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Days of paid maternity leaves offered to workers:
🇧🇬 Bulgaria — 410
🇦🇱 Albania — 365
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina — 365
🇮🇷 Iran — 270
🇸🇰 Slovakia — 238
🇭🇷 Croatia — 208
🇨🇿 Czechia —196
🇮🇳 India — 182
🇮🇪 Ireland — 182
🇻🇪 Venezuela — 182
🇮🇸 Iceland — 180
🇭🇺 Hungary — 168
🇨🇳 China — 158
🇮🇹 Italy — 150
🇵🇱 Poland — 140
🇷🇺 Russia — 140
🇨🇱 Chile — 126
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan — 126
🇵🇾 Paraguay — 126
🇷🇴 Romania — 126
🇺🇦 Ukraine — 126
🇧🇷 Brazil — 120
🇿🇦 South Africa — 120
🇦🇹 Austria — 112
🇧🇩 Bangladesh — 112
🇪🇸 Spain — 112
🇫🇷 France — 112
🇵🇰 Pakistan — 112
🇹🇷 Turkey — 112
🇨🇦 Canada — 105
🇵🇭 Philippines — 105
🇨🇭 Switzerland — 98
🇩🇪 Germany — 98
🇯🇵 Japan — 98
🇦🇷 Argentina — 90
🇪🇬 Egypt — 90
🇮🇩 Indonesia — 90
🇰🇷 South Korea — 90
🇨🇴 Colombia — 84
🇲🇽 Mexico — 84
🇳🇬 Nigeria — 84
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 70
🇦🇪 UAE — 60
🇫🇮 Finland — 56
🇩🇰 Denmark — 42
🇬🇧 UK — 42
🇺🇸 USA — 0
According to The World Bank
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This odd-looking creature is a bird called the great eared nightjar. It has barred wings along with a barred tail and long ear-tufts that often lie flat. It is the largest species in the family and can grow up to 12 to 16 inches.
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Estimated number of universities:
🇮🇳 India: 5,349
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 3,277
🇺🇸 USA: 3,180
🇨🇳 China: 2,459
🇧🇷 Brazil: 1,264
🇲🇽 Mexico: 1,139
🇷🇺 Russia: 1,010
🇯🇵 Japan: 992
🇫🇷 France: 625
🇩🇪 Germany: 461
🇮🇷 Iran: 440
🇵🇱 Poland: 408
🇰🇷 South Korea: 401
🇨🇦 Canada: 383
🇵🇭 Philippines: 366
🇵🇰 Pakistan: 359
🇲🇾 Malaysia: 351
🇬🇧 UK: 337
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 300
🇨🇴 Colombia: 299
🇮🇹 Italy: 289
🇳🇬 Nigeria: 278
🇪🇸 Spain: 276
🇹🇳 Tunisia: 236
🇹🇷 Turkey: 209
Note: As of July 2023, via Statista
The iconic photo of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out was taken on March 14, 1951, on the scientist's 72nd birthday. It was his annoyed reaction to press photographers urging him to smile. Einstein loved the photo and asked for cropped copies of it to send as personal greetings to friends.
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The Parthenon in Athens, Greece was largely intact for several hundred years after it was built. The extensively damaged ruins we see today were primarily caused not by natural elements or passage of time, but by an explosion that occurred in 1687.
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In 2006, a woman farted on a commercial flight and lit matches to cover up the smell. But when other passengers noticed the smell of burning sulfur, the plane had to make an emergency landing. The woman was then questioned by the FBI.
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After finishing film school, two students wanted to write and fund their own film. They didn’t have much money, so the pair decided that the cheapest script to film would involve two actors in one room. This idea then led to them creating Saw.
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Sony's PlayStation was never meant to be an actual product. Instead, it was intended to be a CD-ROM console that would support Nintendo games. However, when Nintendo backed out of the deal at the last minute, Sony went ahead and launched what soon became one of the most successful gaming consoles of all time.
