Cadbury World is the real-life version of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. 

At the UK theme park operated by Cadbury, one of the world's largest confectionery manufacturers, visitors learn about how chocolate was first discovered, see how chocolates are made, and of course taste lots and lots of goodies.

It's the most immersive chocolate experience yet.

Throughout Cadbury Chocolate World, there are rides, demonstrations, exhibits, and mountains of chocolate.

Chocolate is melted, stirred, poured, spread, and sprinkled everywhere.

Chocolatiers demonstrate how they transform a delicious pot of warm liquid chocolate, nuts, and raisins into perfectly-shaped candies.

Bella Hadid is taking 2016 by storm.

The 19-year-old model was just named the brand ambassador and new face of Dior beauty.

Though she is the younger sister of model Gigi Hadid, Bella's career has been on the rise since she signed to IMG Models in 2014.

From walking her first runway show in February 2015 to landing the June 2016 cover of Elle, Bella's face is everywhere.

Here's a look at the rise of Bella Hadid:

Isabella "Bella" Khair Hadid was born October 9, 1996.

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Her dad is a luxury real estate developer and her mom, Yolanda, is a former model, most famous for her role on "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills."

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Her older sister is model Gigi Hadid.

There's a series of gorgeous building in Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, that's called "the Iceberg." 

The angular buildings, which sit on the country's coastline, look like a giant iceberg jutting out from the land. 

Constructed in 2013, the project was designed by the firm JDS / Julien De Smedt Architects.

With its striking jagged angles and white and blue facade, it's obvious why this construction is called "the Iceberg."

Together, the buildings are home to 200 apartments, and were intended to help revitalize the formerly industrial area.

A third of the apartments were reserved for affordable housing.

Books can be incredibly powerful. They have the ability to suck us in, take us on adventures, and influence the way we think.

They can teach us, move us, give us new perspectives, and help shape us. And the most powerful ones change our lives forever.

I asked my Business Insider colleagues to share the one book that has significantly influenced them. Here's what they said:

SEE ALSO: 24 books that will make you a more well-rounded person

'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy

"This book gave me a real sense of my own mortality. I'm usually grateful for this, but not always! It also made me appreciate fatherhood more."—Nicholas Carlson, editor-in-chief of INSIDER

Amazon synopsis: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food — and each other.

"'The Road' is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation."

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'The Tao of Pooh' by Benjamin Hoff

"I read this book in college, and it completely changed my perspective on the world. It's a fun primer on the Eastern philosophy of Taoism, and eye-opening for people (like me) who sometimes try too hard and would be better off just relaxing and going with the flow. I still remind myself that nothing's really good or bad; it's just another interesting thing on another day that we should all be grateful for."—Jenna Goudreau, deputy editor

"This book introduced me to the idea that simplicity isn't the enemy of satisfaction; it's the essence of it. The inclusion of such familiar and beloved characters also helped the ideas stick in my mind."—Christina Sterbenz, weekend editor

Amazon synopsis: The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! In which it is revealed that one of the world's great Taoist masters isn't Chinese — or a venerable philosopher — but is in fact none other than that effortlessly calm, still, reflective bear. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh! While Eeyore frets, and Piglet hesitates, and Rabbit calculates, and Owl pontificates, Pooh just is.

"And that's a clue to the secret wisdom of the Taoists."

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'Anna Karenina' by Leo Tolstoy

"It was the rare work of fiction that actually changed how I saw the world. It made me want to be a more moral and better person."—Paul Schrodt, entertainment editor

Amazon synopsis: "Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, 'Anna Karenina' is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

"A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian society. As Matthew Arnold wrote in his celebrated essay on Tolstoy, 'We are not to take 'Anna Karenina' as a work of art; we are to take it as a piece of life.'"

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Sometimes when you buy matters as much as where you buy.

"There really is a best time to do just about anything and everything, and that's especially true when it comes to buying things," writes Mark Di Vincenzo in his book, "Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon."

Using tips from Di Vincenzo, along with time-tested advice from sources like DealNews and Mint, we highlighted the best times to buy just about everything, broken down by month.

