40 ‘Cool Guides’ People Shared On This Group That Contain Information They Don’t Teach At School (New Pics)

We need them. Now! 😄 We do not have these cute pest controllers.

Unlike the Australian brush tail possums, that are garden eating roof elephants. Haha

Well the opossum is far from being a globally present animal. it's kind of a niche info

Yay! Oppossum gang!

Believe it or not, these little wonders of nature eat dog s**t. Didn't know that until I lived in the city for bit. I couldn't figure out why I never had to clean up dog mess in the yard. I googled"disappearing dog s**t" and found a game cam video of a possum in a lady's back yard, cleaning up after her dog. Way cool.

This should be higher up. We all have or will be in contact with someone with alzheimers.

We used to visit my wife's dad in his nursing home. He would often tell us that he had been on a bike ride earlier and we would sit and listen as he went into great detail. The fact that he was 99 and the bike rides were from his youth (he used to do long distant road races) didn't matter. He was happy and safe. My wife's sister would tell him not to be silly and he couldn't have been out at his age. When we saw him we would laugh with him, that she was mistaken. Sadly he passed away a few years ago 12 days before Christmas day, his 100th.

I had a brief encounter with lucid hallucination/confusion when I was in ICU, and it's a scary feeling when no one understands something that seems obvious to you. I was convinced there was a tunnel under my hospital bed that I had been using to travel to my mum's house. I tried to tell the nurse, she said it was a hallucination (I genuinely thought she meant SHE could see it too but was saying it wasn't real), then my sister arrived and I told her, I didn't understand why she didn't know what I meant, or why she looked scared. Luckily when my dad arrived a few mins later, and I told him (saying "didn't mum tell you she built the tunnel?"), he just rolled with it and said "Oh I haven't had a chance to ask mum yet, but I will ask her when I see her." As soon as he said that I relaxed, and soon forgot about it (my memory of that particular hallucination ends there, but when I was well again I asked dad if that convo really happened and it did). He didn't have to 'buy into' my hallucination, just not contradict what I was sure was real, and distract/divert me

My grandma has dementia and I always try to remind myself of these when talking with her, but it gets so hard sometimes when all she does is talk down to me. It's not something that came with her dementia, she's been doing it for years before it and did the same to my mother when she was a kid.

I'm caring for my Mother who has dementia, I've come to these conclusions myself and can confirm they're good advice. For instance, I hand Mum her toothbrush with paste on, 9 times out of 10 she'll say "I've already done this". NEVER DISAGREE. Leave her with the brush, talk about something else - eventually she'll do it. Plus if on rare occasions she doesn't, who cares? I'd rather she was happy than perfectly clean. She hoards things, like cutlery, don't demand it back. I go in her room when she's not there and take some back, not all. Pets are a great distraction, our cat is a life saver. Keep it light, make them laugh whenever you can. If they're embarrassed or upset because they've messed up or forgotten something, make a big deal and comedy about how you've done the same until it's all a joke about how dumb are we? Nicola

That really made my day, just love this - especially the sentence at the bottom. 🙏

Just another thing that makes libraries epic!

You can do a screen shot and keep this if you like. The Dewey Decimal system is the same everywhere.

I'm a librarian. This list needs Gender Identity added to it. Otherwise, excellent and available in many libraries because our job is to identify and share accurate information.

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I usually think of what 10% would be and then multiply it in my head. So 30% off an $80 dress would be 10% (8) x 3 = $24 off. Weird how our brains all come up with our own math coping mechanisms.

I will forever bet at a loss when it comes to numbers. Waaaaay back in elementary school, they began teaching time (round clock face) and coins (making change). For the life of me I could not figure out how 15 after could also be a quarter after, especially since a quarter was always 25, not 15. My poor brain cells for numbers were nuked out of my head. It’s been empty ever since

Mind blown!!!

So, to figure an 18% tip on a $73.56 restaurant bill, you could just calculate 73.56% of $18. Wow, much easier.

I'm downloading this image to remember this.

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