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In 2020, chocolate "rained" from the sky in a town in Switzerland. This incident was caused by a ventilation system malfunction at a chocolate factory in Olten. Strong winds then carried the snow-like cocoa powder and spread it around in the immediate vicinity of the factory, covering cars and other things in chocolate.
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Before the 2004 tsunami struck Thailand, a 10-year-old British girl named Tilly Smith warned her parents of the imminent danger, having recognized tsunami warning signs she learned in a geography class. Her alert led to the evacuation of the beach, saving approximately 100 tourists from the disaster.
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Total solar eclipse plunges parts of Mexico into darkness
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How to get the negative out of you quickly
If your thoughts keep returning to an unpleasant event, find something to do and distract yourself.
The most effective way to stop yourself from getting worked up is to exercise.
🆗 Clean your house, go for a jog, go to the gym. Physical activity promotes the production of endorphins, which will dull the negative feelings, and fatigue will distract you from bad events.
ANGER, RESENTMENT, HEALING
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When you realize that your parents were wrong in your childhood, you become angry and resentful. Anger tells you that you disagree. Resentment tells you that you expect a different attitude. And as the first stage of healing, anger and resentment are very important. They show a discrepancy between what you were given and what you needed.
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But if the healing goes on, you notice that even though you are an adult, you continue to behave as if someone is not treating you right. Replay the old pattern yourself.
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Breaking this pattern involves letting go of anger and resentment. The disappearance of anger and resentment does not mean that your parents have stopped misbehaving. It means that you yourself have stopped behaving toward yourself the way your parents once did.
Happiness is leisurely
Rapid pace of city life and lack of time are the main enemies of happiness.
Life speeds up, as if transferring us into the cabin of a fast car, where our emotions and feelings begin to flash like lights behind the window✨
We don't have time to feel anything. Our lives blur and we sink into a strange space of "emotionlessness."
So just take your time, let your feelings slowly mature and your happiness will blossom.
🍷 Couples who drink together have stronger relationships, according to a Michigan State University study.
Scientists analyzed 4,656 couples over 50 and found that in couples where people drink together, the relationship is much stronger as it promotes increased intimacy and better understanding.
The average 4-year-old laughs 300 times a day.
The average 40-year-old laughs just four times a day.
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This is the Falkirk Wheel, the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world. A combination of engineering and art allows the wheel to raise boats by more than 114 feet before they sail through the sky. Situated in central Scotland, it connects the Union Canal with the Forth and Clyde Canal.
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The Empire State Building has its own ZIP code. It's home to 10118
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As Toy Story was nearing completion in 1994, Pixar’s Andrew Stanton posed a question during a brainstorming session - “What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?” Fourteen years later, in 2008, he answered this question with the movie WALL-E.
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In the 1980s, an Indian man spent 72 hours in a glass cabin with 72 snakes, some of which were extremely venomous. His aim was to prove that snakes only attack when provoked. Remarkably, he was not bitten once in those 72 hours and even set a Guinness World Record in the process.
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The Top 10 Largest economies in the World 🌎
1. United States 🇺🇸 - 27,974 GDP (USD Billion)
2. China 🇨🇳 - 18,566 GDP (USD Billion)
3. Germany 🇩🇪 - 4,730 GDP (USD Billion)
4. Japan 🇯🇵 - 4,291 GDP (USD Billion)
5. India 🇮🇳 - 4,112 GDP (USD Billion)
6. United Kingdom 🇬🇧 - 3,592 GDP (USD Billion)
7. France 🇫🇷 - 3,182 GDP (USD Billion)
8. Italy 🇮🇹 - 2,280 GDP (USD Billion)
9. Brazil 🇧🇷 - 2,272 GDP (USD Billion)
10. Canada 🇨🇦 - 2,242 GDP (USD Billion)
source: Forbes 2024
Our fears are our traitors.
They keep us from becoming what we could be if we weren't afraid to try.
