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During Memorial Day Weekend, many people gathered in backyards to kick off cookout season across the country — but in Denver, some visited an unassuming backyard to witness an attempt to shatter the world record for tallest stack of waffles, which was previously at 51 cm. 

Journalist Elizabeth Hernandez was on the scene to cover the event for The Denver Post and thankfully, she live tweeted the action for all of us as it was going down on Saturday. 

"You know when you get a press release to cover a Guinness world record attempt for tallest stack of waffles & expect it to be some big commercial thing & then it's just a guy's house?," Hernandez tweeted. "This is SO MUCH BETTER." Read more...

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678-136-7092Avengers: Infinity War shared Captain America's phone number with the world.

It didn't actually work, much to the chagrin of fans everywhere. But as we've now learned, it was originally supposed to work. The film's creators wanted fans to be able to pick up on the brief Easter egg and use it to actually receive a message from Steve Rogers.

It never happened, obviously, but sibling directors Anthony and Joe Russo shared their idea and the reason it never panned out during a recent interview with Huffington Post.

"We actually had intended to create a fake voicemail from Steve Rogers," Joe Russo said. "For the people that left the theater and called that number, they would get a voicemail from Steve Rogers." Read more...

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Turns out, even years after Gossip Girl, Blake Lively has some secrets up her sleeve — and her husband, and Deadpool star, Ryan Reynolds doesn't even know the half of it. 

Lively, who has been aggressively promoting her upcoming film A Simple Favor, tweeted a trailer that ends with the film's tagline "what happened to Emily?" — which then prompted a response from her husband. 

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Your quick mental checklist of "phones, keys, wallet" before leaving the house could soon be narrowed down to "phone, wallet." 

That's because Apple may be introducing a new function that would allow you to unlock your car and house doors with your iPhone. 

According to The Information (h/t Engadget), the near field communication (NFC) chip in your iPhone — responsible for the easy transactions behind things like Apple Pay — is rumored to be expanding beyond its current capabilities. 

"The change to the near-field communication, or NFC, chip, which is expected to be announced next month, could pave the way for people to use iPhones for other security-sensitive interactions, from paying transit fares and opening car doors to verifying their identity in other ways," the article reads, via MacRumors.  Read more...

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"I will send an ambulance if you really want me to." 

These were the words I heard over the phone, as I lay crumpled on the bathroom floor. I was in high school, at a party, and I had just tried marijuana for the first time. My chest was pounding, and I was convinced I was having a heart attack. Annoyingly, the 911 operator did not share my sense of urgency. In fact, she said marijuana-induced panic attacks were common and that this "didn’t qualify as an emergency." And, to my great surprise, I did not die that night in 2009.

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The Parkland students are continuing to advocate for gun control, one issue at a time, and their efforts are creating real change. The latest proof of that is Publix, a supermarket chain found based in the southeastern United States.

After boycotts and protests on Friday, the grocery store has publicly announced it will stop making political contributions, including those for Florida gubernatorial candidate and proudly vocal "NRA sellout" Adam Putnam. It's all thanks to Parkland'sDavid Hogg and his peers, who spearheaded a protest against the chain with a successful "die-in" at one of the store's locations.  Read more...

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It's trite and super-obvious, but it needs to be said: Disney probably has a bad feeling about this.

Solo: A Star Wars Story is looking at a three-day Memorial Day weekend box office of $83.3 million in the United States. That's a great starting point for movies not called "Star Wars," but the figure is much lower than what had been expected.

In the run-up to opening weekend, Disney expected to pull in a four-day box office total of $130 million to $150 million. But at the current pace, there's still some question as to whether or not Solo will manage to break $100 million. Read more...

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The Legends of Star Wars live on in Solo: A Star Wars Story.

First, a brief history lesson: Not long after Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the new corporate parent made a controversial decision. The Star Wars Expanded Universe, a timeline of events outside the movies that was chronicled in books, comics, video games, and more, would be no more.

The various forms of media from that timeline would be re-branded as "Legends" to avoid confusion. Meanwhile, all future books, comics, games, etc. would fold into a new and improved Star Wars canon, grounded by the movies and the Clone Wars TV series (Rebels didn't exist at that point).  Read more...

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Drake's upset — and some fans might be, too.  

The rapper dropped his second single on Saturday night in preparation for his forthcoming album, Scorpion. The track, "I'm Upset," has hit number one on the iTunes charts already, but folks online aren't necessarily singing its praises. 

On the song, Drake raps about a lot of things, including the women he's thankful to know, and keeping his money straight despite his relationships. 

It's your classic Drake fodder, but considering "I'm Upset" is Drake's followup to the two smash hits he's delivered with "God's Plan" and "Nice For What," people aren't too keen on this single.  Read more...

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If you've been online in the past 48 hours, you might have been privy to a hot, heaping pile of messy tweets courtesy of Kim Kardashian. 

