Maternity photos are undeniably lovely, but they often overlook the actual struggles of carrying an infant. In her ongoing series "What the BUMP," photographer Danielle Guenther (you can see more of her images here) shows folks what pregnancy looks like minus the #adorbzz filter. The series features pregnant women doing ordinary things like watching the kids, exercising, and working hard at the job while dealing with morning sickness and all the other stresses of pregnancy.

Danielle told Someecards that she created the series to "shed light on the process of becoming a family, whether it's having a baby for the first time, or adding on to a current family."

Her message: "Woman are truly magical super-hero's for being able to grow a baby for 9+ months! There are a lot of obstacles along the way, but as long as you can roll with the punches and laugh, it's all good." 

Danielle also said the she was inspired by her "own experience from being pregnant 7 years ago." When she was pregnant she said that she "had no idea what to expect. I was trying so hard to enjoy the pregnancy, but I drove myself crazy. Believe me, you would've taped my mouth shut in less than 2 minutes after speaking to my pregnant self."

Danielle wants to remind pregnant woman "to just relax. It's a crazy process going through pregnancy. Don't be afraid to talk about the challenges."

"Many of us are just waiting to sit back, open up, and complain together : ) But over a huge pizza, bag of potato chips, and ice-cream of course," she quipped. Anything involving ice cream is always good.

Amber Smith of Rugby, England has gone massively viral for sharing a "before and after" picture. Rather than a side-by-side about weight loss, or even makeup, Smith posted about how she struggles with depression and anxiety. It's time, Smith said, to strip away the filters and artifice of social media. Everyone has a Facebook face—filtered, made up—and a social media persona—happy, carefree—and being ashamed of the underlying struggles just makes things worse. 

She wrote:

God knows why I'm doing this, but people need some home truths..

Top picture: What I showcase to the world via social media. Dressed up, make up done, filters galore. The 'normal' side to me.

Bottom picture: Taken tonight shortly after suffering from a panic attack because of my anxiety. Also the 'normal' side to me that most people don't see.

I'm so sick of the fact that it's 2016 and there is still so much stigma around mental health. It disgusts me that so many people are so uneducated and judgemental over the topic. They say that 1 in 3 people will suffer with a mental illness at some point in their life. 1 in 3! Do you know how many people that equates to worldwide?! And yet I've been battling with anxiety and depression for years and years and there's still people that make comments like 'you'll get over it', 'you don't need tablets, just be happier', 'you're too young to suffer with that'

FUCK YOU. Fuck all of you small minded people that think that because I physically look 'fine' that I'm not battling a monster inside my head every single day.

Someone actually said this to me one day 'aren't you too young to be suffering with anxiety and depression? What do you actually have to be depressed about at your age?' Wow, just wow.

I'm a strong person, I've been through my fair share of crap in life (the same as anyone else) and I will be okay. I have the best family and friends around me and I am thankful everyday that they have the patience to help and support me.

To anyone who is going through the same, please do not suffer in silence. There is so much support around - Don't be scared to ask for help.

This is why I can't stress enough that it costs nothing to be nice to others. Don't bully others, don't put others down and the hardest one of them all (as we have all done it at some point) don't judge another person. We're all human regardless of age, race, religion, wealth, job. So build one another up instead of breaking each other down.

Peace & love guys ☮

The picture has been shared over 28,000 times and has inspired others to shed light on their struggles themselves:

"Not enough people realise how real anxiety is and that you cannot just 'get over it' as most people seem to think. It causes breathlessness, dizziness, stomach pains, headaches, trembling and shakes, palpitations and extreme fatigue," a man named Pete Laws wrote in a post inspired by Smith,"The smallest of worries can be blown way out of proportion and start an attack, stuff you would probably laugh at if you knew and that's not even including the point where you become a social recluse because you can't face even your best friends."

As Smith says, “It doesn’t make you weak. Mental health does not pick and choose, and it does not discriminate."

