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The 10 Most Powerful Regrets People Have at the End

We all have regrets in life. But from what I've seen, many of the regrets we have while living (career, money, decisions about where to live) are not the same ones we have when we're at the end of the road. Few to none have regrets about not making enough money, or spending too little time working on their careers. No, even the most successful rarely say anything like that. Instead, these are the 10 most common regrets held by people who are facing the end of their lives.

There is much to learn from their regrets, especially for us, those still alive who can change their path and live more the way they want to. Take these words to heart, and remember: don't leave those regrets hanging, deal with them today, because life is short.

 

Your Guide to Silencing Your Snoring Partner!

A snoring partner can keep you up all night and prevent you from having a good night's sleep. The number one cause of this irritating problem is a disorder called sleep apnea, which causes two problems. Firstly, it can cause sufferers to stop breathing altogether for short periods while they sleep. Secondly, it can encourage their breathing to become much shallower than it typically would be when they are awake. Both issues result in the narrowing of the airways, which in turn leads to snoring. Most people don’t realize they have the condition because they are able to breathe normally during waking hours. An estimated 12 million people in the USA have sleep apnea. If you think your partner might be suffering from the disorder, speak to a doctor and consider visiting a sleep clinic together. The condition is most commonly cured with a device called a continuous positive airway pressure ventilator, which pumps air into the mouth and nose with a mask.   If your partner doesn’t have sleep apnea, they are snoring for other reasons. The chart below can help you determine what kind of snorer they are and give you tips to help stop their snoring.

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How to Get Your Way: 14 Clever Psychological Tricks

Did you ever wish that you could control people with your mind? It’s actually pretty easy to get people to do certain things without knowing that it’s you who is making them do it. All you have to do is learn these 14 psychological tricks - you’ll be amazed at how simple it is. 1. Agreeableness When you ask someone a question, get them to agree with you by simply nodding your head. This action makes them believe that what you’re saying is true and that they should nod “yes” too, since we’re social creatures.

2. Word Conditioning When having a conversation with someone, pick a word they say and then whenever they say that word, or similar words, just smile, nod, or give them some kind of positive affirmation. Watch in amusement as they start saying that word all the time. 3. The Broccoli Trick Want your kids to eat their broccoli? Ask them if they want 2 pieces or 5, rather than asking if they even want it. This way, their choice isn’t whether they want or don’t want it, but rather how much of it they want. By giving them a lower and higher option, you make them feel like they got the lesser evil when they choose 2. This trick works for other things in life as well. 4. The Zeigarnik Effect Got a song stuck in your head? Think (or sing) the last verse of the song. Our mind tends to continue thinking about unfinished tasks, this is known as the Zeigarnik Effect. By thinking about the end of the song, you signal to your brain that the task is finished. 5. How to Build Attraction When you first meet someone, if you’re going for a handshake you better make sure your hand is warm. A warm handshake is more inviting than a cold one. You should also subtly mimic the other person's posture and actions, as it builds trust and makes you seem like the both of you fit well together.

6. Getting Information Want your friend to open up? Ask him or her a question, keep eye contact and remain silent for a few seconds. They will be compelled to continue talking, albeit possibly more irritated, but talk they will. 7. Rock, Paper, Scissors Want to be a Rock, Paper, Scissors champion? Simply ask your opponent a question before you start the game. If you ask and immediately start into the “RPS” chant, they’ll almost always go on the defense and use scissors. 8. I Know What You’re Thinking Want to convince your kids that you’re psychic? If you catch them misbehaving, look away for a few seconds. While your back is to them, call them out on their behavior. They’ll be sure you can read their minds. 9. Paternal Advice Want people to take you more seriously? Tell them that the advice you’re giving them, was given to you by your father. People tend to trust fatherly advice inherently.

10. Confrontation If you think someone is going to confront you in a meeting, sit right next to them. It is an awkward thing to talk ill of someone or to be aggressive towards them when they’re up close. No one wants to sit next to someone they just bad-mouthed – take advantage of it. 11. To Catch a Stalker Are you worried someone’s stalking you? Pretend to yawn while glancing at the potential stalker. Since yawning is contagious, they should yawn as well, and you will know that they were watching you.

12. Selling a Dollar at a Premium Get a group of friends together and hold up a $1 bill for auction. Tell them that whoever makes the highest bid will win the bill, but anyone who makes the second-highest bid will have to honor their bid. Now, sit back and watch as the bid goes from a couple of cents to as much as $5. Your friends will quickly forget the value of the dollar, as long as they “don’t lose”. When the bid gets close to a dollar, the second highest bidder will overbid on the bill, thinking it’s better to lose 10 cents, rather than 99. 13. Find Your Way Through a Crowd Got a whole bunch of people blocking your way? Simply look in the direction in which you intend to walk and watch as a path is formed. In busy areas, people watch other people’s eyes to see where they’re going, and move away from that path. 14. The Talk and Pile If you want your friend to carry something, for example if you just purchased books at the store and want your friend to carry them for you, just keep talking as you hand them the bag. Most people will automatically take a bag without thinking about it. Some people, however, will become confused, and only a very rare few will call you out on it.

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How well do you know your quotes?

How well do you know your quotes? Words can sum up a person's entire legacy, becoming so well-known that they end up permeating everyday conversations around the world. Can you match the words to the person who said them? Test your quotes knowledge with this fun quiz.

10 Truly Terrible Jet Airplanes: Where's the Ejector Seat Button?

Where's the Ejector Seat Button?

