• A job application from an 18-year-old Steve Jobs is up for auction. 
• He listed "electronics tech" and "design engineer" as his interests. He misspelled "Hewlett-Packard."

Everyone has to start somewhere.

In 1973, legendary entrepreneur and Apple cofounder Steve Jobs needed a job. He had just dropped out of Reed College, and he was still three years away from founding Apple and changing the computer industry forever. 

Also, the 18-year-old needed a ride. He said his access to transportation was "possible, but not probable" in a job application that is currently up for auction at RRAuction.

Jobs listed "computer" and "calculator" as his skills, and he also said his abilities and interests include "electronics tech or design engineer." 

And the inventor of the iPhone didn't even have a phone at the time. 

Check out the entire job application: 

Three years after he filed this paperwork, Jobs would team up with Steve Wozniak to found Apple and release the Apple I computer, which was an instant success. That led to the Apple II, which led to the Macintosh, which led, decades later, to the iPhone — a version of which you may be reading this story on right now. 

Before Apple, Jobs traveled to India and also spent some time on a commune in Oregon, all of which sounds a lot more eventful that punching the clock working on "computer" and "calculator" as a teenager. 

The rest is history.

Read more about Steve Jobs' wild life here. 

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• Rolls Royce is showing four cars at the Geneva Motor Show, including three custom Phantoms from the Bespoke division and the Dawn Aero Cowling.
• The bespoke cars have features like one-of-a-kind art pieces and custom paint colors to complement the exteriors.
• Each Rolls Royce was tailored to the requests of the patrons and reflect the history of the company. 

Rolls Royce revealed three distinct Bespoke Phantoms and a Dawn Aero Cowling at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland earlier this week. 

Each custom car was commissioned by Rolls Royce patrons and have unique features like custom paint covers, hand-polished veneers, and one-of-a-kind art displays in the Gallery on the dashboard. They were inspired by the history of Rolls Royce, like the 1930s Phantom II Continental Saloons and Charles Sykes’ original drawings for the Spirit of Ecstasy, the iconic ornament on Rolls Royce cars. 

Take a look at the incredible Rolls Royce Bespoke designs: 

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The first of the three phantoms, The Gentleman's Tourer, is inspired by the Phantom II Continental Saloons of the 1930s.

The gunmetal gray paint color is inspired by high performance aircrafts and was designed specifically for this car.

The interior was designed for long, luxurious drives. The Spirit of Ecstasy is embossed in each door panel, and showcases a modern, minimalist design.

• Instacart makes grocery shopping quick and effortless.
• But tipping Instacart shoppers can become costly on frequent and expensive orders. 
• It's a drawback that'll likely keep me from becoming a regular customer.

I just tried Instacart, and it was the best delivery grocery service I've ever used.

The speed of the service, the breadth of options, and the accuracy of my order were unparalleled compared to other delivery companies I've tried.

But there's one drawback that makes it unlikely that I'll become a regular customer: the cost of the tips.

Here's what happened when I used the service:

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To build my order, I downloaded the Instacart app and selected a list of 29 items from Whole Foods.

I could also get goods delivered from Wegmans, Publix, CVS, and other nearby retailers for an additional fee. I chose to have the groceries delivered within two hours of my order, though Instacart gave me the option to have them delivered even sooner.

My order total came to $139.99. Instacart tacked on a $5.99 delivery fee (which is waived if you pay $149 annually for a membership) and a 10% "service fee" of more than $12.

The service fee is essentially a donation to Instacart. The company says it's used to help operate Instacart and does not go to the shopper delivering your order. Customers can waive the fee, however. So I chose to waive it and instead give the 10% tip to my shopper. Ultimately, my order total came to $162.98.

I got an alert 30 minutes later notifying me that an Instacart employee named David was shopping for my groceries. The app updated every time David scanned a new item and added it to my basket.

Disney animated movies have been a well-established force in the genre for many decades.

But while Disney films rank high (and often) among the most critically acclaimed animated films of all time, the company is sporadically outranked on this list by movies from the likes of Warner Bros. and Studio Ghibli (Hayao Miyazaki's company). 

To find out which animated films have received the most critical acclaim, we turned to the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes for its ranking of the top animation-based movies in history.

The site ranked the films by a weighted critic score that accounts for variation in the number of reviews each film received.

Here are the 50 best animated movies of all time, according to critics:

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50. "Bambi" (1942)

Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 72%

Summary:"The story of a young deer growing up in the forest."

49. "The Triplets of Belleville" (2003)

Critic score: 94%

Audience score: 90%

Summary:"When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters — an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire — to rescue him."

48. "Coraline" (2009)

Critic score: 90%

Audience score: 73%

Summary:"An adventurous 11-year-old girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets."

• Best friends (and close family members) are all-important for health and happiness.
• Research by evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar suggests most people can only maintain five intimate relationships at once. It's a question of how much time and energy you can invest.
• That said, quality matters more than quantity as you get older — so even if you only have two intimate relationships, that's OK.

Yesterday I found myself looking through the call log on my iPhone in an effort to figure out who are my Five — that is, the five people I have the closest relationships with.

The University of Oxford evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar and his colleagues used a similar technique when they reviewed the mobile call logs of 27,000 European people in 2007.

