Cleaning your apartment can be an ordeal, but it gets much easier if you know some simple and effective cleaning tips. You can use ice cubes to clean the carpet or if you have any gums stuck on your sofa or your clothes. Rubber gloves are ideal for removing pet hair and lint from your sofa. Don’t toss the coffee grounds into the garbage after you’re done with your morning brew. They actually work as gentle abrasives, which makes them perfect for scrubbing pots and pans without scratching them.

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Does the Universe have an edge? Where does space end? And what's beyond that point? The truth is we don’t know it. Not yet anyway. So let's imagine what a journey to the end of space would be like! Okay, year 2236. Space exploration is flourishing, and astronauts are the most respected professionals in the Solar System. Yet despite all technological advances, no sign of extraterrestrial life has been observed. Or rather, wasn’t… until two years ago.

The GSA — Global Space Agency — registered a repeating signal like no other. It was coming from a galaxy billions of light years away and moving. The decision was made to construct a one-of-a-kind spaceship, exceeding the speed of light, to explore the signal. But to reach its full speed, it has to be piloted manually. And these four individuals are now going on board the ship for the most important mission in history… perhaps never to come back.

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Let's travel to the galaxy cluster Abell 2261, hosting a supermassive black hole at its center, or at least, that's where it's supposed to be. The main problem is this giant space phenomenon is nowhere to be found! The distance between this huge thing and Earth could be several dozens of light years, and still, it would wreak havoc on our planet. Earth, along with other things making up the Solar System, would be tugged into the black hole's orbit and doomed to spin around it for eternity or longer. So where could it be right now?

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We know almost everything about cats and dogs and can even read their mood by the way they move their tails. But what about other animals? It turns out that they’re just as amazing as our pets! Did you know kangaroo rats can survive for years without water at all, plumed basilisk lizards can run on water, and lyrebirds can learn and produce over 20 different sounds, including chainsaws, dog barks, car engines, and fire alarms?

You definitely didn't know that when hippos get too hot, they ooze a pinkish liquid through their skin. Or that octopuses have three hearts. Their blood is blue, by the way. And they also have as many as nine brains! One is central, and other eight are — you guessed it — controlling their limbs! We aren't going to read a school biology book to you. We just want you to know the coolest animal facts that are never mentioned in these books!

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There’s a star in the Centaurus constellation that was nicknamed 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.' Yes, it was named after a Beatles song because the star was discovered to have a massive diamond at its core. It's estimated to be about 10 billion trillion trillion carats — that's one followed by 34 zeros! To put that into perspective, the Hope Diamond, which is one of the largest diamonds on Earth, is a measly 45.5 carats in comparison. And it's not the most unusual star we know - let's see more of them!

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Believe it or not, but you have to thank mosquitoes for the invention of air conditioning, or, at least, its forefather! No one loves them in the 21st century, but back in the 19th, those guys were a real nightmare. Things were especially bad in swampy areas of Florida.

A local physician and inventor Dr. John Gorrie was trying to find a way to drain the swamps, and while he was at it, he got this revolutionary idea in 1841. He realized the problem was literally in the air. So cooling the air could fix it!

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It happened around 8.7 million years ago. All of a sudden, vast grasslands started to open. Clouds of volcanic gas and ash covered the sky. Flows of lava streamed down the hills and across the plains. Within minutes, black volcanic glass started to rain from above, wiping out animals, crushing plants. It didn't take long before the land caved in, opening giant pits filled with red-hot magma.

It was the greatest eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. This giant, which is actually one of the largest active volcanic systems on the planet, wasn't named SUPERvolcano for nothing. Spreading deep underground and extending for hundreds of miles, supervolcanoes are complicated structures. Experts are still unsure what processes can trigger these fire-breathing monsters and lead to super eruptions.It happened around 8.7 million years ago. All of a sudden, vast grasslands started to open. Clouds of volcanic gas and ash covered the sky. Flows of lava streamed down the hills and across the plains. Within minutes, black volcanic glass started to rain from above, wiping out animals, crushing plants. It didn't take long before the land caved in, opening giant pits filled with red-hot magma.

It was the greatest eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano. This giant, which is actually one of the largest active volcanic systems on the planet, wasn't named SUPERvolcano for nothing. Spreading deep underground and extending for hundreds of miles, supervolcanoes are complicated structures. Experts are still unsure what processes can trigger these fire-breathing monsters and lead to super eruptions.

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Why are your eyes crusty in the morning? Sometimes this crust is almost like water, but sometimes it’s thicker, so thick you can’t open your eyes properly. It’s a natural function in our eyes and this crust has a purpose. But at the same time, it may also signal a problem. We're also very curious as to why this thing appears in our eyes, so we found out why it happens every time we wake up from sleeping. We're gonna dig into this!

By the way, there are a lot of interesting facts about eyes that you probably didn’t know! For example, eyes are the second most complex organ in your body, after your brain of course. They consist of over 2 million working parts, and they stay the same size once you’re a teenager. And our eyes are ready for action, almost all the time. They heal pretty quickly; it takes around 2 days to repair a minor scratch. Eyes can process 36,000 bits of information an hour. They can see millions of different colors!

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Things we encounter every day can often hide many mysteries that few people know about. Here are just a few fascinating, surprising, and downright strange things we found out about food. It turns out that if you rub a clove of garlic in your feet, you’ll taste it within 15 minutes, the Keppel fruit has a superpower of making your sweat smell like violets, and farm raised salmon are actually white.

200 years ago ketchup was used as a medicine, the only product that never goes off, even if you don’t store it in the fridge, is honey, and the color of plates and cups can affect your food perception. We love learning about new things and today we’ve collected the most amazing facts about foods that you probably eat every day. You’ll probably change your attitude toward some of your favorite dishes after reading this article.

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Deep in the heart of the universe, there’s a mysterious and powerful force, hidden, waiting to be unlocked. Antimatter is the science fiction fantasy that comes to life. You may have heard about it in Star Trek and Star Wars, but it's actually a real thing that scientists have been studying for over a century. Antimatter is kinda like an "evil twin" of the regular matter: it’s the mirror image of everything that we're all familiar with. How dangerous is it to us?

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