Most of us don't measure food as we eat it.  We think we are taking a normal serving size, but it's usually much more.  This video will make probably you look at your food differently. 

A news reporter is interviewing an older woman, who survived the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma.  When the tornado struck, she had taken her dog with her to an interior bathroom - the safest spot in her house.

After the tornado ripped her home apart, she found herself amidst the rubble, but could not find her dog.  Then, amazingly, the reporter spots is peeking from the wreckage.  A 2-kleenex moment, for sure.

Buzzfeed posted a list of sayings people use on a daily basis . . . even though most of us have no idea where they came from.  Some of the original meanings might surprise you.  Here are the top six.

1.  Beating Around the Bush.  In hunting, it's sometimes necessary to beat or stomp on the underbrush to scare the animals out.  This term originally described an UNWILLING hunter who would "beat around the bush" . . . but not actually kill anything.

2. Going Balls to the Wall is NOT a dirty saying, after all.  It's used to refer to pushing yourself to the limit and it's an old term they used in aviation.  The top of the levers that controlled the throttle and fuel mixtures were both shaped like a ball.  If you pushed both of those forward . . . toward the front wall of the cockpit . . . it made the plane go faster.

3.  Biting the Bullet.  Which means to face up to something.  But before anesthetics were around, injured soldiers would LITERALLY bite down on a bullet to help get through the pain of an amputation.

4.  Getting Someone's Goat.  It means you're intentionally trying to irritate someone, but it's originally a horseracing term.  Nervous horses sometimes calm down if you put a goat in their stall with them.  But sometimes rival owners would STEAL the goat, so the horse would freak out overnight and lose the race.

5.  Making the Grade.  It actually doesn't have anything to do with school.  It's an old 19th century railroad term, and "grade" is short for "gradient" . . . which means an incline.  Engineers had to make sure trains wouldn't encounter any inclines that were too steep.  And if you "made the grade," you were within the safety limits.

6.  Passing the Buck.  In this case, "buck" doesn't mean currency.  The phrase comes from an old English card game, where a "jackknife" or "buck" was passed from player to player to indicate whose turn it was.

(Buzzfeed)

The video speaks for itself.  Women will love it.  Men may learn something. 

Buzzfeed.com has put together a list of 9 People Who Were Banned from "Saturday Night Live".  Here are the ones they listed, along with the reason why they were allegedly booted:

1.  The punk band Fear . . . for trashing the "SNL" set back in 1981.

2.  Steven Seagal . . . for being a bad host, and being a jerk to the cast and crew.  He hosted back in 1991.  The next year, Lorne Michaels supposedly told Nicolas Cage that Steven was "the biggest jerk who's ever been on the show."

3.  Adrien Brody . . . for a horrible, 45-second, ad-libbed introduction to musical guest Sean Paul in 2003.

4.  Elvis Costello . . . for playing his politically-charged song "Radio, Radio" in 1977, even though he was explicitly told to play his single "Less Than Zero".  His ban was lifted in 1989, and he's performed several times since.

5.  Frank Zappa . . . for doing a terrible job of hosting the show in 1978.

6.  Martin Lawrence . . . for being extremely filthy in his monologue in 1994.  He dissed the censors, and launched into a commentary about feminine hygiene.

7.  Cypress Hill . . . for lighting a joint onstage, and trashing the stage and their instruments during a performance in 1993.

8.  The Replacements . . . for a bad, drunken performance in 1986.  They missed whole verses, repeated lyrics, stumbled into each other, messed up guitar lines, and screamed obscenities at the audience.

9.  Sinead O'Connor . . . for ripping up a picture of the Pope, looking into the camera, and saying, quote, "Fight the real enemy."

(For more information, including videos, hit up Buzzfeed.com.)

Signs We Are Not As Young As We Once Were

1. Technology starts to scare you -- or seems confusing
2. Your body doesn't metabolize food & drink like it used to
3. You can't tell how old kids are
4. You start missing "the good old days"
5. You start paying for things (unlike your younger "broker" days)
6. You think about developing a "skin care regimen"
7. You actually enjoy going furniture and grocery shopping
8. You think it's fun to be carded
9. You realize that, although you're getting older, you don't have to "grow up"

In "Iron Man 3", there's a scene where BEN KINGSLEY'Scharacter talks about how the fortune cookie was actually invented in the U.S.  That's true.  Here are eight more foreign-sounding foods that were created here.

1.  Haagen-Dazs ice cream, invented in the Bronx in 1961.

2.  Vichyssoise soup, invented in Manhattan in 1917.

3.  The French dip sandwich, invented in Los Angeles in 1908.

4.  German chocolate, invented by an American named Sam German in 1852.

5.  Chimichanga, invented when an American accidentally dropped a burrito in a deep fryer in 1946.

6.  The English muffin, invented in New York in 1894.

7.  Pasta primavera, invented in New York in the 1970s.

8.  The Cuban sandwich, invented in Tampa in the 1880s.

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Nobody wants to get robbed, but most people don't realize all the ways they're making their houses ATTRACTIVE to burglars.  Here's a list of eight things people do that make it easier for burglars to rob them.

1.  Leaving a ladder in the yard.  Burglars can easily get around a lot of home security systems by getting into a second-story window that isn't wired in.  

2.  Leaving new appliance and electronics packaging out on the curb.  When you get a new TV and leave the box outside next to your garbage, EVERYONE knows you just got a new TV.

3.  Having flimsy wood-panel doors on back or side entrances.  Burglars often get in by just kicking a hole in a back or side door.  Every door should be steel-wrapped and deadbolted . . . or at least it should be solid wood that can't be kicked in.

4.  Hanging a mirror in your entryway.  A mirror FACING your front door allows people to look in through a window, and see whether your alarm is set.  

5.  Leaving the grass uncut.  Never go on a long vacation without getting someone you trust to maintain your yard, and pick up mail and newspapers.

Also, don't leave the garage door opener in your second car, if it's going to stay in the driveway or on the street.  If your garage is attached, a burglar can break your car window and use the opener to walk right into your house.

6.  Using a fire safe.  Don't put your valuables into a lockbox or fire safe and leave it sitting in the closet.  That's like putting everything the burglars want into a convenient carry case for them.  Use a wall safe, or get a safe deposit box at the bank.

7.  Updating your Facebook status.  Think about all the "friends of friends" nearby who'll know exactly where you are when you post something online.  And don't upload your vacation photos until you get BACK FROM VACATION.

8.  Selling things on Craigslist.  When you're selling something locally, the worst thing you can do is invite complete strangers INTO YOUR HOUSE to look at it.  If they like it, they can just pick it up and run with it . . . or worse, steal it at gunpoint.  If you don't know the buyers, arrange to meet them in a public place.

(HouseLogic.com)