Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but not any jewelry is a good gift. You'll be surprised to know some pieces of it, like a cursed pearl, can destroy marriages! And that certainly makes that jewelry a girl's worst enemy. One pearl in particular managed to make plenty of enemies over centuries of ruining its owners' love lives. For about 300 years, the infamous La Peregrina pearl was the largest to have ever been found, originally weighing in just shy of 56 carats or about 11 grams. King Philip presented his new bride with the mesmerizing pearl as a wedding present. Mary and Philip never got divorced, but it is known that the king left her not long after tying the knot. And that was only the beginning of the pearl's adventures. Other videos you might like:
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-It was a slave in Panama who found the pearl in the early 1500s. Since Panama was a Spanish colony at the time, La Peregrina was then immediately handed over to Prince Philip II of Spain who presented it to his wife Mary. Queen had a taste for getting rid of people she didn’t like very much. Philip later left her, and it could’ve been the title thing, Mary’s not-so-enticing looks, or, given the victims yet to come, it may have been the cursed pearl at work.
-The Spanish king tried to give La Peregrina to Mary’s half-sister and successor, Elizabeth I…as a way to propose marriage. After her refusal, Philip kept his big shiny pearl, and it stayed with the Spanish Crown for the next 250 years.
-After Napoleon Bonaparte had declared himself Emperor of France, he made his older brother Joseph the King of Spain, and his wife Julie Clary would be Queen. She was the next lucky lady to receive the pearl as a gift from her husband. They pretty much lived totally separate lives.
-From Napoleon, it was sold to an English Duke by the name of James Hamilton in 1848. He’d bought the pearl for his wife Louisa. -Richard Burton presented La Peregrina to his wife Elizabeth Taylor. There’s no proof that La Peregrina was to blame for these two actors’ failed marriage, but on the other hand, there’s also no proof that it wasn’t.
-The pearl was sold at Christie’s auction house on December 14, 2011 to a private buyer for a whopping $11.8 million. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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Engineers invent, build, and fix things to make all our lives easier. You probably don't always give them enough credit for everything they do, though they all deserve respect. One of them maybe deserves it more than anyone else. Despite the fact that he was blind, he became an engineer and helped light the way for ships. Alexander Mitchell was born in 1780 in Dublin. At the age of 22, he became completely blind. Mitchell had heard plenty of stories about ships being grounded by underwater sandbanks. He decided to help solve the problem. It took him a year to come up with the perfect solution, but in 1833, he patented the screw-pile lighthouse. Other videos you might like:
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-When he was at school, at a mind-boggling fast rate, Mitchell’s eyesight started to get worse and worse. By 22 he was completely blind. -He just kept on living an ordinary life, got married, and had 5 kids. Mitchell set up a successful brick-making business and started building houses around Belfast. -Mitchell had heard plenty of stories about ships being grounded by underwater sandbanks. At 51, he decided to find a solution as he was a capable builder with a mind set on fixing problems.
-It took him a year to come up with the perfect solution, but in 1833, he patented the screw-pile lighthouse.Instead of installing post-like iron piles straight into the soft mud or sand to make a foundation, he came up with the idea of screwing them in place sort of like a corkscrew. -It’d take him five more years of waiting until his invention would be used in construction for the first time. 58-year-old man personally went to the construction site and climbed up the unfinished building.
-The success of his invention allowed Alexander to return to the construction business again and significantly expand its borders. By the beginning of the 20th century, hundreds of screw-pile lighthouses went up not only all over the British Isles but also in North America. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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Everybody knows the legendary dragon, Bruce Lee. Apart from his proficiency in martial arts, his incredible physique was one of the staples of Lee’s success as an actor and fighter. And his rock-hard abs are perhaps the most prominent feature of his ripped body. But what did he do to achieve this result and is everyone capable of doing that? In fact, Bruce Lee trained extremely hard and led an almost ascetic lifestyle full of sacrifice. He used just five simple exercises. His main secret was the number of reps he did. The count went to hundreds and sometimes even thousands. Are you up for the challenge? Other videos you might like:
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-Bruce Lee used just five simple exercises. His main secret was the number of reps he did. It takes a LOT of stamina and strength, not to mention the dedication he put into making his body perfect. -Lie down on your back and put your hands behind your head. With your legs bent at the knee, plant your feet firmly on the floor. Then raise your upper body, trying to reach your knees with your chest, and after that, slowly return to the initial position. For Bruce Lee’s variation of sit ups, you’ll need either a sit up bench or an abdominal fitness board. -Lie on the floor with your arms along your body. If you use a flat bench, lie on it and secure yourself by holding the edges of the bench with your hands. Now, as the name of the exercise suggests, raise your straight legs up until your feet are pointing at the ceiling. Hold the top position for a second or two and lower your legs back down. -You’ll need a light weighted bar or just a long stick for this exercise. Take the bar and put it across your shoulders behind your neck. Grip either end of the bar firmly with your hands and lean your upper body forward. Ideally, you should stand at a 90-degree angle. Now twist your upper body to the right, reaching the left end of the bar to your right foot. -Advanced Bruce Lee’s version of this exercise looks like this: hang on a chin-up bar, straining your arms to hold you still. Bend your knees and use your lower abs to pull them to your chest, or at least as high as you can.