Water is a beautiful substance that, aside from doing things like providing life, can also rip through normal objects as easily as you rip a piece of paper. The latter function of water is what the YouTube channel Cut In Half focuses on. Harnessing the power of a 60,000 psi (pound-force per square inch) waterjet from OMAX, Cut In Half is a collection of riveting clips of perfect destruction.

Take a peek at the innards of a laptop, aka the technology that gives meaning to 21st century lives.

Here's the inside of a golf club seeing air for the first time.

These sneakers arguably look better after being ripped up.

This flashlight isn't so functional anymore. 

Nature (water) meets more nature (geode) to reveal how pretty nature is (the inside of a geode).

When did water become so interesting?

"Sorry, wrong number," is just one of those phrases that's not in some people's vocabulary. For some people, "wrong number" just means "I want you to keep texting me over and over until I admit I'm the person you were looking for in the first place." Here are 12 instances of wrong numbers gone even wronger.

1. Before getting into the longer text sagas, whet your appetite for the pathetic with the guy inexplicably seeking out Cookie Monster.

2. Now you're ready to sit back with a glass of wine and sip on the flawless chronicle of the "little whit kid" who wasn't Nicole.

(Editor's note: Several sequential screenshots have been combined into the image.)

3. Did you get through that insanity? Reward yourself with this strange bro.

4. And now you're properly trained to understand the long, sloppy, confusing, and meme-ful story that is the quest of Miss Taken.

It continues, with the Imgur poster writing, "At this point I rejected a phone call from her." The following text chronicles the contents of that voicemail:

Hey (Name on my VM) Why don't you answer your phone? This is Dawn. I know you know Bobbie and Travis. Its too coincidental. I am forwarding all the messages that I forwarded to you, to Bobbie's phone. But I do know that you know them, cause its the same area code, the same prefix as Fort Myers FL. I'm not stupid. If you have the guts, call me back (Insert her phone number here). You are a friend of both of them. I'm not stupid.

 Followed by the final, fateful exchange:

5. You made it. Good to see you again. Here's a story from a Redditor named rosiering. It's about a lady who demanded a company fix her recycling. Any company. Even the wrong company.

6. Here's one from another redditor, MaineUSA, who wants to tell you what wrong numbers looked like back in the days before texting.

This happened to me in the late 80's when VCR's were state of the art. I received a wrong number about 11pm on a Friday night from someone I'll call Clueless Guy (CG).

Me: Hello CG: Rick, don't hang up. I got to talk to ya. Me: Wait a minute.. CG: No, just hear me out. You're holding my VCR and I promise you that I'm good for the money, It's just that my kids are crying about not having it. Me: You don't know who you are talking to. CG: Rick, yes I do. I know enough to give you respect. I know you are a tough guy but I'm really in trouble at home for having you hold the VCR. I PROMISE I'll pay you this time. Can't I please come over and get it? It would be a really big favor. Me: Ok, but I'm getting ready for bed. You better come over now. CG: Rick, you're the best!

I always wondered what the scene was like when he showed up. I tried to tell him I wasn't the guy, but I think he was flying a bit high.

7. Back to the present. This epitome of Internet heroism got a wrong number and immediately started impersonating Jake from State Farm.

He did not "stop messing around." He continued ruthlessly. 

"Potential Customer" was more persistent than any sales rep has a right to be. 

And now a sordid detail emerges, regarding Stephanie, Potential Customer, and a stray chair.

Alas, Potential Customer cannot receive picture texts. 

And the joke continues forever. 

At this point, "Jake" apparently uses someone else's phone to include "Daquon" in the saga.

Then returns to his other phone to let the torture continue.

At least Potential Customer almost got some insurance out of the ordeal. 

And that's it. Who's lonely after reading that?

8. Exhausted yet? Clear your palette with a quick, upsetting misunderstanding.

9. Here's a story from the subreddit r/IDon'tWorkHereLady, and it is the motherload of sad, lonely fools who just want a free lunch at a casino.

