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Dr. Vanessa MacKay, affiliated with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, elucidates:

 “The vagina possesses an innate self-cleansing mechanism facilitated by natural secretions, which harbor beneficial bacteria essential for its protection.”
 
According to the National Institutes of Health, the typical vaginal pH falls within the range of 3.8 to 5.0, indicating a moderately acidic environment compared to the naturally neutral pH of 7.
 
Dr. MacKay further emphasizes that it is entirely normal and indicative of good health for women to experience clear or white discharge from the vagina. Disrupting this natural equilibrium, however, can predispose individuals to infections.
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This is what it means if you find a “bleach”

 This is what it means if you find a “bleach” spot on your underwear:

The Internet and the huge amount of information it offers are very useful tools for many reasons that anyone can list.


It seems to have a lot of benefits for our daily lives, but the fact that it’s a never-ending source of shared knowledge may be what makes it the best invention of the last few hundred years.

If you know where to look, there is no subject you can’t read up on and no answer you can’t find. We can solve mysteries that would have been impossible to solve for decades with just a few clicks of the mouse or keystrokes on the keyboard.

In the past few years, many old myths have been busted online.
At the same time, life hacks and helpful hints have become common knowledge, when only a few people knew them.

For example, have you ever thought about why your underwear looks like it has a bleach spot on it? If you have, you’re not the only one. Women looking for answers have asked the same question online.

As well as answers they found. It turns out that those spots of color have nothing to do with your machine, as some people thought.

Different news sources say that these “bleach” spots are actually caused by the vagina’s natural pH levels.


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100-Year-Old Life Hacks That Are Surprisingly Useful Today

 In the words of philosopher and poet George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But this time around, we beg to differ! We agree that advice from the early 1900s is not the first place you go for hacks to make life simpler. (Thanks, Google!) However, the New York Public Library digitized 100 “How to Do It” cards that manufacturers would place inside cigarette boxes.

Back in the early twentieth century, cigarette companies would place these cards in their products. They quickly became collectibles that included anything from celebrity photos to advertisements. But printing life hacks on these cards was an idea pioneered by the UK-founded tobacco company Gallaher cigarettes. Now, while we can’t support cigarettes themselves, there is no doubting these cigarette card life hacks probably helped make many people’s lives easier, at least a little bit.

For your viewing pleasure, we’ve compiled a list of the most clever and practical 100-year-old life hacks that are still useful today.

These images are the life hacks people used to get in their cigarette packs, coupled with a little instructional sheet which we’ve quoted for you below each one.

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A splinter embedded in the hand is often very painful to extract. A good way to accomplish this is to fill a wide-mouthed bottle with hot water nearly to the brim, and press affected part of the hand tightly against mouth of bottle. The suction will pull down the flesh, and steam will soon draw out the splinter.

2. How to Cut New Bread into Thin Slices

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The difficulty of cutting new bread into thin slices can readily be overcome by the following expedient. Plunge the bread knife into hot water and when thoroughly hot wipe quickly. It will be found that the heated knife will cut soft, yielding new bread into the thinnest slices.

3. How to Revive Cut Flowers

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To revive choice blooms that have faded during transit, plunge the stems into hot water, and allow them to remain until the water has cooled. By that time the flowers will have revived. The ends of the stems should then be cut off and the blossoms placed in cold water in the usual way.

4. How to Make a Fire Extinguisher

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Dissolve one pound of salt and half a pound of sal-ammoniac in two quarts of water and bottle the liquor in thin glass bottles holding about a quart each. Should a fire break out, dash one or more of the bottles into the flames, and any serious outbreak will probably be averted.”

5. How to Test Butter

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A good way of testing butter is shown in the picture. Rub a little of the suspected compound upon a piece of paper and set the paper alight. If it is pure butter, the odor will be daintly and agreeable, while the presence of Margarine is made known by an unpleasant tallowy smell.”

6. How to Judge the Weather

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“The traveler, setting off in the early morning, will find a fairly sure guide as to the weather he is likely to encounter by watching a very small distant cloud. If the cloud grows gradually larger, then unsettled, rainy weather will probably come. But if the cloud decreases in size, the day should be a fine one.

7. How to Treat Sprains

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Elevate the injured joint and wrap in cloths wrung out in cold water. The picture shows how to keep the cloths constantly wet without having to change them. A jug of water placed higher than injured limb, and a strip of linen with one end in the jug and the other end resting upon the wrapping of sprained joint, is all that is necessary. The water will pass from jug to compress by way of linen strip. Give a rubbing with oil or liniment as sprain gets better.

