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Man Reveals How Scam Artists Hack Amazon to Become ‘Best Selling’ Authors
Brent Underwood made headlines last month after uploading a photo of his foot to Amazon Books to prove how easy it is to become an Amazon “bestselling” author. He executed the stunt after he became fed up with individuals putting up obscure content on Amazon in order to get the…
· Ryan General
Author Randomly Decides to Check Her Junk Mail, Wins $150,000
You might want to skim over your junk email next time before you click “delete all” as you might miss out on some surprises. Australian author Helen Garner would have missed out on a huge cash prize if she hadn’t gone through her spam messages, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.…
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Homeless Man Becomes Bestselling Author After Writing a Book About Being Homeless
A Parisian beggar is now a bestselling author after his book detailing his life as a homeless man sold nearly 50,000 copies.
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Adorable Minions Try Selling Bananas in China, Gets Stopped by Authorities
Images of Minions (from the movie “Despicable Me”) selling bananas on the streets of Beijing, China, recently went viral on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. Netizens’ hearts were melted by the sheer adorableness of the photos. “Big-eyed adorable Minions pulled over on the…
· Augustine Reyes Chan
Author Reveals the Real Difference Between ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ and the Real Wall Street
John LeFevre, the British-born former banker behind Goldman Sachs Elevator, has just substantiated for those outside the insular world of investment banking that the behavior on Wall Street is spot on with how the movie “Wolf of Wall Street” portrayed it. One discrepancy between…
· Benny Luo
Bestselling Author Tim Ferriss Reveals How to Master Any New Skill in Record Time
Tim Ferriss’ entrepreneurial journey began when he founded BrainQuicken in 2001. It was his first company and focused on selling nutritional supplements online. He ended up selling it to a private equity firm in 2010. In between that timeframe, he wrote his first bestselling…
· Max Chang
This Woman’s Innovative ‘Resumé’ Thoroughly Impressed Airbnb’s CEO
Nina Mufleh always wanted to work for Airbnb. After moving from the Middle East, Mufleh lived in San Francisco for a year, unable to land a single interview with the company after months of submitting job applications, answering listings and sending emails to the company — until…
· Ryan General
Man With Balls of Steel Takes Selfie With EgyptAir Hijacker Who Held Him Hostage
A ballsy British man managed to take a selfie with an Egyptian hijacker who held him and the rest of the airline passengers hostage aboard an EgyptAir flight. Ben Innes was even smiling as he posed for a photo with Seif Eldin Mustafa, who was seen wearing a suicide belt. Cypriot…
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Inside the Life of a Rich Girl Whose Dictator Uncle Tortures People to Death
Diora Usmanova, 27, is the niece of Uzbekistan Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the niece-in-law of Arsenal tycoon Alisher Usmanov. Usmanova is a widow and heiress after her husband Babur Usmanov, 30, died in a horrific car accident in Tashkent in May 2013. He was believed…
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Chinese Man Finds $1,500 in Cash Under His Hotel Pillow, Complains to Hotel Staff
While some people would be delighted to find money they didn’t know they had, one Chinese man was furious to discover that someone had tucked 10,000 yuan, or $1,536 dollars, underneath his pillow. The man, Lu Gang, was a hotel guest in Chongqing, China, and had stayed overnight…
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Rich College Frat Boy Caught on Camera Verbally Abusing an Uber Driver
In a YouTube video uploaded on March 23, a group of young men identified as students of the University of Michigan were caught on camera verbally abusing Uber driver Artur Zawada in Ann Arbor. “You’re canceling us again why? For what?” a man in a black jacket says before pulling…
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Science Explains Why People Close Their Eyes When They Kiss
If you’ve ever wondered why people close their eyes when kissing, a new study may have the answer. The study conducted by cognitive psychologists Polly Dalton and Sandra Murphy of Royal Holloway, University of London, and published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology:…
· Laura Dang
Former Miss Jamaica Runner-up Tries to Smuggle $3 Million Worth of Cocaine, Fails Miserably
A flight attendant and former runner-up for the Miss Jamaica World beauty pageant fled Los Angeles International Airport and left security officers with her suitcases filled with an estimated $3 million worth of cocaine. Marsha Gay Reynolds reportedly flung off her Gucci heels…
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How the Rich Kids of Hong Kong Flaunt Their Money on Instagram
Hong Kong, a city of over 7.2 million people, 55 of whom are billionaires, has long had a reputation for being a one of the most vibrant and cultured financial centers of the world — it’s also one of the only regions of the People’s Republic of China where Instagram isn’t…
· Ryan General
Man Claims to Have Successfully Used LSD to Break His Facebook Addiction
Many Facebook users find themselves spending too much time liking adorable puppy photos, sharing a copy-pasted song lyric or stalking random people’s posts. According to writer Baynard Woods, small doses of LSD in the morning helped him beat his own Facebook addiction.
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Florida Beer Company Will Pay 3 Interns $12,000 To Travel, Party and Drink Beer
Calling all beer drinkers who want to make money doing what they do best. A Florida-based chain of craft beer taverns called World of Beer is on the search for three paid interns to travel the world drinking beer at breweries for four months. The “Drink It Interns” will be paid…
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Indonesian Divers Discover the Most Heartbreaking Scene Underwater, But There’s a Happy Ending
A heartbreaking discovery was made by divers off the remote island of Kokoya, Indonesia, last week. Divers swimming near the island found two dugongs, close relatives of the manatee, being held captive in underwater cages in the shallow ocean floor. The rare marine mammals…
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Bus Drivers in NYC Are Making Up To $150,000 a Year Working Overtime
New York’s highest-paid bus driver earned $153,173 last year, more than twice his $67,462 base salary, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority payroll records. The driver, 60-year-old Jeffrey Birch, told the New York Post that veteran drivers were working overtime…
· Laura Dang
Children with this Surprising Trait Make More Money as Adults, Study Reveals
Hopeful parents don’t usually want children who are rowdy and rebellious, but there might be a reason why they should. A study published in July of last year in the journal Developmental Psychology revealed that defiant children are more likely to make more money as adults than…
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Man Gets Caught Stealing $196,000 Worth of Quarters During Work
A man in Alabama stole so much change that he could have funded several lifetimes’ worth of vending machine snacks and toll booth fare if he had gotten away with it. Stephen Lancaster Dennis of Harpersville, Alabama, plead guilty to bank theft after being charged with stealing…