My father is a very enterprising fellow. His work has him traveling quite often, and spending a great deal of time on the phone with people across the world. Not wanting to be reamed in the ass for these lengthy calls, he purchased an 800-number for his home office. The deal he got is something like 10 cents/minute, anywhere in the world, but I don't remember the exact details.

The number he got is one of those with a particular assonance to it that makes it easy to remember. Unfortunately it's also fairly close to the number for a casino in Idaho. And when I say fairly close, I mean two digits are different, and they aren't even close together on the keypad. This being a casino, though, their customers are largely over the proverbial hill. So we get frequent wrong numbers. Several a month.

Normally this isn't anything more than a nuisance. Obviously we get the normal share of folks insisting that it is WE who are mistaken and that we MUST be the casino, because they're SURE they dialed it right. For the most part, though, these people are pretty reasonable. Then, on the other hand, we had the summer of 2007.

That fateful summer, it just so happened that the casino itself made the same mistake that many of its customers made, and continue to make, every month. They distributed a flyer. With our number on it. And for three months, every half hour we would get a call. Now that they had some documentation, these snowbirds were downright incensed. Nothing was going to stand between them and their free lunch.

The first call with each new geriatric berserker would be about the same. we'd spend about 1-5 minutes trying to explain that they had the wrong number, depending on their level of stubbornness. Then they'd give up, and a few minutes later we'd get another call. The same person, but this time they were sure they'd dialed it right. So we must be lying. After all, the flyer gave them this number, and they had dialed it right, so we HAD to be the casino. The idea was mystical to them, as though I was reading to them from an ancient spellbook written in a dead language. The average caller would end up on the phone with us three times before we got them to understand.

This incident also produced what was, and is to this day, the most baffling thing another human has ever said to me. we'd all decided to shoulder some of this kafkaesque burden of proving that our family home in Canada was not secretly a casino in Idaho.

I picked up the phone. An elderly woman was on the other end. This was my second conversation with her. When I told her, once again, that this was not the gambling establishment she was looking for, she asked me, in complete earnestness, to check. She wanted me to check to make sure this wasn't the casino, as though the restaurants and slot machines might be hiding somewhere like an expired can of beans in the back of the Lazy Susan.

I hung up.

10. Meanwhile, a guy who understood pretty quickly that he had the wrong number managed to be the most lonely and desperate of them all. 

11. What it looks like when the recipient of the wrong number plays along relentlessly.

12. And finally: the persistent, lonely fool who actually takes the rejection pretty well.

"But ok," indeed. It's almost sadder when they don't put up a fight.

Earlier this month, a man gave a single mom who works as a waitress a $1,500 tip on a $21.34 meal at Denny's—enabling her to move out of a homeless shelter with her son. Finally, a good Superman reboot! The story was first shared on the Facebook page Love What Matters, and unlike a lot of stuff you see on viral news pages, the story ended up being true and getting picked up by national news outlets. Here's the original post:

The caption reads:

Today I met an angel. You came into a Denny’s I work at in Utah. You asked me, ‘Can I have a waitress who is a single mother?’ I thought it was very odd, but I sat you in Crystal’s section. You sat there for 2 hours just watching people. 7 families came in and ate while you were there and you paid every one of their bills, over $1,000 you paid for people you didn’t even know. I asked, 'Why did you do that?' You simply said, ‘Family is everything, I’ve lost all mine.’ Looking into your eyes while you said that made me tear up (It’s why I walked away so quickly) as soon as I got in the back I broke down in tears because your eyes had so much pain in them. I just wanted to let you know, the waitress Crystal that you requested was living in a shelter with her son until she was able to save up enough to get a place. Your bill was $21.34 and you left her a $1,500 tip, because of you she gets her new place next week, because of you 7 families ate for free. Crystal told me she prayed the night before for a miracle and God sent you. You left before any of us could say thank you, I hope you read this because you’re truly an amazing person and you stole the hearts of every one of us here. Thank you.

