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The mysterious ghost train became the main sight of St. Louis, a little village in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. There are just around 400 people living there and hundreds visit it to see the St. Louis light. It was featured in books and online, and was on TV shows like Unsolved Mysteries. For decades, no one could explain what it really was.

Some people spotted a white light, others said they'd seen a red one. An urban legend explained the red light was a lantern carried by a ghost of a train conductor who had lost his life one night examining the tracks. Scientists tried to debunk both ghost-involving theories but failed. Then, two high school students from northern Saskatchewan decided to jump in. They first witnessed the ghost train on a road trip to St. Louis...

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Neglecting to wash and take care of some parts of our body can lead to serious problems. We all know that we should wash our hands thoroughly but there are other body parts that require better hygiene than we thought. For example, if you still use cotton swabs to clean your ears, best look a bit lower, at your belly button. When did you last clean it? There’s a lot of stuff going on there: scientists have found a veritable rainforest of bacteria in the human navel. And some of them are bound to be harmful.

Or what about your tongue? Even if you brush your teeth twice a day and use a mouthwash every time, you might still notice you’ve got bad breath. This could be caused by bacteria on your tongue, so consider cleaning it too. This is especially true if your tongue is coated with some whitish film. We respect human nature and want to present a compilation of important parts of our body that we may not be treating the right way.

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Imagine you wake up early in the morning with a severe headache. You go to the bathroom to wash your face with cold water. And when you turn on the light, you see the reflection of a person… with no skin. Everything under there – It’s like it's all in HD. Your teeth are bare and your eyes don’t have eyelids. You really don't get that your skin is see-through, you just think it’s disappeared. You scream in fear and run out of the bathroom. It sounds like your neighbors are yelling too. Everyone in your building is getting up and having the same reaction as you.

All city services shut down, at least for a few hours. There are traffic jams everywhere, as people race around like crazy trying to get to the hospital. Ambulances are everywhere, and emergency services are out, trying to calm people down. People are fainting left and right. It sounds like the panic’s finally subsided, everyone’s gone outside to see what’s going on. You also leave the house. You're in total shock, everyone really does have transparent skin. You meet your friend and he tells you that this is happening all over the world...

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It’d be cool to understand your pets’ language. Imagine you’re walking your dog and suddenly: hey, owner, look at that guy. I feel like he’s a bad person. Let’s go away. Woof! Or you leave the house, and your cat lying on the couch says: "buddy, take the umbrella. My tail tells me it’ll be raining!" In general, our pets could tell us a lot. That’s because they have a “superpower.” Their sense organs - eyes, ears, feet (or paws), and hair - are much more developed than those of people. Our pets get a bunch of information from the outside world.

Pets can see and hear what you can’t. Animals also have super intuition. They can predict dangerous situations and, moreover, help their beloved person. But here’s the problem: they can’t speak the human language. So, behavior is their primary way to communicate. But how exactly do animals behave before, say, an earthquake or other natural disasters? There’s a whole science that studies animal behavior: zoopsychology. Let's find out more about it.

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Well, it’s that time of year again: Spring cleaning! 🧹 You grab the duster and broom to get rid of all those cobwebs on your windows. That's when you suddenly notice some unusually shaped mud stuck on your house. You go to brush it off when, to your horror, hundreds of spiders start raining down on you!!!

But these mud globs aren't their home. No, these spiders have been trapped there by Mud Dauber Wasps! The wasp leaves the nest and heads right toward you, stinger ready! You run as fast as you can. But watch out! There are plenty of other dangerous creatures you should look out for!

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Do you wanna know just how unique you are? Here's a trick you can do! Put your pinky finger and thumb together and check if a muscle rises in your wrist. Whether or not it does will tell you just how rare you are! And there are plenty of other tests you can do, like rolling your tongue or checking if your hair whirl goes clockwise or counterclockwise. You might have some of the rarest body features only 1% of people can boast of having!

Yet other body features tell the world about your personality! If you want to read someone like a book, no need to take body language classes. Just look at a person's eye color, face symmetry, nose and brow shape, even how they sneeze! They all give away personality traits! You can know everything about someone just by looking at them! But...with one glance, the whole world knows everything about you too!

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The most enthusiastic travelers spend, on average, 88 nights in hotels every year, according to statistics. And hotels around the world do their best to make their rooms a home away from home for their guests. However, many people don’t realize that paying for a hotel room doesn’t mean using it without taking extra care. We made a list of certain rules that everyone should follow before checking out from a hotel.

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Our species is at the top of the food chain! With our big brain and fancy tools! But have you ever wondered who'd take our place as the dominant intelligent lifeform if humans never appeared on Earth?

Just picture it: you walk into a coffee shop and a meerkat is your barista. Or you go to a barbershop, and a gorilla starts cutting your hair and making small talk with you!

And to top it all off, let's imagine a giant spaceship suddenly drops humans down on this animal planet! How would we do competing with giant sloths, saber-toothed tigers, and mammoths? Watch to see what that situation might look like!

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The most expensive thing in the universe is something called anti-matter. If you could get your hands on a teaspoonful of the stuff, you'd be $250 TRILLION richer! But here’s the catch: it takes about 100 billion years to create just 1 jelly-bean-sized amount, and it can only be done using the Large Hadron Collider. Well, there goes that idea! But stick around for some more incredible space facts and discoveries!

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It looks like an innocent fluffy ball in the water. But beware! What you're looking at is a sea urchin, and it's something you want to stay far, far away from! That "fluff" is actually pointy sharp spikes full of venom. When you meet these things, it's often too late: you already stepped on it and you have seconds to react! In case that happens, keep watching to see what you should do!

Urchins aren't the only venomous creatures hiding at your local beach. Again, you probably won't even see the stonefish until its venom is already in you from the wrong step. If its spike gets in you, you'll need help fast! Watch out, there are many more scary sea creatures you should know about next time you head to the beach! It looks like an innocent fluffy ball in the water. But beware! What you're looking at is a sea urchin, and it's something you want to stay far, far away from! That "fluff" is actually pointy sharp spikes full of venom. When you meet these things, it's often too late: you already stepped on it and you have seconds to react! In case that happens, keep watching to see what you should do!

Urchins aren't the only venomous creatures hiding at your local beach. Again, you probably won't even see the stonefish until its venom is already in you from the wrong step. If its spike gets in you, you'll need help fast! Watch out, there are many more scary sea creatures you should know about next time you head to the beach!

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