Megan Durisin contributed to an earlier version of this post.

SEE ALSO: 16 things you're better off buying used

JANUARY

Bicycles

Bike lanes stay pretty empty in January, making stores roll out the deals on their stock of Schwinns.

New models will start coming in by the middle of the next month.

Pools and hot tubs

The winter is the best time to purchase warm-weather luxuries, when prices are the lowest.

Plus, it's smart to give yourself several months to regrow the grass in your yard after it gets torn up during pool installation.

"Trekonomics" author, Manu Saadia, gives "Star Trek" fans 10 reasons to defend themselves against that other franchise.

1. "Star Trek" is TV, "Star Wars" is primarily feature films

TV has a built-in advantage over movies: there’s just more of it. That doesn’t mean TV is necessarily better. For instance, special effects for cannot be as good as in feature films for budget reasons. But TV, especially scifi TV, allows for a considerably more detailed look at fictional universes.A movie has only two hours to wow the theater-going audience. It must pack a real punch. The action must move at a brisk pace. The special effects and space battles must be perfect and incredible - production value in other words. The main characters, good and bad, must be clearly defined and immediately recognizable.

TV is different. TV thrives on habit and familiarity.  In TV you can take your time to fully explore not only the characters but also the finer details of a particular universe. You do not achieve the same production quality (sets and special effects are expensive) but you have more latitude to develop a more complex world.

 Incidentally, that is why a lot of what we know of the Star Wars universe comes out of supplemental material (books, movie novelizations). For instance, bounty hunter villain (and fan favorite) Boba Fett is never even named in the original trilogy. Much more of Star Trek’s canon, as fans call it, appears on the screen.

2. "Star Trek" has better aliens

More TV episodes allow us, the audience and the fans, to get more fully acquainted with the various alien civilizations of Star Trek. The Vulcans, the Klingons, The Romulans, the Ferengis, the Bajorans - all the great Trek aliens - become much more than actors in funny makeup. Their respective beliefs and cultures are stories onto themselves. More than a few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Deep Space 9 go far into the lives and struggles of the Klingons. It’s a real springboard for Trek writers’ imagination and  virtuosity (special mention to Ron Moore, Trek’s resident Klingon specialist, who went on to create and produce the reboot of Battlestar Galactica).

This is what is referred as “world-building” among scifi and fantasy fans. The depth and quality of Star Trek’s fictional alien civilizations is such that people in the real world have created a full Klingon dictionary and turned it into a living language. You can for instance find a performance of "Hamlet" in Klingon (on Youtube, where else?). Klingons claim it is better than the Bard’s original.

Star Wars has many more aliens but somehow fails to treat them as much more than props or comic relief. I really love Chewbacca - who doesn’t - but the fact that he doesn’t have actual lines of intelligible dialogue make it difficult to know more about him and to understand his people’s culture and his psychology (and no, the infamous Star Wars Christmas wookiee special will not help you one bit). Come to think of it, we are not even sure whether Chewbacca is a male or a female wookiee.

That is an important point: alien characters in Star Wars do not have the same psychological depth than their Trek counterparts. Their ‘otherness’ so to speak is only skin-deep. And rightly so: movies are desperately short, one doesn’t have the time to delve into the secret lives of Wookiees or Jar Jar Binks’ philosophical beliefs.

Star Wars has this:

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3. Resistance is futile: "Star Trek" has better villains

The bad guys in Star Trek are much more interesting than the bad guys in Star Wars. Their culture, their motivations, their politics are deeper and more complex. At times they even come across as not universally bad. We get to know them better and to understand them.  This is a direct consequence of TV vs. feature films.

The perfect example is the Cardassians - the former occupiers of planet Bajor in Deep Space 9. Cardassians are authoritarian and militaristic, and share many traits with the Soviet Union. Yet, we encounter Cardassians who are actually torn about their crimes and who are good and decent people.

This is very similar with the fearsome Klingons and the disgusting Ferengis: both alien civilizations change in the course of the show. They improve. They become more complex. We care about them in a way we never get a chance to care about Star Wars’ stormtroopers.