Dateline NBC tracked down the man in the photo, who apparently asked to be known only as "Briggs." He said that the total amount he paid for other people's meals ended up only coming to about $600, but everything else in the story was true. And he shared why he was so generous in the first place:

I grew up with a single mother of six. We were poor and homeless a lot. I watched and suffered for years as I watched her work her hands to the bone to give us a good life. She raised us to be kind and help others. Many years down the road, I was facing prison and getting in trouble. It ended up causing me to lose my family because I was a really terrible person... Now I've been helping others as I was raised to do. Now it's time to pay it back.

It's something to remember the next time you're tempted to not to give money to someone in need because you're saving your change for beer.

Beauty blogger Huda Kattan recommends making your hands look like T-Rex claws when you're taking selfies, finally answering the age-old question: what are hands for? But seriously, she's not trying to prank you. Apparently, doing this with your spare hand during your selfie adds intrigue to the photo and makes the hand that isn't holding your phone less awkward:

And yes, Kylie Jenner does it, so you know it's an A+ tip. 

Ted Cruz also knows something you can do with that spare hand, but he'd prefer if you didn't.

Bigger happiness doesn't necessarily come from bigger things—while you might think you want an entire bag of popcorn, for example, sometimes all you need is a kernel of the stuff to be satisfied. Take the single kernel of popcorn one man held in a straightening iron in Japan. He proved that if you are ever stuck on a desert island that has a straightening iron and electricity but no other appliances or ways to start a fire,* you can still pop popcorn. The moment that it pops is such a wonderful bit of delight:

BuzzFeed interviewed the guy about the popcorn, and he said "I didn’t eat it so I don’t know if it tasted good, but it was insanely stiff." 

* Surely, this situation has been your greatest fear.

On Wednesday, actor/comedian Ellie Kemper announced some big news on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon—she's pregnant! Huzzah! This will be the first child for Kemper and her husband, writer Michael Koman, who got married in 2012.

Immediately after the announcement, Jimmy Fallon screamed at her womb that the baby's mom is very talented, so WAKE UP LITTLE BABY JIMMY FALLON IS SPEAKING. Then they celebrated by eating some Ben and Jerry's Tonight Dough ice cream. You know, because pregnant women be eatin'. 

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star, 35, kept her pregnancy a secret while filming the second season of her show. The only person she told was her boss, Tina Fey (the show's creator and producer). In fact, she says she told Tina Fey before she told her mom.

But now the secret is out. And hopefully the cute baby will not have any hearing damage from his or her first interaction with Fallon.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, twin empresses of fashion and the '90s/early '00s, are endearingly resistant to modern pop culture. But now they've finally given in to the allure of the selfie. As a promotion for their brand Elizabeth and James, the ladies posted their very first public selfie while controlling Sephora's Instagram for the day. With this photo, imagine ever so briefly a world in which the Olsens continued to act and became as addicted to Instagram as the Kardashians.

They may not selfie a lot (at least publicly) but the 29-year-olds know what they're doing. And after all these years, they're still rocking enviable hairstyles. Mary-Kate (or whoever is on the right) exudes a bit more of a casual-chic look and smize that suggests this sister is slightly more familiar with the art of the selfie than the other.

Now for a stroll down memory lane. Here are the sisters being chic AF at the CFDA Awards last year.

And here are the twins in 2001, the glory days of spaghetti strap tops and lip gloss.

One last throwback.

Ah, a classic.

Justin Bieber isn't afraid to try new things. First: bad tattoos, then: dreadlocks, now: adult coloring books. On Wednesday, Bieber posted an Instagram of a coloring book he'd been coloring in. The picture is of some anime girl, dressed in what looks like stereotypical Native American garb. Notice what a good job he's done staying inside the lines.