Such fears often torment very worthy and educated people. On the one hand, "Impostor Syndrome" prevents us from admiring ourselves and pushes us to keep working on ourselves.
On the other hand...
"Impostor syndrome" is the fear of being exposed, of being found out that you are not competent enough, talented enough, worthy of what you aspire to and dream about. Nearly always this syndrome is experienced by people who have absolutely no basis for it🌗
Sort yourself out, look at yourself from the outside, get rid of the barriers that you yourself have built on the way to your goal and start acting❗️
In 2018, footwear retailer Payless set up a fake luxury shoe store called Palessi. Their aim was to see if people would be willing to pay luxury prices for their discount footwear. It succeeded, with shoppers agreeing to pay upto about $600 for footwear that would typically cost between $19.99 and $39.99.
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In September 2022, Brazil stated that it had banned the sale of iPhones without a power adapter and fined Apple, Inc. 12.275 million reais ($2.38 million). This order was issued a day before the company was set to announce a new model of the iPhone.
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Did You Know? 🌚
In Nepal, there's a unique festival known as Kukur Tihar dedicated to celebrating dogs for their unwavering loyalty and companionship. This festival is part of the larger Tihar celebration.
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If you want to be HAPPY, don't wait for a better time!
Do you know the state of waiting for the best day, week, or period of your life?
Admit it, you've told yourself something like: "I'll finish my quarantine and go to yoga...", "go to English courses", "take a second university degree".
How'd it go? Did you go? Got in?
Lots of people are used to putting their lives on pause, hoping that everything will change and the REAL LIFE will begin.
But in the meantime, that real life passes by, and "waiting for a better day" becomes a constant, joyless way of living it.
Partner Support
All of us have to face different circumstances in life, whether it's health problems or job loss.
It is precisely at these times that your partner needs support and encouragement, even though these events can be a source of tremendous stress for you as well.
You don't need to portray an unfading optimism and hide your worries.
The most important thing is to be there for you and for your partner to feel that together you can overcome these difficulties.
💪🏻 Your confidence and support will not only reduce your partner's worries, but most likely will help him to mobilize all his resources to overcome the problem situation.
How to let go of the past
Don't impose standards on yourself. It's a trap!
There is such a thing as a "standard of expectations. Most people absolutely know that any standard situation must have its standard development. And, accordingly, most traumas and hurt feelings from the past are unfulfilled expectations.
➡️ For example, a woman gets married because she expects her husband to provide for her, her husband earns pennies and does not move to earn more, the woman gets divorced and gets angry at the whole world, thinking all men are mean and lazy.
The divorce took place many years ago, and if it were not for her perpetually angry and depressed state of mind, the young energetic woman would have simply found herself another man from among those who are "grounded" to earn, and does not consider it a feat. However, all of her energy is spent regretting the past and the "best years of her life" that are irrevocably gone.
IT'S HARDER TO BE HAPPY THAN MISERABLE
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Mutual love and happiness is a much more difficult experience than unhappiness and unrequited love.
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Happiness can be accompanied by anxiety, fear of loss, and other complicated feelings, while grief is a clear one-way road. Survive, drink, rethink, and get out.
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And happiness is the more difficult task of life. Or even, let's say, a philosophical category. Being here and now, without the possibility of getting caught up in expectations.
ALARM OBJECTIFICATION
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Statistically, forty percent of people on earth have an elevated background of anxiety for various reasons. They wake up in the morning and are already anxious. They worry about work, about children, about money, about the future... And especially strongly such people are so anxious when they cannot find objective reasons for this very anxiety and set in motion their rich imagination.
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What if it is a chronic disease? What if the radiologist (surgeon, therapist, any other doctor) missed something important on the picture?
For example, like now, in the world crisis, or in the plight of polar bears in the conditions of global warming... A person who has finally identified his anxiety becomes much easier. He knows what is happening, he is in control, he takes action, he is afraid, but he still feels better, because an external object has been found.