Read: 27 of the most effective housekeeping hacks for naturally cleaning your home without chemicals

8. How to Light a Match in the Wind

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The familiar difficulty of lighting a match in wind can be to a great extent overcome if thin shavings are first cut on the match towards its striking end, as shown in the picture. On lighting the match, the curled strips catch fire at once; the flame is stronger, and has a better chance.”

9. How to Clean Oil Paintings

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The pictures show a very effective method. Painting should first be well dusted and then rubbed gently with the flat surface of cut raw potato, the lather being wiped away with a soft rag. The dirty part of potato must constantly be pared off in order to keep clean the surface applied to the picture. Finish off with a rub of pine linseed oil.

10. How to Boil Cracked Eggs

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To boil cracked eggs as satisfactorily as though they were undamaged, a little vinegar should be added to the water. If this is done, it will be found that none of the contents will boil out.”

11. How to Preserve Valuable Vases

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If the following precaution is taken, the danger of knocking over a valuable vase will not be so great. Partly fill the vase with sand, which, acting as a weight, keeps it upright and firm on its base. This idea is particularly useful in the case of vases which are inclined to be top heavy, owing to their having small bases.

12. How to Take Ink Stains Out of a Handkerchief

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A fine linen handkerchief which has had the misfortune to become stained with ink can be restored to its original spotlessness. When the accident occurs, the handkerchief should at once be plunged into milk. After soaking for some time it will be found that the ink stains have disappeared.”

13. How to Clean Bottles

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To clean the interior of bottles, a little sand and water should be well shaken about inside them. This will have the effect of cleansing every part, and the bottles can then be washed out and drained.

14. How to Increase Lung Power

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Stand erect on the balls of the feet, and with the head held well back. Then inhale deeply until the lungs are fully inflated, gradually exhale, allowing the chest to sink first, followed by the lungs. Repeat the exercise several times both morning and evening.”

15. How to Clean Real Lace

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“To clean real lace, lay the lace on a sheet of blue or white tissue paper, and well covered with powder of calcined magnesia. Cover with more paper and place under a weight for a few days. The lace will be found to be quite clean after shaking out the powder, and the most delicate texture remains uninjured.

16. How to Make a Simple Gate Latch

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“A loose gate latch of the ordinary shape generally allows gate to swing open. The picture gives shape of a latch which does away with this. When screwed to gate post, this latch will be found to swing in position to secure gate, as the greatest weight of latch is beneath screw pivot.”

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17. How to Kill a Tree Stump

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If a tree stump is not removed from the ground, it often starts sprouting, and strong undergrowth results. To prevent this, holes should be bored in top of stump, and a patch of bark cut from inside and more holes bored there. A mixture of solignum and salt filled into these holes will soak through the tree stump and kill it.”

18. How to Bandage an Injured Foot

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“Rest injured foot on operator’s knee on a clean towel. Commence bandaging in manner shown by the lower diagram, the bandage being bound over and round the back of the foot in a spiral fashion, and eventually affixed by means of a safety pin, just beneath ankle, as shown in the upper illustration.”

19. How to Prevent Colors Running

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To prevent colors in household linen from running and staining other linen when washed together, colored things should first be steeped in a solution of walt water. A double handful of salt to a gallon of water is a good proportion, and colored things should be left to soak in this for about twenty-four hours.”

20. How to Save Gas on the Gas Stove

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“Get a piece of sheet-iron large enough to cover the top of the stove. You will then find that enough heat can be diffused throughout it to cook a whole dinner. The saucepan needing the greatest heat should be placed directly over the burner, where the sheet-iron is hottest.

21. How to Make a Good Polish

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A splendid polish can be made for pictures, mirrors, pianos, floors, etc., by mixing in a bottle of equal parts vinegar and paraffin. Cork and keep for use. A few drops of oil of lavender will give the polish a pleasant smell, and make it doubly effective in keeping away the flies.”

22. How to Mend Broken China

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To mend broken china so that the mended article will stand washing in hot or cold water, some common alum should be heated in an old iron spoon until it melts, and then applied to the broken pieces. The pieces should be retained in position by string and allowed to thoroughly set.

23. How to Clean New Boots

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New boots are sometimes very difficult to polish. A successful method is to rub the boots over with a half a lemon, allow them to dry, after which they will easily polish, although occasionally it may be found necessary to repeat the application of the lemon juice.”

Over the decades, more innovative and efficient methods of doing some of the things listed above have been created. But if you ever find yourself without certain products or ingredients, these life hacks may just come in handy!

