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What if I had a million dollars? How long would it take to spend it all? Is million dollars a lot of money? Let's imagine you suddenly receive $1mln but you have a time limit and have to spend it all within 24 hours! What to spend money on? How to spend money wisely? Cars, houses, casino, new Play Station, books? What else? The clock is ticking!

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We all can tell the buzzing sound of a bee from that of a mosquito, right? But what if we hear no sound at all? It turns out, some bees don't buzz... why is that? Let's answer some of the most curious questions about bees! Can all the bees only sting once? When are bees more active? Which bees are the most aggressive? And what to do if you're attacked by bees...

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What do black holes do? What do black holes really look like? The existence of black holes was predicted over a century ago with nothing but math equations. Now we’ve taken the first photo of one. But black holes still hold plenty of secrets. Like their even more mysterious mirror twins: white holes!

Imagine if we could record a black hole on video. Watch it pull in and consume any matter that gets too close, even light itself! Now take this recording and play it backward – this is what a white hole should be: the black hole’s “pushing away and matter-spewing” counterpart.

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There’s something romantic about being a flight attendant. They’re very polite, good-looking, and smile a lot. Plus, having to travel a lot for work seems like a dream! But becoming a flight attendant with the best airlines in the world is harder than entering the most prestigious universities in the world. There may be up to 200 candidates for one spot and less than 1% of the applicants will complete the job interview with success.

Did you know that there are things flight attendants aren't allowed to do? They can’t have teeth braces, use earplugs, dye their hair purple, drink coffee, slouch, or chew gum. Also, tongue and nose piercings are obviously a no go. They can't slouch, and at some companies even put their hands in the pockets or cross their arms with their uniform on. And their smile must be impeccable!

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The 105-story Ryugyong Hotel was planned to be the tallest in the world and North Korea’s greatest achievement. It’s more than 2½ times the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Nearly 4 million square feet of floor space, you could almost fit Vatican City in this one building! But don't rush to book a deluxe room, though. This hotel is one of the strangest hotels in the world because it hasn’t hosted a single guest in its 33-year history!

Ryugyong means “capital of willows,” and it’s an ancient name for Pyongyang. Once finished, the hotel could house up to 3,000 guests. 8 of its floors are supposed to rotate and have revolving restaurants with an unbeatable view of the city. And on the very top stands a massive cone twice the size of the Great Sphinx! A magnificent record-breaking hotel in the heart of the capital would bring tons of tourists into the city. So what went wrong?

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Experienced tourists know that it’s really hard to predict everything when it comes to traveling. Sometimes the quality of the service in hotels is really low. Some hotels use different tricks to make their apartments look bigger and some don't seem to care about safety. Perhaps these problems are a fun way for hotels to attract more attention to them, but it's not the kind of publicity any hotel would want.

Remember that excited feeling you got as a kid when you were going to stay at a hotel? It feels like a mini-vacation… until the experience of your actual stay leaves you cringing! But there are ways to avoid a “bad hotel” altogether. For example, if you have trouble reaching someone at the front desk, this could indicate a lack of discipline on management’s part. So, let's learn why you should stay away from certain hotels.

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You go to the kitchen, make your morning coffee – this will take care of that drowsiness! Bathroom, wash your face, squeeze a little bit of toothpaste on the toothbrush… Wait, your toothbrush – it’s all tattered and shredded. You look in the mirror and notice your teeth are half the size they used to be! And this triangular shape… You didn’t have that before! Wait a minute, you’ve seen this before. They’re piranha teeth!

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The Earth is not perfectly spherical, Mercury is the hottest planet, and Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System. These simple facts are known even to those with no real knowledge about astronomy. But there are billions of planets in the Universe and some of them are really amazing! For example, there's a planet where night never ends. And it’s not your regular night with stars shining in the beautiful skies — here, it’s pitch dark and scorching hot!

Have you ever heard about a planet that is so close to its sun that half the planet’s surface is a literal ocean of molten lava? The other half is in eternal darkness because it never sees the sun — the planet is always turned to its star with one side! And between the scorching and the dark, there’s the twilight zone — a thin strip of gloomy nothingness.

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So let's imagine it’s true. After years of wild speculation, crazy theories, and dubious findings, it’s finally been confirmed. Megalodon, the greatest shark of all time, has been spotted in the waters of the South Atlantic. And now a group of researchers is preparing for the expedition of a lifetime: they’ll need to locate, catch, and tag the ocean predator to further study its behavior.

First of all, they need a fishing boat large enough to withstand the weight and lunge force of such a huge shark. At the moment, the only vessel close enough to what they need is a former crabbing boat refurbished to catch and tag great white sharks. But although great whites are the largest modern predatory sharks, they’re still much smaller than the megalodon. A great white shark can grow up to 20 feet in length and weigh over 2 tons. The megalodon reached 60 to 80 feet and weighed whopping 50 tons...

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It seems that we know everything, or almost everything, about what we eat because we carefully read the labels. But can we say that for sure? Some products have their own secrets! It turns out there's a fruit that has a superpower of making your sweat smell like violets. And you should drop cranberries to see if they’re tasty. The higher the berries bounce – the better they are! Speaking about berries, your morning coffee is actually stewed fruit.

So, today, today we’ve collected the most amazing facts about foods that you probably eat every day. We bet you’ll change your attitude toward some of your favorite dishes after watching this video. Ready? Then let's find out why lemons float, but limes sink, how the color of plates and cup affects your food perception, what was the first vegetable grown in space, and other cool facts about food!

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