In this issue of The Upworthiest, Mark Wales tells the story of five tons of gold that sat 800 feet down in the Arctic for almost 40 years, and the salvage crew everyone called fools for going after it. Also: Gen X's answer to "OK Boomer," 20 words you've been using wrong, and a husband who's his wife's biggest fan.
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HMS Edinburgh at Scapa Flow, 1941 with image of gold bars overlay. | ||
A WWII ship sank with 465 bars of gold. Almost 40 years later, a small salvage company did the ‘impossible.’ | ||
The treasure was 800 feet underwater in the Barents Sea, behind four inches of armored steel. | ||
By Mark Wales | ||
For almost 40 years, more than five tons of gold sat at the bottom of the Barents Sea. The treasure was locked inside the hull of a British World War II cruiser named HMS Edinburgh, 800 feet beneath the surface. | ||
Finding the wreck was difficult enough. Getting 465 bars of gold out of a sunken warship was a whole other problem. | ||
Pulling it off would require specialized divers, cutting-edge equipment, and somehow finding a way inside a ship that had been sitting on the seafloor for decades. | ||
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Magnesium is called “the most important mineral on earth for human health”.
It helps with far more than sleep. Magnesium is also vital for heart health, bone health, brain health, even muscle and nerve function.
But roughly 50% of Americans are low in magnesium. And many of them are actively supplementing it. So what’s going on?
First of all, magnesium comes in many forms, each with different body benefits. For example, magnesium acetyl taurate helps promote restful sleep, while magnesium creatine chelate supports hydration and exercise recovery.
So taking just 1 or 2 forms, or taking forms with limited bioavailability, can make “supplementing magnesium” not even work.
And then there’s Qualia Magnesium+. It combines 10 forms of highly bioavailable magnesium, the first full-spectrum magnesium formula to make magnesium concerns a thing of the past.
When your biggest fan is your husband. 🥹
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Someone asked Gen X for their version of ‘OK Boomer.’ Here are the 8 best answers. | ||
“Gen X does not crowdsource insults. We freestyle them.” | ||
By Cecily Knobler | ||
Generation X is often known, or at least broadly categorized, as the middle child of generations. So many of us kept our heads down as we latch-keyed ourselves into empty homes to make Pop Tarts for dinner. Sure, we sometimes side-eyed our elders, but when we were criticized, our “Who cares?” response exemplified the cynical, proverbial shrug heard all through the ’70s, ’80s, and early ’90s. | ||
It’s almost a rite of passage for a generation to be besmirched by those who came before them. But when an older man went on a TikTok rant about Millennials and Gen Z in 2019, many of them didn’t take it especially well. The term “OK boomer,” though coined years earlier, went viral. | ||
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An Upworthiest Quiz
The deepest shipwreck ever identified lies at roughly what depth?
Yesterday’s Results
In yesterday’s issue, we shared Annie Reneau’s story about the TikToker who swears beans are the answer to 90% of your problems.
And we asked: Where do you stand on beans? Make no beans about it, over 40% of you partake daily.
Daily driver (40.1%)
Chili and burritos only (24.0%)
Only if someone else cooks them (18.2%)
We're not on speaking terms (17.7%)
Upworthiest reader B. Talavan spoke so powerfully and eloquently that I suspect we may have a secret bean lobbyist amongst us. “There are so many varieties of beans!! and so many wonderful soup, salad and casserole recipes with beans that are ridiculously tasty and filling! I recommend that you get to know your favorite bean!!”
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20 words that are commonly used incorrectly in the English language | ||
“People think mortified means terrified. It actually means embarrassed.” | ||
By Emily Shiffer | ||
It’s easy to make mistakes if you speak English. From mispronouncing common words that come up in conversation (we’re looking at you, mischievous) to misspelling words you’ve been using for years, mastering English can sometimes feel like a perpetual uphill climb. | ||
Another common error that many of us are guilty of is misusing words. By thinking they mean one thing when they mean another, you might be guilty of saying even commonplace words or phrases wrong. | ||
English speakers on Reddit discussed the most common words they hear people frequently misuse that have become “major pet peeves,” or simply made them face-palm when they hear them used incorrectly. | ||
These are 20 of the most commonly misused English words: | ||
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