Compare this complexity with the almost cardboard-like quality of the villains in Star Wars. Darth Vader, despite his internal struggle, is very much of a piece. He is the archetype of the movie villain. The Emperor in both trilogies is a conniving, power-hungry maniac while their troops are either hapless robots or mindless clones. Star Wars’ villains are essentially caricatures. This is done for a purpose: it ratchets up the danger and the emotional stakes of the movies.  

Even Star Trek’s Borg collective is more complicated and intriguing than the Empire and the Dark Side. The Borg assimilates entire people and outfits them with prosthetic appendages. The Borg drones become connected to the collective consciousness. The Borg is in fact an incredibly complex model for a villain.

One of the great engineering marvels of the 21st century has finally reached completion.

The Gotthard Base Tunnel, the longest and deepest train tunnel in the world, opened on June 1. It offers unprecedented efficiency for passengers and cargo moving between northern and southern Europe — instead of driving trucks around the Alps, travelers can now sail straight through them on high-speed trains.

The entire project lasted 17 years and cost more than $23 billion. In the end, nine workers died making the tunnel a reality.  

Here's what it's like inside.

The project actually involves two separate, parallel tunnels. The northern ends are in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and the southern ends are in Genoa, Italy.

Each tunnel is 35 miles long. At their deepest points, they burrow nearly a mile and a half below the surface. At that level, the rock can reach temperatures upward of 115 degrees.

Boring through the mountains' layers was no easy feat. Engineers had to clear away 73 different types of rock, which ranged from the consistency of sugar to the hardness of solid granite.

The Unicode Consortium on Wednesday announced the 77 new emoji that have been accepted as candidates for the Unicode 9.0 release, which will roll out for everyone on June 21, 2016.

We ranked these new emoji from worst to best. Our criteria was how these emoji made us feel and how likely people will use them. We don't have explanations for Nos. 77 through 11 — they're pretty self-explanatory — but we do offer a more in-depth analysis for the top 10 on this list.

Take a look.

77. Prince

76. Handball

75. Takeout box

The world is full of apps. Most of them aren't worth your time, but some can actually make you more productive, connect you with people, and keep you entertained.

We're here to make sure that the best gems don't fall through the cracks. 

Here's everything you may have missed in the app world in May:

SEE ALSO: How to find a job using nothing but your smartphone

Google released an iPhone keyboard replacement that puts the power of Google search at your fingertips.

The main selling point of Gboard, Google's new keyboard for the iPhone, is that it puts the power of Google search inside your keyboard.

Instead of having to leave a text conversation to search for an address, copy it, and paste it back into the thread, you can quickly find what you're looking for with the keyboard you're already using.

That's not all Gboard has to offer — it's also great for using emojis, sending GIFs, and fast typing.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store

The Rock released his own alarm clock app.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is best known as one of the most famous actors on the planet. He also has his own alarm clock app for the iPhone that's fittingly called "Rock Clock."

Beyond the alarm tones that feature Johnson's voice, the app lets you enter personal health goals to be reminded about each morning.

Oh, and there's no snooze button.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store, Google Play

YouTube celebrity Casey Neistat redesigned his social networking app Beme. It looks more like Instagram but still has a healthy dose of Snapchat's ephemerality.

Casey Neistat is best known for his many viral videos on YouTube, but he's also been working on a social networking app called Beme for over a year.

In May, Neistat's startup re-released Beme with a new interface that includes an Instagram-like profile feed and cleaner interface. Beme is now available on Android as well.

The basic premise of the app is still the same and similar to Snapchat: you can record video for up to 8 seconds and send it out to all of your friends. The main difference from Snapchat is that you can't edit or even see the video you shoot before you share it with everyone.

Neistat told Mashable that the first version of Beme wasn't what it should have been. "The app is now a much more compelling version of what we want to do,” he said.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store, Google Play

Oceans cover 70% of our world and produce much of the oxygen we breathe. They provide food and jobs for people around globe.