Among their findings: If you use the frequency of calls between people as a measure of the strength of their relationship, then people have, on average, 4.1 intimate relationships.

The team's findings supported an idea Dunbar had initially proposed in the early 1990s: Humans' social networks are layered, starting with five intimate relationships (they can be friends or family members), and moving outward to less intimate circles of about 15, 50, and 150.

These numbers function as limits — as in, most adults simply can't juggle more than five super close relationships at once.

"The more [intimate relationships] you have the better for happiness," Dunbar told me in an email. "The limit is set by your capacity to invest time and mental effort in them."

That's why, Dunbar continued, people who are in love typically have four other intimate relationships, since they're already investing a lot of time and effort in the object of their affection.

One high-quality relationship is better than five low-quality relationships

It's not that having five intimate relationships automatically makes you happy. 

Kelly Campbell, an associate professor at California State University, San Bernadino, who studies interpersonal relationships, told me the quality of your relationships generally matters much more than the quantity. One person could report having one close friend or family member and be just as happy as someone who reports having five or 10, Campbell said.

The size of your inner circles depends on a lot of factors — including your personality (extroverts tend to maintain more intimate relationships), your gender (women tend to maintain more), and your age.

Campbell explained that, as you get married and start a family, what often happens is "your network size is drastically reduced." Consciously or not, you starting cutting out so-so relationships from your life to focus on the most fulfilling ones instead.

Indeed, Business Insider previously reported that a 2015 study published in the journal Psychology and Aging found that quantity of relationships was more important for people in their 20s, but quality of relationships was more important once people hit their 30s.

Social isolation is increasing — sort of

I asked Dunbar what he made of social scientists' claims that people have fewer close friends today than they did years ago. He wasn't buying it. "These numbers are very constant," he wrote.

Campbell suspects that what's really going on is that people are starting to rely more on their spouse for the kinds of things they used to rely on outside friends for. 

In his book "The All-or-Nothing Marriage," Eli Finkel, a psychologist at Northwestern University and a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, made a similar argument: Modern spouses look to each other for friendship, sexual fulfillment, intellectual growth — not just financial stability, like they did in years past.

That's not to say that you shouldn't be friends with your spouse — but it's important to be aware that placing all (or almost all) your expectations on one person in your life is risky.

While it's true that quality generally trumps quantity, it might be worth evaluating your own social network to make sure it doesn't look lopsided.

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The best part of UK-based online retailer ASOS is that it sells pieces that look like high fashion, but with a very low pricetag. 

Now, with Style Match, a new feature in its iOS and Android app, ASOS is making it a lot easier to put together the outfit of your dreams. (It was previously available to users in the UK.)

The feature allows users to search the ASOS database of roughly 85,000 products by uploading a reference photo to the app. So basically if you’re perusing Instagram and find an image of a coat that costs thousands, you can skirt the outfit FOMO and search ASOS for a less expensive version, instead.

A firm believer in both saving money and staying on the forefront of fashion, I tried it out, and found it to be very useful. In fact, it gets a coveted place in my iPhone's "Shopping" folder.

Here's what you need to know about ASOS Style Match:

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The Style Match tool is built right into the search bar in the ASOS app.

You can search with keywords, or your phone’s photo reel automatically pops up at the bottom. I didn’t have to look hard for the tool, or where to plug in my reference photo, which was nice. Tip: You may need to update your ASOS app to find the Style Match tool.

It got really close to the real thing.

The first thing I noticed with my first few submissions was something I actually expected: Even though ASOS didn’t have any identical items to the reference photo, it spat out options that were similar, whether in texture, style or color.

Check it out. On the left is the fashion I wanted, and on the right are the just-close-enough pieces the ASOS app picked out for me.

• The Beekman, A Thompson Hotel, was ranked the No. 1 hotel in New York City by U.S. News & World Report.
• We stayed at The Beekman recently to see if it lives up to the hype.
• While the hotel is architecturally stunning, has a dynamite cocktail bar, and in-room Chromecast, a few lapses by the hospitality team took away from my experience.

Step into The Beekman in New York City's Financial District and you will no doubt feel transported to a different era.

First opened in 1881, the Temple Court building that houses The Beekman was one of the city's first skyscrapers. The stunning atrium that centers the building housed offices for lawyers, publishers, advertising agencies, and architects for decades.

Prior to the building of Temple Court, the location was home to the Chapel Street Theater, which held the first performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in New York in 1761, and Clinton Hall, a literary salon of sorts where poet Edgar Allan Poe worked.

That history rings through the building, embedded in the carpeting, the architectural design, and the art on the walls. It feels both old and new, a trendy location in a neighborhood that has long been known more for its brigades of suited financiers than its nightlife.

The hotel was recently named the No. 1 hotel in New York City by U.S. News & World Report, no doubt due to the chic Old World design and the high-end food and cocktails served at chef Tom Colicchio's on-site restaurant, Temple Court.  

Keep reading to check out our stay at The Beekman:

The Beekman is tucked down one of the winding alley-like streets of the Financial District. Its location feels very old New York. I'm talking 1800s old. It'd be easy to miss if it wasn't for the black Beekman Lexus parked out front. One of the hotel's advertised amenities is a courtesy house car service.

