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🌏 Article 🌏 A survey has found Japanese kids' dream jobs, and how the jobs they want change as they get older. Employment agency Adecco asked 900 schoolchildren what jobs they want to do when they grow up.   For elementary school boys, the most popular job was "YouTuber," which was chosen by nearly 9%. In second place was "soccer player" with a little over 7%. Third place was shared by "pol...

🌏 Article American writer Stephen King is probably best known for his horror stories, like It and The Shining. King has written a book about how he became a great writer called On Writing. Here are four simple pieces of advice from his book.   Read a Lot King says every book can teach you something. Even bad writing can show you what you don't want in your own work.   Tell Your Own Stor...

🌏 Article Before 2020, words like "pandemic" "lockdown," and "social distancing" didn't often come up in daily conversation. But the coronavirus pandemic has made some words more popular, as well as given us new slang to help us talk about our "new normal."   Language expert Tony Thorne from King's College London has been making a list of about 200 words that have been used more often during...

🌏 Article Some people like to add hot sauce to everything. There's no faster way to take a pizza, a burger or a bowl of ramen to the next level than by adding a splash of heat. But would you add it to your coffee? Lauren D'Souza created Ujjo — a hot sauce that's made to be added to your morning Joe — after being dared by a friend to add hot sauce to a cup of coffee. Although the coffee tasted bad...

🌏 Article Beijing now has more billionaires than any other city in the world, according to the 2021 Forbes World's Billionaires List. China's capital city got 33 new billionaires in the last year, bringing the number to 100. That's one more billionaire than the city in second place, New York.   Before this year, New York had been the city with the most billionaires for seven years in a row....

🌏 Article Google Earth has announced an exciting new update that shows how the planet has changed across nearly 40 years. Google Earth collected 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years that were used to make Timelapse, a map that shows the Earth changing, both because of humans and nature itself.   Using Google Earth, Timelapse lets you choose any part of the planet you'd like to...

🌏 Article Every May, people from around the world come to the village of Brockworth, near Gloucester in England, to chase after a large wheel of Gloucester cheese as it rolls down a very steep hill. This strange competition is called "Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake," and it has been done for hundreds of years. The goal of the race is to catch the cheese, which gets a 1-second head start an...

🌏 Article A growing number of US companies are starting to offer homes built with 3D printing technology. The companies say that 3D printing is a faster, cheaper and more environmentally friendly way to build homes than traditional methods. They say the technology may also help solve America's shortage of affordable housing. But most companies in the industry are still developing their 3D printin...

🌏 Article Many of us have taken days off work when we probably shouldn't have. Some people might take a three-day weekend for their birthday, or call in sick to recover after a party. But a man in Italy is being called the "king" of absences after being accused of failing to come to work for 15 years. Italian officials say that 67-year-old Salvatore Scumace has received about $650,000 from his pl...

🌏 Article Hayek Hospital, just outside of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, has taken meat and eggs off the menu, becoming what it says is the world's first vegan hospital. In 2020, the hospital started offering both vegan and non-vegan meals while giving patients information about the benefits and risks of the diets. However, starting on March 1, Hayek Hospital began offering only vegan food. The hospi...

🌏 Article 🌏 A rich 90-year-old woman from Hong Kong has been scammed out of about $33 million by criminals who said they were Chinese officials, the South China Morning Post reports. In July last year, the woman received a call from a man who said he was a mainland public security official. He informed her that her identity had been stolen and it was being used for crimes in mainland China. The...

🌏 Article 🌏 Months after leaving his job, Andreas Flaten said his former employer owed him $915. But the Georgia man was shocked when he finally saw his last paycheck: a pile of 90,000 pennies covered in an oily substance, with a rude goodbye message on top. "This is a childish thing to do," Flaten said. Flaten said he left his job at A OK Walker Luxury Autoworks in November 2020 due to a toxic...

🌏 Article 🌏 Traditional English food is often made to keep you warm on rainy days. Here are just some of the dishes from England that you should try.   Full English breakfast You might not need lunch if you start your day with a full English breakfast, or "fry-up." This huge morning meal usually includes bacon, sausages, eggs, cooked tomatoes and mushrooms, and toast. The breakfast is often...

