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Something You Should Know

Scams You Might Easily Fall For & Smalls Ways to Significantly Improve Your Health

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Education, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Science, Health & Fitness

4.54.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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0:00.0

Today on something you should know, do bees really die after they sting you?

0:06.8

Can you really die from a black widow spider bite?

0:10.4

Then scammers are always trying to get your money, but there are ways to protect yourself.

0:15.1

For example,

0:16.1

Any time anybody asks you to pay for anything using a prepaid cash card, it's a scam.

0:21.4

No legitimate organization or government organization is ever going to ask you to pay for your

0:25.5

debts with a cash card.

0:27.0

It's just not how it works.

0:28.7

Also, why the middle of the summer is the best time to clean your oven.

0:33.5

And a lot of little things you can do that will have a very positive effect on your health and longevity, like drinking coffee.

0:41.5

So I spoke to a world expert who studies coffee.

0:44.4

He said that the broad consensus now is that drinking two or three cups of coffee a day is probably a good thing.

0:51.3

The thing he did say was that it's best not to drink coffee first thing.

0:55.8

Call this today on something you should know.

1:01.0

When you run a business, you have a lot of decisions to make, and you'll make better decisions if you have the right information.

1:07.8

So if you do run a business, take a listen because Netsuite by Oracle has a great offer.

1:13.6

For the first time in Netsuite's 25 years as the number one cloud financial system,

1:19.5

you can defer payments of a full Netsuite implementation for six months.

1:24.5

No payment, no interest for six months, and you can take advantage of this special financing offer right now today.

1:31.7

With Netsuite, you get everything you need in real time, all in one place to reduce manual processes and boost efficiency,

1:39.3

build forecasts, and increase productivity across every department of your business.

1:45.0

And that gives you a real competitive advantage.

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