Whom can i put up?
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Team 6: @luckyvirgo
Team 11: @Diamond.Heart
Team 13: @Kale and @EmmaZedler
Team 14: @jazzysab13
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I canât specifically say how many.
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Hmph⌠iâd like to wait.
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Nevermind!
If i choose the teams now, will you immediately ask them for immunity?
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I know
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this is so not fair. you posted the round late or else i would have been ready
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I shall announce this is a special round!!!
@MissJosephine you donât get to eliminate someone for this round. 
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No worries! Canât please them all!
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Nice twist, dude.
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Round 31
List down ten life hacks that actually work and explain the science behind it.
For example:
When youâre boiling eggs, add a slice of lemon to the water so itâs easier for the eggshell to come off when you peel it.
The reason behind this is because the acid in the lemon and the base in the calcium carbonate of the eggshell. When an acid and a base mix they form carbon dioxide which is a gas. Therefore, the eggshell becomes thinner and itâs easier to peel off.
First one to do so wins immunity!!!
Reliable sources: 5-minute crafts 
The timer stops at 3p.m. EST (4hrs + from now)
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Team 1: @Linlin330 and @Silver_Shadow
Team 2: @Crestfallen and @MissJosephine
Team 3: @Mondalsushanta637 and @meekepeek
Team 4: @Forever1201 and @K_ArohaExo-L
Team 5: @Epi_Info and @Zembo27
Team 6: @MG_789 and @luckyvirgo
Team 7: @Zayda.episode and @Fixelled
Team 8: @Cami_epy and @Whispering_Flower
Team 9: @SkyM and @Chocolate_Mama
Team 10: @BadassSaasha 
and @sofia2
Team 11: @Diamond.Heart and @SilverRose
Team 12: @Danielle318 and @AlyssaThePretzel
Team 13: @Kale and @EmmaZedler
Team 14: @Rose.M and @jazzysab13
Team 15: @Jakefxy and @loveyourself
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I watch this channel 
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Tie a small piece of bright coloured fabric with a your luggage. Saves a lot of to check if itâs your bag or not.
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For people who use their phone to watch things often and tired of leaning in onto something where itâll fall down after a while ; Use your sunglasses.
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Apply beeâs wax on your shoes to make it waterproof.
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Put old newspapers at the bottom of the bin to absorb fruit juices
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Use a coozie to cover your stick on hot days
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Use binder clips to fix broken keyboard feet.
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Doritos are great for kindling if you canât find anything else.
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Use nail polish to identify different keys.
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To remove the stem from strawberry use a straw
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You can turn an old bottle into a simple little cord holder.
Like this
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Wait does it only have to work or make life really easier, because 90% of the once Iâve seen wouldnât make my life much easier 
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Hi I just risen from the dead
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chill beer faster
Nobody likes warm beer and the internet is teeming with ways to get your brewskies ice cold for optimal refreshment. There are two dominant techniques, one of which takes advantage of chemistry, and the other, thermodynamics.
Method #1 involves adding a load of salt to a bucket of water and ice, then dunking your beers in there to cool. This chills your drinks fast because the dissolved salt in the water drastically lowers the freezing point of the water. Whereas usually it would freeze solid at 0C, the water temperature could dip below -20C, accelerating the cooling time.
Method #2 is better for cooling small batches as it doesnât require a dirty great bucket of water. This method works by wrapping a damp sheet of kitchen roll around the bottle or can before sticking it in the freezer. This cools it much faster due to the fact that liquids are generally much better conductors of heat that gases. The higher density of molecules in liquids mean that energy (i.e. heat) can be transferred through it much more efficiently as the molecules âbounceâ off each other more often.
Remember to keep an eye on your rapidly cooling brews, as every schoolchild knows that water expands as it freezes, running the risk of transforming your delicious beer into an explosive device.
reduce bitterness from coffee
One way of reducing the bitterness in coffee is to load it up with enough fat and sugar to put you into a diabetic coma. In some parts of the world, however, people swear by adding a pinch of salt to a bitter brew to make it more palatable.
In a post-salted caramel world, weâll try anything once and, as it turns out, this one is backed up by some proper science.
When the salt dissolves in the hot coffee, sodium ions break away from the molecule and block the bitter molecules from reaching the receptors on your tongue.
The effect occurs well below the level at which youâd be able to detect the salt so you get nothing but smooth sciencey sippinâ.
