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A woman did AcroYoga with her husband throughout her entire pregnancy

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Lizzy Tomber and her husband Josh Young are traveling AcroYoga teachers. They kept up with their AcroYoga practice throughout her entire pregnancy — even doing the acrobatics-yoga combination until five days before their baby was born. The couple modified their AcroYoga moves to ensure Young's feet didn't go near his wife's belly or hips during her pregnancy, so that the baby could stay safe. 

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The $120 million penthouse once owned by the 'King of Wall Street' just became New York City's most expensive home

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If you want to live like a king, now's your chance.

An enormous and opulent Upper East Side duplex once owned by the late "King of Wall Street" John Gutfreund (who died earlier this year), has just listed for $120 million, making it the most expensive listing in New York City, according to Curbed NY.

Gutfreund made a name for himself as CEO of Salomon Brothers, becoming an icon of Wall Street in the 1980s.

He took Salomon from a private partnership to a public corporation, and in 1985 Businessweek named him the "King of Wall Street" — a title he later told The New York Times that he hated.

John Burger of Brown Harris Stevens has the listing, along with Richard Ziegelasch and Key-Ventures' A. Laurance Kaiser IV and Craig Dix. 

The apartment's $120 million price tag beats out the previous most expensive listing in the city, a co-op apartment in the historic Sherry-Netherland Hotel asking $86 million.

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The penthouse is located at 834 Fifth Avenue, which has been called "the most pedigreed building on the snobbiest street in the country’s most real estate obsessed city" by The New York Observer.

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As soon as you enter, it's immediately understood why the apartment has broken price records.



The duplex penthouse occupying the seventh and eighth floors is incredibly large, with 20 rooms covering a total 12,000 square feet.



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The controversial 'Tinder for Elites' has reached a do-or-die moment

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amanda bradford, the league, sv100 2015The League, the controversial dating app dubbed the “Tinder for elites,” is kicking off an aggressive expansion plan with a launch in Los Angeles.

But more important than the new cities is The League’s imminent attempts to make money off the app. The app has reached a do-or-die moment, and the next few months will show whether it has actual customers — or just people who were curious what all the internet fuss was about.

The core function of The League is similar to Tinder, but it restricts its pool of singles to those who are “ambitious young professionals,” determined by an algorithm that examine things like LinkedIn connections. To say that goal has rubbed some people on the internet the wrong way would be an understatement.

The launch in LA marks only the third city The League has moved into (besides San Francisco and New York City). CEO Amanda Bradford tells Business Insider this is because the startup spent most of the last year rebuilding its app from the ground up because it wouldn’t scale properly.

“We decided to pull the band-aid off now,” Bradford says. The League migrated all its users over to the new platform in February. After LA, The League plans to launch in more major cities around the US and the world.

The expansion coincides with The League's first major attempt to make money.

groups the league“Ads aren’t feasible for us,” Bradford explains. Her plan is to institute a freemium model where users can pay for extra features that resemble an online members-only club. The League has already begun to roll out things like “events” and “groups” to bring singles together in ways that aren’t a one-on-one date. Bradford talks about it like a post-university extension of the kind of mingling that happens — for students of certain persuasions — at elite colleges like Stanford, where she got her MBA.

The question is whether users find enough value in the “community” The League is trying to build to pay for it. Bradford clearly realizes that with the low number of users (by design), The League will have to convert far more of its free users to paying ones than the average freemium app. If that's not possible, it's bad news for The League, Bradford says.

“If our members don’t want to pay, we will have to open it up,” Bradford says.

And then the Tinder for ambitious young professionals will become just, well, Tinder.

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Only 1% of people don't have this ability

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Have you ever had the urge to say to someone else, "I feel for you?"

If so, provided you actually did feel the emotions of that person, chances are you're part of the 99% of people who experience empathy. For most of us, this experience plays a huge, often overlooked role in our daily lives.

