Basic shopping guide for online shopaholics

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Addicted to shopping online? We don’t blame you, given the kind of deals and products that are becoming available. A bit of caution, however, is needed to ensure that you are not swindled. Here’s our basic shopping guide for online shopaholics.

The ease and comfort of buying goods without stepping into a crowded retail store, or waiting for the right colour and right product to arrive, and  (most importantly) getting discounts in the bargain, are some of the key factors that draws more and more people to online shopping. But, this remarkable and comforting mode of shopping can be a nightmare if a buyer is not aware of the various nuances of the online business. Yes, it is easy but it is definitely not free from  deception and deceit. However, one can ensure that one is not tricked by keeping an eye on a few points.


Pay attention to every detail 
One of the most common tricks played on buyers in online stores is presenting  lookalikes of certain products with brand names that appear similar. A brand that sounds like a major brand or an imitation of a
high profile device from a high profile brand would be presented in such a way that a buyer would mistake it for the real thing. So, the first rule of online shopping is to pay attention to every detail, examining every aspect carefully, reading the terms and conditions, no matter how long they might be. And yes, a rule of thumb is that if a deal seems too good to be true, then there probably is something fishy involved.

Credit cards are safer
When it comes to payment, cash on delivery is the most popular mode of transaction in India. But, COD is not available everywhere and many buyers don’t mind paying ahead of delivery. Users paying through a card must understand that the risk is higher when one is paying through a debit card than on a credit card. A credit card offers more protection to a buyer. In case of a fraud or transaction gone awry, a user can refuse to pay and the onus is on the banks to settle the matter with the retailer. The user won’t lose his or her peace of mind over it as they might in case of purchase made through a debit card where the actual deposit would be debited at once and the process of recovery could be long and arduous.

The dilemma of warranty
Warranty on products is often shrouded in mystery. Often it covers only a certain part and applies only to specific damages. A user must be aware of what all is covered in the warranty or whether the device on the e-store is backed by manufacturer warranty.  For instance, some time ago, Lenovo announced that e-commerce sites like Amazon, Snapdeal and Flipkart, are not its authorized sellers and asked users to check the warranty entitlements before buying any Lenovo products from these portals. Users must check these aspects before buying a device. Also, one must find out if the brand has a service centre in the city they live in. This is important because a number of popular online bestsellers do not have service centres beyond major urban locations.


The online store should be a credible one 
The last few years has seen a significant increase in the number of online stores,  and they all offer discounts and deals. One might visit many sites but when it comes to buying a product, users should stick to a few trusted online stores. A user can also call up or send mails to the merchant mentioned on the site to verify and find out more details
about the product.


The importance of right
security protocol Sometimes online shopping can be a very risky business if the site in question does not have a secure encryption protocol in place. Sites that use HTTPS (Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) for encryption provide a higher level of data security, especially personal data like passwords and card details used during online transactions. The benefit of HTTPS over HTTP is that it uses another security protocol called SSL (Secure Sockets Layer), which is used by a lot of e-commerce sites across the globe to protect customers  and keep online transactions confidential. Sites using the HTTPS carry a green address bar in the browser URL and start with ‘https.’

Saving passwords must be avoided
Most sites during purchase ask users to save their card details like passwords, card number, etc., for future transactions. They appear as selected by default and a user must take care to deselect these before moving further. Yes, it does seem more convenient to shop by saving all your card details online but take our word for it, entering the card data every time is far more secure.

Not all EMIs are same 
Almost all e-commerce sites give you the option of making payments through EMIs. However, one should remember that every bank applies different interest rates on EMIs. A buyer should check them thoroughly before agreeing to them. For instance, some banks like SBI charge up to 15 percent EMI while some banks like ICICI offer 12 per cent interest rates on EMI. Interest rates also vary depending on the tenure of the EMI, irrespective of the bank. The higher the tenure, the more the interest rate will be.

The cost of shipping
Last but not the least is to make sure the product is delivered without sustaining avoidable expense in shipping. Most e-commerce stores  keep a classification of regions for shipment. If the buyer is based in a remote and rural area, the online store is likely to charge something for shipping. If the delivery has to be made in a major urban centre, the shipping cost would be nominal or nothing. In case of cash on delivery, a small amount is also charged for transporting cash.

