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Insiders Share The ‘Secrets’ Of Their Jobs That Most People Don’t Know About

June 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

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1. Customs broker here. Every day hundreds of thousands of containers and air shipments arrive into United States territory. The volume of customs entries entered every day is staggering. When we get licensed to be a customs broker we are trained and tested not just on knowledge, but ethics. We even take a pledge to partner with CBP to uphold the law, and cooperate with them should we come across anything suspicious. Why so much emphasis on this?

Customs can’t actually screen everything coming in. I’m oversimplifying but CBP basically works on the honor system. You file an entry saying what the shipment is, and they just take your word for it and release it. This happens hundreds of thousands of times a day. Maybe at best customs can screen 3-7% of what’s coming in, the rest of just waived through….

15 Things They Do In Other Countries That We Should Adopt

June 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

Most Japanese schools don’t have custodians. Instead, the students do the cleaning themselves as a part of showing gratitude to the school and learning how to become more productive members of society

Cleaning takes place every day, usually for 10 or 15 minutes, depending on the school, longer before vacations, and sometimes twice a day. (This might happen the day of the school festival, or on graduation day.)

It is considered a very important part of the hidden curriculum, a way to show gratitude to the school itself, a team-building exercise, and a part of learning how to be a grown-up.

Students typically sweep all the floors in the school, swab them with rags, bundle up papers amd carry them out, carry out trash, and clean the blackboards. Depending on the day, they might also do raking or shoveling.

Former Inmate Reveals 15 Unwritten Rules Of Prison

June 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

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1.) If someone gets hit / punched / slapped keep your head down and just carry on with your day. Don’t even acknowledge it. Because eventually the person will get in trouble, and if he remembers you “Seeing” the incident, most likely you will get pegged as a snitch, and things will not turn out good.

2.) Always Always Always have money in your account or cigarettes in your locker to cover any debts. the shit is real serious. if you owe someone and dont pay your getting hurt. even trivial amounts on the outside, like a soup, or a sticky-bun, or a bag of chips. you can end up in the hospital over.

Fascinating Photos Collected From History

June 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

Tthe youngest soldier in WW1 was Momčilo Gavrić who joined the Serbian army as an 8 year old when his parents, grandmother, 3 sisters and 4 brothers were killed by Austro-Hungarian soldiers. He was later promoted to Corporal and again later to Lance Sergeant when he was 10 years old

In August 1914, the Austro-Hungarian soldiers killed his mother, father, sisters, brothers and grandmother and left his house on fire. Luckily for Momčilo, at the time of the massacre, he was away from home with his uncle.

When he returned home, he saw his family massacred and went to Gučevo to seek for the Serbian army. He found the Sixth artillery regiment of Drina Division, under the command of Major Stevan Tucović. Momčilo told his story to the soldiers and he was accepted to the regiment with Miloš Mišović appointed as his caretaker.

According to one story, Momčilo the same evening took revenge by showing his unit the location of the Austro-Hungarian soldiers and participated in the bombardment. Аfter the Battle of Cer, he was promoted to the rank of Corporal and given a military uniform.

After the First World War, Momčilo was sent to England, where he finished his education at the Henry Wreight School in Faversham, Kent.

He returned to Serbia in 1921 and in Trbušnica, he was reunited with his three brothers who had survived the murders in 1914.

Momčilo Gavrić died in Belgrade in 1993.

25 Things That Surprise Foreigners When They Visit The US

June 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

1. Wearing shoes in the house… What the fuck are you doing? You step in all nasty shit, for example, if you stepped on a fruit then walked all over your living room then thats how you get ants.

2. Advertising prescription drugs. That was the weirdest one for me. “ask your doctor for brand x antidepressants” type commercials on TV. In the UK, your doctor tells you what drugs you should take, not the other way round.

A Damn Fine Collection Of Fascinating Photos

June 9, 2021 Leave a Comment

This work clothing store in Ottawa has a Sub-Zero ‘Winter Simulator’ that allows you to test the clothes you’re buying in sub-zero temps and high winds.

A Damn Fine Collection Of Fascinating Photos

June 1, 2021 Leave a Comment

The medical staff of an organ-donation operation bow to pay tribute to 17-year-old female organ donor who has saved multiple human lives

Fascinating Photos From The Past

May 27, 2021 Leave a Comment

An immigrant family on the dock at Ellis Island after having just passed the rigid examination for entry into the country, August 13, 1925

18 Maps And Graphs That Will Help You Make Sense Of The World

May 27, 2021 Leave a Comment

Feed Your Brain With These Fascinating Facts

May 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

In 1989, then Prime Minister of Japan Sōsuke Uno resigned after a geisha revealed she had an extramarital affair with him. The key of the scandal wasn’t morality, but that he had failed to properly provide and support his mistress with an appropriate amount, and was branded as a stingy man

In their society of past a man would visit a geisha to relax and drink and flirt whereas his wife at home was viewed as a caretaker and mother figure. Not that the wives didn’t have any power, they controlled the purse strings and their word at home was law with the husband often looking up to them like a mother. Hence you don’t go to wife for sensuality. So wives never got jealous of geisha because they understood it was two different roles. A man would never leave his wife for a geisha. His wife will have known about it and accepted the situation without complaint.

Sōsuke Uno

(photo: 首相官邸ホームページ)