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Shiba Inu is Upset He’s Not Allowed on the Subway, Gets Carried Out by Authorities
One determined Shiba Inu determined to live his life-long dream of riding the subway was sadly foiled in his plot when he was so close to finally riding the subway. The shiba walked into the the Kitaoji Station in Kyoto, Japan trailing alongside two humans going through the…
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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…
· Tuna Eric Hirun
To The Woman Who Wants to Make a Rich Guy Her Boyfriend
Editor’s Note: Tuna Eric Hirun is a venture capitalist based in Los Angeles. The opinions expressed in this piece are solely his own. Whatever your financial definition of rich is, whether it’s high net worth or high income(or both since you’re greedy!), your mission, if you…
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Science Discovers That Texting Actually Changes the Way Your Brain Thinks
A new study has found that some individuals’ brains can have a unique waveform in response to smartphone texting. This “texting rhythm” is the collective result of things that happen during texting like eye focus, handling the device and message construction, among others. It is…
· Ryan General
30 Fake Chinese Colleges Exposed For Scamming Students Out of Their Money
Thirty Chinese universities have been exposed as fake by the government just in time before the new school year opens for this year. The number adds up to the total of 400 fake universities discovered by education website Sdaxue.com since 2013, reports state media Xinhua. The…
· Ryan General
Chinese Students are Earning $3,000 a Week Selling Australian Baby Formula to China Over WeChat
Chinese international students living in Australia have been making a killing in re-selling baby formula and other Australian health products to buyers back in their home country. Earning thousands of dollars per week, these budding entrepreneurs have discovered the lucrative…
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Chinese Company Sues New Balance For Trademark Infringement, Wins $750K in Damages
Despite being labeled as the Counterfeit Capital of the World, China resents trademark infringement. As it turns out, footwear company New Balance lost at a copyright battle in the country, prompting it to pay $5 million RMB, or over $750,000, in damages. The trademark at stake…
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Jack Ma is Now Backpedaling On What He Said About Chinese Knockoffs
Alibaba chairman Jack Ma revealed what his company will never have: counterfeit goods. He made this point over Wall Street Journal soon after claiming that the company, now valued at $190 billion, was his life’s biggest mistake. Ma addressed the misinterpretation following an…
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There’s a Heartbreaking Reason Why You Should Always Take Photos of Your Hotel Room
Taking photos of the hotel rooms where you stay during your out of town trips may now save lives. A smartphone app developed last year called the TraffickCam lets you contribute to the law enforcement database by uploading images of your hotel room, reported Fox2Now. The…
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Asian-Americans Have Genes That Make Them Crave Carbs and Fast Food, Study Finds
A study has found that some Asian-Americans crave unhealthy food more often than other Asian-Americans. This unhealthy preference is linked to a gene called DRD2 A1. The said gene is a variation of DRD2 (dopamine receptor D2), a type associated with various forms of addiction.…
· Ryan General
North Korea Tries to Manipulate Russian Filmmaker’s Documentary, Completely Backfires
Smuggled footage of what was supposed to be a documentary film about a happy North Korean family ended up as a movie that exposed the government’s manipulation of how the country is portrayed in public. Russian documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky’s finished film “Under the Sun”…
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Idiot Protestors Mistakenly Target NYC’s Chinatown to Rally Against China’s Dog Meat Festival
Animal rights protesters who targeted Chinese-Americans to protest China’s Yulin Lychee and Dog Meat Festival in New York City’s Chinatown are now being criticized as misguided and ignorant hypocrites. Last Friday, a group of animal activists and their dogs gathered in Chinatown…
· Laura Dang
This 21-Year-Old’s Innovative Resume Landed Him an Offer at GQ Without an Interview
This man landed an offer from GQ and skipped the interview process by sending in an untraditional resume. Sometimes it pays to take the road less traveled especially when hiring managers are pouring over hundreds of boring resumes. Sumukh Mehta, 21, scored an internship from…
· Waylae Gregoire
How to Fight Back if You’re Faced With an Active Shooter Inside a Club
Less than a week ago, shooter Omar Mateen walked into the Pulse gay bar in Orlando, Florida and opened fire with a Sig Sauer MCX semi-automatic rifle, murdering 49 people before he was killed in a police shootout. In any active shooter situation, most of us are taught to run,…