Yet they remain mostly mysterious. Only a fraction of these vast waters has been explored, and much of the underwater world is little understood.

Our maps of the sea floor are less detailed than our maps of the moon or Mars.

There's only one operational permanent underwater research facility on the planet: the Aquarius Reef Base.

The lab is operated by Florida International University (FIU), though it's also used by NASA, the US Navy, and researchers and educators from around the globe.

Tech Insider spoke with Mike Heithaus, a marine scientist and dean of the FIU College of Arts, Sciences & Education, to get an inside look at what it's like inside the only permanent lab in the world's oceans. 

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The lab sits about 63 feet underwater on a sandy patch near Conch Reef, about nine miles south of Key Largo.

Aquarius was originally a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) facility, but a few years ago, “they were thinking about pulling it out of the water,” says Heithaus.

FIU took over the lab’s operation to expand their marine research and education capabilities.

Stepping inside a movie theater is the perfect way to escape the summer heat. However, some claim that every movie out these days is about superheroes.

Those people might not be looking hard enough.

While it's true that summer blockbusters like "Captain America: Civil War,""X-Men: Apocalypse" and "Independence Day: Resurgance," tend to cast a huge shadow over smaller movies vying for box office gold, this summer promises a wide array of excellent films without any masked heroes.

From horror movies to love stories, and even an animated comedy about a talking piece of meat, this summer has something for every taste. Here are 11 summer movies for you to check out if you're not into superheroes or aliens:

"Don't Think Twice"

What it's about: After one of its members (Keegan-Michael Key) gets cast on a TV show, an improv troupe figures out the next steps in both their careers and their personal lives.

Why it's a good alternative:"Don't Think Twice" is a comedy gem that shouldn't be overlooked. It takes a few niche topics (improv comedy, New York City) and uses them to service universal ideas about love, loss, and friendship.

Comes out in theaters on July 22

"Green Room"

What it's about: A punk band reluctantly takes a gig at a skinhead bar, only to find themselves taken hostage by a gang of neo-Nazis.

Why it's a good alternative:"Green Room" offers all the thrills of "Captain America: Civil War," albeit in a much more gut-wrenching and violent way. Laced with both horror and humor, "Green Room" is the most enthralling adrenaline rush of 2016. This is one to watch with a crowd.

Now in theaters

"Hunt for the Wilderpeople"

What it's about: A rebellious child and his uncle (Sam Neill) go missing in the New Zealand wilderness.

Why it's a good alternative:The dry New Zealand sense of humor takes some getting used to, but if you're on board, there's nothing like it. "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" comes from director Taika Waititi, who co-directed last year's hilarious "What We Do in the Shadows," and will be directing "Thor: Ragnarok" next.

Comes out in theaters on June 24

Rio de Janeiro is gearing up to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

After the medals have been awarded and the athletes have all gone home until the next games, host cities are left with massive leftover stadiums and venues. After that, it's often hard to find a use for giant stadiums, pools, and courses.

Sometimes cities are able to successfully repurpose parts of their Olympic set-ups, but oftentimes these giant investments are torn down or abandoned.

Here are 23 photos that show what happened to recent Olympic sites after everyone left.

The 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, took place less than a decade before the Bosnian War.

The city was under siege, and though it's largely recovered in the years since it ended, many Olympic sites, like this ski jump, have been left to the elements.

Kosovo Stadium, where the opening ceremony was held, belongs to the dogs now.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a single mission: to connect people around the world.

It's one reason why he decided to launch a Facebook-based book club last year, with a reading list that focused on "different cultures, beliefs, histories, and technologies."

Although the birth of his daughter, Max, kept him from hitting his goal of a book every two weeks, he ended the year with 23 selections in his A Year of Books reading group.

We've put together a list of his picks and why he thinks everyone should read them:

SEE ALSO: Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh shares 4 business books he thinks everyone should read

'The Muqaddimah' by Ibn Khaldun

"The Muqaddimah," which translates to "The Introduction," was written in 1377 by the Islamic historian Khaldun. It's an attempt to strip away biases of historical records and find universal elements in the progression of humanity.