Happify, a website and app that uses science-based interactive activities aimed at increasing your happiness, created this graphic to break down the myriad ways empathy affects our lives. Check it out:

Happify Empathy

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We went inside the deadly world of daredevils who climb massive buildings for the perfect Instagram photo

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Daredevils and urban explorers are constantly on the hunt for the unexplored and that one photo no one has ever seen. This is a lifestyle that creates fame and social media stardom but sometimes comes with a price.

Since January of 2014, there's been 49 documented deaths attributed directly to people seeking to capture a selfie. So far in 2016? Thirteen. This is what drives these individuals for the perfect photo.

Produced and Edited by Josh WolffCinematography by Sam RegaAndrew Stern, and David FangExecutive Produced by Diane Galligan.

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A 19-year-old daredevil Instagrammer shares how he outruns the cops to take these incredibly dangerous shots

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"Urban exploring" — climbing atop bridges, roaming underground subway tunnels, or trespassing into construction zones — has become increasingly popular in the past two years, and punishments have grown more and more strict.

Perpetrators can potentially be arrested, fined, and even flagged by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force — not to mention the massive safety risks they take when they scale these structures. 

One urban explorer, a 19-year-old daredevil photographer known as Kostennn to his followers, has risked a lot to get the perfect shot. 

Inspired by the skateboarding and graffiti culture that he's been entrenched in since he was 16, Kostennn has been photographing his crew ever since he picked up a camera. "[Photography] has become my lifestyle and source of income," he told Business Insider.

While his more than 200,000 Instagram followers have the luxury of enjoying his work from the safety of their phone screens, Kostennn has done some pretty dangerous things for his work. He shared some of his most exciting stories with us. 

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One of New York City's most mysterious, forbidden spots is the underground subway system. While the famous "third rail" poses an immediate danger (you can die of electric shock if you touch it), according to Kostennn, it's "super easy to avoid." However, the subway tunnels are still a dangerous place to explore. 

"Exploring the underground of NYC is a game only a few dare to mess around with," Kostennn said. "Dodging security cameras, trains, and the MTA police is a difficult task when trying to shoot photos." 

"One night I had the opportunity to find my way to this tunnel. At about 5:30 a.m., I was risking the fact that I could bump into MTA workers at any moment," he said. "Right when I was wrapping up to head out, I heard and saw five workers coming down towards my way. I quickly had to find my way out the station immediately." 



"In early 2015 New York City had a snowstorm that shut down the city for the night. I immediately had the idea to head to the Manhattan Bridge to shoot photos [of it] with no cars," Kostennn said. 

"I had to make sure I wasn't seen by any police patrolling the bridge. If you look closely in the photo you can see car lights of a police car coming my way. I made my way back to the pedestrian walkway smoothly."



"One afternoon my homie and I decided it was time to finally get on top of one of the tallest residential buildings in New York City," Kostennn said. 

"After a solid hour of trying to find a way into the building, we snuck up behind a resident of the building and found our way to the roof. As the fog got heavy and snow started to fall, we were in the middle of a storm literally on top of the city while trying to get our photos. As it got darker and the storm cleared up a little bit, a helicopter came by and put a spotlight on us. We made our way back down and quickly found our way out of the building."



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Inside Prince's massive $10 million mansion where he was found dead

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Prince Rogers Nelson died April 21 at Paisley Park Studios, his estate and studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota, outside Minneapolis.

Named after the Prince song "Paisley Park" and the now defunct record label, the production complex features recording studios, a nightclub, rehearsal space, offices, and private space for the award-winning musician.

Prince spent the majority of his time at the $10 million, 65,000-square-foot space, but he didn't always live there.

The estate could now become a museum, according to Prince's brother-in-law Maurice Phillips.

Though Prince was notoriously secretive about the mansion, these photos offer a glimpse into Prince's creative hub: 

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Paisley Park was designed by Los Angeles architect Bret Theony and was completed in 1987.

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The front lobby features second-floor balconies and clouds painted on the walls, as well as pyramidal skylights. Prince's Love Symbol No. 2 glyph is featured prominently on the floor.



The estate includes a relaxing music room with Prince's signature purple hue filling the space.



