In the U.S if you steal property, the Internal Revenue Service requires that you report its value as income when filing your taxes. You can avoid this by returning the property to the rightful owner before the end of the year.

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A Life of Isolation: Mihailo Tolotos the only man in history to never saw a woman and the Monastery

Mihailo Tolotos, orphaned at birth, was raised in a secluded monastery on Mount Athos where women were strictly forbidden. This unique upbringing meant he lived his entire life without ever seeing a woman. Immersed in the routines and teachings of the monastery, Tolotos led a quiet and contemplative life dedicated to his faith. His story, ending with his death in 1938 at the age of 82, highlights the extraordinary circumstances and sacrifices associated with the pursuit of spiritual devotion and the traditions upheld by the Mount Athos monastery.

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Forming new healthy habits

For example, everyone knows that it is extremely important to wake up your body with a glass of clean water. But how to make it a healthy habit?

Write it down👇🏻
✔️ Form a strong need by clearly defining for yourself exactly what the benefit of the new skill is.
✔️ Strengthen the need. Find something related to the habit, for example motivating stories from other people. This will allow your brain to see the importance of the habit to you.
✔️ Work with explanations and challenges. The brain will resist as hard as it can, but you'll outsmart it - give it clear facts about the importance of the habit, write out all the explanations in advance and work through them.
✔️ Come up with a simple trigger. For example, if you want to start the day with a glass of water, set a wave noise on your alarm clock.
✔️ Define a reward. Habits are driven by longing. If you understand how to trigger it, the new habit will be much easier to form.

Astronaut, Charles Duke, left a plastic-encased photo of his family on the moon. The back of the photo was thumb printed and signed by his family, and there was a message that said, "This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth, who landed on the Moon on the twentieth of April 1972."
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When the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami flooded his neighborhood and destroyed his home, Hideaki Akaiwa grabbed a wetsuit and swam over 600 feet and waded through underwater debris and hazards to rescue his wife and mother. But he did not stop there, he continued to look for more survivors for a week after the calamity.
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When you first meet people it is common to forget their names - a phenomenon called the ‘next-in-line' effect. This is because people are too worried about themselves, and what they'll say next, to focus on remembering the names of people they're introduced to.
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This upside-down fig tree has grown in the ancient ruins of Baia in the city of Bacoli, Italy. The tree sprouted from the ceiling of the arch, and no one is sure how the tree ended up there or how it managed to survive. It grows every year and even bears fruit!
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This bright electric blue stick insect is called Achrioptera fallax, and they are found in Madagascar. They do not attack or bite people, and feed mainly on leaves of raspberry, bramble, oak and eucalyptus.
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Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan is the oldest hotel in the world. Situated in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, the hot spring hotel was founded in 705 CE, and it has been operated continuously by 52 generations of the same family for over 1,300 years.
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The Lavender Labyrinth in Shelby, Michigan was designed in 2001, and is owned by Barbara Bull. It covers an area of three acres, and it is so large that it can be seen aerially from space. It takes around one hour to reach the center of the labyrinth, and it is open to the public.
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Elephants have such great memories that they not only recognize members of their own clan, but they also remember faces and alternate routes to food and water sources. Two freed circus elephants who had performed together briefly, recognized each other upon meeting after over 20 years.
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Unconsciously, native English speakers say adjectives preceding nouns in a specific order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, and purpose. It's why saying "old green metal chairs" sounds normal, but "metal green old chairs" sounds weird.
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Population in 2100, as projected by UN Population Division.

🇮🇳 India: 1,533 million
🇨🇳 China: 771 million
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 546 million
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 487 million
🇨🇩 Congo: 431 million
🇺🇸 US: 394 million
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: 323 million
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 297 million
🇹🇿 Tanzania: 244 million
🇪🇬 Egypt: 205 million
🇧🇷 Brazil: 185 million
🇵🇭 Philippines: 180 million
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: 177 million
🇳🇪 Niger: 166 million
🇸🇩 Sudan: 142 million
🇦🇴 Angola: 133 million
🇺🇬 Uganda: 132 million
🇲🇽 Mexico: 116 million
🇰🇪 Kenya: 113 million
🇷🇺 Russia: 112 million
🇮🇶 Iraq: 111 million
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 110 million
🇲🇿 Mozambique: 106 million
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 91 million
🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire: 88 million
🇨🇲 Cameroon: 87 million
🇲🇱 Mali: 87 million
🇲🇬 Madagascar: 83 million
🇹🇷 Turkey: 82 million
🇮🇷 Iran: 79 million
🇿🇦 South Africa: 74 million
🇾🇪 Yemen: 74 million
🇯🇵 Japan: 74 million
🇬🇧 UK: 70 million
🇩🇪 Germany: 68 million
🇫🇷 France: 60 million
🇨🇦 Canada: 53 million
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 50 million
🇦🇷 Argentina: 47 million
🇦🇺 Australia: 38 million
🇮🇹 Italy: 36 million
🇪🇸 Spain: 30 million
🇰🇷 South Korea: 24 million
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 16 million
🇦🇪 UAE: 14 million
🇸🇪 Sweden: 13 million
🇨🇭 Switzerland: 10 million
🇦🇹 Austria: 8 million
🇳🇴 Norway: 7 million

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During the filming of the fourth Pirates of The Caribbean movie, Johnny Depp received a letter from a nine-year-old fan, who asked for his help in staging a "mutiny" against her teachers. Johnny Depp surprised her by turning up at her school in character as Captain Jack Sparrow, but advised against mutiny.
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In the small town of Bera in Rajasthan, India, humans and leopards have coexisted harmoniously for over a century. The locals believe that their coexistence with one of the world's most feared predators can be attributed to a deep spiritual connection as they treat these animals as their guardian angels and worship them.
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There are three different types of tears – basal, reflexive, and psychic. Psychic tears are produced as a result of strong emotional responses, and they contain a neurotransmitter called leucine enkephalin, which is considered to be a natural painkiller, which is why we always feel better after crying.
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Candido Jacuzzi invented the Jacuzzi to help treat his son's Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, which had gone systemic and affected his entire body. When hydrotherapy proved beneficial for the boy, Candido designed the J-300 pump, which could be submerged in the bathtub to provide the treatment at home.
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There is a psychological state called "helper's high." The theory is that helping someone in need releases endorphins in the brain that act like a mild version of a morphine high. Research also shows that helping others lights up the parts of our brain that get activated by food and pleasure.
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10 Stress Relieving Foods -

-Bananas🍌
- Pasta 🍝
- Almonds
- 🍇 Grapes
-Green Tea
-Oatmeal
-Chocolate
-Water melon🍈
-Orange Juice
-Cornflakes

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The US Navy lent F/A-18 Super Hornets for the movie Top Gun: Maverick, and the studio had to pay $11,374 per hour to have the advanced fighter planes for filming, but Tom Cruise was not allowed to touch the controls.
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