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How have things changed?

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How have things changed? Family life has been transformed in the last 50 years. We eat different food, have different jobs and play different games. Can you spot any more differences?



1955
There were no electronic games or computers in the 50s. Kids played with toys like Lego, dolls and board games, which are still popular today!Televisions were invented in the 1920s, but they were very expensive. Most families couldn’t afford one. They listened to the ‘wireless’ instead.
Most mums didn’t have jobs. They stayed at home to do housework and look after the children.
Rationing in the Second World War meant that families had to eat a lot less. Now that war was over, food was plentiful again.


1975
Different foods were being imported from all over the world. Most families could afford a TV. Toys like this Etch A Sketch were very popular.

1995

20 years later, it was normal for mums to go out to work. Electronic games like Game Boys had been invented, and the internet was on the rise.

Today

These days nearly everyone owns a smartphone or an iPad. This means we can connect to the internet anywhere we want! We eat a lot more healthily, too

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Five Most Bloodthirsty Pirates

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Throughout history these fearsome felons have terrorised the world’s oceans. Pirates captured ships and stole the treasure, killing anyone who stood in their way


Black Bart Lived from 1682-1722
Born in Wales Black Bart was one of the most successful pirates to sail the seven seas. He was famous for being ‘pistol-proof’, and looted over 400 ships during his lifetime.


François l’Olonnais Lived from 1635-1668 Born in France Stories say that this bloodthirsty pirate once ate a man’s heart. But he became dinner himself when he was captured by a tribe of people who wanted to eat him… CANNIBALS!

Ching Shih Lived from 1775-1844 Born in China This lady took control of a pirate fleet when her husband died. With 300 ships and 20,000 men, she terrorised the China Sea and was never defeated. 

Blackbeard Lived from 1680-1718 Born in England This famous and fearsome pirate would storm onto ships with a sword in each hand, and even tied fl aming fuses to his hat to scare his enemies.

Long Ben Lived from 1659-1696 Born in England Long Ben became the richest pirate in the world when he captured an Indian treasure ship that was laden with gold and jewels.

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Who were the richest people in the world ever?

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All through history, there are some people who made massive piles of treasure or money. Here’s a list of the richest people who ever lived!

Mansa Musa I 

Lived 700 years ago How much money would he have today?  £240 billion / $400 billion Mansa Musa I was the ruler of the West African Malian Empire. He got his money from the empire’s huge salt and gold trade.

Henry, Duke of Lancaster

Lived 700 years ago How much money would he have today?  £50 billion / $85 billion Henry inherited valuable farm land from his father. He then made loads more money by helping the king, and was rewarded with more land

Cleopatra 

Lived: 2,000 years ago How much money would she have today?  £62 billion / $106 billion Cleopatra was the Queen of Egypt. Ancient stories say that she once dissolved precious pearls into vinegar and drank them with her dinner. Now that’s rich!

Bill Gates 

58 years old How much money does he have today?  £81 billion / $136 billion Bill Gates started up Microsoft in 1975. He made billions of dollars by making computers, computer programs and lots of other cool technology.

William the Conqueror 

Lived 1,000 years ago How much money would he have today?  £137 billion / $230 billion Will became King of England when he won the Battle of Hastings. He made everyone pay him lots of money in tax.

John D Rockefeller 

Lived 80 years ago How much money would he have today?  £200 billion / $340 billion USA’s first billionaire was John D Rockefeller. He made his money from a massive oil empire, but gave over $530 million to charity too!

World of Wealth

$10,000 The largest US bank note ever to be used. It was issued in 1939 

2 ,5OO YEARS That’s how long !)?* )*& ?‡?,-.? started using coins 

Half full If Mansa Musa’s gold was put in an Olympic-sized swimming pool, it would be half full

22 blue whales The same weight as all of the gold stored at Fort Knox Bullion Depository in the United States

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Who can change the world?