The caption reads:

I colored this its dope Cuz I actually sat down for 30 min and finished I never can sit still for that long so it's an accomplishment, yes this took me 30 minutes haha I know I suck Don't judge me

Aw, Justin. It's actually kind of sad that he called this an "accomplishment," since, say what you will about the young man and his music, he's actually achieved a great deal in the way of success. And now he's happy about a page in a coloring book.

He loses a little confidence there at the end, though. Justin, please. Of course you're going to get judged. This is the Internet, man.

Jared Fogle is not doing well right now. On top of his weight gain and embarrassing prison nickname, In Touchhas now published a letter the former Subway spokesman wrote to an old female acquaintance who recently reached out to him. In it, he downplays the severity of his crimes, and seemingly tries to reignite an old romance.

It has been a very hard nine months for me. I made a couple of mistakes but nothing like the media reports have said. They are making me into some sort of monster which is absolutely not true.

Fogle places most of the blame for his paying to have sex with underage prostitutes on the Jared Foundation's former director, Russell Taylor.

I’m currently appealing my prison sentence and am hoping for the best with it. … Bottom line, my director of my foundation and friend did some bad stuff and tried to throw me under the bus with him.

In Touch reports that Fogle encouraged the woman to send more photos of herself, and complimented her as "so hot!! (Just like I remember).”

Your two pictures you sent me have just made me smile so, so, much!! Can you send me some more good ones?

He ended by asking her to continue corresponding with him over the prison's private email system.

I’ve thought about you over the years but had no way of contacting you. What is your email address? I have email access from here but I have to plug your email and phone number into the computer and then you accept it and we are good from there. [The email] is monitored, but who cares? LOL.

Please write me back as soon as you get this letter!!

Jared

XOXOXO

It remains to be seen if Fogle will still be willing to correspond with this woman after she betrayed him and went to a tabloid with information he told her in confidence (not to sympathize with him, of course).

Considering that he's already at rock bottom, probably.

Shower thoughts are the brilliant revelations you have when you zone out in the shower. You may have even thought up some gems when you were naked and alone with your thoughts (and not doing that other thing that people do when they are naked and alone with their thoughts). The subreddit r/showerthoughts is a collection of people's greatest epiphanies from the brilliant to the absurd. Here are some of the deepest shower thoughts these Redditors had to offer.

1. This might be terrible, but it's not untrue.

Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay sounds super rad if you don't know what either of those things are. -jgam7

2. We've all been tricked.

Becoming an adult feels like slowly being put into a managerial position you didn't really want. -JohannesP 

3. That would be awkward in a car wreck. 

There should be confetti in tires so when there is a blow out it's still kind of an okay day. -Eye_Decay

4. A really comfy shelf.

A bed is a shelf for your body when you are not using it. -Nabrokovian 

5. Dora the Explorer is a glorified hiker.

Dora calls herself an "explorer," but travels exclusively through mapped territories. -ChefBoyarE

6. That's why it's a rich man's game.

The object of golf is to play the least amount of golf. -HansOlavlee

7. Sounds like the beginning of a horror movie.

"DO NOT TOUCH" would probably be a really unsettling thing to read in braille. -Air_Hellair

8. Rule here: don't be a dick.

Making fun of a fat person at the gym is like making fun of a homeless person at a job fair. -Cosmo_120

9. Or maybe they just taste good.

Dogs probably destroy shoes because they see humans put them on before they leave the house. -MrCSquared

10. Again, terrible but not untrue.

The person who would proof read Hitler's speeches was a grammar Nazi. -PhantomDukie

11. You'll never see this fairytale the same way again.

If Goldilocks tried three beds, then Momma Bear and Daddy Bear slept separately. Baby Bear is probably the only thing keeping the family together. -gridster2

12. This would be done annually.

They should announce a sequel to Groundhog Day and then just re-release the original. -FlyLikeAMouse

13. No shit.

Everyday, someone on Earth unknowingly does the biggest poo in the world for that day. -swallowing_panda

14. You decide which is scarier.

You know you're an adult when your house makes noises and you're scared it's an expensive repair bill and not a monster. -producerdan

