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Source: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Drinking a cup of coffee may add nine minutes per day to your life  It has become a national pastime but our obsession with drinking coffee could be having unexpected health benefits and even increasing our lifespan by up to nine minutes a day, new research suggests .  Two new studies , including the largest ever conducted into coffee drinking, have found that imbibing even a single cup a day reduces the risk of dying early from any cause, and dramatically cuts the chance of death from digestive problems.  People who consumed just one 350ml cup each day slashed their risk of dying early by 12 per cent over 16 years, while three cups reduced the risk by 18 per cent. Prof Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge, calculated that, if causal, it meant a cup of coffee a day extended the average life of a man by three months and a woman by a month. “Pro-r...

Source: Wikipedia (AngryJulieMonday)   Gangnam Style is no longer the most-played video on YouTube  Psy's Gangnam Style is no longer the most-watched video on YouTube. The South Korean megahit had been the site's most-played clip for the last five years . The surreal video became so popular that it "broke" YouTube's play counter, exceeding the maximum possible number of views (2,147,483,647), and forcing the company to rewrite its code. But the song has now been overtaken by another music video - Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth's See You Again . The heart-wrenching ballad has now been streamed 2,895,373,709 times; beating   Psy's current count of 2,894,426,475 views. Adding it up , that means See You Again has been streamed for a total of 21,759 years. If one person was to listen to each of those streams consecutively, they'd have to have started during the glacial peak of the last Ice Age. The song was written for the action mo...

  Source: Robert Bye on Unsplash Vegetarian beef farmer gives herd to animal sanctuary  A vegetarian farmer has given his herd of cows to an animal sanctuary to protect them from the slaughterhouse . Jay Wilde, 59, who farms in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, sent 63 cattle to a Norfolk rescue centre as he could no longer bear to send them to be killed . Mr Wilde, a vegetarian for 25 years, grew up herding cows and took over the family farm when his father died. "Cows have good memories and a range of emotions. They form relationships. I've even seen them cry," he said. "It was very difficult to do your best to look after them and then send them to the slaughterhouse for what must be a terrifying death." The Hillside Animal Sanctuary near Frettenham said 30 of the cows are pregnant and all the animals "would live out their lives essentially as pets". Founder, Wendy Valentine, said Mr Wilde is not the first farmer to have donated his herd...