Look up and you can see the original landmarked building that has been on this location since 1881. That taller 10-story building next to it is a new addition that is also part of the hotel.

The lobby sets the scene of old meets new immediately. The tiling was chosen based on bits and pieces of the originals found throughout the development process. The carpeting on the lobby desk is from 1881, the same year the building was first constructed.

• Many supermodels swear by boxing to sculpt their lean physiques.
• We visited a boxfit studio in London to meet trainers Antoine Dunn and Toby Huntington-Whiteley, brothers to supermodels and former Victoria's Secret models Jourdan Dunn and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
• They talked to Business Insider about the benefits of boxing, their training routines, and the things they won't eat.

Antoine "A Train" Dunn and Toby Huntington-Whiteley share a couple of things in common.

In addition to working together as personal trainers at London's trendy boxfit studio, Kobox, they are both younger brothers to British models — Jourdan Dunn and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

Dunn even trains his sister Jourdan, whose enviable physique has contributed to boxing's rise in popularity as a high-calorie-burning workout regime. 

Routes into the ring

Business Insider met up with Dunn and Huntington-Whiteley at the dimly lit Kobox studio in a basement in central London.

Dunn started boxing at 19 when he was working at New York's Gotham Gym, a studio that's popular with the Victoria's Secret crowd.

"Everyone there either boxed or did Muay Thai, and I was the only one there who didn't know how to fight. So the main guy there took me under his wing and I got into sparring."

"Now it's all I do, when I go home for the day I'm watching boxing on YouTube."

Dunn also actively fights as an amateur boxer, and says his next fight is in May.

Here's a video of Dunn fighting:

Huntington-Whiteley, who played rugby and rowed at school, picked up boxing because he wanted to do something competitive.

"Since being able to walk I've always been into sport, when I left school I really missed the competitiveness and when I found boxing I fell in love with it," he said.

He also models part time and is signed up to Select Model Management, but he told BI that Kobox comes first.

Here he is modelling for Givenchy:

Learning the craft

Though boxing is traditionally seen as a masculine sport, Dunn said it's a great cardio workout that "won't bulk you up."

"Boxers have amongst the best power to weight ratios of any athletes in the world," according to the Kobox website. This means there's little room for excess weight, which results in lean physiques. This is one reason it's favoured by models and actresses.

"It's a great way to get your cardio in and destress, so you're killing two birds with one stone," Dunn said. "But it's not for everyone, not everyone wants to hit something!"

Kobox classes are split into two parts: exhausting yourself throwing punches on the bag and time spent on the wall, where you'll be doing hardcore strength training exercises.

Huntington-Whiteley said: "When you're on the bag it's all about learning a skill — with boxing you've got to be sharp. And when you're on the wall it's all about complementing that so we'll choose exercises to help improve your strength and power. It's a lot of explosive work, plyometrics, lots of jumping and body weight exercises. "

"We’re not here to create fighters, we're providing a safe environment where people can get an introduction to boxing," he went on, pointing out that some people are intimidated by the more gritty old school clubs.

"But we are simulating how fighters do actually train, and if you do want to go on to become fighter then we have connections."

"And everything we do is for a reason," Dunn added. "A lot of people, particularly beginners, feel silly doing the shallow boxing (when you mimic punches) during the warm up. But by doing it in the mirror you can see yourself and where your flaws are."

"It's all about creating that muscle memory," Huntington-Whiteley added. "So that even when you're fatigued on the bag you can make sure you're still nailing that technique."

During a class you'll throw varying combinations of six punches, from a close hook to a sharp jab. 

You can burn up to 600 calories in class

The trainers reckon you can burn up to 600 calories in a 50 minute Kobox class, although they point out that it's all relative to the effort you put in.

"I have an Apple Watch so I know I'm burning between 400 and 500 calories doing a class," Huntington-Whiteley said.

"I'd say you can burn even more, up to 600," Dunn added. "It all depends on the individual, if person A and B do the same workout but only one's going really hard and the other's just going through the motions you're going to see different results."

Train 4 times a week to get results

"I try and do about five classes here a week and I'll complement that with weights training," said Huntington-Whiteley. "If anyone asks me how many times a week should I be training I always recommend four, and then you can start building onto that."

Dunn, who also adds in weights to his regime, said: "I just go by how I feel, if I can't be bothered to train I don't, like today it's not going to happen, I'm not going to lie!"

Although he added that in the leadup to a fight it's another story.

While Dunn likes the refreshing feeling of training first thing, Huntington-Whiteley said he prefers training in the afternoon because that's when he feels stronger and more alert.

"I'm not a morning person, I struggle with that," he said, although he equally doesn't advise his clients to train too late.

"I would never recommend training after 8.30 p.m.," he said. "It can be detrimental because you’re not giving your body enough time to recover. You can really throw your body in a bit of a wack situation. Exercise ramps you up and gets your heart rate pumping so it can be difficult to settle after that and go to sleep."

The one thing that's most important to do after a workout

When we met, Huntington-Whiteley was on the 16:8 intermittent fasting diet, which he says he'll do for two or three weeks usually after a holiday (he's recently back from Marrakesh) before going back to a normal diet — "it's just management," he explained, adding that he also avoids dairy because it makes him bloated and isn't great for his skin.