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Who can change the world? Lots of people have the power to make a difference to the world we live in. Some of them are rich and powerful, but many are the ordinary folk all around you


Teachers

By explaining how the world works and encouraging their student's interest,teachers inspire us to work a better place fot us to live in

Scientists and inventors

Through careful research scientists often prove the world was in ways we didn't expect.Inventors create new gadgets and technology that change the way we live for the better

Politicians

People vote for politicians in thing called elections.The politician that win the election gets to be in charge of the country.People vote fot the one they think will do the best job

Entertainers

Through being famous,entertainers can reach large audiences.When they support for a cause,people all over the world will listen and act on what they say

Doctors and researchers

As well as curing everybody diseases and ensuring people stay healthy,doctors can lead the way in creating new cures and treatment for illness and saving lives

Everyone

No matter who you are anyone can make a difference.Even the smallest actions can have a positive influence and improve our communities

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10 Things you didn't know about sleep

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264 Hours is the longest Documented stretch that anyone has stayed awake

In 1964, a San Diego student named Randy Gardner stayed awake without any kind of stimulants for 11 days, experiencing phantom sounds and visions the longer he went without sleep. When he finally fell asleep, he slept for nearly 15 hours. No long-term ill effects were reported.

Artififial lights have changed our natural sleeping patterns

 

 Without them, we would sleep in two blocks each night. We would fall asleep around 10pm and wake up a few hours later, going back to sleep after an hour. Psychologist Thomas Wehr found people revert to sleeping this way if isolated from artificial lights for more than a few weeks.

Some animals only send half their brain to sleep

In dolphins and whales, for instance, this gives them the ability to surface for air and be on the lookout for danger while still technically sleeping. Ducks are also able to sleep with one eye shut and one-half of their brains asleep, allowing some of the birds to stand watch while others in the group rest.

Female sleep is the key to a happy marriage

Psychiatrist Wendy Troxel of the University of Pittsburgh recently found that a woman’s ability to fall and stay asleep had a greater impact on marital satisfaction than her daily interactions with her husband. The same effect was not found for men in relationships.

Sleeping rhythms can affect sport performance

Researchers at Stanford University and the University of Maine found that circadian rhythms  the natural cycles that govern when we’re awake and when we’re sleepy have an ‘outsized effect’ on professional sports: athletes at their peak circadian rhythms have an unseen advantage over their opponents.

Therapy may be better treatment for insomia than sleeping pills

Psychologist Charles Morin of Laval University in Quebec found that people who used cognitive behavioural therapy to deal with sleepless nights reported much better overall sleep quality than those treated with sleeping pills alone.

The world have vastly different sleep patterns

Jodi Mindell of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Avi Sadeh of Telaviv University found that 95 per cent of babies in Vietnam sleep in their parents’ bed, compared to 15 per cent in Australia. In New Zealand, the average bedtime for an infant is 7.30pm; in Hong Kong, it’s 10.30pm.

Dreams tend to follow well defined patterns

In his lifetime, Calvin Hall, a psychology professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, collected more than 50,000 dream reports from anyone who’d share them. Using Hall’s database, researchers identified that we tend to dream about the things that make us anxious. Adults tend to dream about other adults, while children are more likely to dream of animals.

Sleep may help us to learn new skills

 After having people play the video game Tetris before they went to sleep, Robert Stickgold of Harvard Medical School found that test subjects tended to dream about the game that night. Those subjects who dreamed about the game showed the most dramatic improvement once they played it again the next day. 

 

16-19°C is the ideal temperature for a good night's sleep

 Research in Lille, France arrived at this figure for someone sleeping in pyjamas and covered by sheets. If they sleep naked, the ideal temperature jumps to 30-32ºC.

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10 Richest Hollywood Actors of Today

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10. Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Arnold Schwarzenegger moved from Austria to America to start his acting career years ago. He has had been a successful actor, politician and bodybuilder since the time when such promising actors were in short in Hollywood. Arnold’s net worth is about 30 million dollars.

9. Patrick Wilson:
Singing was Patrick Wilson’s passion but with the passage of time, he started performing as an actor in Hollywood movies. He is not only a movie actor but also appeared in various reality shows of American television channels, which so far have made him earn almost $400 millions.