There are few of use who don't feel inspired or captivated by jet airplanes. They're fast, sleek and powerful, but with that being said, there are numerous terrible jets that have taken to the skies over the decades. Here are the 10 worst jet airplanes ever to fly:

10. Douglas DC-10

Image Source To date, DC-10s have been involved in 55 accidents, with many fatalities as a result. Its biggest flaw was that its cargo doors opened outward rather than inward, as is the convention on airplanes. An improperly-secured cargo door blew out during mid-flight in 1972, which prompted a re-design. A highly similar accident occurred in 1974, followed by an engine falling off a DC-10’s wing during take-off in 1979. The airplane remains in service as a cargo plane, and is much safer nowadays due to various redesigns and updates.

9. Vought F7U Cutlass

Image Source Although the Cutlass was a unique design for its time, abandoning conventional tail control surfaces for a swept wing design, it had teething problems from the very moment it took off. Admittedly the aircraft was fast, however it struggled to stay in flight on occasion. In addition, its Westinghouse turbojet engines did not have enough thrust for adequate take-offs and landings. No less than the first three prototypes crashed, together with the first two airplanes delivered to the US Navy. While the airplane was designed to give the military a boost, it ended up reverting to older fighter jets. A quarter of all the F7Us delivered were lost in accidents.

8. PZL M-15

Image Source Designed in Poland, this odd-looking jet was the only mass-produced biplane in history, which is all well and good, only it was terrible. It was actually designed as a crop duster, spraying Soviet farms with pesticides, but it ended up being more expensive to run than the planes it was supposed to replace. In hindsight, it was probably a silly idea to demand that a crop duster design incorporate jet power for propulsion. Rumor has it that the plane could also have doubled up for use in chemical warfare during a Soviet invasion of Europe, however whether there’s any truth in it remains unknown.

7. Yakovlev Yak-38

Image Source The Harrier Jump Jet, used by the British Navy, made militaries around the world see the advantage of having a vertical take-off and landing fighter in their arsenals, including the Soviet Union. The awful Yakovlev Yak-38 looked like a Harrier, but didn’t really work like one. For starters, its range was pathetic – it could only fly 800 miles at a time, and that was without weapons. Even more farcical was the fact that the airplane could only fly for 15 minutes in hot weather. Furthermore, its lift jets had a service life of 22 hours. It seems appropriate, then, that the ejector seat design in the airplane was a good one.

6. Bristol 188

Image Source Chuck Yeager’s record-breaking run in 1947, in which he broke the sound barrier in a Bell X-1, inspired various air forces around the world to create their own fast research planes. The British Bristol 188 was designed to fly at Mach 2.6, but it was fatally flawed. Its fuel tanks would leak during flight, and it couldn’t even get off the ground until it was traveling at 300mph, necessitating a very long runway for take-off. In addition, the airplane refused to get close to Mach 2, let alone Mach 2.6. After the Royal Air Force sunk £20 million into this white elephant, the project was canceled.

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5. McDonnell XF-85 Goblin

Image Source The Goblin was designed as a parasite fighter, meaning that it would take off attached to a larger bomber, then be released in mid-flight to fight off intercepting airplanes over enemy territory before re-docking with the bomber to return home. The Goblin had two main problems. The first was that it proved impossible to dock with the B-29 mother ship from which it was launched, and the second was that it would be completely outgunned by enemy fighter jets in combat. The latter was because it only had four .50-caliber machine guns. Inevitably, the Goblin project was canceled, but that didn’t stop the US Air Force from exploring numerous other parasite fighter concepts.

4. Baade 152

Image Source Based on a series of bomber concepts, the Baade 152 was the first-ever German-designed airliner. It incorporated a high-wing design and center-line landing gear with outrigger wheels on the wing tips – features that work well on a bomber, but not so well on an airliner. The prototype crashed during its second flight, killing its entire crew. Another prototype was flown a further three times before engineers discovered that the fuel lines failed on a steep descent, causing the engines to stop running. The project was killed off in 1961, making the 152 the only indigenous East German airplane ever to be built.

3. Tupolev Tu-144

Image Source Arguably one of the more recognizable airplanes on this list, the Tupolev was one of two supersonic airliners (the other being Concorde) that entered service in the late 1970s. While Concorde went on to become an icon, the Tu-144 was laughably bad and downright dangerous. The first passenger prototype crashed at the 1973 Paris Air Show, while the airplane suffered system failure on 22 out of its 24 main systems while in mid-flight. What’s more is that engineers had discovered that two of the airframes being used in testing were extremely close to complete structural failure. The Tu-144 only ever flew 55 times before all airframes were grounded for good.

2. Dassault Balzac V and Mirage III V

Image Source This disastrously bad airplane was a French attempt at a vertical take-off and landing fighter. Based on a modified version of the successful Mirage III fighter, the idea seemed great on paper, but it was catastrophic in practice. It killed two test pilots during testing, but that didn’t stop Dassault into evolving the design into the Mirage III V. The prototype also crashed, however in that instance the pilot managed to eject successfully. The last accident resulted in the company abandoning VTOL fighters and moving on to other projects.

1. De Havilland Comet

Image Source Although the Comet went on to have a long and successful career, there were numerous fatal accidents involving the world’s first commercial jet-powered airliner. From overshooting runways, to disastrous mid-air decompressions and buckling fuselages, the Comet became the poster child for how not to design a jet airliner. Although the airplane was redesigned and updated numerous times during its service life, the early, fatal accidents ruined its reputation, meaning it never sold in very big numbers. Nevertheless, the lessons learned served the aviation industry in good stead for many decades to follow.