15. This is true af.

When I was a younger person I had to use the Oxford dictionary to understand adult words and now that I'm an adult I have to use urban dictionary to understand younger people words. -TheShamz

16. This is the kind of thing that will keep you up at night.

Your future self is watching you right now through memories. -Zwall_

17. A revelation the size of a meteor. 

To the dinosaurs, we live in apost-apocalyptic future. -Jayfeather69

18. They would probably still need to "call a buddy." 

All the guys from 'Pawn Stars' should compete on an episode of 'The Price is Right' -robidizzle

19. The truest thing you'll read all day.

Facebook's list of "suggested friends" is quite literally a list of people I've been avoiding my entire life. -eaglesforlife

20. And lastly...

If Katniss and Peeta from "Hunger Games" were Hollywood celebrities, their supercouple nickname would either be Katpee or Peeniss. -beinagrind_i_skapnum

YouTube user Charde Heremaia stopped by a Kmart in New Zealand and shared her opinions about an issue large-chested women are quite familiar with: bras bigger than 34DD are ugly. As Heremaia knows too well, bras over a certain size come in varying, mundane colors of black, white, and nude. Listen to this woman with a FF cup size quickly summarize the bra shopping dilemma large-chested women face.

Her New Zealand accent may make her rant deliciously entertaining, but Ms. Heremaia is quite right when she says, "I am so offended that Kmart and other places feel that they have to give big titty girls granny bras."

"Sort your shit out," indeed, bra companies, and give busty women alternatives aside from utterly bland "minimizing" options.

These women get what Heremaia is talking about.

Good to know there is a downside to big boobs.

Ringo Starr, Zooey Deschanel's favorite Beatle and half of the half of the Beatles that are still alive, canceled a concert in North Carolina to protest their horrible anti-LGBT bill. House Bill 2 forces transgender peopleuse the toilets in the rooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificates, and people from Bruce Springsteen to porn site XHamster have pulled out of the state in solidarity with the LGBT community.

The concert was slated to take place in June as part of his "All Starr Tour," (points for the pun, Ringo) at the Koka Booth Ampitheatre in Cary, North Carolina. He posted the statement to Facebook, and is getting a mixed reaction in the comments. 

Thank you Ringo Starr for standing up against this discrimination.

 i am NOT in favor of gender neutral publics rest rooms. there are male and female sexual predators out there. i am AGAINST hatred for anyone that is transgender, but, also believe that restrooms in the public sector should be segreated.

As The Beatles also said "Well you should see Polythene Pam, she's so good looking but she looks like a man"
Peace and Love.

Many people are also surprised that he still tours. Actually, Starr has been touring since 1989 with his All Starr Band, a supergroup of revolving rock legends. 

Starr said in the statement, "I’m sorry to disappoint my fans in the area, but we need to take a stand against this hatred. Spread peace and love." 

A wise band once said, "All you need is love." Here's hoping North Carolina gets the message. 

Over the years, Mark Hamill has firmly established himself as way cooler than Luke Skywalker, despite the former's lack of Jedi powers. For one thing, Hamill's autographs are hilarious. Steve Grad's collection of '70s ​Star Wars cards—upon which Hamill left his own unique mark—have gone viral on Imgur for Hamill's witty and sometimes outrageous signing statements.

Hamill tells it like it is.

Ah, these movies make much more sense now.

Hamill was definitely excited to write this one.

But actually.

Hope he doesn't have grandkids. Oh, wait.

C-3P0 was always a little stiff.

That tauntaun knows who did it.

Really everything is Uncle Owen's fault.

Luke Skywalker likes to keep his clothes neat.

Sounds like Hamill was having a bad day.

Jedi High must've been a fun place to attend.

But not as fun as Jedi University.

Luke had better things to do aside from saving the galaxy.

Imagine tears welling in the eyes of whoever just asked for Hamill's autograph.

What a beatific scene.