🌏 Article A survey has found that, out of people in 25 countries, people in the UK get drunk more often than anyone else. The Global Drug Survey (GDS) tries to find trends among people who use drugs and alcohol. The 2020 survey was answered by over 110,000 people between early November and late December 2019, including over 5,000 people in the UK. The survey found that Brits had been drunk an ave...

🌏 Article Even though we yawn almost every day, scientists don't really know why we do it. One theory suggests that people yawn when they need more oxygen in their blood. Another says that the body may yawn to wake itself up because yawning stretches the lungs and increases blood flow to the brain. However, many researchers now believe that yawning may cool the brain when it gets too hot. A 2007...

🌏 Article The Netherlands might not be as famous for its food as other European countries like France or Italy, but there are still lots of things for visitors to try. Here are some Dutch foods you'll love. Fries Dutch fries are thicker than French fries and have a few different names: patat, friet, and frites. They're usually served in a paper cone or box — making them perfect to eat while walki...

🌏 Article A website called Nerd Bear is offering one James Bond superfan $1,000 to watch all 24 Bond movies in 30 days, from 1962's Dr. No to 2015's Spectre.  "That's over 51 hours of films, 7 different 007s, and too many martinis!" the website wrote. Nerd Bear says it hopes the job will keep one lucky fan going while they wait for the 25th James Bond movie, No Time to Die, to be releas...

🌏 Article Mohammad Ikram, a 32-year-old from Pakistan, has found a way to play snooker without the use of a cue. Ikram was born without arms, but he hasn't let that stop him. Ikram remembers watching other children play snooker outside his home as a 10-year-old child. He always wished he could also play the game one day, but needed to find a way to do so. "At that time I wished I had arms so that...

🌏 Article Couscous has been added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The list includes things such as food, festivals and activities that are important to cultures around the world. Couscous was suggested by the North African nations of Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia. Not only was the food added to the list, but also the knowledge of how to make it. Couscous is usually made...

🌏 Article 🌏 A dog has spent six days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment. Cemal Senturk was taken to a hospital in the city of Trabzon, Turkey, on January 14 with a brain problem. His pet, Boncuk, followed the ambulance there. According to DHA, she then made daily visits to the hospital. Senturk’s daughter, Aynur Egeli, said she would take B...

🌏 Article 🌏 Nobody likes noisy neighbors — but one Japanese website is trying to make sure people never have to deal with them in the first place with the Dorozoku Map. The map, released by DQN Today, uses colorful circles to show places with the most noise problems. Complaints include babies crying, elementary school children playing and even adults talking too much. For example, one complaint...

🌏 Article 🌏 Almost 200 people in Taiwan changed their names to "salmon" to get free sushi from a restaurant. Japanese restaurant Sushiro offered a two-day promotion on March 17 and 18. The restaurant said that any customer whose name included the Chinese characters for "salmon," or gui yu, would get a free all-you-can- eat sushi meal for themselves and five friends. When many people started chan...

🌏 Article 🌏 British writer Jane Austen, one of the most influential and celebrated authors in English literature, was born on December 16, 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire, England. Her first book, Sense and Sensibility, was published in 1811, when she was 35. It was published anonymously as being "By a Lady." In fact, Austen never saw her own name published on any of her books, inc...

🌏 Article 🌏 A company is offering people from the UK a chance to buy the smell of home in a bottle. Delivery company My Baggage is selling 500 milliliter bottles of air from different parts of the UK for more than $30, with delivery costing almost $7. "Our sense of smell is known to be linked to emotional memories," said the company's managing director, Paul Stewart, speaking to The Guardian. He...

🌏 Article 🌏 Japanese men can take up to 52 weeks of paid child care leave after their child is born — more than every country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) except South Korea. But most new dads in Japan are struggling to do so, according to a 2020 survey by the Japanese Trade Union Confederation. The online survey asked 500 men and 500 women about...