Khaldun's revolutionary scientific approach to history established him as one of the fathers of modern sociology and historiography.

"While much of what was believed then is now disproven after 700 more years of progress, it's still very interesting to see what was understood at this time and the overall worldview when it's all considered together," Zuckerberg writes.

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'The New Jim Crow' by Michelle Alexander

Alexander is a law professor at Ohio State University and a civil-rights advocate who argues in her book that the "war on drugs" has fostered a culture in which nonviolent black males are overrepresented in prison, and then are treated as second-class citizens once they are freed.

"I've been interested in learning about criminal justice reform for a while, and this book was highly recommended by several people I trust,"Zuckerberg writes.

Find it here »

'Why Nations Fail' by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

"Why Nations Fail" is an overview of 15 years of research by MIT economist Daren Acemoglu and Harvard political scientist James Robinson, and was first published in 2012.

The authors argue that "extractive governments" use controls to enforce the power of a select few, while "inclusive governments" create open markets that allow citizens to spend and invest money freely, and that economic growth does not always indicate the long-term health of a country.

Zuckerberg's interest in philanthropy has grown alongside his wealth in recent years, and he writes that he chose this book to better understand the origins of global poverty.

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Attending an elite boarding school sets students up for lifelong success. It can open doors to prominent colleges, place students in a powerful alumni network, provide a top-notch education, and create lifelong friends.

Prestige is derived from more than just strong academics, though, so to determine the most elite boarding schools in America, we looked at the size of a school's endowment, how selective it is based on its acceptance rate, and the average SAT score its students earn. To rank the schools, each metric was weighted equally.

Because of the scope of the list, we relied primarily on data from BoardingSchoolReview.com, a website that collects information on boarding schools directly from the institutions. Gaps in the data were confirmed with individual schools or taken from Niche, another organization that researches and compiles information on schools.

For the second year in a row, Phillips Exeter Academy earned the No. 1 spot on the list. Best known for pioneering the Harkness teaching method — a seminar-style class setting where the teacher and students sit around a table and freely discuss subjects — the school is highly selective with a 19% acceptance rate and touts an endowment of $1.15 billion, which is more than most colleges.

Read on to see the rest of the 50 most elite boarding schools in America.

Additional reporting by Andy Kiersz.

SEE ALSO: The 25 best public high schools in America

DON'T MISS: The 50 best colleges in America

50. St. Anne's-Belfield School

Location: Charlottesville, Virginia

Endowment: $32 million

Acceptance rate: 35%

Enrollment:886

Though only 17% of ninth- to 12th-grade students live at St. Anne's-Belfield School, boarders are essential to the school's diversity and inclusivity commitment. St. Anne's-Belfield is also deeply interested in reducing the gender gap in computer-science-related disciplines by mandating technology education courses for all K-12 students, with an emphasis on college prep for the upper school.

49. Shattuck-St. Mary's School

Location: Faribault, Minnesota

Endowment: $25 million

Acceptance rate: 36%

Enrollment:472

Shattuck-St. Mary's School takes a unique approach to education with programs that allow students to learn at their own pace. As part of the school's new ScholarShift program, 11th- and 12th-graders take blended classes that officially meet only twice a week, leaving time for students to speak one-on-one with instructors and pursue outside projects. For such projects, students can use the school's weCreate space, which features studios for video editing, music recording, fashion design, and more.

48. Indian Springs School

Location: Indian Springs, Alabama

Endowment: $12 million

Acceptance rate: 52%

Enrollment:299

Inspired by the motto "learning through living," Indian Springs School takes education outside of the classroom. For instance, the student government is set up like a small town with a mayor and six commissioners and weekly town meetings, placing decision-making power in the hands of the students. The Indian Springs campus is 15 miles from Birmingham, Alabama's biggest city, and its surrounding mountains, spring lake, and state park give students the chance to further explore outside a traditional academic setting.

There are Olympic-sized swimming pools, and then there's the pool at San Alfonso del Mar, a resort outside of Santiago, Chile.

