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      What If We Knew the Time We Go Extinct?

      October 6, 2019
      Body

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

      May 9, 2020
      Earth

      What If Jupiter Swallowed Earth?

      June 24, 2020
      Cosmos

      What If a New Planet Formed in the Solar System?

      July 19, 2020
      Earth

      What If We Nuked an Active Volcano?

      March 11, 2020
      MSN New, Earth

      It Feels Your Heartbeat Stop, and Only Then Does It Let Go

      The coils tighten, and somewhere inside all that muscle, the snake is listening. It is not waiting for you to stop struggling. It is not waiting for you to stop...

      MSN New, Cosmos

      22,000 Pounds of Rock Falling Every Second, That Is What Living Under Martian Rings Means

      Picture standing on Mars and looking up at a ring stretching across the sky. Beautiful, until you understand what those rings eventually do. Every piece of that debris...

      MSN New, Earth

      Locals Wait for the Fruit to Smile Before Picking It, and That Rule Saves Lives

      There is a rule in Jamaica that sounds like folklore and functions like a safety protocol. Never pick the fruit until it smiles. That is the local description for what...

      HTS MSN

      33 Years Without a Single Death, Then the Komodo Found the Boy

      For 33 years, the people living on Komodo Island had managed to coexist with one of the most dangerous predators on Earth without suffering a fatal attack. The giant...

      MSN New, Body, Health

      99.9 Percent of It Passes Straight Through You, and the Rest Is the Problem

      Drink a mouthful of liquid mercury and almost all of it comes straight back out. In its liquid form, mercury is insoluble, meaning it cannot break down any further. As...

      HTS MSN

      He Survived the Electric Chair at 17, Then They Brought Him Back a Year Later

      In 1946, a 17 year old teenager named Willie Francis became part of one of the most disturbing execution cases in American history. After being convicted of murdering a...

      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...

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