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We went inside a legal marijuana dispensary — it was just like any other retail experience

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Legal marijuana sales in the United States accounted for a staggering $5.4 billion in revenue in 2015. Colorado alone has raked in $1 billion in sales in 2015, and more than $135 million in taxes and fees.

We tried buying legal cannabis at Helping Hands recreational dispensary in Boulder, CO. Watch the video above to see what you would experience as an out-of-state buyer.

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A man who studied rich people for 5 years found there are 3 aspects of etiquette they never shirk

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Your parents may have been onto something when they stuck you in middle school cotillion class.

It turns out, the wealthiest, most successful people use simple etiquette habits to get ahead.

A five-minute phone call, for instance, could result in huge payoffs.  

"You have to know how to act and how to do certain things when you're around people," writes Thomas C. Corley in his book "Change Your Habits, Change Your Life." "Self-made millionaires have mastered certain rules of etiquette that help them in social settings."

Corley would know — he spent five years researching the daily habits of 177 self-made millionaires and segmenting out what he calls "rich habits" and "poverty habits."

What are the basic etiquette rules you should start with?

1. Send thank you cards. Don't send an email or Facebook message, Corley emphasizes, but a physical, handwritten card.

2. Bring your manners to the dinner table. "Believe it or not, most people don't know how to eat," Corley writes. But, "In the adult world of the high achievers, you need to know how to eat in social settings."

3. Introduce yourself properly. This means giving a proper handshake, smiling, making eye contact, and asking plenty of questions about the other person, Corley says.

At the end of the day, "relationship are critical to financial success," he emphasizes— and building relationships all begins with proper etiquette.

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This water park in Texas has an enormous slide that sends you flying

These middle-aged Bolivian women decided to scale 8 mountains that are 19,685 feet or higher

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A group of intrepid Cholita women from Bolivia decided to scale eight mountains, each over over 19,685 feet high. Former cooks and assistants to their tour guide husbands, they know their way around mountains, and have already conquered five of the eight peaks.

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8 ways to make extra cash selling your old clothes online

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Most of us have closets overflowing with items we don't want anymore.

The good news is, reselling your clothes, shoes, and accessories is easier than ever. Long gone are the days of schlepping them to the nearest consignment store or listing them on eBay — today, you have several apps and websites to choose from.

If you're looking to declutter your closet, and earn some money while you're at it, consider these eight outlets.

Antonia Farzan contributed to an earlier version of this post.

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For social shoppers: Poshmark

Poshmark, an app which looks and feels like Instagram, allows you to buy and sell clothing just like you would on eBay. The app has an enthusiastic community of shoppers and sellers who "follow" each other, comment on photos, and star their favorite items.

Brands like Tory Burch and Michael Kors tend to be the most popular, but you can also find lower-priced items from Forever 21 and H&M, as well as high-end labels like Chanel and Balenciaga.

For Alexandra Marquez, a 23-year old living in Arkansas, reselling thrift store finds on the app has become a full-time job. "I look at my phone from the time that I wake up until the time that I go to bed … and sometimes also when I get up in the middle of the night," she told Business Insider.

It's paid off: She earns $5,000 a month and was able to quit her corporate marketing job.

Business Insider's Caroline Moss tried using Poshmark, and made $700 in less than two months.

Many of the app's users are on the younger side, like Marquez, but co-founder Tracy Sun told Business Insider she sees people of all ages reselling their preowned clothes. "Everyone from teens, college students, professionals, celebrities, stay-at-home moms and even grandmothers are using the app," she says.



For busy parents: ThredUP

With ThredUP, all you have to do is put your unwanted clothing and accessories in the mail. The company provides you with a shipping bag and label, and will make you an offer after it receives and sorts your items.

Originally for kids' clothes, it's expanded its mail-in resale service to include women's clothing and accessories.

Many of the site's two million users are busy moms who can't keep up with how quickly their kids are outgrowing their clothes, and don't have time to take photos, place listings on sites like eBay, and make extra trips to the post office themselves.