-Grab a dumbbell in either hand and stand straight, feet shoulder width apart. Hold your arms slightly tense, hanging at your hips. Bend your upper body to the right until you feel some tension in your side. Hold this position for a second or two and go back up. Then repeat the motion to the left.
-Lee’s main focus was on the number of repetitions for each exercise. He did 4 sets of 50 reps, totaling 200 reps for a single exercise and a full thousand for the five of them. The key to well-developed abs is not to overwork them but to let them grow naturally. Finally, end every abdominal workout with a set of static muscle contractions. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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Amazing stories about people who’ve survived a plane crash are also extremely rare. But what if I tell you that one man not only stayed alive after his plane dropped into the ocean, but also managed to fend off hungry sharks for a whopping 15 hours until he was rescued? It happened in 1986, and this man's name was Walter Wyatt, Jr. The thirty-seven-year-old flight engineer was flying from Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, to Miami on a rainy December day. He was the only person on board his twin-engine Beechcraft, but the plane got lost because of bad weather and lack of navigation equipment. What happened next is truly a miracle. Other videos you might like:
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-The plane had already traveled over Andros Island when the sky darkened ominously, and the compass needle started to gyrate wildly. Bimini, the westernmost region of the Bahamas, didn't show up, and the pilot realized he was lost. -By the time the white-and-orange Coast Guard jet appeared, night had already fallen, and the right engine of Wyatt's plane had started to sputter.
-Beechcraft's pilot followed the Falcon, but both engines had collapsed. Circling over the place of the crash, Falcon desperately tried to locate the plane, but there was neither machine nor man to be seen. -Within seconds, the plane was gone underwater, with Wyatt left adrift in the rough sea. -The pilot had previously taken a sea-survival course and knew how important it was to conserve energy. But he knew that in the darkness, with the weather so stormy, and the waves raging around, nobody would be able to spot him in the water. -Out of the blue, he felt something massive bumping into his leg. Sharks had arrived to have their feast. When the first shark dived and headed toward his legs, Wyatt managed to slam his heel forcefully between its eyes. When two other sharks dashed toward Wyatt, he gave several frantic kicks and managed to fend off those beasts as well. -When the Coast Guard finally came back for him, Wyatt started to wave his bright-orange life vest to attract the pilot's attention. A sleek boat rushed through the waves, and soon the man was already hanging onto its bottom rung. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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Even if you're the biggest animal-lover in the world, there are places where you wouldn't be too happy to spot any four-legged creatures. Especially when they just appear at any moment in your bathroom or toilet! Why do they do that and how can you protect yourself from unpleasant surprises? You can ensure your safety by following some simple advice: try not to flush any food remains down the toilet, and make sure your pipes are more than 24 inches wide. While rats, frogs, spiders, and even snakes are obviously unsanitary, but will actually most likely do you no harm when they arrive at your house solo. Other videos you might like:
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-Rats are always on the hunt for two things: food and shelter. Only the most desperate rat would go right to the center of the danger zone, which is your home. For the most part, you really have nothing to worry about. To avoid their visit, try not to flush any food remains down the toilet, and make sure your pipes are more than 24 inches wide.
-Frogs swarm around when you forget to switch the lights off in hotter times of the year as they are hunting insects.
-Flexible snakes can swim long distances and they love to hunt rats, and that's what might bring them into your toilet. There’s almost nothing to worry about. Most cities aren’t suitable for snakes’ well-being in any possible way and to add to this – snakes rarely bite people and are rarely venomous.
