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How to Run Up a $200,000 Cell Phone Bill

Someone needs to explain to me, in plain English, how anything you can do on a phone would result in you having a $200,000 bill. Think about it, that is more than $4.50 a minute, 24 hours a day for 30 days straight.

This is the $201,000 bill, running 43 pages. When Shamir saw it, he couldn’t believe he had run it up. Celina Aarons: “He spent two weeks in Canada. Shamir had been on vacation in Canada where he didn’t turn his data roaming off. Texting over 2,000 times and using the phone to download videos. Bringing this charge for $1,800. This one for $1,300 this one for $2,500. On and on and on.

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15 Places You Should Travel To While You Are Young

There are so many interesting and beautiful places in the world that everyone should get the chance to travel to, but especially while you are young. It’s the best time to shape your world view, so why wait? Explore the world and experience something new by visiting these places.


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Just don’t play it while you’re driving! Warning over ‘most relaxing song ever created’

It slows your breathing and reduces brain activity to such an extent that Weightless, written by Manchester band Marconi Union, is said to be the ‘most relaxing song ever’.

The eight-minute track is so effective at inducing sleep, motorists have now been warned they should not listen to it whilst driving.
The band worked with sound therapists to get advice on how to make the most effective use of harmonies, rhythms and bass lines. The result on listeners is a slowing of the heart rate, reduced blood pressure and lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol.

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Woman Mysteriously Ages 50 Years In A Few Days

Vietnamese woman Nguyen Thi Phuong now looks like a septugenarian after the rapid aging affliction took hold following an allergic reaction to seafood.

Her sad story began in 2008, when her youthful beauty began to fade over the course of just a few days, leaving her with sagging, wrinkled skin all over her face and body. Until now she has been forced to wear a mask in public to hide her appearance from prying eyes, but now doctors are attempting to establish what caused her sudden and horrifying aging.

Some have argued that the condition is lipodystrophy – a rare syndrome that causes a layer of fatty tissue beneath the surface of the skin to disintegrate while the skin itself continues to grow at a startling pace.


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