Hopefully, the current trilogy will produce new cards upon which Hamill can leave his signature humor. And maybe Daisy Ridley can get in on this style of autographs.

If you have access to an identical copy of yourself, you better take advantage of it like the following sets of twins did. These duplicate siblings pulled off some pretty fantastic hijinks that either blew people's minds or cheated the system. This list of awesome things that only twins can do will make you want to clone yourself and try them out on your own, or at least regret eating your twin in the womb.

2. Time travel, as redditor u/MrBuckSkin briefly convinced his twin brother's college class.

So my identical twin brother had a homework assignment from his Creative Thinking class in grad school (he was studying Marketing/Advertising). The assignment was to become an "expert" on a subject you are not familiar/experienced with over the weekend and present what you know to the class on Monday.

That Monday I just happened to be driving through his town. He asked me if I could help him present his homework assignment to his class. I was skeptical at first (I just graduated undergrad and was tired of school), but after hearing his idea I couldn't resist.

His class was first thing Monday morning. In the back of the classroom there was this small lobby area for people's coats and what not. My role was to wait there unseen by his teacher and classmates until it was his time to present and I was given my cue. After about 20 minutes of waiting and listening to other students present their work, it was finally his turn.

He stands in front of the class and tells everyone that over the weekend he became an expert on TIME TRAVEL. He goes on to tell the class that he has come up with a theory and invention that will make time travel possible. He says, "Allow me to explain with this diagram..." and turns to the chalk board. That's my cue.

I burst into the room, "STOP THE PRESENTATION! STOP THE PRESENTATION!" The class is silent, confused and somewhat alarmed. "What? Why? Who are you?", my 'surprised' brother asks. "It's me! You! I'm YOU from the future! Your invention works! It really works! But you have to go home immediately and turn off the gas to your stove! I'll explain more later, but hurry you don't have much time!", I exclaim and I run out of the room.

My brother turns and tells the teacher he's sorry but he has to cut his presentation short and leave the class to check on his apartment. The teacher lifts up his finger and is about to object...but instead smiles and says, "Well done". He got an A.

3. Jewel heists! In a movie waiting to happen, German twins Hassan and Abbas O. got away with $6.8 million worth of jewelry in a heist targeting Kaufhaus des Westens, a luxury seven-story department store.

Authorities couldn't use DNA evidence because the twins' DNA had only 0.01% difference; there was no way to know which twin had been involved in the heist. So both were released and avoided a 10 year prison sentence. According to Time, law expert Hans-Ullrich Paeffgen of Bonn University said (as the twins laughed their way to the bank):

The law doesn't allow us to detain someone indefinitely just because he is suspected of a crime. This may be different elsewhere. But I'd rather live in a country where someone guilty is not convicted for lack of conclusive evidence than in a place where innocent people are locked up.

5. Travel faster than a jet, such as redditor u/enoughtoday's grandfather whose twin would help him bewilder air force pilots.

My fathers father had an identical twin, and they both were in the air force. First trick was that my grandfather was blind in one eye due to a childhood accident while running with scissors. his brother went and took his physicals for him but they caught them just before pilot training.

Fast forward, they are both active duty during world war 2, and one is stationed in California, while the other is stationed somewhere at a U.S. base in the pacific. My grandfather, Earl, was the guy who would put pilots in their cockpit and make sure it was sealed correctly before they took off. Mind you these pilots are flying the fastest aircraft manufactured at the time, and nonetheless, my grandfather tells them right before they leave, "I'll see you when you get there" with a wink. His brother, with the same last name, imagine "private swenson" or whatever, was the guy who would undo the cockpit for the pilots after they landed in the pacific, and he would say to them, "hey you made it! i got here pretty fast, huh?" producing the most astonished look of bewilderment and amazement one could muster.

6. Convince people they're vampires.

7. Get each other jobs. U/nemanavida's brother successfully nailed his twin's interview.

My brother went to a job interview pretending to be me. I (he) got the job, and I've been working there for just over a year now.

