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Whether you’re into useful tips for self-improvement, psychology, recent discoveries, mysterious stories, or just your day-to-day routine, there’s something for everyone! You can expect all that and more coming at you in five new episodes every day. If you’ve got a thirst for knowledge that never quits, then join our community! We have a good time, so take your shoes off, kick back, and make yourself at home here on the Bright Side of life!

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13:36

What If You Fell off a Cruise Ship

Bright Side ·

2025/10/27

In August 2018, a UK woman was sailing on the Adriatic Sea. Seems like nothing out of the ordinary, just the perfect summer vacation out on the open water! The Norwegian Star cruise liner was heading to Venice, Italy after departing from Vargarola, Croatia. The woman was on the 7th deck, when, right before midnight, she fell off the back of the ship! It happened about 60 miles off the coast of a city called Pula. Too far away to call for help… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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12:35

Dinosaur Extinction Started 10 Million Years Before...

Bright Side ·

2025/10/27

Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? We've all heard the theory about the asteroid that hit the Earth and destroyed the Dinos. But what if it was a myth we truly believed in? A new theory claims that dinosaurs would be wiped from Earth even without an asteroid. Let's take a look at these 27 roarsome facts about dinosaurs... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:37

12 Most Surprising Facts About Queen Elizabeth I

Bright Side ·

2025/10/27

You probably remember learning about Queen Elizabeth I in school. She came to power in 1558 and was one of England’s greatest monarchs. We all know about her accomplishments as a ruler, but what about the stuff they don’t teach you in school? Have you ever heard, for example, that she cussed like a sailor? Yes, she was the Good Queen Bess, and yet she didn’t really care what came out of her mouth! Another amazing fact is that she supposedly had over 2,000 pairs of gloves. Her wardrobe was immense,

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12:38

What Makes Some People More Attractive Than Others

Bright Side ·

2025/10/27

Do you know that it's not only genetics what dictates how attractive you turn out to be? There are other factors that contribute to whether or not you appear “good-looking” to those around you. In fact, there are general features that make some people more attractive than the rest. And here they are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:40

Can You Drink Rainwater + 20 Cool Body Facts

Bright Side ·

2025/10/27

So cool you want to send them to your bff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:52

10 Traits of Toxic Parents Who Ruin Their Children’s...

Bright Side ·

2025/10/26

Raising children is very difficult and no one has the right to judge someone's particular parenting style. However, some parenting mistakes are more dangerous than others and can seriously damage your child’s health. This video will help you find out what actually affects a child’s psyche and teach those who have toxic parents how they can deal with this issue. When raised by narcissistic parents, children suffer from slowed-down emotional development or none at all, will most likely suffer from

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12:26

The Most Extreme Sleeping Hours Among Animals

Bright Side ·

2025/10/26

Sloths have a reputation they need to maintain, and rumor has it that they sleep 15 to 19 hours a day! That's true about sloths in captivity. But did you know that wild sloths rarely sleep more than 10 hours a day? Being the slowest mammal in the world, the sloth needs a lot of time to find food and eat it. What about you? Do you sleep as much as a brown bat or as little as a goat? And how do you know? Let's figure it out and check which creatures are the most famous sleepyheads, and which can

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11:53

What Your Hair Length Says About Your True Personality

Bright Side ·

2025/10/26

What Your Hair Length Reveals About Your Personality. Hair is one of the features that define us most, as we choose exactly how it's going to look. According to one study, it is also a true reflection of our personality. We've prepared a quick personality test for both men and women! Let's find out what your hairstyle says about you! It's not pure science, so don't take this too seriously, just have fun with it and get to know, whether these descriptions will suit you, your friends, family, your

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10:57

If You See These Lights, You Have a Few Seconds to Hide

Bright Side ·

2025/10/26

Is it possible to predict earthquakes? In 2009, a man in L’Aquila, Italy saw flickering lights dancing above the stone street. He immediately knew what to do and moved his family to a safer place. Only seconds later, a massive 8.3 magnitude earthquake hit the whole region. His knowledge of the strange lights saved his and his family’s lives. So what are those mysterious warnings? For centuries people interpreted the lights as something otherworldly. The scientific community didn’t take them

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12:25

9 Signs You’re Eating Too Much Sugar

Bright Side ·

2025/10/26

We are all guilty of adding some sugar here and there to make things taste better, but what might seem like innocent pleasure can actually cause a lot of serious health issues when we put too much sugar in our body. Luckily, our system gives us crystal-clear signs when we’ve crossed that line and should stop doing that immediately to protect ourselves from health problems. Large amounts of sugar in your diet cause your cells to go through complicated biochemical processes that result in muscle

