What Happens When You Drink Too Much Water?
Water is essential to cell-building, temperature regulation, and other bodily processes. But how much H2O must you drink? What happens if you drink too much?
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Real Phenomena That People Used To Think Were Fake
From freaky weather events to bizarre bodily reactions, the world is full of real phenomena that people used to think were fake.
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What Do Tarantulas Eat?
Contrary to what many think, tarantulas are not generally a threat to human life, and they can't (and won't) try to eat you. But what will they eat?
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Why People See Ghosts, According To Science
Believing in ghosts doesn't hurt anyone, and also it's fun. But, scientists can't resist endlessly telling us how wrong we are about why people see ghosts.
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What Will Happen To The Earth When The Sun Dies?
As far as existential threats that you have to push to the back of your mind just to get through the day go, the inevitable death of the sun in a scant few billion years has to take the wildly depressing cake. But come on. How bad could things really get? The answer, folks, is bad.
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What Would Happen If Mosquitoes Went Extinct?
From a human perspective, mosquitoes suck. They drink our blood and transmit diseases like yellow fever, malaria and West Nile virus. In fact, mosquitoes cause over 1 million deaths per year, making them one of the world's deadliest species So, say we choose to eradicate them. Should we?
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What's The Difference Between Magma And Lava?
You've heard of both "magma" and "lava" when it comes to that hot stuff from the end of Lord of the Rings. You know it's spicy enough to melt evil rings. But you might not be clear on the difference between the two terms. Well, we'll keep you from embarrassing yourself in front of the elves.
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Do Sharks Sleep?
Sharks are enigmatic creatures, but if there's one emotion we've felt comfortable assigning to them, it's severe crankiness. But what if it's not in their nature to be underwater rage machines? What if they're just really tired? Do sharks need a nap? Could they nap if they wanted to?
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Are Elephants Really Scared Of Mice?
It's basically a cartoon trope: the giant, seemingly unflappable and mighty elephant is reduced to abject, prancing terror at the sight of a plucky mouse (who's probably involved in an elaborate heist to obtain cheese). Is there any truth to it? And if not, where did this weird notion come from?
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What's Brain Freeze, And Why Do We Get It?
One moment you're enjoying a nice cold treat with your two closest friends. The next, you're doubled over in pain as a thunderous pain claps your temples. Unfortunately, you're not Harry Potter sensing Voldemort, you've just got brain freeze. What is this scourge of summertime snow-sweets?
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What Would Happen If An Asteroid Hit Earth?
Pop culture throws out some fairly fruit-loopy notions when it comes to space. Setting our space pop-fear aside, what's the real scoop on asteroids?
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What Would Happen If Everyone Jumped At The Same Time?
We humans love to break records, and messing with gravity seems to be one of our species' odd and enduring obsessions. But what would happen if we decided to take things to the next level by convincing every human on earth to jump at exactly the same time?
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Creepy Real-Life Stories About Giant Spiders
Spiders are really terrifying creatures. Here are creepy, true stories about giant spiders. Welcome to your spider nightmare.
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What Would Happen If There Were No Moon?
The human race has an odd relationship with the battered, lonely space-bauble lazily circling our planet. It means many different things to our species. But setting our love affair with Earth's largest natural satellite aside, what would happen if it weren't there?
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What Would Happen If Bees Went Extinct?
We love bees. We love them so much that Jerry Seinfeld made a movie about them. The industrious little bugs generate the world's supply of honey and inspire folksy art the world over, but they're also a vital part of both our ecosystem and our economy. Without them we'd be in a sea of troubles.
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Do Spiders Sleep?
Spiders aren't the kind of critters you can easily sneak up on, and for the 75 percent of our species who find spiders repugnant or terrifying, it's often this constant watchful alertness they find most disconcerting. So that leads us to the slightly weird question: do spiders sleep?
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What Happens When You Get Struck By Lightning
Getting struck by lightning is less like being pelted with fast food and more like being punched with Thor's hammer. So let's take a look at how Mother Nature's hammerfist works and what would happen if it hit you. Spoiler alert: nothing good! But possibly not anything necessarily deadly?
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Are Daddy Long-Legs Spiders Actually Poisonous?
These days, the word "daddy" followed by "long-legs" sounds more like a description of Jeff Goldblum than a colloquial title for a kind of arachnid. The truth is, everything you think you know about these eight-legged fellows -- like the "fact" that they're crazy poisonous -- might be wrong.
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Frozen Treasures Found In The Depths Of Antarctica
Antarctica has a ton of frozen treasures waiting to be discovered. Here are some of the craziest frozen treasures found in Antarctica.
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When Will The Sun Die?
The sun is the yeast which allows the dough of life to arise, without which humanity would never have bred. It comprises over 99.8 percent of all mass in our solar system, which formed around it about 4.6 billion years ago. So what will happen when our heavenly benefactor dies?
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These Are The Cleanest Countries On Earth
When you wake up, step outside, and take your first full breath of the outdoors, you hope and pray that the air is clean.
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The Truth About Why Mosquitoes Love You
Mosquitoes, those flying, buzzing, blood-sucking harbingers of itchiness. Here's the real reason mosquitoes love you so much.
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Dinosaur Remains That Were Nearly Perfectly Preserved
It's rare, but sometimes paleontologists find really cool dinosaur remains that are nearly perfectly preserved and tell an amazing story.
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Bizarre Things That Were Picked Up On Weather Radar
Weather radar allows us to predict and interpret all kinds of weather conditions. But weather radar can get confused and doesn't always make sense.
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Why You'd Never Survive Life During A Zombie Apocalypse
A zombie apocalypse could be fun, if it goes the way that TV shows and movies imagine it. But the thing about enjoying a zombie apocalypse is you'd have to survive the zombie apocalypse first. Here are a whole bunch of reasons you wouldn't survive a zombie apocalypse.
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The Untold Truth Of Snake Island
Snake Island is home to one of the deadliest snake species in the world and oh yeah, there are literally thousands of these golden lancehead snakes on Snake Island. Also Snake Island is a mere 110 acres, so the density of golden lanceheads on Snake Island is pretty darned high.
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Animals Discovered Alive After We Thought They Were Extinct
We humans have done a lot on the Earth, although not every other species would agree we've done all good things.
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