Stop Your Cat Bothering You With A Cardboard Box
Cat owners know only too well that your beloved moggie can ignore you all day, until the moment you settle down to some work, then all of a sudden itâs playtime.
There are lots of theories as to why cats love to walk all over your keyboard and generally get in the way. Feline psychologists (where were they on careers day?) think that the motion of typing looks a lot like a game to a cat, and the tip-tap of the keys sound a lot like the pitter patter of tiny prey-paws.
Anyway, a popular hack for keeping your cat out of your hair when youâre trying to work, is to set up a box nearby and they will be drawn, seemingly magnetically, to it.
To get to the bottom of the feline obsession with cardboard boxes, scientists did some research into the effect that the presence of a box has on our furred friends. They found that, simply by being in a box, the catâs stress levels dipped dramatically. This isnât just a case of feeling less frazzled, as a reduction in stress levels offers a protective effect against infectious diseases.
Swear Through The Pain
To the delight of potty mouths everywhere, the current advice for fighting pain without drugs is to swear your head off.
Seems pretty intuitive to those who prefer to fire off a stream of expletives upon stubbing a toe, but the research on swearingâs soothing effects is only beginning to come under the scrutiny of the scientific community.
They figured that, as it appears to be such a universal response to pain, there must be an underlying reason as to why we do it. Controlled studies reveal that naughty words really do have a real, tangible effect on the experience of pain, with test subjects able to hold their hands in ice water for twice as long as when they were chanting neutral words.
It is thought that saying âtabooâ words activates the amygdala, initiating a âfight or flightâ response and pumping you full of adrenalin. Seeing as a hearty dose of adrenalin is the thing that allows people to walk to hospital with gunshot wounds and finish marathons with broken ankles, thereâs no wonder it makes you feel better about bashing your shin
Sleep On It To Learn Faster
When revising for a test, or simply trying to learn a new skill, weâre often told that a good nightâs sleep will help you learn faster.
This is not just because a bit of shut-eye renders you more alert and ready to learn in the morning, but there is something specific about sleep that helps actually ups your synapse count.
Although sleep is still one of the least-understood human behaviours, studies have shown that it plays a vital role in memory and learning. A study in mice showed that those who took a nap after learning a new skill actually physically grew more neural connections in their brains compared with their sleepless counterparts. It was also shown that no amount of intense training could produce the same results as a good snooze.
Many experts also think that sleep has the effect of consolidating raw data and finding rules and patterns within it, so you might actually be able to read a bunch of facts, figures and statistics before you go to bed and, like magic, wake up with a much better understanding of how they fit together.
Reset Your Body Clock With Food
Okay, itâs all very well telling you to get some sleep to ace that test, but what if you canât. Get. To. Sleep?
Thereâs nothing more frustrating than lying awake in the wee hours, particularly if you have a bedfellow that has managed to fall asleep in seconds like theyâre a god damn Sim. If no amount of lavender oil and hot milk have helped so far, then an often recommended remedy is to reset your body clock with your meals.
Your circadian rhythm - the internal clock that regulates the bodyâs natural cycles - is not only dictated by day and night, but also the availability of food.
When you eat late at night and/or skip breakfast, youâre telling your body that food is more available after dark, so it tries to turn you into a nocturnal hunter by keeping you awake. By fasting and then eating at ânormalâ times, you trip the reset button as your body catches up with the new regime.
This is not only handy for night shift workers and the sleep deprived, but also for people travelling to different time zones. If you want to skip the jet lag, the advice is to fast for 16 hours, then eat your meals at the appropriate time for your destination.
Eat Off Smaller Plates To Lose Weight
Those attempting to shift their nacho weight and blossom a miraculous six pack in time for the summer are often told to simply eat off smaller plates as though weâre easily-influenced fooled toddlers.
Turns out that this is based on a legit phenomenon known as the Delboeuf Illusion, in which the brain will assume that the same portion on a smaller plate is actually bigger. Research suggests that we like to fill our plates to at least 70%, and that we tend to consume about 92% of that - perhaps making ourselves feel better by leaving a small amount.
Another phenomenon, known as Unit Bias is also at play here. Human brains arenât very good at thinking about quantities, and weâre programmed to split the world up into units. Whether a portion is 100g or 1000g, weâll think of it as a single unit and it is this, coupled with the Delboeuf Illusion that is at the basis of those little portion control hacks.