Dunn also avoids drinking cows milk, as well as pork and beetroot — the latter, he laughed, "just doesn’t taste nice. There are plenty of other foods out there that are beneficial but taste good."

They both agree that the single most important thing you can do after a workout is to eat something.

Dunn said: "I can get through a workout without eating fine, but for me it's what I eat after that's more important. I will usually go for something high carb or high protein. I'll got to Waitrose and get half a chicken and rice, or sweet potatoes. Something that fills me up — it's important to replace all of those calories you've just burned."

"Because if you don't you’ll only end up getting really hungry later on in the day and that's when you're most likely to over consume," Huntington-Whiteley added.

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With the Oscars done, it's time to start the discussion: Who are the best actors in Hollywood working today?

There's a massively long list of contenders, but we've sized it down to 50.

Some of these luminaries can carry a movie to box-office glory in their sleep, while others bring the acting talent that makes a good movie great.

Here are the 50 best, broken down into four categories.

Did your favorite make the cut?

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THE LEGENDS

Glenn Close

She hasn't been attached to any major titles of late, but she's still one of the most talented actors. It seems like the six-time Oscar nominee will be in the conversation at next year's Oscars when Sony Picture Classics releases "The Wife," which wowed audiences at last year's Toronto International Film Festival.

Judi Dench

If any movie has Dame Judi in it you know, despite what you think of the film, she's going to be one of the most memorable things about it. With her regal swagger, if a story needs some class, she's still the top one to call.

On the last day in February, hundreds of worshippers took to a small Pennsylvania village with their AR-15 rifles for a bizarre ceremony that simultaneously blessed their marriages and celebrated each member's "rod of iron."

The ceremony was held at Newfoundland's World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, where Rev. Sean Moon prayed for "a kingdom of peace police and peace militia where the citizens, through the right given to them by almighty God to keep and bear arms, will be able to protect one another and protect human flourishing."

This particular church is a "breakaway faction" of South Korea's Unification Church, which is widely regarded as a cult, according to the Associated Press.

Here's how the mass blessing went down:

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Couples traveled to Newfoundland, Pennsylvania from across the country and around the world to attend the ceremony. People came from as far away as Japan, South Korea, and Europe.

Source: NPR

The church recently adopted the belief that the AR-15 rifle, which was recently used in a mass shooting at a Florida high school, symbolizes the "rod of iron" in the New Testament's Book of Revelation.

Sources: NPR, Associated Press

The church was anxious to convey to media that the ceremony was meant to bless couples, not "inanimate objects." Tim Elder, the church's director of world missions, said the AR-15 is merely a "religious accoutrement."

Source: Associated Press

• It's easy to believe that your relationship is different from everyone else's. It's probably not.
• Relationships take effort to maintain, and you won't always be happy with your partner.
• Even if you love each other, if you have fundamentally different values, a breakup may be the best option.

Everyone knows relationships are hard, and take effort to maintain, and sometimes disappoint you.

Except, of course, your relationship. That's different. Or so everyone likes to believe.

Below, we've listed some of the truest but hardest-to-accept insights about modern romance. If you can get past these somewhat unsettling ideas, you'll be more likely to have a happy and fulfilling partnership.

SEE ALSO: Dr. Ruth has interviewed thousands of people about their sex lives — and she's found the biggest threat to a relationship happens outside the bedroom

We're often attracted to people who will later drive us crazy

While researching habits and personality for her book "The Four Tendencies," Gretchen Rubin noticed a curious phenomenon. People she'd labeled "rebels" often paired up romantically with people she'd labeled "obligers."

Rebels resist both inner and outer expectations; if you ask a rebel to do something, they'll likely resist. Obligers meet outer expectations but don't always meet inner ones; they usually need some form of external accountability.

Rubin told Business Insider:

"If you're an upholder, you live life according to a schedule. [For example] you never miss your daily run, and you always eat fewer than 30 grams of carbs a day, and you always go to bed by 11. It could be exciting be swept off your feet by somebody who feels very free and not confined."

But over time, the novelty may wear off and these two different approaches can come into conflict. To be sure, rebels and obligers — and any two types of people — can be happy together. But it's worth keeping this pattern in mind.

There's probably no such thing as 'the one'

Out of the thousands of eligible singles just waiting for a swipe right, how do you know who's the right one for you?

Trick question: There isn't a right one.

That's according to Esther Perel, who is a couples therapist as well as the author of "Mating in Captivity" and "The State of Affairs." Perel previously told Business Insider: "There is a one that you choose and with whom you decide that you want to build something. But in my opinion, there could also have been others — you just chose this one."

Once you've chosen someone, you work to make that person a better fit.

You may be less likely to break up with your partner if you have a pet or a joint bank account

Psychologists call them "material constraints": Think a house you co-own, a joint bank account, or a pet you both take care of.

Research suggests that material constraints make a breakup a lot less likely. In fact, according to a 2011 study of unmarried men and women in heterosexual relationships, adding just one additional material constraint is linked to a 10% increase in a couple's chances of staying together.

