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5/23/2013

65% of Women Use Sex as a Reward. So Do 11% of Men

If you're going to try to BRIBE your husband or boyfriend to do stuff, sex seems like a pretty good motivator.  Depending on how long you've been together, food might work better, but yeah, sex is good too.  According to a new survey, 65% of women say YES, they've ... More
5/23/2013

Would You Throw Your Pet a Birthday Party?

A new survey asked pet owners how many EVENTS they have in their pet's honor.  Here's what they found . . . 22% of people have held a BIRTHDAY PARTY for their pet.  That's almost one in four.  17% spend at least $50 on the party.  Dog owners are more ... More
5/23/2013

A Guy Found a Copy of the Most Valuable Comic Book of All Time Hidden in the Walls of His New House

34-year-old David Gonzalez recently bought an abandoned house in Elbow Lake, Minnesota for $10,100.  David remodels and flips houses, and that was his plan here. The house had old newspaper instead of insulation, so he cracked into the walls to fix that.  And sitting there with the old newspaper was ... More
5/23/2013

Three-Quarters of Women Want to See Superhero Movies on a Date?

The "Iron Man" and "Dark Knight" trilogies have done something MUCH more impressive than making billions of dollars.  They've managed to make superhero movies seem COOL to the LADIES.   According to a new survey, 77% of women say superhero and comic book movies are great for dates, even FIRST dates. That's ... More
5/23/2013

The Five Famous Landmarks Most Americans Have Never Visited

According to a new survey by Hotwire.com, most of us haven't been to some of the country's most famous landmarks.  Here five that MOST Americans have never seen:      1.  78% of us have never been to the Space Needle in Seattle.  2.  73% of Americans have never ... More
5/23/2013

Two Out of Five People Wipe Their Nose With Their Hands

This is the type of story that wakes up the germaphobe inside you and makes it start SCREAMING.  According to a new survey by Kleenex, everyone around you is SWIMMING IN GERMS . . . 67% of people don't always cover their mouth when they sneeze. 37% of people ... More
5/23/2013

Eight Ways We've Changed in the Past 50 Years

Did you know the average work commute has only gone up about three minutes in the past 50 years?  In 1960, the average commute took 22.4 minutes.  And in 2010, it was 25.5 minutes.  But the average DISTANCE travelled has gone up.  In the '60s, about 10% of people ... More
5/23/2013

Would you donate a KIDNEY to a friend?

Donating a kidney is one of THE biggest things you can do for someone.  The only thing that's a bigger imposition is helping someone move.  KIDDING.  Sort of.  In a new study, 28% of people say they'd donate a kidney to a friend.  Which means that more than one ... More
5/22/2013

Are Men More Likely to Hit on Women with Lower Back Tattoos? A New Study Says Yes

Which came first:  The tramp or the tramp stamp?  In a new study out of France, researchers wanted to find out if men are more likely to hit on a woman if she's got a LOWER BACK TATTOO.  For the study, they had 11 different attractive women lay ... More
5/22/2013

Where's the Most Annoying Place to Bring Your Wallet?

In "Back to the Future Part Two", they showed people paying for stuff with their thumbprints.  And the movie was set in 2015.  Are we really two years away from not having to carry around wallets anymore?  A new survey asked people to name the places where it's MOST ... More
5/22/2013

The Creator of GIFs Says It's Pronounced "Jif"

It's been pretty widely accepted how to pronounce the word "GIF," like in the sentence, "Animated GIFs have taken over the Internet."  Most people say it with a hard "g," like the word "gift" without the "t" at the end.  Even the WHITE HOUSE has said that's the right ... More
5/22/2013

Stress Makes Women Look Unsexy

We're about to STRESS YOU OUT by telling you why it's really bad for you to be stressed out.  Sorry.  According to a new study out of Finland, when women are stressed, men can tell, and find them LESS SEXY.  Men can detect high levels of the stress ... More
5/22/2013

Your Kids Probably Know Your Passwords, and If They Don't, They Can Figure Them Out

According to a new survey, your kids probably know all your passwords and PINs.  And if they DON'T, they can probably figure them out.    Eight in 10 kids say they know the passwords for their parents' computers, phones, and tablets.     One in three kids said their ... More
5/22/2013

Find Out How a Government Clerk Has Saved 500 Marriages in China

There's a 39-year-old clerk who works at the marriage registry for the city of Wuhan, in China, her name is Xiong Ling (on the right).  (Her first name is pronounced She-ong.  The city of Wuhan is 525 miles west of Shanghai.)  And over the last nine years, Xiong has helped ... More
5/22/2013

Eight Things You Should Never Put on Your Resume

  Considering a resume is the first thing most employers ever see from an applicant, it's pretty incredible that so many resumes are such a turnoff to employers. Salary.com has eight tips to help keep your resume out of the trash.  1.  Weird hobbies. You might think all your weird ... More