Here are 7 quick tests that you can do to evaluate the condition of your body. Most of the time, it’s best to find out about a health problem as early as possible in order to avoid even more harm and discomfort in the future. Bright Side wants to keep you healthy, so we encourage you to perform these tests. And at the end of the article, there is a bonus to help you understand how …

In recent years, humanity has started realizing that we are going the wrong way. The natural resources of our planet are being depleted, and the oceans and atmosphere are getting dirtier and dirtier. So scientists are rushing to invent things that can heal Earth before we destroy it. Did you know that approximately 1.4 billion pounds of trash gets into the ocean every …

Autoimmune diseases (type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis, and around 80 types overall) are becoming increasingly common around the world. If not diagnosed in time, they may cause serious health conditions that can even become life-threatening. Knowing the most common symptoms is the first step to a better quality of life for you. If you’ve experienced any of the symptoms listed below, please see …

Do you know that there are more than 100 types of kisses and that each one expresses its own feelings? That’s why lips can reveal many things about a person’s character and their behavior in relationships. It is all explained in Sheril Kirshenbaum’s book The Science of Kissing. Bright Side gathered the 18 most popular kisses and discovered what they mean. 18. The French …

Signs showing that a child might be a psychopath in the future can be noticed when a person is 3 years old. The actions of the parents sometimes push children to demonstrate these signs. The problem is that the parents don’t usually think that the signs are significant. Bright Side has found some key features of children with psychopathic traits. Many serial killers behaved like this in their …

If you took all the photos from this article and made a movie based on them, we are sure that you’d get at least a couple of Oscar nominations. Meanwhile, we can only look at these weird photos and ask ourselves why our own lives are so boring. Bright Side gathered 21 of the most curious photos from the farthest corners of the internet, and we invite you to guess …

Some people believe that the children of very attractive or very smart people don’t turn out to be like their parents. But we have irrefutable photographic proof that nature did a great job with the children of some of our idols. Take a look at these 22 children of famously handsome men and beautiful women that we at Bright Side have collected for you. 22. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau His daughters — …

Myths are exceptionally hard to kill. We often believe in things that don’t even have hard evidence. Love is no different from other areas of life, and some of the common stereotypes about love might seriously damage your relationship. But if you are aware of them, you’ll make fewer mistakes, and there’ll be much less to regret in the future. Bright Side has collected the 6 most widespread …

If you think that there’s nothing special about these photos, you might be wrong. They’re interesting because of unusual perspective, pranks of nature, or just our imagination. Bright Side invites you to look closely at these photos and be surprised by the world’s diversity and curiosities. There’s a bonus at the end of the article that was created by a real-life optical illusion. 25. Is the giant squirrel trying to get …

For the Italian city of Venice, floods are a common occurrence. This fact makes the recent sharp drop in the water levels of the city’s canals all the more surprising. And we’re talking about a rather unpleasant surprise here. For one thing, you cannot ride those beautiful gondolas on dry land. The only positive aspect of the situation is that there are plenty …