The pool is officially the world's largest, and reports say it cost as much as $2 billion to build.

It opened to the public in 2006, although it's only accessible to hotel guests. No matter how you look at it, this pool is a total beast.

This is one massive pool. It's the size of about 16 football fields.

That's about 20 acres.

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In some places it's 115 feet deep — that's almost a dozen stories.

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On Saturday, all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst exams will be administered worldwide. 

The CFA curriculum is considered to be the hardest on Wall Street. To put the exams' difficulty into perspective, fewer than 20% of candidates pass all three on the first attempt.

Candidates on average spend 250-300 hours preparing for each level of the exam over the course of six to eight months.

Of course, every test-taker hopes things go smoothly and according to plan on exam day. But we've heard some crazy horror stories ranging from bathroom disasters to concentration-breaking distractions.

We've included them here. Make sure this doesn't happen to you. 

Julia La Roche contributed to an earlier version of this story.

CFA test-takers witnessed a girl get locked out of the exam room after the lunch break.

"Between the morning and afternoon sections of the CFA exam, there's a two hour break.  The proctors always warn you to get back to the exam room like 10-15 minutes before the break ends because they start reading instructions for the next part of the exam right when the 2 hours is up.

In the room where I was writing Level 2, the entrance into the test center was in the front of the room, and all the test takers sit facing the entrance. There were about 300 of us.

Just before the 2 hour mark (or maybe it was right at the 2-hour mark), the proctor started reading the instructions over the loudspeakers, but the doors to the entrance were still open.

Then, one girl walks through the door in mid-instruction. She was probably right on time, but late by CFA test standards.

The proctor stops reading, and tells the girl over the loud speaker: "I'm sorry, you have to go back through the doors." The girl stepped back, then the proctor said on the loud speaker "Can someone close that door?"

Everyone watched as the door closed on the girl, who just had this blank stare on her face. You could feel the collective gasp in the room as what just happened weighed down on everyone.

That girl never came back into the room, and wasn't able to take the second part of the exam. Six months of studying and preparation for nothing.

I feel bad for saying this, but it was a distraction feeling pity for the poor girl."

Source: Business Insider

A test-taker couldn't take the exam because his driver's license had just expired.

From Analyst Forum: 

I saw him in the distance sitting on one of those portable heaters with his hands in his face, he was clearly upset. I called out to him, and when he moved his hands away from his face, i saw his red and puffy eyes, like he was crying. I thought to myself "alright, he thought it was hard too, so i must have did alright."

I said: "Don't worry man, I talked to like 6 people in the room after the exam and they all said they did horrible, don't be so upset man, the afternoon won't be as bad". 

He said: "I didn't write it, bro."

I said: "What the f*** are you talking about??" 

He said: "My license expired on May 30th!"

They wouldn't let him write because his license was expired. Can you FREAKIN' believe that?! One week expired, and it wasted about a year of his life and 1 month vacation time."

Source: Analyst Forum

There was a regional blackout and the test center went dark. One prepared guy had a flashlight on him and the other test-takers basically wanted to kill him.

From a BI commenter:

When taking L2 in [New Jersey], there was a regional blackout that made the entire convention (testing) center pitch black. Amid the darkness, one very well prepared gentlemen took out a pocket flashlight and continued writing the exam. As you'd expect, this didn't go over well with either the proctors and fellow exam takers (who's exams are graded on a curve). A proctor ran over to take away his flashlight and unwittingly saved his life.

Humans are incredible animals. When we see a problem that needs solving, we don't just suffer.

We build tools.

Here's 11 inventions to remind you how ingenious we can be.

Don't you want this in-wall vacuum in your kitchen?

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Every backyard should have a Kodama Zome.

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This bracelet will give parents of young swimmers everywhere a little peace of mind.

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"Living tiny"— whether in a van, houseboat, or 98-square-foot home on wheels— can save a lot on housing.

But a compact, minimalist lifestyle offers more than just substantial savings.

Here are a handful of refreshing insights about money, happiness, and life from van dwellers, tiny-home owners, and people living off the grid.

