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There's an object in a distant galaxy emitting radio waves, and we don't know what it is!

Not so long ago, in the galaxy not so far away known as M82, a mysterious object appeared early in the year of 2010. Scientists noticed the object appeared out of the blue, and have absolutely no idea what it is, or where it came from.

The radio waves emitted from the object seemed to grow at an extremely rapid rate over the course of a few days, then all of the sudden, the radio waves stopped expanding. The radio pattern is nothing like anything scientists have ever seen before, and they have little to no idea as to what the object could be.

The object is projecting a steady source of brightness, yet at the same time, the object is moving at four times the speed of light - something scientists have only observed when an object is squirted out by a black hole. Prepare to panic, because the unknown object is actually travelling on a slight angle towards our solar system. Whatever it is, hopefully scientists figure it out and tell the world that it won't kill us.

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The Pyramids may have been built using poured limestone concrete!

One of the mysteries about the pyramids is how such a primitive civilization in comparison to our modern civilization, was able to move massive slabs of limestone. One historians theory, may just be the most logical answer to this question.

The theory posed by Joseph Davidovits is that the Ancient Egyptians actually poured limestone concrete molds and the massive bricks were cast that way. Joseph believes that using the tools of the ancient Egyptians, water from the Nile, and a lengthy amount of time in the sun, the Egyptian workers were able to follow a simple process in order to create this massive bricks.

Basically, the limestone was broken down and mixed with water from the Nile, and left out until the mixture blended together. The mixture was then carried to the Pyramid and poured into a wooden mold, where it would then harden over the course of a few days.

Researchers tried to see if this was a realistic way to build the pyramid. A crew of 10 people in France, followed these exact steps proposed by Davidovits and it was found that over the course of a few weeks, the crew made a structure of 5 blocks, weighing anywhere between 1.3 - 4.5 ton blocks! Which means, we may have once and for all figured out how the Egyptians built the pyramids.

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A star 450 light years away will soon become a supernova and outshine the moon at night!

Betelgeuse, is the name of a massive star that is incredibly close to us - considering the fact how big the universe is. The star, is only 450 light years away from planet Earth. Betelgeuse is currently one of the brightest stars in the sky at night, simply because how massive the star is.

When the star becomes a supernova, which is the inevitable fate of stars the size of Betelgeuse, it will be so bright it will outshine the moon at night - and will even be visible during the day! But, when will this massive star explode?

Astronomers have said many times that the star is as likely as to collapse and form a supernova tomorrow, as a million years from now. But, if we're lucky, we will get to see the star in our night sky outshining the moon. And don't worry, when Betelgeuse explodes, our planet will barely be effected. Only life on planets within 50 light years will be completely destroyed - but we'll be fine.

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JFK's brain wasn't buried with his body!

John F. Kennedy was unfortunately assassinated while doing a tour of America. The famous question 'who REALLY killed Kennedy' has sparked controversy ever since the incident occurred back in the 1960's.

Sometimes, conspiracy theorists often make interesting observations and are able to make connections between JFK's assassination and corruption in the American government that could make one believe the conspiracy theories.

This should make conspiracy theorists a little excited: JFK's brain wasn't buried with his body. In fact, JFK's brain is missing from National Archives. Nobody knows what happened to JFK's brain, which has led theorists to believe that the brain showed remarkable evidence that would be contrary to the official government report.

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Your brain actually lives in the past!

The brain is actually living in the past of things that have already happened, because it takes a few milliseconds for the brain to comprehend what is happening around it. So, everything that you think is happening instantly, actually happened a really really short time ago.

To test this, a research study once had people turn on a lightbulb by pushing a button, with an 80 millisecond delay. Eventually, their brains got used to that delay and assumed that 80ms was instantaneous.After repeating this step multiple times, scientists changed the length of time it took for the light to turn on to 40 milliseconds - half of the original time.

When participants pushed the red button and the light came on, they were in disbelief that they were the ones that caused the light to go on. In fact, the participants believed that the light came on BEFORE they even touched the button - a perfect experiment to show that the brain lives a delayed life.

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