Anthropologie, J. Crew, and Free People are big sellers, and Moxie, Merrell, and Jacadi are popular for kids. However, the site will also accept items from less expensive stores like Old Navy. On average, items are listed for 70% of their original retail price, and anything that can't be sold gets donated to charity.

Laurie Palau, who runs the organizing business SimplyBOrganized, says she gives ThredUP's shipping bags to clients who need help decluttering their homes. "I deal with a lot of clients who feel guilty donating high-end clothes that they have spent a lot of money on," she explains." Taking time to go to a consignment store isn't always realistic for them."

To streamline her own life, she always keeps one of the bags in her closet. "Last time I checked, I had over $700 in my thredUP account."



For label fanatics: SnobSwap

On the high end of the resale spectrum, there's SnobSwap, where clothing and accessories from brands like Chanel, Christian Louboutin, Tory Burch, and Coach typically sell for $250 to $370.

(You can also skip the waitlist and get a Hermès Birkin bag for $90,000.)

Co-founder Emily Dang describes the average user as a professional woman between the ages of 20 and 45 years old who is fashionable but budget conscious, and loves a good deal.

Lydia, a seller who didn't want her last name used, fits that definition: She's made over $4,000 selling gently used pieces from her wardrobe, like Louis Vuitton and Prada bags.

SnobSwap authenticates every single item that it sells, which builds trust with buyers and makes it easier to get high prices for previously owned luxury goods. As Lydia puts it, "No one wants to spend $2,500 on a handbag that was actually a $25 replica from China."



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The biggest mistake men make when buying cologne

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Cologne is one of the hardest things to buy. It's also the hardest thing to buy for someone, which is why it's one of the most regifted items during the holidays.

Why? Because smell is an incredibly personal thing, and it's nearly impossible to tell what a cologne will smell like until you spray it on your skin and let it sit for a while to mix with your own oils.

Combine this with the other misinformation spread about cologne and fragrance (like that more expensive or higher-strength fragrances automatically smell better), and you'll see why shopping for your perfect scent can be a very difficult task.

Well, the facts are very simple: you need to try out a fragrance on your skin in order for you to be able to tell if you actually like it.

The way around this is pretty simple: samples. But we're not talking about those little strips of fragrance that come in magazines. Those aren't going to be able to tell you if you'll actually like how they smell on your body.

What we are talking about are those one- to one-and-a-half-ounce bottles of cologne that can be had very cheaply as a kind of test drive before you spring for a bottle that may cost dozens to hundreds of dollars. Some stores like Sephora even sell kits with a dozen or so fragrances just for this purpose, and you can pick and choose samples on fragrance hobby websites like Fragrancenet.com.

It's easy to find your next favorite scent. Just make sure you apply it correctly.

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A new study revealed that you only need one minute of intense exercise a few times a week to get fit

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With demanding jobs and busy personal lives, many people struggle to find a free hour to work out. But according to a new study, all they really need is one minute of intense exercise three times a week to see results.

A team of scientists from McMaster University in Canada found that one minute of very intense exercise produces similar results to longer, more traditional endurance training.

The study, published in the journal PLOS One, set out to determine if sprint interval training was a time-efficient exercise.

The scientists looked at whether it could improve insulin sensitivity and heart health to the same extent as typical moderate-intensity continuous training.

The scientists divided 27 sedentary men into two groups. One group performed three weekly sessions of sprint interval training. Their workout entailed three 20-second intense cycling sprints, followed by two minutes of slower cycling. The other group did 45 minutes of continuous, moderate-intensity cycling. Both groups began their workouts with a two-minute warm-up and three-minute cool-down.

Each of the groups followed the fitness routines for 12 weeks. The moderate-intensity workout involved five times as much exerciseand a five-fold greater time commitmentbut led to the same results as sprint interval training. Men in both groups increased their oxygen uptake by 19 percent, in addition to improving their insulin sensitivity and skeletal muscle content.