Presumably, that's because it's harder to disentangle yourself from the relationship when it's not just the two of you. So it's wise — if slightly uncomfortable — to think in advance about what you'd do if the relationship dissolved.

• Xennials are a 'micro-generation' born between 1977 and 1985.
• This group has also been called the 'Oregon Trail Generation.'
• Xennials may have been hit hardest by the recession, because of a combination of student loan debt, job losses, and other factors.

It's hard not fitting in.

If you feel sort-of-but-not-quite like a millennial, and sort-of-but-not-quite like a Gen X-er, take heart: You might just be a Xennial. That's a term for the "micro-generation" born between 1977 and 1985.

The term was coined in 2014, by Sarah Stankorb in Good Magazine. Recently, people have started talking about Xennials again, with self-proclaimed members of this demographic waxing (read: tweeting) nostalgic about Oregon Trail and flip phones. Merriam-Webster even labeled "xennial" one of its "words we're watching."

Below, Business Insider has outlined the defining characteristics of Xennials, and how they're different from the generations that came before and after them.

SEE ALSO: There's a term for people born in the early 80's who don't feel like a millennial or Gen Xer

Xennials are a 'micro-generation,' born between 1977 and 1985.

Source: Business Insider

This group has also been called the 'Oregon Trail Generation,' in reference to a popular computer game when they were growing up.

Source: Social Media Week

Xennials were the first generation to grow up with household computers and have internet access. ('You've got mail!')

Source: Social Media Week

Liu Wen is a woman of many firsts. She's the first East Asian model to work for Victoria's Secret, first Chinese woman to grace American Vogue's cover, and first Asian to ever make Forbes' list of highest-paid supermodels

While Liu success can be attributed to the fashion industry's growing focus on Chinese consumers, she also works insanely hard for it.

The model, now based between New York and Beijing, told Business Insider how she did it. Scroll on to learn more.

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Meet Liu Wen: The first East Asian model to walk the Victoria's Secret runway, first Chinese model to grace American Vogue's cover, and first Asian model to ever make Forbes' annual list of highest-paid models.

She was born in Yongzhou, a city in southern China. At 5-foot-10, she towered over her classmates while growing up. "I developed a habit of bending down when speaking to others, as if my back was permanently hunched," she said in 2014.

Source: CNN, Vogue

She never planned on being a model — her first foray into the industry was when she won a modelling contest in 2008, aged around 17, to win a new computer. "I didn't have a clear goal [at the time] — I just wanted something that would allow me to travel around the world," she told Business Insider.

Source: CNN

• About 80% of people believe that "opposites attract."
• In fact, if science is anything to go by, this probably isn't the case.
• Research points to us being attracted to people who are similar to us — both physically and in personality.

If you're on the hunt for love, chances are you've heard the phrase "opposites attract."

Despite romantic comedies hinging on the idea we're likely to fall in love with someone with completely different qualities to ourselves — and the fact that about 80% of people believe this is the case — there is very little scientific evidence to suggest it's true.

In fact, we are more likely to be attracted to someone who is physically similar to ourselves. According to research from St Andrews, we are attracted to the features that our parents had when we were born, such as eye colour. This could be because we see them as our first caregiver, and associate positive feelings with their features.

Also, an article published in the journal Psychological Science suggests that if someone looks similar to ourselves, we are more likely to trust them.

We might even be able to sense someone is genetically similar to ourselves. Research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that spouses tend to be more genetically similar than two individuals chosen at random. A more recent study has found the same for close adult friends, too.

But it's not just about appearance. Back in 1962, psychologist Donn Byrne was one of the first people to study similarities between people in relationships. In his research, published in the Journal of Personality, he asked participants to complete a questionnaire about their attitudes to topics such as nuclear weapons. Then, they had to evaluate the answers of another person (who didn't actually exist).

The results showed that people felt more drawn to those who held similar attitudes, and the greater the similarity, the greater the attraction.

In later research, such as one study from Wellesley College in Massachusetts and the University of Kansas, like-minded people have been found to spend more time together than those with opposing views.

Researchers recruited 1,523 couples — defined as people sitting together and interacting, not necessarily romantically — and asked them to fill out a survey about their personality traits. Results showed that the couples had a similarity rate of 86%.

A follow-up study used pairs who had just met. After the study, 23% of the pairs remained in contact, and these pairs had a lot in common too.

Last year, a study published in Psychological Science looked at how people behave online, and found more evidence that people who have similar personalities, based on likes and the words they used, were more likely to be friends. Those with the highest levels of similarities tended to be romantic partners.

However, research has shown that couples can start to align their beliefs to be more like each other's the longer they are together. This could be why couples have similar views and opinions on paper.

Overall, searching for your exact opposite probably isn't the most effective way of finding a partner. The scientific evidence points to opposites barely ever attracting. Besides, if the research is correct, you're probably already attracting all the right people anyway.

SEE ALSO: 9 facial traits that make someone more attractive, according to science

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• Savile Row tailor Henry Poole & Co has dressed clients including former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the Queen, and supermodel David Gandy.
• Managing director Simon Cundey told Business Insider there are a number of mistakes men make when buying and wearing a suit.
• The key is to look at a suit as an investment.