8. Break face swap.

9. Beat the passport obtainment process like u/drewhoff.

I took the picture on my brothers old passport once. Had to get it done while in the country I was born and he wasn't there so I took mine one day and the next day went back and took another picture for my brothers passport photo. He used it for 5 years so questions asked. Sometimes we would even travel together with me pictured in both passports.

10. Teleport. This will work best if there are four of you.

11. Trick people into thinking you're actually triplets, as shared by u/city_of_lakes.

I had a friend who had an identical twin, and they both spent the first month of University (they went to the same school) convincing everybody that there was actually three of them and that they were triplets!!

By the time they decided to come clean, nobody would believe them that there wasn't a third of them around somewhere. "You can't trick me, I've hung out with Luke countless times!!"

12. Go on a "double" date in the truest sense of the word.

13. Get each other's money when the family needs it and the bank won't let you have it, like u/greatmikeshark.

While in Iraq, I signed all my legal rights over to my brother. That give him legal rights to my bank account. When my family was in financial trouble, I gave the ok for my brother to take money out of my account. The bank refused to honor the legal document and would not let my brother take money out. Next day he went to the same bank with my passport and took the money out of my account.

16. Save each other from academic disaster like the one u/supergaro's brother almost faced.

My identical twin brother wasn't the most dedicated student in high school, while I was focused on getting into the college of my dreams (usc). He would often skip class to go hang out with his friends and do things that I didn't find to be quite beneficial to my goal of success. Well, his ditching habits got out of hand. It was in the second month of senior year of high school, and his 0 period English teacher told him that he had 14 absences, and that if he missed one more 0 Period class, he would drop fail the class and would not be able to graduate. This really threw my brother's life into gear and he began to come to school early and put his life back together. One day, it was 5 minutes before 0 period had started, and I got a call from my bro. His car broke down and he was stuck 2 miles away from school. He had been trying to fix it for the past 10 minutes and couldn't figure out what happened. I sensed the urgency in his voice and knew he wasn't bsing me. I agreed to take his place and miss my ceramics 0 period and take his english class. The only issue was that his class was on the other side of the school. By the time I went to his locker, grabbed his books, and ran to his class, I was about a minute late. I rushed in, and saw the teacher give a sigh of relief when he saw me. So basically, I saved my brother from not graduating. No one noticed that it wasn't him and it was me, but I do remember this one girl coming up to me at lunch and asking why I changed clothes. Later found out that she was in the 0 period class.

16. And of course, finish each other's sentences. Brigette and Paula Powers may be the most twinniest twins to ever exist.

In 2013, Budapest-based photographer Eva Szombat published Happiness Book—a “kitsch” visual guide to happiness. This past March, she released a follow-up called Practitioners. The photo series shows Hungarian locals doing the sometimes charming and sometimes inexplicable things they enjoy, from balloon twisting to frog collecting.

In 1998, Hungary was given the rather unfortunate title of the world's most depressed nation. And only a few years ago, there was a study that showed one in three Hungarians experienced depression. Szombat wants to combat the country's sullen and gloomy disposition by showing the merrier side of the nation.

She told Someecards:

The Hungarians really like to complain, and we are the one of the most depressed nations. So I decided to make a practical guide to achieve happiness, full of irony and kitsch. After the fictional world of the Happiness Book I have decided to document actual people, who have introduced happiness into their lives to overcome misfortunes, tragedies, nuisances, or just the banality of day to day living. 

The message Szombat hopes to relay with the series is that "happiness awaits for everyone, but we have to be proactive in finding what makes us happy, then we have to practice that."

The photographer said this series took her weeks to complete but the individual photos took "sometimes just an hour or a single moment." She also expressed that working with the models made her feel more positive. 

So what is happiness and how do we get more of it? After all her research, Szombat defines happiness as something that "depends on us, what we do and how we live, and most importantly, the quality of our relationships."