Kim has been in the throes of a heated Twitter spar with frequent Kanye West collaborator Rhymefest, and it's all regarding a non-profit organization in Chicago, created in the name of Kanye's late mother. Buckle up, and let us break it down for you.

What is Donda's House?  

Fellow Chicago-native Rhymefest — who has had a hand in writing Kanye hits like "Jesus Walks" — helped found Donda's House, an arts-based, youth-focused non-profit organization in the city. On Saturday, Rhymefest tweeted a message out to Drake (who recently invoiced Kanye and his record label, but that's another story) asking for financial support to "rebuild Kanye's mother's house for the youth of Chicago."  Read more...

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Ah, summer. It's the time of sunshine, barbecues, beach trips, and abbreviated Fridays. It's also the time when I, at least six times per day, want to pitch my stupid glasses into the beautiful, sparkling ocean.

Summer is absolute hell for the glasses wearer. We don't talk about this enough! Sure, it is a "mild annoyance" and "not that big of a deal," but the sooner we give voice to these issues, the sooner I can stop complaining about them at parties and ruining the vibe.

Fellow glasses people, are you with me?

Let's begin with sunglasses, which are a whole thing for us. Prescription sunglasses exist, yes, but they are expensive — often as expensive as a regular pair of glasses. Even if you do manage to acquire a pair, you have to deal with the awkward dance between your prescription sunglasses and your regular glasses.  Read more...

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If there's one thing 2018 has taught the world, it's that we shouldn't underestimate today's youth. 

You've probably heard that they're organizing for gun violence prevention, defending LGBTQ rights, and defining global feminism. What you may know less about is the new generation of activists raising awareness about mental illness and developing innovative solutions to help bridge the gap between needing help and actually getting it.   

These young advocates are developing apps, founding nonprofit organizations, coordinating fundraising drives, and building campus-wide support networks. They're taking advantage of the work activists have previously done to decrease the stigma of talking about mental health, and they're creating their own legacy by fundamentally changing the way young people discuss and seek help for mental illness.  Read more...

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Today, we use the internet to find everything – new restaurants and bars, the closest movie theater, and the most efficient route to our friends’ houses. Finding health information and researching health care providers is no different, and that includes finding the closest provider for abortion care. But unlike many other health care services, where a Google search will produce a multitude of local options, people logging on to try to find an abortion provider are met with a harsh reality: In order to reach the closest abortion clinic, they may need to travel hundreds of miles.  

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To the uninitiated, API stands for Application Programming Interface. Technical jargon aside, it's basically a set of codes commercial sites permit others to borrow, allowing them to use it however they want. Take Twitter, for example: You don't imagine them exposing the entirety of their code (aka inner workings) to the public, do you? Still, they want others to incorporate or make use of their service to build applications. Hence, they supply an API. By doing so, they're essentially enabling their platform to work and interact seamlessly with other products. 

If you're a developer, product manager, or just someone who wants to break into the field, you should have extensive knowledge of APIs. APIs are rapidly becoming the building blocks of the web, allowing companies to provide a better customer experience to their users. If you don't know where to start, the Complete API Mastery Bundle can school you on what you need to know. Read more...

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Between the 24-hour news cycle and binging Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why, we could all use a little break. May we suggest the humble puzzle as a way to distract from the hell hole that is Twitter and cable news? 

If you're looking to add a bit more mindfulness into your life, puzzles are a great way to kick back and relax while still exercising your right brain. And we're not just talking about the jigsaw variety (so 2017). 

These Wood Trick DIY Mechanical 3D Puzzles provide hours of mental stimulation, calling upon your imagination, spatial reasoning, motor skills, and tactile sensitivity. They’re all made from renewable wood without added toxins or glues, so they make for an extremely eco-conscious hobby. Plus, you’ll have a beautiful piece of functional art to display when you’ve completed one. Read more...

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Nowadays, it takes a lot for Americans to become incensed about Trump's tweets. We need at least one World War threat or nuclear weapon tangent to wake up and realize we're seconds away from doomsday.

The President still has that magical ability to completely eviscerate our joy. Take Saturday's tweet, where Trump — in one of his worst lies yet — had the audacity to complain that Democrats were responsible for separating parents from their children at the border.

"Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S. Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL! DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS," Trump wrote. Read more...

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Folarin Falana, better known as the Nigerian rapper Falz, did something with Childish Gambino's incisive "This Is America" music video that no one else has managed: He deconstructed it and rebuilt it for his home audience.

"This Is America" presents a picture of life in modern-day black America, with a heavy lean toward symbolism and subtext. As a piece of music, it's fine; as a short film casting a spotlight on what oppression looks like in 2018, it's a brilliant, essential work.

I can't personally speak to what daily life in Nigeria looks like, but Falz's lyrics offer a starting point for further reading. As OkayAfrica points out, he touches on "everything from the government's sluggish response to the missing Chibok Girls, the drug epidemic affecting Nigerian youth, widespread consumerism, the country's infamous Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), internet fraud, crooked pastors, Fulani herdsmen and even Big Brother Nigeria." Read more...

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