With past and present clients who include the likes of the Queen, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and supermodel David Gandy, Henry Poole & Co knows a thing or two about how to choose the perfect suit.

The first tailor on London's famous Savile Row and the inventors of the "dinner suit," CFOs, CMOs, CEOs and "chairmans of various financial institutions" are also among those who get suited by the tailors, according to managing director Simon Cundey.

"Many customers you meet and greet in the business world are dressed by Poole discreetly," he told Business Insider.

Everything is cut and made on the premises, which is part of the reason for the steep price tag — a two-piece bespoke suit starts at £4,133, excluding VAT.

However, according to Cundey, there's more to picking the right suit than splashing out — but it's something few men know how to do.

Here are the things most men do wrong when shopping for a suit, according to Cundey, and what they should do instead:

1. They don't do their homework

"Homework is important when you have to buy a suit," Cundey said. "People say, 'Oh, I need a suit,' and go into a shop and try on something that's near enough to them." Often, what they try on isn't right for them, but they buy it anyways.

"The sad thing is, if people go for this experience and it's an awful one where they aren't comfortable, they'll never buy a suit again, or they don't want to wear a suit," he added. "If you do your homework and try and find something where the style is right beforehand and you go to the house and it does feel good, you'll return."

He added that once Henry Poole makes you a pattern with your measurements, it's "your pattern for life. When you change, it changes with you."

Here's what a pattern looks like:

2. They buy it too tight...

Often, Cundey said when men don't do their homework the suit they end up with is too tight. "A lot of suits are too tight at the moment — everything has to be super slim, there's often an extreme where things are pulling, too short, or too narrow."

3. ...Or too baggy.

"It goes the other way where another age group tend to wear too big for themselves, where it looks oversized, too long, too wide on the leg, and also ill-fitting," Cundey said, adding that that can mean it's too long on the sleeves or sits off the neck.

4. They wear a belt with a waistcoat.

Cundey added that often the trouser waistline is too low, "especially when you get waistcoats, and you see the shirt sticking out around your waistline or the belt."

He added: "The belt and the waistcoats is not really the right way to wear things, so we strap a buckle on the side vs. a belt."

5. They don't see a suit as an investment

Cundey said you should divide the cost of the suit by the number of years it will last, adding that Henry Poole suits last for about 10 years.

"The customer in the financial world [is] usually quite astute when it comes down to price and lasting and working out the costings," he said. "Number one, you get a beautiful suit from a bare cloth how you want it, how you wish it, you design it together. It not only fits beautifully, you don't feel anything.

"Then finally, it should least 10 years, so that's the economics of them. People in the know and the wise know Savile Row is a lasting [investment]."

6. They don't wear one to a job interview

"For me, going into work in the morning, you want to feel like you're actually going out and you represent something rather than just a casual Saturday afternoon watching TV or playing golf," Cundey said.

"First impressions still stand. If something is out there and you want it, you want everything to look right.

"The first 30 seconds people are reviewing how you come across, how you look , how you presented yourself, have you made the effort that morning, and if you at least shine your shoes, put a suit on, shirt, tie, whatever, you've made the effort, you come across well.

"It doesn't matter what field you're in, whether you're in media or sport, you can still look the part. You don't have to wear a shirt and tie, maybe, but a jacket and chinos vs. just jeans and a tshirt [makes] the difference."

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• Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 11, 2018.
• Early that morning, most phones and computers will automatically shift an hour ahead.
• The interruption to our internal clocks literally kills people: incidents of heart attacks, strokes, and fatal car accidents all spike around the start of Daylight Saving Time each year.

Daylight saving time is a killer. 

The annual ritual in which we trade an hour of morning light for evening brightness may seem like a harmless shift.

But each year, on the Monday after this springtime switch, hospitals report a 24% spike in heart attack visits around the country.

Just a coincidence? Probably not. Doctors see the opposite trend in the fall: on the Tuesday after we turn back the clocks, heart attack visits drop 21% as people get a little extra pillow time.

The reason that springing the clocks forward can kill us comes down to interrupted sleep schedules. This Sunday, instead of the clock turning from 1:59 to 2:00 a.m. as usual, it will jump an hour to 3:00 a.m. 

Researchers estimate we'll all deprive ourselves of an extra 40 minutes of sleep because of this.

"That's how fragile and susceptible your body is to even just one hour of lost sleep," sleep expert Matthew Walker, author of How We Sleep, previously told Business Insider.

Walker said this "global experiment" we perform twice a year is a sign of how sensitive our bodies are to the whims of changing schedules: in the fall, the shift is a blessing, and in the spring, it's a fatal curse. 

The tragic heart attack trend only lasts about a day, but our bodies may not fully recover from the springtime bump for weeks. We're also prone to make more deadly mistakes on the roads. Researchers estimate that car crashes in the US caused by sleepy daylight-saving drivers likely cost 30 extra people their lives over the nine-year period from 2002-2011. 

"The brain, by way of attention lapses and micro-sleeps, is just as sensitive as the heart to very small perturbations of sleep," Walker explains in his book.

The problems don't stop there. DST also causes more reports of injuries at work, more strokes, and may lead to a temporary bump in suicides at this time of year, too. 