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12:48

10 Parenting Tips to Calm Down Any Child In a Minute

Bright Side ·

2025/10/25

Tantrums are very common in kids aged 1 to 4. More than half of kids let their frustration out at least once a week, or more often. Why do they do it? By the time they turn 3 or 4, kids have much better language skills than babies, of course, but their vocabulary is still not advanced enough to describe everything they feel. So what can you do to prevent your kids from going crazy now and then? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:41

What If Megalodon Met Fish With Strongest Bite Ever

Bright Side ·

2025/10/25

Megalodon was the biggest shark and Dunkleosteus - the biggest fish. They both were fearsome creatures in their time. But what would happen if they came head to head?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:08

Do You Really Need to Get Your Wisdom Teeth Pulled?

Bright Side ·

2025/10/25

Wisdom teeth come out between the ages of 12 to 25, and some doctors recommend having them removed. But is it necessary? Do we really need to get our wisdom teeth pulled? In some cases, there is absolutely no need to remove your wisdom teeth. If they don’t interfere with the normal functioning of neighboring teeth, it means that your mouth is big enough to accommodate all four of your wisdom teeth. The same is true if they’re straight and not at an angle to their neighbors, which can create

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12:01

23 Flight Secrets Airline Don't Want You to Know

Bright Side ·

2025/10/25

Do you like to travel? If you answered “yes, of course”, chances are, you spend a good deal of your life up in the air. Planes get you to your destination in not time, driven by life and pure magic. You seem to know them well, but I bet there are some unanswered questions. Find out how can you get a free extra meal on your next flight? What do passengers do to annoy them the most? What am I talking about here? It’s flight attendant secrets and nightmares finally revealed. Stay till the end to find

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13:48

Why Planes Don't Fly Faster

Bright Side ·

2025/10/25

Why are planes slow? Everything else is speeding up: smartphones, the Internet, the pace of life in general! So when are we going to get a superfast passenger jet that can cross continents in the time it takes to watch just one inflight movie versus several? Speed has always interested engineers and pilots. At least at first, they were pretty good at getting these metal birds to fly faster and faster. As long ago as in 1945, a German test pilot reached a speed of 610 mph. But then, something

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13:33

13 Hygiene Things We Learnt to Do Wrong

Bright Side ·

2025/10/24

It’s your personal sanctuary, your private concert stage, the place where all your most ingenious ideas and random thoughts pop into your head, and other things just pop out. It's the bathroom, also known as the restroom, lavatory, and, for you engineers out there, it’s the cubical digestive elimination venue. But do you know that when it comes to what you’re doing in there, you probably make some common sanitation mistakes? For example, you think you're washing your hands correctly? Well, besides

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13:20

30 Foods You've Been Storing All Wrong

Bright Side ·

2025/10/24

40% – that’s how much of the food you buy ends up getting tossed right in the garbage. 40%! Surprised? The culprit: improper storage. We are used to storing everything in our fridges: fruits, vegetables, sweets, breads. Some people also keep sauces, marinades, and cans in their fridges, just in case. But often, while storing foods like this might extend their shelf life, it can actually be harmful for the products. Did you know, for example, that tomatoes get even more flavorful and fragrant if you

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13:37

A Plane That Landed with Extremely Speed Ever

Bright Side ·

2025/10/24

On December 31, 1988, a passenger airliner heading from Kaliningrad, Russia, to Odessa, Ukraine, made for a landing in the destination airport. New Year in Russia is a big deal. And this might have been the reason for what happened on that day with the Tu-134 flight. The weather forecast for the day was not one that would make you overjoyed: it was overcast and stormy, with strong winds and low visibility. The cabin crew knew all this: they were warned of the conditions in advance. All systems

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13:31

10 Superpowers You Had When You Were a Baby

Bright Side ·

2025/10/24

10 Unique Superpowers Kids Are All Born With. Only babies have the following superpowers, and we are sure you will want to have some of them yourself! If you or your close friends or family have babies, you already know how amazing they are. Everything they do, especially when it’s for the first time, is a reason for admiration and celebration. First word? “Let’s get the camera so we can record it!” It gets even better when they learn to crawl, sit and stand and walk! Some people, however, are a bit

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12:58

Close One Eye When You Go to the Toilet at Night

Bright Side ·

2025/10/24

In our everyday life, we’re usually doing things in seemingly the easiest and most rational way, yet we face the same problems repeatedly. Can't fall asleep again after going to the bathroom at night? Wanna know why? That’s because you switched on the lights to see what you’re doing. Our brain is trained to think that the light naturally means morning. Yeah, our brain is a tricky thing. Do you know, for example, why you should have a good laugh before a test? The thing is that our brains need to

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