Use HIIT To Get Workouts Over With Faster
HIIT, or High Intensity Interval Training, seems like a dream come true for the busy and the lazy. Rather than slave away over a hot treadmill for hours on end, it suddenly seems to be possible to achieve your fitness goals with just minutes of gym time.
The exercise hack now recommended for people who want a six pack, but also want to get home in time for Pointless, is to do short bursts of exercise at 100% intensity, punctuated by short rests. Sure, it feels like youâre gonna die at the time, but then you get to go home after half an hour and get on with your life.
It seems to good to be true, but how does it work?
By working your body to exhaustion , as opposed to plodding along at a comfortable pace, it seems to get the message that itâs going to have to up its game and quickly develops adaptations that help you cope with the intense activity. Studies show that subjects show improvements in cardiovascular performance, insulin resistance, VO2max and fat burning after a few weeks of beginning the programme.
Whilst the jury is still out on whether it is ultimately better than steady state cardio, itâs certainly much less time consuming, meaning that youâre more likely to actually do it.
Take A Coffee Nap To Supercharge Yourself
Not only is napping finally becoming a more accepted pastime for adults, but people are now finding ways to supercharge the nap, making you feel so alert on waking that you can actually hear colours.
The âcoffee napâ hack combines the powers of, you guessed it, coffee and napping to produce a result greater than the sum of its parts. Although it sounds like a good excuse for millennials to just amalgamate two of their favourite things in the world, itâs actually based on some pretty solid brain chemistry.
Coffee works by mimicking a neurotransmitter in your brain called adenosine. This brain chemical would usually attach to receptors and suppress their activity to make you feel drowsy. If the similarly-shaped caffeine molecule gets there first, it blocks the adenosine without making you sleepy.
The other thing that gets rid of adenosine is sleep, so taking a quick 20 minute nap after drinking a cup of coffee will maximise the amount of receptors that the caffeine can attach itself to, blocking way more adenosine than either the nap or the coffee would individually.
Room Spinning? Put Your Foot Down
Youâve managed to get all the way home after a big night night out without incident - you didnât even vom in the taxi - and just as you flump gratefully into your waiting bed, the room begins to spin like a merry-go-round. Lifeâs not fair.
The popular hack to fix this problem is to place your hand (or foot if you are lying down) onto a solid surface and, as if by magic, the room will come to a standstill.
The spinning room phenomenon, and the subsequent cure, all comes from the way alcohol affects your blood.
Drinking a lot of booze thins the blood and this has a disastrous effect on the tiny structures in your inner ear that you use to balance. These structures, known as the cupula, act as a kind of spirit level that allows your brain to orient itself. When the blood thins, it throws these out of whack and the only way your brain can make sense of it is to assume that your environment is on the move.
Closing your eyes makes the sensation worse, because you remove one of the stimuli that the brain uses to orient itself. Placing a hand on a steady surface has the opposite effect, providing the brain with more data to override the screwy readings from the cupula.
Either that or just donât drink as much. Never mind.
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1. The Toilet Roll Smartphone Speaker
Why pay good money for those electronic gadgets that amplify your music so wonderfully when you have a perfectly good solution waiting for you in the bathroom? Well the reason is simpleâŚan empty toilet roll is about as effective at amplifying sound as a slice of cheese.
There are many videos out there showing you how to make one of these. Itâs very simple â cut a slot in the tube, and balance it with a few pins. But itâs just not worth the twenty seconds it takes to do. It sounds terrible. Yes, there are tubes that do work relatively well, such as bamboo. But empty toilet paper rolls should remain in the bathroom trashcan. Oh, and the solo cup cut in half for laptop speakers? Thatâs awful as well. (See also: Alternative Uses for Things in Your Bathroom)
2. The Wooden Spoon to Stop a Pot Boiling Over
Go ahead. Try it. I did, last week. I read about this on the Internet, and like a man looking up the word gullible in the dictionary because he was told it wasnât in there, I gave it a shot.
Itâs very simple. Just place a pan of water on the stove and bring it to the boil. Then, place something in there like macaroni or potatoes, and turn the heat down slightly. Usually, if youâre not watching carefully, the pot will boil over. But with this method? The pot will still boil over.
