tracks? New research of actual cheaters provides some insights. It turns out that people are more likely to cheat on their partners in the last year of each decade of their …
If you’ve worked in an office, you’ve probably experienced the politics and power struggles of food. From lunches stolen from the fridge to complaints over smelly foods eaten at desks, I’ve seen it all. At one previous workplace, we actually had a company-wide ban on bringing in any fish for lunch, because one employee was …
People are shaming their coworkers’ lunches on Facebook, and it’s hilarious Read More »
Okay, so ghosts are real. A UK women took her kids to watch a movie and accidentally photographed a ghost in the back row watching them. Thirty-five year-old mother of three, Emma Johnson took her three children to see the new Pixar film, Finding Dory. (Too bad they weren’t at a screening of Ghostbusters.) Because …
Scientific proof that ghosts are real (and what to do if you encounter one) Read More »