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Animals have a talent to get humans on their side. And there are some who have mastered the art of making people fall in love with them at first glance. It’s impossible to stay indifferent to cute pandas, smiling leopard seals, or fluffy alpacas. The world is full of wonderful creatures that are so pure, so innocent, and sometimes so helpless. They look at us with angelic eyes and yearn for love and care. ... Or is it only our imagination?

Well, yeah, if for some reason you ever decide to wake up a sleeping giant panda or cuddle it, just remember that it’s a bad idea. The Leopard seals are actually rather aggressive animals and effective lone hunters. And alpacas can bite with their sharp fighting teeth that are at the back of their mouths. And they also have soft toes to give enemies a good kick. Let's find out more about some of the cutest animals that are actually dangerous.

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Knowing some symptoms and first aid techniques is the smallest thing that we can do in order to secure ourselves and our nearest and dearest. We collected for you the most effective first aid and survival techniques, as well as facts that can help you figure out how to act properly. We hope you'll never need to use them in your lives, but it's better to be safe than sorry.

Did you know, for example, that unlike what's shown on TV, when someone's about to drown, they won't wave or cry out? Or why when you're trying to save someone who can't swim, you should never approach them directly? Or how a small mirror can save your life while traveling in isolated areas? So here's a list of facts that can help you act rationally in a critical situation.

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The smartphones designed by Apple have long occupied a strong position in the mobile market. They have become so popular that every other person in large cities carries an iPhone. However, most owners of Apple devices don't realize how truly powerful their gadgets are. Did you know, for example, that the Late Night option can make your phone around 20% louder than it used to be?

Do you know how to record a video without being noticed? Your video will be recording, but it won't be seen on the screen. Well, that’s sneaky! And if you like writing long romantic letters in your notes, but don't want anyone to read them, except the person…you know... you just can set a pass to your notes. So, we have picked some of the most incredible iPhone tricks that can make your iPhone experience better than you ever dreamed.

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If there were cataclysms on Earth every 5 minutes, living conditions on our planet would be almost the same as 4.5 billion years ago. Back then, seas and oceans boiled, lightning struck everywhere, tectonic plates changed their shape, lava flowed from volcanoes. And worse, no internet! The Earth resembled a vast, boiling cauldron, where life was gradually being created. If it starts to boil again, this cauldron could destroy almost all life on the planet.

Consecutive cataclysms – won’t hurt to pretend. Let’s imagine, shall we? Okay, you wake up in a small underground bunker. The seismic sensor indicates that a 7-point earthquake will start in a few minutes. You pack a huge waterproof backpack and go upstairs. You need to leave the shelter because supplies are low. Also, yesterday you picked up a radio signal telling all survivors to go south immediately. The coordinates they gave aren't far from your location. You have to hurry, though, before the landscape changes again...

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You're woken up by a strange sound. It's a knock on the window. But you live on the 12th floor – who, or what could be knocking? The knocking is getting stronger. You go to the window, reach for the curtain, and abruptly pull it aside... What you see is fantastic. There are flying (or floating) small fish outside your window. 1000s of them! A shoal of sardines rising directly to the sky. A few knock on your window as they pass. There are so many sardines, you can't see what's going on outside. But as the last fish flies by, the full picture opens before you.

Large and small fish fly between the houses. Octopuses cut through the air with their tentacles into a rain cloud. A huge whale is slowly drifting toward the horizon. Above the roof of a nearby house, two sharks chase four sea lions. A neighbor waves to you. He holds a fishing rod from the window and waits for the fish to bite. A school--no, a flock--of dolphins flies past your window. They cheerfully whistle, as if they are greeting you. What's going on? Sea creatures of the Earth have learned to fly, leaving the ocean and filling the air!

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The Kraken is a colossal squid, a legendary sea monster. The biggest hunk of calamari you ever saw! And if this monster had existed, the world would have changed beyond recognition. The Kraken has powerful tentacles. Solid muscles with suckers at the end, they're impossible to escape. The Kraken can break a ship in half, or just pull it down into the depths. But the worst thing about the Kraken is its size.

According to old sailor stories, the Kraken reached 5,000 feet in length. That's almost 10 soccer fields! The Kraken legends said the monster was so giant that sailors mistook it for a small island. Such a big creature can easily grab a ship with its tentacles and drag it to the bottom of the ocean! In past centuries, it would have been impossible to defeat such a beast. But what if giant squids, which is what a Kraken actually is, existed today?

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Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you were born into a video game? Well, if you think about it, your life is a lot like a video game. You could say it's like a role-playing game most of all. All you need to do is add the right icons to your screen, like your health and energy bars. There's your inventory as well, with your phone, wallet, and keys in it. And, of course, everyone's got a skill bar.

Even when you're a baby, the game difficulty is already set to hard. All your skills are at level zero, and your health bar is tiny. Which is why you only sleep or eat most of the time to make sure it grows. When you reach level one, you unlock the ability to walk. But the world map is still closed to you because there are lots of dangers you're just not ready for yet... So, here's another fun what-if scenario for those who love video games and unusual hypothetical questions.

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Ants can be very annoying and suddenly appear from nowhere, oftentimes sneaking into places in your kitchen or pantry. But what would happen if ants were the size of humans? So, picture this: the blare of a loudspeaker chimes throughout the area. You jump out of bed, confused. You run out to the balcony and look down. People run along the sidewalk shouting, “Ants!!!” Ants? Those tiny insects? The average ant is less than 1 inch in size. But what is happening in the city? Suddenly, she appears at the end of the block—a huge red ant.

The size of a human, she’s confidently walking along the sidewalk, swinging her long antennae from side to side, searching for prey, opening and closing her mandibles like a trap. The TV shows scenes from different parts of the city. Giant ants are everywhere. They move in columns of several individuals. Some climb onto buildings. The ants rush along the road overtaking the cars. A man-sized ant can reach a speed of 34 miles per hour. The city is in chaos...

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Imagine you’re scuba diving in the ocean, watching corals and colorful fish flitting by, when suddenly an enormous shadow appears above you. You look up and see a massive creature approaching you, its mouth a gaping abyss… Relax, just stay still and you’ll be fine. This leviathan is a basking shark — one of the scary sea monsters that isn’t really capable of doing harm to anyone. Basking sharks are filter feeders, just like baleen whales: they open their large mouths to swallow plankton and don’t even have teeth.

Mother Nature is always full of surprises. It's hard to believe how many incredible and different creatures live on our planet! Some of them look terribly scary but they are not dangerous at all! They can look scary based on their large size, sharp teeth, or thorns, but all of these animals are mostly harmless to us. For example, tailless whip scorpions you might meet in North and South America, as well as Asia and Africa, are more afraid of you than you are of them. These nightmarish creatures don’t have stingers and won’t even bite when threatened. So, we gathered some new facts about the animal world.

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It’s 1875. There are 38 states in the US. Queen Victoria rules the UK. The Eiffel Tower won’t be built for another 12 years. The Empire State Building – not for another 50! The average life expectancy for a 19th-century female is about 45 years. One woman, born this year, will nearly triple that. Her name is Jeanne Louise Calment… She was born in Arles, France, right at the beginning of the global industrial boom. She was a year old when the telephone was invented.

The phonograph followed 2 years later. Then the automobile, radio, TV, the computer, and the Internet over the decades. By the time Microsoft was founded, Calment was already 100. When the first smartphone was invented, she was 117. She knew a world without airplanes and spaceships! But many people noted that Jeanne was always full of energy. She looked and acted 20 or even 30 years younger than her age. So was Jeanne Calment really the oldest person who ever lived? If so, what were her secrets to long life?

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