"Most people cite 'lack of time' as the main reason for not being active," lead study author Martin Gibala, a professor of kinesiology at McMaster, said in a statement. "Our study shows that an interval-based approach can be more efficient -- you can get health and fitness benefits comparable to the traditional approach, in less time."

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This melty ice cream brownie takes dessert to new heights

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Catch restaurant in New York City's Meatpacking District is famous for its over-the-top dishes, but one dessert in particular really takes the, well, cake.

The "Hit Me" chocolate cake is a four-level tower made of a brownie, cake, ice cream, and liquid Klondike bar.

And it all oozes melted chocolate when you hit the top layer with a spoon.

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How one Facebook employee’s health crisis led to a new internal slogan (FB)

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As Facebook has swelled to 13,600 employees around the globe, it relies on its own social network to keep its "startup feel" alive.

Facebookers spend all day, every day on the site, using it as a productivity tool to chat and collaborate. But it's also a great way for coworkers to get to know each other on a more personal level. 

The company's internal community has more than 20,000 Groups and although they're primarily work and project focused, many are social. There are affinity groups for parents, "Game of Thrones" fans, and people who love the board game Settlers of Catan, to name a few. 

"We always talk about bringing your 'full self' to work," Facebook's head of people, Lori Goler, tells Business Insider. "You're not a different person when you leave here and go home in the evening than you are during the day."

Having Facebookers get to know their coworkers in a more well-rounded way helps build empathy. Goler recounts one anecdote from several years ago where an employee posted about a serious health crisis that she was going through in one of Facebook's internal employee groups. Immediately, her coworkers rushed to offer their support. 

"The response was so overwhelmingly warm and amazing and people started tagging the post, "#FBFamily,'" she says. "Before you knew it, FBFamily was appearing everywhere. It had come completely organically from this post, but it took on a life of its own." 

Goler says that she even started seeing people sporting little rubber bracelets emblazoned with the slogan. 

Facebook Family

"It became an internal movement almost that reflects the support and closeness and friendliness of the organization," she says. 

Business Insider has occasionally heard similar sentiments from other employees who enjoy knowing more personal details about coworkers, like one woman who said that she felt more understanding of a manager's terseness in a meeting when she remembered seeing a post about how that person had recently dealt with an illness in family. 

But that tendency towards openness isn't without its detractors. In a thread on the question-and-answer site Quora about the worst things about working at Facebook, one anonymous poster says that they felt a sort of peer pressure to talk about their personal life at work.

There is a division between identities, at least in the digital realm though. All Facebook employees have a corporate account where they can "follow" their coworkers instead of "friending" them. The company has even launched an enterprise product called Facebook at Work to give other businesses access to its tools. So far, Facebook has on-boarded over 450 companies and has over 60,000 more on the wait list while it’s still in closed beta. 

But within the social networking company, at least, many people still choose to blur the line between work and real life. The average employee has 133 "friends" who work at Facebook on their regular accounts, Goler says.

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Everyone from Mick Jagger to Bono has partied at this photographer's villa in the South of France — see the photos

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Jean Pigozzi's pool parties might be as famous as the guests who have attended them over the years.

Businessman, art collector, philanthropist, and all-around entertainer, Pigozzi has been throwing get-togethers for the rich, beautiful, and famous at his home in the south of France since the 1950s.

Guests like Sharon Stone, Woody Allen, Tony Bennett, and Jane Fonda have all graced his Villa Dorane with their presence, their attendance forever immortalized by Pigozzi's camera.

His newest book, "Pool Party", chronicles what went down in the villa's backyard pool, which looks out onto the ocean.

Ahead, six snaps that prove Pigozzi's parties are not to be missed.     

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The book contains more than 100 iconic and unpublished photos from Pigozzi's personal archives.



Bono wrote the book's foreword. "Of all the wild and wonderful guests jumping in and out of his looking-glass pool, the biggest thrill for me is to hear the laughter drown out the sea," he wrote.



"My favorite guest, Mick Jagger, [who] I've spent a lot of time with, and we have very funny conversations, and we've traveled all around the world together," Pigozzi said in an interview with NOWNESS.

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