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This infamous loosely designated area between Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Bermudas is any captain’s and pilot’s nightmare. Many disappeared aircraft, ships, and cruise liners were attributed to this mysterious zone. They say the main reason why the Bermuda Triangle is so enigmatic must be the magnetic fields that form this ominous triangle.

The thing is that the ocean floor is made of rocks containing a lot of magnetites. It’s more like iron. Magnetic fields react to the high concentration of magnetite on the ocean floor, which may start a sort of conflict between the two. It can often lead to various weather anomalies and, as a result, navigation issues. But magnetic fields tend to shift their position, so do tectonic plates and even the continents, even though we never notice it!

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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 it all the way to the Atlantic. That's why it's so amazing that in April that the iceberg that sank the Titanic was already more than 1,500 miles away from the Arctic Circle!

Several days before our iceberg made it to the Atlantic Ocean, a magnificent ship left port. It was Titanic. Meanwhile, the iceberg was approaching the area the Titanic was going to cross on its way to New York. It happened on April, 14 when the ship was in the North Atlantic Ocean. At about 11.40 PM, people who were still awake on board the Titanic toppled down, pushed over by some mysterious and powerful force. We al know what was that. But do you know what happened to the iceberg after the Titanic hit it?

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The Hubble Telescope orbits our planet, looking out at the big unknown universe. Since it’s out of our atmosphere, the Hubble can see way further than telescopes on land. No clouds up there. This guy helped us confirm the theory about supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. It also discovered a whole bunch of new galaxies, including the world's oldest one, which is about 8 billion years older than our Milky Way!

But let’s travel 25 light-years away to another special star. Fomalhaut. It's almost twice as big and heavy as the Sun. If you look at it from far away, you can see a bright yellow disk around it. It’s a debris disk, full of bits of space rock, and it’s huge. Scientists were curious about it, was all this space dust gonna get smooshed together and become a planet one day? But then they saw something else! Right there, through all that debris, was a massive mysterious object...

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Have you ever inhaled helium out of a balloon? We’ve all done it at least once in our lifetime. Your voice gets super high pitched and squeaky for a couple of seconds, you gotta keep inhaling through the balloon though, it doesn’t last very long. It’s a fun party trick, and it’s all thanks to Helium, which is much lighter than Oxygen. Because of that, Helium travels quicker through your vocal cords, making them vibrate faster. But what if helium replaces oxygen? 

Well, a little bit of Helium isn’t harmful, not when you’re inhaling it through a balloon with almost no pressure. But a whole atmosphere of helium!? Everyone starts running around, shouting in high squeaky voices. It’s pretty entertaining, but also kind of terrifying. Your ears start to feel a bit funny, and it sounds like someone’s revving a motorbike inside your head. You need Oxygen to balance out the air pressure inside your ear. And since the atmosphere is now filled with Helium for some reason, your body can’t maintain that balance...

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You snap a vacation selfie with your fingers in a peace sign, and post it to your social media. It gets you likes, comments, all that good stuff. The next day someone breaks into your banking app. Someone just stole your identity, all thanks to that innocent little selfie! Researchers in Japan managed to scan and copy fingerprints from a photo taken about 9 feet away. Normal quality, fingerprints in focus, and some good lightning. That’s all it takes apparently!

The better the image quality, the easier it is. So, if you have one of the latest smartphones, you’re in the high risk zone. When someone gets access to your fingerprint, cyber bad guys can get rich off that kind of data. You probably use your thumb to log into apps, including your banking ones. That’s your money and personal info, up for grabs to the highest bidder. So, here's how you can stop these fingerprint thieves and other essential tips to keep your data secure online!

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So you take your canine companion to the doggy park. He meets a new friend, and they start playing together. Peaceful tail wagging quickly grows into biting each other. To your horror, you notice they're both going for each other's face and neck! No need to worry! Dogs naturally bite each other when playing in a game called mouth-wrestling or jaw-sparring. It’s a totally healthy way both dogs and cats interact with their friends. But there are warning signs you should look out for when dogs' play gets a little too rough for comfort!

That, and other things you've probably wondered about your pet. Like why dogs tilt their head when you talk to them, why dogs get the zoomies. Ever wondered why your cat keeps knocking things off the table or other surfaces or why cats are so terrified of cucumbers? All that and more, check it out! 

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When it's raining, you're either in it or you're not. But sometimes you might notice beautiful blue skies far off in the distance. The people over there obviously aren't dealing with rain. They're looking at you saying to each other, "Glad I'm not where they are!" 😅

But here's the main question: where does that rain start and stop? Why don't you ever see the edge of a rainstorm? Does it even exist or is it like the rare, never-seen unicorn of weather? Well, I have the answer to that plus some more unusual phenomena you can see on Earth! As in, tornadoes made of fire and volcanoes that spew electric blue lava!

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It's a dream come true! FINALLY! You have the WHOLE mall to yourself. No crowds, no lines, it's all just for you! ...Because you got locked in the mall by mistake! You spend the whole night shopping in all the stores and trying on new outfits. But you know the mall will open tomorrow morning, and you'll be free. The only thing is...it doesn't open. Or the next day. Or the next! You get locked in a mall by yourself for A WHOLE YEAR! What was epic fun has now become a test of your survival skills!

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Have you ever felt a certain way, but you just couldn’t explain exactly what you were feeling? Human emotion is an extremely complex thing, and “happy” or “sad” or “mad” just don’t do it justice. But even the most complicated and indescribable emotions have names! You won’t find any of the following words in a dictionary. Well, actually, you can, but only in one: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. This is an entirely online dictionary created by writer John Koenig. In it, he describes and gives names to an array of human emotion that we haven’t yet put to words.

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