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      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      July 19, 2020
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      What Exactly Happens If You Get Hospitalized With COVID-19?

      May 9, 2020
      Humanity

      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
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      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
      MSN New, Body, Health

      Your Scalp Produces Sebum to Protect You, Until It Starts Working Against You

      Your scalp is producing oil right now, and it is doing that for a reason. The substance is called sebum, and its job is to protect and moisturize your hair. It is not...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Ask “What Can You Tell Me About It” and They Hide the Truth, Ask This Instead and They Confess

      Two people are selling the same broken phone. A buyer asks the first one, “So what can you tell me about it?” The seller says it works great. The buyer asks...

      MSN New, Humanity

      They Fought Hand to Hand Because Guns Were Banned, and People Still Died on That Border

      On that border, soldiers patrol without guns. Both sides agreed to it, a rule meant to stop a disagreement from becoming a shooting war. And in 2020, along the disputed...

      HTS MSN

      A Leopard Kept Killing Every Few Days, Then Villagers Realized They Were Being Hunted

      Leopard attacks on humans have a long and disturbing history in India. Between 1875 and 1912, thousands of people were reportedly killed by leopards across the country...

      MSN New, Humanity

      Divide It Perfectly Today, and the Billionaires Would Simply Rebuild Themselves

      Split every dollar on Earth evenly tomorrow morning, and the billionaires would start climbing back before the year was out. Not because of conspiracy. Because of...

      MSN New, Earth, Humanity

      The Longest Anyone Has Lived Underwater Is 31 Days, and Companies Are Planning Cities

      The record for living underwater currently stands at 31 days. One month. That is the ceiling of human experience beneath the surface, and there are companies right now...

      HTS MSN

      A 340 kg Bear Killed 7 People in 6 Days, Then One Hunter Followed Its Blood Trail

      In 1915, the small village of Sankebetsu in Hokkaido, Japan, became the scene of one of the country’s most horrifying wildlife attacks. A massive Ussuri brown...

      HTS MSN

      A 400 Pound Tiger Dragged Him Across the Stage in Front of the Audience

      Witnesses described the sound first. Loud, chaotic, a sudden eruption cutting through what was supposed to be a carefully controlled performance. On October 3rd, 2003...

      MSN New, Humanity

      The Nearest Star Would Be Close Enough to Reach, but There May Be No Metal to Build With

      Imagine a night sky where the nearest star is close enough to actually visit. Not 4.37 light years away like Proxima Centauri, but a short hop by cosmic standards, one...

      MSN New, Humanity

      4 Volunteers Went 10 Days Without Salt in the 1930s, and They Were Too Tired to Eat

      In the 1930s, Dr. Robert McCance of Cambridge University’s Department of Experimental Medicine convinced four people to give up salt completely for ten days. He...

      MSN New, Humanity

      The Blast Is Survivable, the Fallout Arriving Minutes Later Is What Gets Most People

      You survived the flash. You survived the shockwave. You are standing miles from the blast, dazed but alive. You now have minutes, not hours, before the thing that...

      HTS MSN

      They Removed One Plug, and the Pipeline Swallowed All Five of Them

      On February 25, 2022, five experienced divers entered the waters off Trinidad and Tobago for what was supposed to be a routine repair job. They were hired to fix a...

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