Since childhood, we’ve been hearing a lot of "facts," that we truly believed. However, they turned out to be misconceptions. Let's destroy 57 of them right now.

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Phew! Aren't you glad we don't live in the age of dinosaurs, the most feared reptiles that ever walked our planet! Eh, not so fast! There are incredibly scary and dangerous reptiles living today that'd send T-Rex running away in fear! A snake that doesn't need to bite to get its venom in you - it can spray it in your eye from a distance with 100% accuracy! Or how about a turtle that makes alligators look like harmless little puppies!?

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I know, I know. Many of us would rather forget about the year 2020 for good. But look on the Bright Side! 💡 2020 was a GREAT year for major scientific breakthroughs! A T-Rex the size of a chihuahua, something strange singing on Mars, a star that disappeared right before researchers' eyes, and many more of the biggest scientific discoveries you probably missed in 2020!

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With every second, you move one second into the future. But one person managed to time travel a little further into the future: 0.02 seconds further! And, technically, you could do the same!

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Imagine a city of 1 million inhabits all living and working in a massive pyramid seemingly floating over the ocean! That's what the Japanese developer Shimizu has in mind. Even better, the largest strongest tsunami can't take their mega city pyramid down! It'll be made of a futuristic material that resists pretty much anything! Before you shrug it all off as sci-fi, this carbon nanotube technology already exists today, and plans to build the pyramid have already been set!

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Space is a big place and there’s a lot going on. Astronomers are finding out new things about our galaxy and universe all the time. So what are the latest space discoveries? Well, a black hole with a boarding pass and seat on a plane, a place where you’ll have two shadows, and bad news for Orion the constellation – these are some of the freshest space facts we only recently discovered!

And guys, if you've always wanted to know how many stars are in our galaxy, there's good news for you. The Gaia Mission has been working on making a 3D model of our galaxy and getting a more accurate count of the number of stars in it. They thought it was 1 billion, but that estimate could be up to 400 or even 700 billion stars!

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The world is full of all things huge and tiny, but do you know which of all these things are the largest of their kind? Nature creates everything and everyone in all shapes and sizes, which is why our world appears a lot more interesting. But there are mind-boggling human-made things around us! For example, the Rubik's cube that has 6,153 movable parts.

So, yes, some things are big, really big. London buses big. Pyramids big! But others are simply stupendous! So what are the world's biggest things? Coffee pots that can fill 12,000 cups of coffee, gummy bears that equal 1,400 regular sized candies, cranes capable of lifting 500 elephants – at a time! These are only a few things from our special list of the world's largest objects!

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When will our universe end? Many astronomers agree that this might happen some 2.8 to 22 billion years from now. The thing is that if the Universe is expanding (and it is), it means it was born from a much more compact state. Like Rhode Island. And if it does have a beginning, it's likely to come to an end too! But how exactly will it happen?

By the way, does our Universe have an edge? What happened before the Big Bang? How come we know next to nothing about dark matter and dark energy? What if there are no black holes? Will we ever find the answers to the most intriguing questions about the Universe? Let's talk about some cosmic mysteries that scientists still hope to solve.

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In 2017, 85% of people used their smartphones to take pics. A bit more than 10% used digital cameras, and just 5% - their tablets. Smartphones equipped with high-resolution cameras have caused a photography boom. By the way, the very first camera phone appeared in Japan in 1999. Its front-facing camera had a resolution of 0.11 megapixels.

But do you know why do modern smartphones have several cameras? Or how much time does the average person spend on their phone? Why do smartphones keep getting bigger? How many smartphones are there in the world? So many questions... And just as many answers!

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Last year was full of astronomical breakthroughs and mind-blowing discoveries in space. The biggest explosion since the Big Bang was registered. The Earth had two satellites for a short while, the Moon and its little buddy. 2019 was also marked by launching a space sailboat. An ordinary water sailboat moves with the help of wind, and a space one uses light!

Experts also discovered that it's possible to cultivate plants and crops on Mars and the Moon's surfaces. But one of the most interesting space facts is that there seem to be stars older than the Universe. This might be proof that not only the Big Bang is expanding the Universe! Interested? Then here are the 26 biggest discoveries and achievements in space from 2019.

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