Dan Haggerty, Who Played Grizzly Adams

 Dan Haggerty, who played a gentle mountain man with a luxuriant beard and a bear named Ben in the 1974 movie “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams” and the NBC television series of the same name, died on Friday in Burbank, Calif.



The cause was cancer of the spine, his friend and manager Terry Bomar said.

Mr. Haggerty was working as a stuntman and animal handler in Hollywood when a producer asked him to act in some opening scenes he was reshooting for a film about a woodsman and his bear.

Based on the novel “The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams,” by Charles Sellier Jr., it told the story of a California man falsely accused of murder who flees to the woods, where he develops a rapport with the animals around him and tames an orphaned bear.

Mr. Haggerty agreed, but only if he could do the entire movie. The film was remade for $165,000 and eventually took in nearly $30 million at the box office. It was then adapted for television, and in February 1977 Mr. Haggerty resumed his eco-friendly role as guardian of the woods and friend to the animals.

“It lukewarms the heart,” John Leonard wrote a review of the first episode in The New York Times. “Man and bear hide out in a log cabin, to which Mad Jack (Denver Pyle) and the noble red man Makuma (Don Shanks) bring flour and advice. When they leave the cabin, man traps fur while bear washes his. Meanwhile, there are raccoons, owls, deer, rabbits, hawks, badgers, cougars, a lot of communing with nature and a big lump in the throat.”

Genial and sentimental, the series endeared Mr. Haggerty to viewers and made him the winner of a People’s Choice Award in 1978 as the most popular actor in a new series. “Grizzly Adams” spawned two codas: “Legend of the Wild,” broadcast in 1978 and released theatrically in 1981, and “The Capture of Grizzly Adams,” broadcast as a TV movie in 1982, in which Adams is taken back to town by bounty hunters and finally clears his name.



Daniel Francis Haggerty was born on Nov. 19, 1942, in Los Angeles. His parents separated when he was 3, and he had a troubled childhood, escaping several times from military school before going to live with his father, an actor, in Burbank, Calif.

At 17 he married Diane Rooker. The marriage ended in divorce. His second wife, the former Samantha Hilton, died after a motorcycle accident in 2008. He is survived by his children, Megan, Tracy, Dylan, Cody and Don.

His first film was “Muscle Beach Party” (1964), in which he played a body builder named Biff opposite Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Bit parts in biker and wildlife films followed, as characters like “Bearded Biker” or “Biker With Bandana.” He appeared briefly in “Easy Rider” as a member of the hippie commune that Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper visit.

In real life, Mr. Haggerty lived on a small ranch in Malibu Canyon with an assortment of wild animals that he had tamed at birth or rescued from injury. His skills led to jobs as an animal trainer and stuntman on the television series “Tarzan” and “Daktari,” as well as occasional film work. “Actors didn’t like animals leaping on them,” he told People magazine in 1978.

He made several films with an outdoor setting, including “Where the North Wind Blows” (1974), in which he played a Siberian tiger trapper, and “The Adventures of Frontier Fremont” (1976). He appeared as a dog trainer in the David Carradine film “Americana” (1983). In “Grizzly Mountain” (1997) and “Escape to Grizzly Mountain” (2000) he played a character very much like Grizzly Adams.

As his career cooled, Mr. Haggerty appeared in horror films like “Terror Night” (1987), “Elves” (1989) — playing an alcoholic mall Santa — and “Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan” (2013). In 1985 he was sentenced to 90 days in jail for selling cocaine to two undercover police officers.

In 1977, a careless restaurant patron carrying a flaming cocktail set Mr. Haggerty’s famous beard on fire. Trying to extinguish the flames, he suffered third-degree burns on his arms and was taken to a hospital for treatment that was expected to last a month.

“The first couple of days I just lay in the dark room drinking water, like a wounded wolf trying to heal himself,” he told People. “Nurses tried to give me morphine and encouraged me to open the curtains. But sometimes animals know more than people about healing.” He walked out of the hospital after 10 days.

Bear Refuses To Let Baby Go – Ranger Bursts Into Tears When He Discovers Why

 In a stunning turn of events, local ranger Peter, recently suspended from duty, has emerged as a hero after a daring encounter with a black bear carrying a baby. The incident, initially dismissed by fellow rangers and law enforcement, has taken a surprising twist, revealing a heartwarming and tragic story.

Reports initially surfaced when Peter observed the bear in the distance, sparking concern due to recent predator sightings in the area. Approaching cautiously, Peter was shocked to witness the bear carrying a baby. Despite his best efforts to alert his fellow rangers and police, his claims were met with skepticism and ultimately resulted in his suspension.



