READ THIS NEXT: Walmart Is Banning Shoppers From Doing This in 4 States, as of Next Year. Globally, Walmart sees an average of 230 million shoppers enter its stores every week, according to Statista. And although inflation has rocked everyone this year, customers are still planning to flock to this big-box retailer in the coming weeks. A recent GOBankingRates survey found that 25 percent of people in the U.S. said they prefer to do their holiday shopping at Walmart, while only 9 percent picked Target as their preferred holiday retailer in comparison....

The team employed three different strategies to get their results. First, they analyzed online dating profiles to determine if people were more drawn to those that were considered harder to get or easier to attract. They found that people were often drawn to the more “selective” profiles. In the subsequent two tests, the researchers coded different conversations to determine whether playing hard to get increased feelings of desire. They found that when the conversations included disagreement and resolution (rather than enthusiastic agreement up front) the test subjects were more invested in the other person....

RELATED: The Most Hated Will Smith Movie, According to Fans.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb To make his performance more believable, Smith remained in character as Paul all throughout filming, even when he went home to his young family. At the time, he was newly married to Sheree Zampino and they had just welcomed their son, Trey, in November of 1992. “Sheree and I were in the first few months of our marriage with a brand-new baby and for Sheree, I can imagine that this experience was unsettling to say the least,” he writes in Will....

Read on to see what else Shatner had to say about his co-stars and to learn more about where he stands with some of them all these years later. READ THIS NEXT: Will Smith Made Things “Very Difficult” for This Co-Star:“I Lost Everything.” Over the years, some Star Trek co-stars have expressed that they found Shatner to be self-centered. James Doohan, who played Scotty, said of the actor in 1998 (via Boston....

CNN interviewed Peet Sapsin, who owns Inspire South Bay Fitness, about the ingenious design trick that’s helping to keep gym-goers safe. “My wife drew them out on paper, and soon after, we built our first prototype,” he said. The 6-by-10-foot pods are constructed of PVC piping and clear shower curtains; each contains weights, a bench, and any other equipment needed for the gym’s fitness classes, plus supplies to disinfect the items....

During a question and answer segment on local affiliate CBS4 Denver, Dave Hnida, MD, the station’s medical editor, discussed some of the unusual side effects that patients had reported after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. According to some patients, vivid dreams of the future and space similar to the movie “Back to the Future” were reported.ae0fcc31ae342fd3a1346ebb1f342fcb “Flying to the moon, planting the flag on the moon,” Hnida recalled from descriptions. “Even somebody going out and taking Abraham Lincoln to get a Big Mac and having the staff want him to autograph the bills....

READ THIS NEXT: The Least Compatible Celebrity Couples, According to the Zodiac. In the late ’70s, Diana Ross and Kiss frontman Gene Simmons started dating after Cher—who Simmons was seeing at the time—introduced them. Sparks flew, and there was no controversy with Simmons’ ex, who he told People in 1980 “turned into our biggest fan.” Ross and Simmons’ relationship lasted two years. Simmons would go on to marry Shannon Tweed in 2011, while Ross would marry Arne Nass Jr....

The 2020 survey was conducted by U.K. furniture company Hammonds, and assessed the laundry habits of 2,000 people in the country. Firstly, the good news: 80 percent of respondents washed their underwear after a single use. But among those who were less attentive, it seems that men are the worst offenders: While 25 percent of men wash their underwear after every five washes, 13 percent of women could say the same....

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Silence may be golden, but too much of it will drive you mad. In Minnesota’s Orfield Laboratories, there’s an anechoic chamber that is so quiet, the background noise is measured in negative decibels (-9.4 dBA, to be exact). The room’s founder, Steven Orfield, told Hearing Aid Know that not only can you “hear your heart beating and sometimes hear your lungs,” but those who have entered the space have trouble standing up due to the fact that humans use sounds to orient themselves....

