Bright Side

New year is when we make a list of habits we might have forgotten to follow the previous year. A night of healthy 8-hour sleep is one of those habits. Let's follow some simple rules and improve the quality of our sleep. One of them: never hit your bed right after eating, as you don't give your body enough time to burn off calories from your meal!

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Staying in a hotel is a relaxing experience most of the time. But sometimes it can be overshadowed by some pretty unpleasant things. A dirty bathroom, a broken chair... or a phone charger left in the room. Why is it a warning indicating you should leave your room ASAP? Could anyone spy on you through a phone charger?

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Okay, most of you won’t like this, but the truth is… men and women are different from birth. It turns out, gender may influence how we experience emotions, memorize things, perceive information, and so on. And there’s also a 2019 study that only confirms this. In fact, brain differences between men and women are present even in the womb.

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People are fascinating, it seems like we can’t tolerate any boundaries. We love to push the limits somehow. This striving for the extraordinary makes a few of us look for records to break. But some world records seem to be unbeatable! Some are just impossible to surpass, while others you wouldn’t even want to challenge as they’re simply too weird.

One 69-year-old woman from South Korea, became a local celebrity and symbol of perseverance. All she did was pass a driving test. On her 960th try. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always feel good to be a record holder. Charles Osborne learned it the hard way, since he was the man who had hiccups for 68 years straight and without any relief...

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Your body is as complex and unexplored as the universe itself. Don’t believe me? What if I told you there was an organ in the body we didn’t know about until 2019? How did that happen? Well, here’s some other incredible things about us, the microcosm.

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Do you know how to administer first aid? Almost all of us remember some basic things about the rules of providing first aid. But is our knowledge correct, or is what we know too fragmented to be useful? Knowing basic first aid methods is very important, but it’s crucial to perform them correctly so as not to compromise the life you’re trying to save.

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What country holds annual bathtub races and has a prepared landing pod for UFOs? Also, it has a place where there are so many snakes that they look like spaghetti on your plate! Do you know where you can see the most cheerful town in the world? It's called Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! Yep, just like that, with two "ha's" and two exclamation marks! 

Still no idea? This country produces more than 70% of all maple syrup in the world! Several of the most popular superheroes, such as Wolverine and Superman, were created there. Yes, you nailed it: this awesome country is Canada, and here are 50 cool facts about this place!

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Sometimes other people’s habits and actions make us smile and we might think about how weird this person probably is. But thanks to these little idiosyncrasies we are each different, unique, and funny. Queen Elizabeth II is no exception. She also has a few weird and quirky habits.

We at Bright Side put together a few curious facts about the queen. Some of her habits have logical explanations, while others just make her a charming person with her own peculiarities.

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I know what you did last summer, what you had for lunch yesterday, and that you cried like a baby when your favorite celebrity couple split up. 20 years ago, this would sound really creepy, but today, in the social networking era, basically anyone can say this about their e-friends. But in some cases, oversharing and bad online manners just go over the top!

Photos and posts that some of your online friends upload can be so annoying that you want to avoid them in real life. And most of the time, you don’t even understand why it’s all so annoying. In fact, this is because there is some etiquette in social media too. So how about to pay some attention to this problem?

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Well, summer break is over. Not exactly fun to think about... But a new school year means a brand-new start, right? This could be your year! It might seem scary – especially if you’re starting junior high or high school– so make sure to start your first day off right by doing some prep the day and night before!

First and foremost: get plenty of rest and a good night’s sleep! Hopefully, you’ve already started to try and get back into the school wake-up routine: going to bed at a decent time and getting up early, so that your body is used to it. If you get into your routine early on, waking up for school on your first day won’t be so hard! If can’t stop thinking about what the morning will bring, just remember that everyone else is just as nervous or excited as you are!

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