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Even though slavery has been abolished for over 150 years in the US and over 200 years in many other locations around the world, remnants of this practice continue to this day in the form of human trafficking. The United Nations has announced in their 2018 Global Report On Human Trafficking that nearly 25,000 human trafficking victims were detected and reported across 97 countries in 2016 alone, averaging at around 254 persons per country....

Sharing a home with your partner sounds sweet, until you realize one of you is acting like a landlord. Relationships are supposed to be partnerships, right? But somehow, when it comes to actual ownership, like your name on the house, it all gets weirdly one-sided. Turns out, love might be blind, but deeds sure aren’t. One netizen has the internet furiously side-eyeing her partner after he made it painfully clear that, while she’s good enough to raise their child and clean the house, she’s apparently not “contributing” enough to deserve her name on the house deed....

When people get asked what their favorite birds are, they usually mention regal eagles, magnificent hawks, and fluffy owls. But some would argue (i.e. me) that the true king of all birds is the colorful, big-beaked toucan. These birds are a whole other level of cool and weird, once you start reading up on them. And then there’s no climbing back out of that rabbit hole. Did you know that toucans look very interesting when they sleep?...

The internet is a wonderful thing that connects almost every little corner of our world to a world wide web. However, on that said web, some places are a lot darker than others, and the things that lurk in them can sometimes be downright creepy. The Dark Web, for example, is one such place, and the rules of the regular world don’t apply there. Yet, to some, the danger seems only to incentivize curiosity because when these sketchy mystery boxes surfaced on the darkest corners of the internet, there were people online who couldn’t resist buying them and seeing what’s inside....

Human memory is an extremely bizarre thing. It happens that sometimes we forget very important facts and moments that took place quite recently, while for whole decades we remember to the smallest detail all sorts of films or cartoons that we saw only a couple of times in our childhood. We remember well the names of the characters of these films, their signature lines, and as soon as someone sings just a couple of notes from the musical theme of these films, we happily pick up and sing until the end of the whole day....

A total solar eclipse will sweep across North America from Mexico today (April 8). The moon will completely cover the sun, darkening the sky and revealing our star’s hidden outer atmosphere, starting in Mexico at about 11:07 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (8:07 p.m. Central European Time CET). It will then cross into Texas, USA, at 1:27 p.m. Central Daylight Time (8:27 p.m. CET), eventually ending in Maine, USA, at 3:35 p....

Traveling has a lot of benefits. It helps people expand their worldview and learn new things about themselves and the people they’re traveling with. It also makes people see and experience things they would have never expected. It also makes people fall in love with places. Maybe something good happens there, or maybe just the place itself is captivating enough to stay in a person’s memory for a long time. Today, let’s take a trip (pun intended) through a list of the cities people dub the best they have ever visited....

Being an organ donor is no small feat. It’s an incredibly generous decision that affects not just the giver but also the recipient. It’s not something that can be decided on a whim and requires careful consideration. Unfortunately, this is not what two parents did when their kid was sick . Instead of asking for help, a teen’s mom and his stepdad demanded he be a donor for his stepsibling. They didn’t want to help him out in any way, but expected him to make such a big sacrifice....

Graduation season is basically a parade of caps, gowns, and relatives trying to remember if you’re heading to college or just “taking a gap year to find yourself.” For most teens, it means awkward parties in someone’s backyard, a “Congrats Grad” balloon, and maybe a card with a crisp $50 bill from grandma Judy. But for one 18-year-old, graduation came with a weekend straight out of a movie when his grandpa surprised him with a huge amount of money, which his mom tried to force him to give to his “golden child” sis....

The Volkswagen Beetle is one of the most memorable cars in the history of automobiles. Virtually anyone could point out the bug-shaped auto in an instant—even more so if it’s in its original vibrant orange, green, blue, or yellow colors. It became such a classic that it is often featured in retro and modern racing games and car modders frequently take a shot at tuning it up. Unfortunately, Volkswagen announced that it is saying good-bye to the Beetle this year after over 80 years of production....

Parents can be set in their ways, especially when there’s a traditional or cultural element involved. Even after you’ve left the house and proven you can actually be an adult, they often still feel entitled to aspects of your life you’d rather keep to yourself. One woman was getting pressured by her Chinese in-laws to reveal the gender of her unborn baby, to the point where things were getting unreasonable. After endless badgering, the woman’s husband stepped in to lay down the law, but now the woman is asking an online community if holding out was a jerk move....

Most of us have lost someone from our family or our group of friends. And while death is a part of life, it doesn’t mean that we don’t sometimes still miss the people who’ve left us. Rax King, a writer living in Brooklyn, New York, misses her dad very much ever since he passed away and she has a unique way of keeping the connection between the two of them. She emails her dead dad from time to time, asking for advice....