Category: General Interest

If you plan your funeral during your lifetime, you take the burden off the shoulders of your children or other descendants. If someone in the family dies, you are left to your own devices. The cost of a funeral is not usually considered, as a recent representative survey has shown. Many may feel ashamed of skimping on the last funeral service for a loved one. In any case, not everyone has the same choice. In rural regions, people usually go to their local mortician, while in urban centres, there has…

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Calls of this kind come from various countries. The phone number +4367762016973 is currently displayed when scammers try to help you while they pull off their scam supposedly. Find out here what it’s all about and how to block the number. The number +4367762016973 belongs to the Austrian T-Mobile mobile network. Similar calls have recently been made to the number 00447543195257 from England. And the callers always claim to want to help you free of charge. What do the callers behind the number +4367762016973 want? ・Only poorly German-speaking call center…

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Catchy tunes sometimes stay with us for days: but how do they come about? Why do we just can’t get some songs out of our heads? Sometimes it’s maddening: Everything in our body resists, but our head has decided to play Polonäse Blankenese continuously. When this happens, we talk about having an earworm. Earwigs can be persistent The insect, which really does exist, is said to crawl into people’s ears at night and make itself at home there, just like the music that seems to sit in our ear canal…

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How often should you change your bed linen? This question is on many people’s minds, as bed linen is a fundamental part of our daily lives. Studies show that sweat, dander, grease and dirt accumulate in sheets and covers over time, providing an ideal environment for mites and bacteria. But how often should bed linen actually be changed? According to a GfK survey, 41 percent of Germans change their bed linen every two weeks, and 18 percent even weekly. However, a full six percent of respondents wait up to three…

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Plastic is made up of plastic particles that are smaller than 5 millimetres. It is produced by decomposing larger plastic objects, such as packaging or textiles, and can be found in the environment and many everyday products. Microplastics come from various sources, including kitchen utensils, clothing, cosmetics, plastic packaging and, above all, single-use plastic. It can also result from the decomposition of plastic products in the environment. How do microplastics get into the human body? Microplastics can enter the body through food, drinking water and the air. Studies show that…

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There are always concerns about whether storing toilet paper in the bathroom makes hygienic sense. The widespread opinion is that the high humidity in the bathroom, in particular, could damage the paper. But is there really any truth in this assumption? According to Philip Heldt, a paper expert at the NRW consumer advice centre, there is no need to worry if you take a few precautions. The expert emphasizes that toilet paper can be stored in the bathroom as long as it remains protected from moisture. It is particularly important…

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We’re overcome by an urgent need as soon as we’ve put on our warm fleece or down jacket and ventured out into the cold. And not because we forgot to go to the bathroom before going out. Muscle contractions are to blame The explanation is entirely rational and physical. Muscle contractions—that is, muscles that tense up—are to blame. But first things first. The phenomenon has actually been well-researched. In 1918, the Austrian doctor Alfred Adler dared to conduct an experiment designed to test the steep thesis of whether we really…

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The new coronavirus variant XEC is spreading worldwide and has recently caused an increase in cases in Europe. Experts assume this variant could play a greater role in the coming winter.British doctor Helen Wall recently warned that the XEC variant causes flu-like symptoms such as high fever, cough, aching limbs, and headaches and that affected people could feel “knocked out.” These extreme states of exhaustion appear to be a new main symptom of the variant. According to a report by Focus Online, the XEC variant shows many symptoms already known…

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Opinions differ on the time change: some favour it, others prefer to abolish it. The fact is: that the clock is turned at the end of the month. It’s not just the thermometer showing that summer is finally over—the clocks will soon be changed back to standard time, incorrectly called “winter time.” This is because winter is standard time, Central European Time (CET), and lasts five months, from the end of October to the end of March. The remaining months are summertime when the clock is set forward from two…

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