8. Adam Sandler:
Adam Sandler is an inspiration of many new talented boys looking to pursue their career as a Hollywood actor. Adam is a superb actor, scriptwriter and producer, who has given us plenty of blockbuster Hollywood movies until now. He has grossed almost $450 million in Hollywood.

7. Will Smith:
The name of Will Smith is taken as the best and most famous Hollywood rapper of the era. In various movies, he performed leading roles but the graph of his popularity touched the skies when he acted as a rapper in Hollywood movies. Will Smith’s gross is estimated to be $500 million.

6. Leonardo DiCaprio:
Leonardo Dicaprio was too young when he acted in the world famous movie—Titanic. Remember? Why not, everyone of us has had been crazy about this all time favorite movie. Leo’s cute personality and beautifully acting is what has made him earn $600 million so far as a Hollywood actor.

5. Tom Cruise:
Tom Cruise is a heart throb of every woman in America and other countries of the world. He is not only an extremely talented Hollywood actor but also a famous producer. So basically we can title Tom Cruise as a multitalented person of America. His net worth is over $700 million.

4. Keanu Reeves:
Keanu’s name can be credited as not only a well versed Hollywood actor, but also a famous musician. It is quite difficult for us to believe that until 2003, Keanu was living in a rented house in America. His career took a step towards progress when he appeared inMatrix. Since then, he has given us various successful movies and has made over $800 million.

3. Tom Hanks:
Tom Hanks’ estimated gross is about $850 million. He has been a very talented and dedicated producer, director and actor. It won’t be wrong for us to say that Tom is one of those very few Hollywood males who have been awarded numerous national and international awards. Many of the times, Tom’s name is nominated for Oscars.

2. Merv Griffin:
Merv Griffin is owning $900 million, so can easily be named as one of the richest Hollywood actors in 2014. He started his career as an American television show host and musician. But his acting career charmed when he entered in the world of Hollywood. He is also one of the most successful businessmen in America.

1. William Shatner:
William Shatner’s current gross is almost $1 billion, this is the highest an actor has ever earned. He is not only an actor, but also a producer, director, author and comedian. William has always worked hard and dedicated himself to perform awesomely in every movie. This is why; he has received various awards in USA.

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Get the Attention of Anyone you like with ease.

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Harnessing the power of sex appeal can do wonders for you and your life.You feel better, you look better and everyone else either wants you or wants to be with you.Knowing how to increase your sex appeal is easy, but following the tips to the tee is the difficult part.By working on your sex appeal, you can get the attention of anyone you like with ease.Life just becomes so much easier when you look and feel sexy.

What is sex appeal?
For the uninitiated, sex appeal is the involuntary ability to

attract anyone of the opposite sex and make them like you almost instantly.
When we speak about sex appeal, it’s almost always the physical attributes that come to mind. But by using these steps mentioned below, you’d learn that there are many other subtle signs of sex appeal too that go beyond physical attributes.


If you’ve got a body that’s a perfect ten, well, life just got easier for you when it comes to working your sex appeal. But a great body is really never enough to exude sex appeal and draw everyone around you.

How to increase your sex appeal

You may not realize this, but every single person has the ability to increase their sex appeal tenfold and attract a lot of good lookers. All it takes is a bit of understanding about the different aspects that matter and using it to increase your sex appeal.

Find out how to increase your sex appeal in these ten steps. Use them religiously in your daily life, and you’ll be an attractive looker with tons of sex appeal sooner than you think.


#1 Learn to dress well
Sex appeal is all about your physical attributes, along with a pinch of subtle attributes. For starters, dress well and always look your best. If you don’t think your dressing style is something to brag about, use a few fashion magazines or even get the help of an image makeover consultant. Dressing well is one of the basic steps in knowing how to increase your sex appeal.

#2 Get a great body
If you don’t have washboard abs or sexy, toned legs, you’re not working out enough. It’s easy to sit back and whine about how fat you are or why no one ever gives you a second glance. Almost half the adults in the United States are fat. Get off your butt and do something about it.
Start working out and take an initiative to look good. You may have to run or do cardio for six months to lose weight, but just sitting around and having a burger and fries while bitching about your cruel world isn’t going to make you look any better. You want to look good? Get ready to work your butt. And hey, you know you’re always going to get second glances when you look fitter!