Undeterred, Peter enlisted the help of his best friend and fellow ranger, Jacob, to investigate the matter further. Against all odds, the two found black bear tracks, convincing even the skeptical Jacob that there might be some truth to Peter’s claims.

As they followed the tracks, the situation escalated dramatically. A tense encounter with the bear unfolded, leaving Jacob in a perilous situation. With the bear charging, Jacob narrowly escaped by climbing a tree, leaving Peter alone in pursuit of the cave where the bear had taken the baby.

Peter’s determination led him to the dark depths of the cave, where, miraculously, he discovered the missing baby unharmed. However, a face-off with the bear ensued, and it was only through the intervention of other rangers armed with sedation darts that Peter and the baby were saved.

The mystery deepened as it was revealed that the bear had been caring for the baby after a fatal car crash had claimed the lives of the child’s parents. Strikingly, no missing baby had been reported to the police.

In a heartrending turn of events, Peter and his wife, deeply moved by the circumstances, decided to adopt the child. The baby, now identified as healthy through medical checks, found a new home with the couple.

The local police captain confirmed the details, expressing gratitude for Peter’s courageous actions and acknowledging the bittersweet outcome. Peter, reinstated as a ranger, expressed profound joy at the unexpected turn his life had taken.

This extraordinary tale serves as a reminder of the complexities of wildlife encounters and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity.



My husband convinced me to get pregnant. I had the baby, got laid off, and left him — I'm happy with all of my decisions.

 For nearly a decade, my husband and I reveled in a fulfilling life. Despite not being affluent, we always managed and enjoyed countless good times together. Our story began when we crossed paths during his working holiday in New Zealand, my homeland. The connection was immediate, and within three months, we were living together, engaged, and envisioning a bright future. Those early days were filled with sunshine and laughter.

From the start, we agreed that having children wasn't in our plans. It suited me well, as I had never aspired to motherhood. Instead, our philosophy was to savor every moment, celebrating life through shared experiences, fine dining, beach outings, and pursuing our hobbies. We invested in an old house, adopted a couple of cats, and tied the knot. Our bond thrived on carefree enjoyment.



However, life took an unexpected turn. At 37, my aspirations of running a successful business, maintaining a happy marriage, and indulging in travel were replaced by the stark reality of single motherhood to a two-year-old. I found myself divorced, unemployed, and back in my childhood home, struggling to make ends meet. Financial constraints forced me to allow strangers to reside in the house we once owned because I couldn't cover utilities or the mortgage.

The drastic shift in my life trajectory stemmed from my ex-husband's desire to have a child. Despite sensing it was ill-timed given the strain on our marriage, I acquiesced to fulfill his heartfelt wish. As someone always open to new challenges and learning experiences, I approached motherhood with optimism.



At the time, I was thriving in a fulfilling job with exceptional perks, while he toiled on the night shift in a factory, discontent with the future he envisioned. His descent into darkness and depression led him to believe that a baby would bring him happiness. Eventually, I agreed to embark on the journey of parenthood.

Our daughter's arrival, marked by silent reflux, brought about challenging times. For nearly five months, caring for her consumed my every waking moment. Sleep became a rare commodity. Struggling to cope, my ex-husband became bitter and neglectful, exacerbating the strain on our relationship. Prioritizing our child's safety and happiness, I asked him to leave when she was eight months old, and he returned to the US. I bought out his share of our home.

Despite working diligently and earning promotions, I found myself caught in a mass layoff a few months later. In just over a year, I transitioned into motherhood, ended my marriage, and lost my dream job, with my income plummeting from $50,000 to a government benefit barely covering the mortgage.

To make ends meet, I allowed an immigrant family to live in our former home, contributing to utilities while my daughter and I shared a room in my childhood residence. Rather than placing her in care and seeking new employment, I adapted to the circumstances, reduced expenses, and embraced a multigenerational family dynamic.


Surprisingly, I find myself content and fulfilled. Motherhood shifted my priorities, emphasizing the importance of being a stable, loving, and attentive caregiver. This perspective proved invaluable as my daughter thrived, achieving toilet training, advanced language skills, familiarity with the alphabet, and the ability to count into double digits by the age of two. Despite the challenges, her growth fills me with pride, and the experience has rekindled connections with my family.

Through adversity, I've learned that fostering a strong, safe, and loving relationship with our children is paramount. Being present and engaged is irreplaceable, and while starting a business remains a future possibility, time spent with my daughter is priceless. Thus, I approach each day with gratitude, joyfully embracing the unique journey life has taken me on.