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You see their little cone-shaped dirt houses on the ground, like mini-volcanos scattered around your yard. Ants are usually harmless little bugs, paying you no attention, just going about their day working hard. But if you’ve just stepped near a group of Australian Bulldog Ants, you better run! These little creatures are one of the […]
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Megalodon is an ancient giant shark, which ruled over all the watery creatures in the world. It went extinct about 3 and a half million years ago. There’s still a lot of debate about the size of Megalodon. Sadly, the only remains they’ve found so far are some giant teeth and a few vertebrae. So […]
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What if Antarctica’s volcanoes wake up? In fact, Antarctica is technically the largest desert in the world. It’s also covered with whole lotta volcanoes just chilling around. Scientists discovered that there are 138 volcanoes in Antarctica, 91 of which are hidden beneath the icy surface and 47 on top. And there might even be more. […]
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It was the very beginning of the year 1912. A giant chunk of ice broke off a glacier in southwest Greenland. It was a huge thing – more than 1,700 ft long, it weighed around 75 million tons! Btw, out of 15,000 to 30,000 icebergs that drift away from Greenland’s glaciers, only 1% ever makes […]
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Learning the basic rules of chess is easy. The chess universe is a board of 64 black&white squares. The entire point of the game is to force the opponent’s King into a trap he can’t escape from. That’s called checkmate. Yeah, sounds simple enough, but first, you have to get to him – that’s something […]
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Magma oceans, supersonic winds, scorching hot days, and instead of rain, a bunch of rocks falling on your head. Just another one of those days, huh? Astronomers recently discovered a new “Super Planet” out there. It’s an exoplanet that’s around 200 light-years away. An exoplanet is just a fancy way of saying that the planet […]
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Can you imagine looking at the night sky and not seeing the Moon up there? Instead, you’d see a huge red circle! What if Mars orbited the Earth? Then we’d sing “fly me to Mars” or wonder what’s hidden in “the far side” of Mars. Mars is about double the size of the Moon, so […]
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Why solve logic riddles? They activate many thinking processes, and it’s an excellent way to entertain yourself and improve your mental ability. Good riddles and brainteasers stimulate lateral thinking. Such mental training improves the capacity to solve any problem creatively and more efficiently. As for today’s riddles, they aren’t for the weak. Alright, you super […]
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Why do we not have electric planes? The first guy crazy enough to try flying in anything electric was a French dude, like 140 years ago. The main problem back then, batteries weren’t exactly long lasting or powerful. Apple, Tesla, Samsung… modern batteries last ages. Well, not really. Even the biggest electric car battery couldn’t […]
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Look up, find that little yellow dot…That’s Titan. It’s Saturn’s largest moon, and the second largest moon in our whole solar system. And it might be the only place in our solar system where there’s liquid water… besides Earth. Titan is a bit bigger than our moon and a whole lot heavier. The surface is […]
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