#3 Glow!
Learn to groom yourself. Bed heads and multicolor streaks look good on a fashion ramp, but they don’t particularly make the best impressions in your office or on your career. Eat healthy, sleep well and get that glowing skin. When you feel good about your daily lifestyle, your skin would start to glow, and you’d feel and look a lot better. And your sex appeal, well, it’ll start to grow too!

#4 Fragrances
Have your own collection of perfumes that smell great on you. When it comes to picking fragrances and perfumes, always remember that what smells great on someone else may not work for you. A lot of things like your body temperature and your body’s natural fragrance matters here.
Leave a waft of mild perfume in the air as you walk past someone of the opposite sex. It’s an instant turn on that will leave anyone wanting more. Perfumes, especially when they mix with your own body’s pheromones, can create a lasting positive effect on anyone you want to attract.

#5 Build your confidence
While physical aspects matter most in sex appeal, subtle factors like your confidence can play a big part too. If you want to know how to increase your sex appeal, learn to work on your confidence. Be positive and learn to look at the bright side of everything you do. Feeling unworthy or uncomfortable around people doesn’t help in growing your sex appeal. Work on your confidence and understand your true worth. Your upbeat attitude and your confidence will draw more people towards you than you can imagine.

#6 Intense eye contact
You may notice that most people you meet don’t have a strong eye contact. They may look into your eyes for a few seconds and look away because they can’t hold their gaze any longer.
Don’t be that person.
When you talk to someone of the opposite sex, especially someone you like, gaze deeply into their eyes as they talk to you. When you’re relaxed and confident, and stare into another person’s eyes when they’re talking, it may make the other person feel awkward. But it’ll also leave them feel weak in the knees.

#7 Stay calm and composed
No one likes Nervous Nelly. Don’t be that person. When you’re jittery and cluttered in your head, it’s hard to make anyone around you feel comfortable. No matter what you’re doing, stay calm and composed. It’ll make the person around you feel at ease and will help them connect with you better.
The next time you’re on a date, don’t fidget around. Relax and sit back calmly. A happy, calm ‘you’ can create a happier atmosphere and make anyone love being with you.

#8 Be graceful in whatever you do
You don’t have to be a ballerina or a flamenco artist, though it would help immensely if you do know how to dance, but you have to learn to be aware of your body. Most men and women look so clumsy when they can’t control their own body, it’s almost repulsive.
Learn to be graceful in your movements and your postures, be it a wave to say hello or a handshake or a hug to say goodbye. When you’re familiar with controlled movements like dancing, it makes you look sexy and appealing, no matter what you do. So if you’ve got the time for it, join a few salsa classes or pick a dance-at-home dvd.

#9 Speak in a lower voice
Work your sexy voice into a conversation the next time you’re on a date. While women may love the deep testosterone laden voice of a man, men don’t always want a woman to bellow in a deep voice.
Men have always found female voices to be attractive, especially when it’s not too shrill or high pitched. A woman who speaks in a soft voice and adds a perfect giggle now and then, almost instantly makes any guy she’s conversing with like her. If that isn’t sex appeal, what is?!

#10 Know that you look sexy!
If you want to know how to increase your sex appeal, you could use all these tips here and become a new and improved hottie overnight. But unless you truly believe you’re hot stuff, you can’t really become hot stuff.
Once you use all these tips, you really need to believe in yourself and realize that you’ve become a better person who gets a lot more attention than ever before. When you feel sexy, it shows. And it definitely attracts all the right attention!

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Pacquiao vs Algieri Free Live Streaming

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Pacquiao vs Algieri World Welterweight Championship@Macau 

Manny Pacquiao says he's still hungry to win, and that he'll deny Chris Algieri his dream on Saturday night, He isn't doing so just to defend a title. He's also fighting to stay relevant.Losses to Juan Manuel Marquez and Timothy Bradley in 2013 deflated the expectations for this aging pugilist.He's come on strong with a resounding victory against Brandon Rios in November 2013 and a rematch win over Bradley earlier this year, a bout that got him his WBO welterweight title back.Algieri's dizzying ascent through the boxing ranks isn't necessarily unprecedented, but it's probably unexpected for a 30-year-old former kick boxer who made the switch to hands-only fighting in 2008. Six years in, and he's fighting one of the most famous names in boxing, a legendary brawler whose tenacity is matched only by the feverish devotion of his fans.