-Spiders fall into bowls from ceilings, and they can go through plumbing. Like most spiders, the funnel web can’t swim, but it can survive in the water for as long as 30 hours by collecting air between hairs on its abdomen. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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When the odds of something happening are really low, you say: “It’s like winning a lottery.” Yet, one man, over the course of 30 years, actually did win the lottery 14 times in a row! Sounds improbable, but this is the real story of a mathematical genius, Stefan Mandel. It all began in the 1960s, when a poor Romanian accountant was living on $88 a month and came up with a solution that, perhaps, only he could think of: lottery. He spent every minute he had off work and family life analyzing papers on math and working on his own algorithm. And it worked! Other videos you might like:
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-It all began in the 1960s, when a poor Romanian accountant was trying to make ends meet and feed his family. He decided to invent his own algorithm to win lotteries.
-Mandel claimed that, in a lottery with 6 total winning numbers, he could accurately predict 5 of them. He won the first prize, which was about $19 thousand, paid his debts to everyone who helped him, and still benefited quite a lot.
-He settled in Australia and got access to every Commonwealth resource available for anyone with Australian citizenship. -The new method included six steps: calculate the total number of combinations possible in any given lottery, find lotteries where the jackpot was at least three times as big as the number of combinations, raise money to buy every single combination, print out millions of tickets, deliver them to the official dealers and take the prize!
-Over the years he succeeded in creating what he called a “lotto syndicate”: a network of hundreds of investors who believed in his method and were more than willing to help.
-On February 15, 1992, Mandel’s team hit not only the jackpot but also the second and third prizes, along with dozens of minor ones, their overall winnings amounting to about $30 million. -in 2004 Mandel was sentenced to 20 months of prison in Israel, where he tried to pull another lottery stunt and failed. Since his release in 2006, he’s been living a quiet life on a tropical island off the coast of Australia. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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If you think grammar is something you only need in school, you'll be surprised to find out messing it up can sometimes cost millions of dollars or make a huge difference in your personal life. Misplacing a comma, for instance, can change the meaning of a sentence dramatically. For example, note the difference between “Let’s eat (comma) Granny!” and “Let’s eat Granny!” In 2017, Oakhurst Dairy, a company from the state of Maine, literally lost millions of bucks because of a misplaced comma. And that was not exactly the only case that proved that grammar actually rules the world. Other videos you might like:
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-Truck drivers working for the company claimed they were owed overtime payment, while the company itself disagreed. According to the law, the exemptions were … "storing, packing for shipment or distribution" of perishable foods. A missing comma makes it all a single activity.
-The “Oxford comma” is normally put before “and” or “or” in sentences where there are three or more items listed one after another. -Each of the five truck drivers that filed the complaint received $50,000, and the rest of them (that’s about 127 people) were owed overtime pay for four years.
-By writing “fruit, plants” instead of “fruit-plants,” the US government basically waived fees for all plants instead of only fruit-bearing ones. -In 2015, a British family business called Taylor and Sons was listed by the government as facing liquidation instead of Taylor and Son, a completely different company.
-In 1962, the missing hyphen sent the rocket bearing the probe off course and on to a dramatic crash in the Atlantic Ocean.
-In 1988, a travel agency from California decided to list its exotic travel packages in the directory as an advertisement, but Yellow Pages printed it as “erotic travels.” -An unfortunate seller on eBay put a bottle of 1852 Allsopp’s Arctic Ale with one "p" in Allsopps. The buyer who purchased it resold it for over a half million dollars. Subscribe to Bright Side : https://goo.gl/rQTJZz
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The Earth is our home and it feels like it has been here forever and will always be there. However, it's not so easy and safe in space, and it looks like the Milky Way is at risk! Astronomers believe that in 4.5 billion years, a powerful galactic collision will occur. The Milky Way galaxy, which is the home to our Solar System and the very planet we live on, will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. The good news is that the collisions, and the potential appearance of a quasar, will have no effect on our planet! What's more, even the quasar's radiation won't manage to disturb the peace of the Solar System. Other videos you might like:
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-In 2018, the European Space Agency finally released the most detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy.
-A new galaxy orbiting the Milky Way that was named Antlia 2 was discovered thanks to the powerful telescope.
-A new study claimed that the very same Antlia 2 is responsible for bizarre ripples disturbing the hydrogen gas in the Milky Way's outer disc. -It seems that over time, the Milky Way has absorbed loads of the material Antlia 2 consists of when the two collided about 1 billion years ago.
-There might be not one, but two galactic collisions; and the first is likely to happen around 2 billion years from now, when the Milky Way collides with the Large Magellanic Cloud. -All the constellations, as we know them, will disappear from the sky, but the potential appearance of a quasar, will have no effect on our planet.
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