SEE ALSO: From living in a van to commuting 700 miles: 12 people who go to extreme measures to save money on housing

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Society's definition of luxury doesn't have to be your definition

Daniel Norris, MLB pitcher who lives in a 1978 Volkswagen camper during the off-season

"I grew up with a simple lifestyle, and I knew going into professional baseball that would be tested," Norris told GrindTV. "In my mind there's no need for luxury, or at least society's sense of the word. I consider my life luxurious — I live on a beach with an ocean-front view, hearty meals, and hot French-pressed coffee at my disposal. That's fancy, right?"

Your material goods don't define your level of wealth

Brandon, lives in a 128-square-foot truck in Google's parking lot in the Bay Area

"I get the most enjoyment from self-improvement, and for me, that comes from books, exercise, and working on personal projects,"he writes on his blog. "I wouldn't be any happier with a 50 inch television or a PlayStation 4, because those don't align with my goals for life. Being wealthy isn't a function of material, it's a function of contentedness."

Having money is secondary to living the lifestyle you desire

Dan Timmerman, professional cyclist living off the grid in a cabin in rural New York with his wife, Sam

"The best thing is the direct access to nature, being able to do all the stuff we do,"Timmerman tells Business Insider. "And the financial aspect. We're really comfortable financially. It really gives us a lot freedom. Like, if one of us wanted to start a business or something, and we had to invest in it, we'd have the freedom to do that because we don't have all the overhead where we live. That's secondary to just being able to live the lifestyle. But they are both big advantages."

United Airlines said on Thursday that it will undergo a major overhaul of its international-business and first-class offerings. At the heart of this undertaking is the airline's new Polaris Business Class. According to the airline, Polaris signals a fundamental shift and rebranding of the airline's international premium-cabin products.

"This completely reconceived experience exemplifies the new spirit of United and the innovation, excitement and operational momentum across our airline," United Airlines' president and CEO, Oscar Munoz, said in a statement.

That experience begins with the airline's new Polaris Lounge at airports around the world and continues with new seats, menus, and amenities on board the flights.

With rivals from the Middle East and the Pacific Rim setting the new benchmark for in-flight service and luxury, US airlines have been forced to step up their game significantly to compete for lucrative business- and first-class passengers. In recent years, Delta and American have implemented significant upgrades to their premium-cabin offerings. Now, United is jumping into the fray.

According to a United Airlines representative, the first Polaris Lounge opens in Chicago on December 1. Flights featuring the Polaris Business Class product will commence in early 2017 on board United's new Boeing 777-300ER jets.

Here's a closer look at United Airlines' new Polaris Business Class, courtesy of the airline:

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The experience begins at the Polaris Lounge. In some locations, these lounges will exist separately from the airline's current United Club lounges. But in some instances, the Polaris Lounge will be a reserved section of a United Club location.

According to United, gourmet food and beverages will be served in a "boutique restaurant setting."

Mussels, anyone?

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has an interesting way of looking at the world.

Maybe what he says is crazy. Maybe it's pure genius. I'd argue those two things go hand-in-hand. But no matter what stance you take on Musk's ideas, it's worth hearing them out.

Most recently, Musk spoke at the Vox Media Code Conference Wednesday evening and, well, he did not hold back. 

Here are the 9 craziest things Musk said during his interview. 

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Musk said the Gigafactory, a battery plant that will be the largest footprint building in the world, is so big it's like an "alien dreadnought."

"It's worth seeing, this is crazy, this is like an alien dreadnought — it's really nutty,"he said.

He also said he regularly debates whether humans actually exist in another civilization's video game.

"I've had so many simulation discussions it's crazy. In fact, it got to the point where basically every conversation was the AI slash simulation conversation and my brother and I finally agreed that we'd ban any such conversations if we're ever in a hot tub. Because that really kills the magic," he said.

But it's a worthy debate, because it's more probable than not we are living in a simulation than actual reality, he said.

"There's a billion to one chance we're living in base reality."

You can read his argument behind thinking we are all in a simulation here.