Pacquiao vs Algieri Live Stream Free Boxing Online World Welterweight Championship @Macauhttp://w.atch.me/U0SAKs

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IMAX cinemas milestone

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The IMAX system uses 70mm film, with 15 perforations per frame that runs horizontally rather than vertically through the cinema projector. It is ten times larger than standard 35mm film. That means huge 109kg cameras are needed to film IMAX movies.They can only shoot three minutes’ worth of film at a time and take 20 minutes to reload. IMAX cinemasemploy a two-ton projector with a 15,000 watt lamp and a vacuum system to keep the fi lm in alignment with the lens. The IMAX screen is far

larger than a normal screen and is positioned in the cinema to maximise audience field of view. It has a specialcoating of silver paint to enhance the brightness of the picture, and has thousands of perforations to allowsound to pass through it. Furthermore, each film has a specially mastered soundtrack that is compatible with the IMAX digital audio cinema system, so that each spectator enjoys clear and realistic sound as well as pictures

  

1  The Dark Knight Released in 2008, this is the first major Hollywood movie to include sequences filmed by IMAX cameras.They amount to 30 minutes of screen time.






2  Superman Returns The first live-action
movie to have sequences of it converted from
the normal 2D format to IMAX 3D format.
 20 minutes is in 3D when viewers are cued
 to put on their 3D glasses.

 3  Polar Express This is the world’s first
 IMAX 3D Hollywood movie. It was digitally
 remastered from the original 2D film. IMAX
is now developing special 3D cameras for
 future live action releases.

4  The Matrix Revolutions This was the first
Hollywood blockbuster to be simultaneously
released in conventional and IMAX theatres.
The action sequences especially benefi ted from
being converted into this high resolution format.

 5  Apollo 13 In 2002, the new IMAX DMR
technology is used for the fi rst time to digitally
remaster this conventional format Hollywood movie
 into the IMAX format. It was rebranded as Apollo
13: The IMAX Experience .

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The Truth about the Slot Machine

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Return vs payback
 There is no such thing as a ‘loose’ or ‘tight’ slot machine. In modern casinos, slot

 machines are programmed to deliver a precise return percentage, somewhere around

 95 per cent. That means 95 per cent of the money that goes into a slot machine is paid

 back out to the players –the casino keeps the rest But here’s where things get tricky.

 The return percentage is not the same as the  payback,

which is the actual amount of money you win or lose during each gambling session

 at a slot machine. If you sat down at a slot machine for eternity and pulled the lever 

an infinite number of times,your payback percentage would be exactly 95 per cent

.Likewise, in a casino full of gamblers,thecollective machines will pay back roughly

 95 per cent of the total money gambled during the course of a day. Unfortunately, you

 are only one person and you don’t have infinite pulls.So your odds of winning are

 equally good or bad every pull. You could los all day and that doesn’t mean the

 machine is rigged. And it doesn’t mean that the guy who wins the jackpot

 found the ‘loose’ machine. He just got very, very lucky.

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THE BEARDED TRUTH

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 Growing

The average human male grows 25,000 hairs on his face in the space of 24 hours.
They will grow about half a millimetre in a day and 13 millimetres in a month.

Genetic 
factors determine the length, texture, colour and growth patterns of facial hair.
Another factor that plays a part in hair growth is hormones.

Tug of war
Legendary King Alexander the Great ordered his soldiers to shave, as he
 feared that in battle the enemy could easily grab their beards and  kill them.

Plucking
The great Roman ruler Julius Caesar had his facial hairs pulled out one by one by tweezers   

Wet and dry
When put under a microscope and examined, a wet razor shave looks much

smoother than a dry shave carried out by an electric shaver.         

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