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What Number Human Being Were You on Planet Earth?

Do you know where you fit in chronologically with the seven billion or so human folk running around sweet Terra? BBC has a really cool tool that lets you plug in your birthday to get an approximation...

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Who Really Is the World’s 7 Billionth Person?

The world's 7 billionth person was a tiny little girl named Danica May Camacho who was born today in Manila, the Philipines, and weighed just 5.5 pounds (she was one month premature).

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Why Don’t We Look Like Monkeys?

Simple -- evolution of course. But new research now suggests that the reason humans and apes don’t look alike in the face is down to facial expressions. We have plain faces, without varying colour and...

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Goats Have Accents!

Not only do pygmy goats have accents, but they tend to pick up the characteristic "BAAAAAAAAAAA" of the locals bleating around them.

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Watch Humans Age from 1 Year Old to 100 Years Old

Using a Panasonic GH2, Dutch filmmaker Jeroen Wolf captured people ranging from 1 year young to 100 years old. It’s simple—the person stares at the camera at states their age—yet incredibly touching to...

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You’re Going to Be So Disgusted with Humans After Watching This Video

Human beings, I love ya, but man are we disgusting. This video by Aaron Rogers lists and animates all the scientific grossness of being a human and it gets pretty gnarly. Like how many hot tubs our...

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Why Do Your Fingers and Toes Look Like Wrinkly Prunes In Water?

Ever wondered why your fingers and toes magically look like a wrinkly prunes when you’re in the bath? Apparently it’s all to do with gripping slippery objects. Oh, and it’s nothing to do with absorbing...

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Naked Human Bodies Jumping Up and Down in 2000FPS Is Not Flattering

Jiggle. Blubber. Bounce. Gravity’s a bitch. It’s especially unforgiving if you jump up and down naked while getting filmed at 2000FPS. That sort of slow motion camera work exposes all the extra meat we...

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How Much Hair, Sweat, Pee and Poop Do Our Bodies Make Every Year?

Prepare to be grossed out. You know how you go to the bathroom every day, cut your nails every few weeks and cut your hair every month? Did you ever think about what all that totals up to? What about...

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What Your Body Will Do in the Next 30 Seconds

You might think 30 seconds is pretty short. Your body doesn’t though. In order to keep everything running, there’s a lot of things going on in those 30 seconds. Like you’ll make 72 million red blood...

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David Attenborough Foresees an Apocalypse, Claiming “Things Are Going to Get...

Renowned nature enthusiast Sir David Attenborough thinks we’re enjoying the best days of humanity, suggesting that population explosion and other factors may mean our descendants will envy the good...

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Playable Captchas are the Future of Logins and Internet Ads

A new way of verifying you’re a real person and not a spam machine might eliminate the chore of typing phrases like “beetle sausage” and so on, with a start-up looking to gamify the art of verifying...

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Scientists Hacking up Dead People Discover New Knee Ligament

That’s not a chicken drumstick left over from today’s meat feast team lunch. It’s a dissected human knee. It shows, for the first time, a thing scientists are calling the anterolateral ligament — a...

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