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How does the British royal family travel? Do they fly commercial? It turns out that Members of the Royal British Family annually make many trips around the world. Sounds cool, but in fact, it’s rather complicated. Royal family tours require very detailed planning and adherence to special rules. And some of them seem to be, just weird.

For example, in all countries, an individual menu is prepared in advance for each member of the royal family. By the way, they are entitled to fly in private jets only for special state travel. And sometimes, royals even buy economy class tickets. Ordinary passengers saw Prince William with his wife Kate Middleton or Prince Harry with Meghan Markle on board the aircraft.

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How to speed up your smartphone? Why doesn't your phone battery last very long anymore? Why do apps keep crashing? Can it be something you've been doing wrong? Did you know, for example, why you shouldn't use your phone as a camera too often? Or why it's better to switch to Airplane Mode when the signal is weak? 

You can do virtually anything with your phone. But these days one can’t expect a smartphone to last for more than two to three years. Why do smartphones break so easily? Maybe we tend to break any important rules? Let's figure out! Here's a whole new batch of cool smartphone tips for making your device last longer.

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Yeah, you love your car and you can't imagine your life without it. It’s your baby! But what have you done to protect it from all the bad guys who might be after it? It turns out even simple little things, like stickers, window etching, or taking the manual out of it can help!

But first of all, remember that in many cases, it's not the car the thieves are after. It's that shiny new laptop you dropped at the front seat (because you're only out for a minute, right?). Or maybe your designer purse that looks like it's stuffed full with valuables. Things like that are hard to resist, and often lead to a break-in.

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So, did you know that almost all laptops tend to work best when the temperature is from 50 to 95°F? Any colder or hotter, and your gadget starts to wig out. The thing is that laptop lithium-ion batteries are notorious for NOT being heat-friendly. Even if you leave your device in a hot place only a few times, you risk ruining it beyond repair!

By the way, the battery isn't the only thing that can get harmed when you abandon your laptop in a hot car. Any hard drive consists of delicate and fragile components; and when the materials they're made of get heated, they tend to expand, which means permanent damage or even failure of the hard drive. How to avoid such dramatic consequences?

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You buy a chocolate bar in a package that claims the thing is 25% bigger than its previous version. Then you pick a shampoo that has "only natural ingredients" on the bottle and costs surprisingly little. Ooh! Now stop. Do you really get a great bargain or is it just manufacturers fooling you? Think twice — marketing experts are talented manipulators! 

For example, a bag or a bottle itself may look bigger than others produced by the same brand, but its weight can be absolutely the same! Some manufacturers aren't strangers to using optical illusions to make customers think there is more product than in reality. Empty space inside boxes, inflated plastic bags, labels stuck at the top of glass bottles so that you don't notice they are half empty... 

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You buy a chocolate bar in a package that claims the thing is 25% bigger than its previous version. Then you pick a shampoo that has "only natural ingredients" on the bottle and costs surprisingly little. Ooh! Now stop. Do you really get a great bargain or is it just manufacturers fooling you? Think twice — marketing experts are talented manipulators! 

For example, a bag or a bottle itself may look bigger than others produced by the same brand, but its weight can be absolutely the same! Some manufacturers aren't strangers to using optical illusions to make customers think there is more product than in reality. Empty space inside boxes, inflated plastic bags, labels stuck at the top of glass bottles so that you don't notice they are half empty... 

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You buy a chocolate bar in a package that claims the thing is 25% bigger than its previous version. Then you pick a shampoo that has "only natural ingredients" on the bottle and costs surprisingly little. Ooh! Now stop. Do you really get a great bargain or is it just manufacturers fooling you? Think twice — marketing experts are talented manipulators! 

For example, a bag or a bottle itself may look bigger than others produced by the same brand, but its weight can be absolutely the same! Some manufacturers aren't strangers to using optical illusions to make customers think there is more product than in reality. Empty space inside boxes, inflated plastic bags, labels stuck at the top of glass bottles so that you don't notice they are half empty... 

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Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the one with the biggest rings in our Solar System. But Saturn isn't the only planet to have them - Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have rings too. Can Earth have rings just like Saturn does?

Scientists claim our planet might be on the way to have rings around it. However, very specific ones - human-made rings out of damaged satellites, rockets and other space junk... What else is awaiting us in the future?

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Modern tech is ever-changing. Nobody needed a power bank 10 years ago. Now, they are common since we need to charge our mega powerful phones on the go. Internet surfing was slow and not very convenient because of the small RAM and single-core processor. With such a low screen resolution 10 years ago, you couldn't watch movies or videos on your phone for long.

You look back just a few years ago and think, “Remember when mobile games weren’t even a thing? Ah, yes – headphone jacks and home buttons – those were the days!”

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If you spend only a day at the gas station, you can see just about everything. The “get every last drop in the tank” types, the nozzle tuggers, the nozzle ripper-offers! And possibly even a few near explosions! So today, we decided to spread the most common mistakes people make while fueling up! 

For example, do you remember that thing about static electricity igniting invisible fuel vapors? Well, get this: when you get out of the car, your clothes sliding against the seat fabric creates some static charge. And when you grab that metallic nozzle, a spark can happen. That tiny spark can light up those gas vapors! 

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