Here's a story about one Arctic Expedition that went absolutely wrong. Twelve people, two of them little children, got stranded in the broken ice of the Arctic for over 6 months, with no hope of rescue. Wow! And that's a true story! The survivors almost did the unthinkable: what was it? How did they manage to get out of the desperate situation?

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While most of us will probably never get a chance to meet the Queen, it couldn’t hurt to brush up on your court etiquette, just in case. No one wants to wind up being thrown out of Her Majesty’s dinner party, so you should remember the rules if you want to avoid making a royal fool of yourself. By the way, let’s just assume right here that burping or some other release of gas is forbidden, so we’ll stick to the main ones. Did you know, for example, that using French words is considered impolite when speaking with the Queen, or any member of the royal family? Of course, breaking the rules of etiquette probably won’t get you thrown into the Tower of London in chains, or even out on the street, you should be on your best behavior if you want your royal rendezvous to go smoothly.

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When Marine Second Lieutenant Walter Osipoff was boarding a plane on May 15, 1941, he didn't know yet that the flight would almost become his very last. Shortly after the takeoff, an accident that no one could have predicted left the man dangling high in the air, tangled in his parachute and hanging from the aircraft's tail in midflight.   It was another regular sunny morning in California, and everything was calm at the North Island Naval airbase. There were no warning signs to the drama that was about to unfold in just a couple of hours. His parachute's ripcord got tangled with the automatic-release cord of the cargo cylinder, and the next thing he knew - his parachute was deploying inside the plane!

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You use it every day but I bet you have no idea how it works... Electricity! Just think about it: every time you turn on the lights in your room, you use the speed of light. Yup, electricity travels at the speed of light to your home. Let's follow this process step by step: get to know how electrical energy travels, what it's composed of and how it's delivered right to your home.

In this video you'll learn how to create an electric current from scratch and why physics teachers lie about electricity. If you're thinking about which source of electrical energy you want to use, I've got news for you. You're already using most of them at the same time. Let's find out, how it's possible...

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Here's some breaking news for you: technically, every human on Earth is a big group of microbes. Bacteria affect our life much more than you think. Each person is only 43% human and 57% microbe. Wow! These creatures are true owners of our Planet! To our 30 trillion human cells, we have on average about 39 trillion microbial cells. 

If you get on the scales, you can subtract more than a half from the number you see and you'll get your actual weight. Maybe you don't really need that diet, if you think about it. Let's learn more about this hidden half of ourselves...

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