RELATED: 12 Beloved, Long-Term Celebrity Couples, Then and Now. Back in 2019, Miley Cyrus declared in an interview with Elle that she isn’t willing to have kids because of the mounting issues caused by climate change—unless, of course, something improves drastically with the planet soon. “We’re getting handed a piece-of-s*** planet, and I refuse to hand that down to my child,” she explained. “Until I feel like my kid would live on an earth with fish in the water, I’m not bringing in another person to deal with that....

RELATED: 16 Child Actors Who Quit Hollywood and Why. With an acting career that has spanned more than 50 years, Jack Nicholson is a Hollywood legend. But we may never see him star in another movie again. The 84-year-old multiple Oscar winner’s most recent role was in the 2010 movie How Do You Know—and it may have been his last role too. Nicholson has never officially announced his retirement, but close friend Peter Fonda all but confirmed it when talking to Page Six back in 2017....

Read the original article on Best Life. Whether you’re a baker or just someone who appreciates baked goods, an actual British person or merely an Anglophile, there are few series more soothing than The Great British Baking Show, which is streaming on Netflix. Yes, it’s a competition, but the stakes are too low to induce stress. And if you’re looking for a binge you can get lost in, these are The 20 TV Shows Streaming on Netflix That Have the Most Episodes....

In moderation, coffee is the stuff that dreams are made of. In excess, however, this caffeinated beverage “will stain your teeth over time” and “can significantly raise the levels of oral acidity and lead to erosion of enamel,” says orthodontist Heather Kunen, DDS, MS, co-founder of New York’s Beam Street. The orthodontist suggests “rinsing your mouth with water after finishing your morning coffee to prevent some of these side effects....

Though Walmart does sell HDTVs at a discount, they are only able to offer such deals because the quality of their product matches the price point. “Walmart’s HDTVs are at ’low’ prices because they are the lower-quality versions than those sold elsewhere,” Lori McDaniel, senior content manager at Offers.com, explained to GoBankingRates. “[You can] get higher-quality at low prices at a warehouse store like Costco.” When the experts at Tom’s Guide put nine phone carriers to the test in 2017, they spent a lot of time debating which carrier would claim the top spot....

Though a customer service rep works for the company that’s frustrating you, avoid conflating that individual with their organization. After all, whatever is bothering you isn’t directly their fault, and blaming them won’t help you in the long run. Specifically, Dane Kolbaba, founder of Watchdog Pest Control, cautions against “using ‘you’ or ‘your’ when referring to mistakes the company (or a previous representative) made.” “If they’re personally insulted for an issue they had no direct hand in, it’s completely human to feel less helpful, and these representatives are no different,” he says....

RELATED: 40 Percent of People Who Get Severe COVID After Pfizer Have This in Common. As of July 12, there have been nearly 5,500 hospitalized or fatal vaccine breakthrough cases reported to the CDC out of more than 159 million fully vaccinated individuals. “Vaccine breakthrough cases are expected,” the CDC notes. “No vaccines are 100 percent effective at preventing illness in vaccinated people. There will be a small percentage of fully vaccinated people who still get sick, are hospitalized, or die from COVID-19....

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Losing your sense of taste or smell was an early identified symptom of COVID-19, and also one of its most common. According to a May study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, 87 percent of COVID patients reported losing their sense of smell, while 56 percent said they lost their sense of taste. Either of these signs, whether on their own or accompanied by other symptoms, should be considered a likely indication of infection....

READ THIS NEXT: If You Notice This on Your Skin, Get Your Liver Checked, Says Mayo Clinic. Several skin symptoms can signal sarcoidosis, an inflammatory condition of unknown cause that can affect the lungs. “Sarcoidosis is a disease characterized by the growth of tiny collections of inflammatory cells (granulomas) in any part of your body—most commonly the lungs and lymph nodes,” explains the Mayo Clinic, noting that it can also affect the “eyes, skin, heart and other organs....