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What Matters Most to People Around the World ?
#info #beginner

😊 satisfaction - удовлетворенность
💵 income - доход
#beginner #history

Yes, “Bluetooth,” the term for the networking technology📲 that connects your devices, predictably came to be in the 20th century. But the origin of the term “Bluetooth” itself is comically old — the tech was named for a 10th-century Danish king🤴:, Harold Bluetooth, who helped unite warring Scandinavia🇦🇽.
#history #facts

Inventor Caleb Bradham had originally wanted to be a doctor👨‍⚕️ but started working in a pharmacy(аптека) when he returned home to North Carolina. In 1893, he concocted(состряпал) what he first called “Brad’s Drink,” a mix of water, sugar, caramel🍭, lemon oil, nutmeg(мускатный орех), and other flavors. Five years later, he renamed it Pepsi-Cola. He claimed the drink could help with digestion(пищеварение), or dysPEPSIa(растройство пищеварения), the term from which Bradham adapted the name Pepsi.
Video game🎮 soundtracks are the best music to listen🎧 to for concentration
#beginner #interesting

🔸overpowering - подавляющий
🔸distracting - отвлекающий

Next time you really need to focus on a work project or notes for an upcoming test, try listening to video game music. This is because their purpose is to keep you focused on the task at hand, providing some atmosphere for the game without being overpowering or distracting.
Как по-английски обозвать человека «дураком»?
It’s impossible to hum while holding your nose 👃?
#intermediate #facts

▫️hum - гудеть
▫️holding it shut - держать закрытыми

You just tested it, didn’t you? Normally, when you hum, the air is able to escape through your nose to create the sound, and of course, it can’t do that when you’re holding it shut. This is one of the weird facts you can test out for yourself. Go ahead, try it.
Представь, что путешествуя заграницей, ты легко понимаешь английскую речь - можешь заказать любое блюдо в ресторане, спросить дорогу, обсудить новости.
Ты свободно знакомишься и общаешься с носителями языка. Кайфуешь и заряжаешься эмоциями. Ну как, круто же? 🤩
На канале tg_engl1sh🇬🇧 учи разговорные фразы, запоминай на слух и смотри как иностранцы используют их в повседневном общении.
Гоу сюда👇🏻
Why Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates Still Do the Dishes ?

do the dishes - помыть посуду
plot - заговор
humble скромный

Bill Gates’s house is worth a cool $125 million. Jeff Bezos cashes in $1 billion a year in Amazon stock to fund his dream of sending people to space. Clearly, both these guys could afford to hire someone to do the dishes for them.

But, until a couple of years ago at least, both billionaires still insisted on scrubbing(чистка) plates themselves.
Are they crazy? Is this just a plot for these titans of the universe to appear humble?

Chores as meditation
After just six minutes of scrubbing, the meditative dishwashers reported feeling 27 percent less nervous and 25 percent more inspired.

Chores as creativity booster
Any brain, no matter how extraordinary, would need a break from that. Doing the dishes provides the perfect opportunity to let all that fall away and be fully present. So not only do Gates and Bezos get to slip in a bit of mindfulness rinsing plates, their nightly chore is
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