3. The Nail and Hammer Wine Opener
The party is in full swing, and you grab a bottle of wine andâŚdisaster! Thereâs no wine opener in the kitchen. You look everywhere, then go to the Internet for a handy life hack. And thatâs when you find the old ânail and hammerâ trick. By tapping a nail into the cork at an angle, and then using your claw hammer to pull it out, youâll be the hero of the party. Except youâll actually be the one looking foolish as you simply show people how to pull a nail out of a cork. Youâll also see a method involving five small nails that you pull in quick succession. This is also bogus. The only way to do this effectively is with a long, robust screw. Screw it in, leaving enough room to put the claw hammer underneath. Then pull up on the hammer slowly using brute strength. But a nail? Thatâs just silly. (See also: Best Wine Openers)
4. The Cherry Tomato Slicing Trick
So apparently itâs very time-consuming to cut cherry tomatoes individually. Iâm not sure how many you need to be chopping in half every day to feel the need to search for a life hack, but one exists.
Allegedly, if you place 8-10 cherry tomatoes between two Tupperware lids, and push down firmly, you can slice through all of them in one go. Youâll need a very sharp knife and the slicing skill of a ninja. And even then, itâs pointless. If you donât do it with care and precision, you get a mess. And the time it takes to do it this way is longer than just quickly slicing them in the usual way.
5. The No-Mess Pancake Batter Bottle
These days, weâre so busy that we donât have time to make pancakes and clean up the drippy mess. There is a life hack to get around this. You make up a whole bunch of pancake batter ahead of time, and then store it in empty squeezable ketchup bottles.
The problem with this is that itâs actually more time-consuming to make the hack than it is to just clean up after making pancakes. It takes a lot of patience to get that batter into a ketchup bottle, and unless you get one with a wide opening, it takes a death grip to squeeze it all out. Donât bother. (See also: 15 Life Hacks to Save Time in the Morning)
6. The Toaster Sandwich Maker
If you donât have a sandwich press, donât worry. Just pop some ham and cheese between two slices of bread, turn your toaster on its side, and insert your creation. In a few minutes, youâll have a delicious cheesy treat. And melted cheese inside your toaster. And a ruined toaster.
This is wrong on so many levels. Itâs not only dangerous; it doesnât actually work very well. Those slots are made for one slice of bread, and you really have to jam that thing in there. If you try to avoid the cheesy drips by wrapping it all in foil, you get warm bread, not toast. So then you have to toast the bread first, before youâŚoh, whatâs the point?! Just use a frying pan like any sane person would.
7. The Easy-Release Garbage Bag
If youâre struggling to get your full garbage bag out of the trashcan at home, you may be tempted to drill holes in the bottom of it. Thatâs the life hack the Internet suggests using. Sadly, itâs got some drawbacks. Yes, it does help you avoid the suction grip of a full bag. But, it also lets those nasty garbage smells emanate from the can. And if thatâs not enough, thereâs an even bigger hazard â garbage water. If you drill the holes too close to the bottom of the can, you can get nasty garbage water seepage. Personally, Iâd rather struggle for a few seconds than deal with that.
8. The Crispy Pizza Crust From the Microwave
When it comes time to heat up pizza leftovers, there are two options. First, use the oven. This takes time to preheat and then bake. But it does work well. Second, use the microwave, which is fast but turns the crust into a soft, chewy mess. There is a life hack to get around this. When you heat up your pizza, do it with a small amount of water in a glass. This is supposed to keep it crusty, but when I tried it all I got was chewy soft crust and a glass of warm water. Busted. (See also: 14 Dishes You Can Make in the Microwave)
9. The Homemade Gin Recipe
Iâm no fan of gin, but if you are there are life hacks all over the Internet that teach you how to make your own. Hereâs the problem, though: They all start with a base spirit, like vodka orâŚgin! Now call me crazy, but if you need to go and buy a ton of ingredients like cardamom pods, juniper berries, coriander seeds, lemongrass, liquorice root, cinnamon, and vodka, then you also have time to grab a bottle of gin. In fact, itâs quicker to forget the other ingredients and go straight for the gin. A waste of time and money.
However, infused vodkas are a different story. (See also: How to Infuse Alcohol)
10. The Hair of the Dog
Quite possibly the most heavily quoted hangover cure of all time is âhair of the dog.â Or, âbite the dog that bit you.â
When you go out on the town and have a few too many, you wake up dehydrated, feeling queasy, with a pounding headache and the shakes. According to this life âhack,â the best cure is to drink again. This is complete garbage. You may get very temporary relief from some of the symptoms, but all you are doing is delaying the inevitable. Also, donât take a bunch of pain meds before bed. You will be asleep when they are relieving pain and awake when they wear off. The best bet is to drink a lot of water during the evening, and again before bed, and eat a good meal before you start the celebrations.
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