For these reasons, states like Florida and Massachusetts are starting to lobby to ditch the switch, as ABC News reports. (Hawaii and Arizona already ignore it.) 

Why we 'save' daylight for the evenings

Daylight Saving Time was originally concocted as a way to save energy, and implemented during World War I in Germany. More recent research suggests it's probably not saving us any megawatts of power at all, but there's some evidence that the evening light can reduce crime and increase the time people spend exercising, at least in certain climates.

But fewer than half of the countries in the world participate in this biannual clock-changing ritual, and the tradition inevitably costs some people their lives.

So while you might enjoy the extra end-of-day light next week, be extra careful with your heart and your car keys.

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• Billionaires don't always come from moneyed backgrounds.

• In fact, many famous billionaires actually grew up poor.

• From George Soros to Larry Ellison to Oprah Winfrey, here's a look at how some of the wealthiest people on the planet came up from nothing.

Billionaires aren't all born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

In fact, many came from nothing at all.

The "rags-to-riches" trope may be a cliché, but it's one that's definitely grounded in reality for some famous billionaires.

Through extraordinary grit and perseverance, individuals across the globe have beat the odds and achieved their own rags-to-riches stories.

Here are 19 people who started off life poor and went on to become billionaires:

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Guy Laliberté was a fire-eater before founding Cirque du Soleil

Net worth: $1.19 billion

At the beginning of his career, Laliberté had fire in his belly — literally. The Canadian-born circus busker played the accordion, walked on stilts, and ate fire.

Later on, as Business Insider previously reported, he took a chance and flew a troupe from Quebec to Los Angeles without purchasing a return fair. The circus troup traveled to Las Vegas and became Cirque du Soleil.

Laliberté is now the CEO of Cirque de Soleil.

Kenny Troutt, the founder of Excel Communications, paid his way through college by selling life insurance.

Net worth: $1.41 billion

Troutt grew up with a bartender dad and paid for his own tuition at Southern Illinois University by selling life insurance. He made most of his money from phone company Excel Communications, which he founded in 1988 and took public in 1996. Two years later, Troutt merged his company with Teleglobe in a $3.5 billion deal.

He's now retired and invests heavily in racehorses.

Montpellier rugby club president and Entrepreneur of the Year Mohed Altrad survived on one meal a day when he moved to France

Net worth: $2.7 billion

Born into a nomadic tribe in the Syrian dessert to a poor mother who was raped by his father and died when he was young, Altrad was raised by his grandmother. She banned him from attending school in Raqqa, the city that is now capital of ISIS.

Altrad attended school anyway, and when he moved to France to attend university, he knew no French and lived off of one meal a day. Still, he earned a PhD in computer science, worked for some leading French companies, and eventually bought a failing scaffolding company, which he transformed into one of the world's leading manufacturers of scaffolding and cement mixers, Altrad Group.

He has previously been named French Entrepreneur of the Year and World Entrepreneur of the Year.

• Dollar Tree and Dollar General are the two largest dollar stores in the US. 
• The stores are neck-and-neck in terms of store count and annual sales.
• But, there are some big differences in the shopping experiences you'll have at these stores. 

Bargain-hunting has been the flavor of the past decade.

In the wake of the recession, cost-conscious consumers have flocked to off-price, thrift, and dollar stores in search of good deals. As a result, these stores have seen a surge in sales. 

From 2010 to 2015, dollar store sales grew from $30.4 billion to $45.3 billion in the US, and hundreds of stores have opened. Credit-rating agency Moody's said in a report on Dollar Tree that it is expecting 8% growth for the dollar-store segment in 2018. For US retail in general, it is expecting 3.5% to 4.5% growth in 2018.

Dollar General and Dollar Tree are the two largest dollar stores in the US. Based on numbers alone, these stores are almost identical.

Dollar Tree, which bought rival chain Family Dollar in 2015, has a slightly larger store count than Dollar General, but both sit around the 14,000-to-15,000-store mark. In terms of sales, Dollar Tree is a close second, generating $21.5 billion annually compared to $23.3 billion at Dollar General, according to Moody's. 

But there is a massive difference in shopping at these no-frills stores. First and foremost, Dollar Tree sells only products that are $1 or under, whereas Dollar General, which once did the same, is now more like discount retailer. 

We visited both to see how they compared:

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We visited a Dollar General and a Dollar Tree store that were a 15-minute walk away from each other in Brooklyn.

Our first stop was at Dollar General. The chain has 14,321 stores in the US, most of which are located in rural areas. In February, it announced it would be opening 900 more locations in 2018.

Dollar General was initially rolled out to areas that were not already served by a Walmart. As these stores are generally in rural markets, they cost less to operate.

Walmart launched a series of mini express stores in 2014 with the aim of winning back the midweek shopper from Dollar General. The strategy was not successful, and Walmart ended up closing these stores and selling 41 of the locations to Dollar General.

Source: Dollar General and Business Insider

On first impression, the store looked great. It was modern and bright.

"Star Wars" is literally about war in the sky, which means that a lot of lives have been lost along the way.

But somehow, General Hux is still alive.

Some of the characters lost throughout the "Star Wars" films have been in our lives for decades, like Han Solo and Luke Skywalker. And some had small but powerful roles in just one movie that made us shed a lot of tears despite their brevity, like Amilyn Holdo in "The Last Jedi."

