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Nothing can ruin your mood faster than having a low battery on your phone and no charger in sight. To avoid the mini panic attack we all have when that happens, try these 13 secret simple tricks to prolong your phone’s battery life.

Pretty much all mobile apps send you Push-notifications. Taking advantage of this function eats up a lot of your phone's energy and kills the battery.

Instead of using vibration, leave your phone on silent or use the ringtone setting with the volume turned down as low as possible.

The minimum option for auto-lock is usually 15-30 seconds, but some models even allow you to set it to 10. It works miracles when it comes to saving battery. Airplane mode does the same. What’s also cool about it is that if you keep it on while your phone’s charging, your battery will get full faster.

Letting the battery run all the way down actually damages it. That’s because modern lithium-based batteries are specifically made to be charged in short quick sessions. If that’s what they’re designed for, then we should do it that way.

When you choose 4G in the settings, both 4G and 3G radios are switched on, which is why your phone loses charge two times faster. So if you really need to save the battery, turn off 4G or even 3G and go with 2G instead.

Batteries produced by other companies usually cost less, but they’re also optimized worse than original ones, and this can harm your device. It's better to pay more once than spend a fortune repairing your phone.

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It's difficult to start anything from scratch. How about starting to live on our planet from scratch? Imagine that someone reset the Earth! Now there're no technology, buildings, no internet... just nature and us. How would people start over? If all modern comforts vanished in 1 day, would we survive?

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The dinosaurs roamed the Earth many years ago but we're still thinking and talking about them! What if the dinosaurs never went extinct and they're just hiding really well? Let's imagine there's a Dino egg right in your backyard! You find it and it hatches... what would you do? 

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What are nails made of? Keratin, which is the same substance your body uses to create hair and the top layer of your skin. Let's imagine that our hands didn't have fingernails at all... People would just walk around without nails and manicure, that's it. Or would there be some consequence for the overall human health?

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For some reason, certain people attract insects more than others. Why do mosquitos bite you more than your friend? There're all sorts of myths about what attracts and repels insects. If you find out, what makes you a magnet for insects, this understanding can help you avoid them. Let's see which of the everyday things insects actually find attractive.

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If I ask you to name the richest man in the world, who'd be at the top of your list? Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk? Think about it for a second: if you put all of their money together, it won't be anywhere near the fortune of another person. And I bet you've never even heard about him. Here's his story and how he managed to be the richest person for 700 years.

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We all know about 8 official planets in our Solar System. But what if I tell you there could be one more planet hiding out there right beyond Neptune? Planet Nine is believed to be the size of Mars... Let's get to know some of the most fascinating space facts! Including how many planets scientists have found outside of our Solar System: some of them are dense as iron and others are airy and light.

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Who hasn't shared some amazing fact with a friend or a teacher, only then finding out that information wasn't true. The world is full of common myths and misconceptions. One of them is about the Bermuda Triangle: we believe that it's a patch of the ocean where pilots and sailors disappear forever. But it turns out, this Triangle doesn't have any more shipwrecks or disappearances than other waterways...

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14 of the most useful culinary tricks that will save your time and boost your culinary skills. Do you want to know how to cook a perfect piece of bacon, prevent a sliced cake from getting stale, and make sure that knife won't slip while you’re using it?

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