But with some characters, we couldn't wait for them to die. So when they did, we were cheering (Jabba the Hutt, Palpatine).

We ranked 38 notable deaths from the movies, from the porg Chewie cooked to Obi Wan Kenobi. We chose the deaths of characters who had names, had more than a few lines, and/or had some kind of impact on a major plot point or a major character.

Here's the Star Wars deaths ranked, from least tragic to most tragic:

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38. Jabba the Hutt

When: "Return of the Jedi"

Cause of death: Leia chokes him with the chains he bound her in. 

Jabba was awful, and we're glad Leia was the one who got to end his days. 

37. Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious

When: "Return of the Jedi"

Cause of death: Falls down the reactor shaft of the second Death Star when Darth Vader turns on him to save Luke's life.

Finally! It was about time Palpatine fell down a reactor shaft. His death was not sad, but it was an emotional moment for the Skywalker boys. 

36. Grand Moff Tarkin

When: "A New Hope"

Cause of death: He's inside the Death Star when the Rebel Alliance destroys it. 

Tarkin served his purpose. He was an example of an evil person within the Empire that isn't Vader or the Emperor. His death was karma getting back at him for destroying Alderaan with such enthusiasm. 

• Bohemian Grove is the Sonoma County, California campground where the Bohemian Club meets annually.

• The Bohemian Club, a San Francisco-based private club that has counted a number of US presidents among its members, is a controversial group.

• The club's reported rituals and secretive status have spawned sinister internet rumors.

• But experts and insiders conclude Bohemian Grove goings-on are no more or less troubling than a group of extremely wealthy men letting loose in the forest.

Bohemian Grove is a place where strange things happen.

In June and July, some of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the country flock to the redwood grove in Sonoma County, California. They're all members of the Bohemian Club, a private, all-male club that's counted US presidents, military officials, artists, and business leaders as members.

The Bohemian Grove grounds are dotted with camps bearing strange names — "Mandalay," "Lost Angels," "Isle of Aves," and "Silverado Squatters." Guests are welcome, but women and minors must vacate the premises at night. A hollow concrete owl towers over the Grove's artificial lake, where prominent individuals often visit to give lakeside talks on pressing public policy matters.

And, during the first weekend of the summer encampment, robed figures sacrifice an effigy as part of a ritual meant to banish all worries from the gathered members.

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The Bohemian Club is almost 150 years old

The traditions go back to the earliest days of the private gentleman's club, which sprang up in 1872 in San Francisco. The Bohemian Club began renting the campground for an annual retreat, before purchasing it outright in 1899.

"You come upon it suddenly," poet and club member Will Irwin wrote of the Grove in 1908. "One step and its glory is over you."

Originally a cluster of newspaper writers who'd adopted a "bohemian lifestyle," the club expanded overtime to include artists, businessmen, military leaders, and politicians.

While the club has diversified in terms of its members' professions, women have been barred from joining since its inception. A 1978 lawsuit did result in the Bohemian Club being required to hire female employees, however.

So how do you land a coveted spot in the approximately 2,500-member club? Vanity Fair reported that you either need to snag invitations from several members, or languish for decades on the club's waiting list. You've also got to be prepared to drop $25,000 on your initiation fee.

G. William Domhoff, a University of California, Santa Cruz professor emeritus of psychology and sociology, has studied the Bohemian Club extensively. In a post on the site Who Rules America? he described the Grove as "... a place where the powerful relax, enjoy each other's company, and get to know some of the artists, entertainers, and professors who are included to give the occasion a thin veneer of cultural and intellectual pretension."

The motto of the Bohemian Club is "weaving spiders, come not here." It's a line from William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," reflecting the idea is that members are not supposed to worry about work or business deals while at the club.

The activities at the Bohemian Grove have become increasingly controversial — especially in the advent of the internet

Because of its secrecy, strange ceremonies, and elite body of members, the Bohemian Club has long been the subject of sinister online rumors. Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones even attempted to film a cremation ceremony there in 2000.

The Bohemian Grove has also attracted a number of protestors who aren't concerned with the allegedly occult aspects of the proceedings.

A number of journalists have managed to infiltrate the campground — with mixed success. Alex Shoumatoff investigated reports the Club was illegally logging for Vanity Fair, and was caught and detained for trespassing. Philip Weiss snuck into the Bohemian Grove in 1987 and spent a few days mingling with the rich and powerful as they attended speeches, boozed it up from breakfast to nightfall, and urinated on trees. He wrote about the strange experience for Spy magazine.

On Gawker, Sophie Weiner also described her own stint working as a dining server at the Grove in 2016. She described the retreat as a place where the elite could "engage in behavior that doesn’t usually fly for people of their stature in the regular world."

"The Grove encampment is a bunch of guys kidding around, drinking with their buddies, and trying to relive their youth, and often acting very silly," he wrote.

As president, Theodore Roosevelt accepted an honorary membership in the club

Theodore Roosevelt was granted honorary club membership when he became president.

In a brief 1903 letter to Bohemian Club member Edgar D. Peixott, he expressed gratitude for the "honor conferred upon me." He also offered his regrets that he could not make it to a club function.