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Spaghettification: the process of getting torn apart by a black hole.

At the center of every non rotating black hole, is a single point in which the mass of the black hole is contained. This region is infinitely dense, which basically means the weight is condensed into a region that is infinitely small.

Unfortunately, if you enter the horizon of a black hole, it is physically impossible for you to escape. There is literally no way out - you can only prolong your death by delaying your acceleration into the black hole. Scientists suggest it is best to just free fall in order to get the grueling death you are going to encounter out of the way. When you get far enough into the black hole, your mass will be condensed and then added to that of the black hole.

But, you're lucky, because before you are crushed to an infinitely small spec in the universe, you will be torn apart by the tidal forces in the black hole through a process called Spaghettification, or rather, 'the noodle effect'. Basically, your body will become stretched in a comical looking sort of way, but it will be excruciatingly painful for you - but hey, at least it has a funny name.

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There are now MLA guidelines to cite a tweet!

The Modern Language Association (MLA), or rather the bane of every high school student's existence, is an association that has designed official ways in which people can cite references on their essays without being charged with plagiarism. Fortunately, the MLA format is staying up to date with modern trends, because students are now able to cite a tweet properly. So, how do you do it?

Well, if you were writing an essay on an awesome website that gives you lots of cool facts, you would have to follow a few steps in order to cite it properly. Begin with the author's real name, as well as their username is paranthesis (the brackets that I'm using around this sentence). Next, provide the tweet in quotation marks, keeping it as originally posted. Conclude with the entry date and time of the publication and the medium of publication (Tweet).

Here's an example: OMG Facts, Celebs (OMGfactsCelebs). "A Chicago High School played Bieber’s “Baby” between classes and had students pay to stop it. The campaign raised $1,000 in 3 days." May 12, 2013, 11:30PM. Tweet.

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There is a bush that's over 11,000 years old!

King Clone is known as not only having the coolest name ever, but as being one of the oldest known living organisms on the planet. The creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert is estimated to be 11,700 years old. The plant is located 0.6 miles North of California route 27 on Bessemer Mine Road near the towns of Lucerne Valley and Landers.

King Clone was identified as being 11,700 years old by Frank Vasek - a professor at the University of Riverside California. After Vasek hypothesized that the ring was one living organism, he found that the plants around the ring all had identical characteristics that differed from other plant clusters.

Vasek used two methods to guess the plants age. His first method, was to count the rings in the planet and measured the annual growth. The next, he used radiocarbon dating on chucks of wood found at the center of the ring. To his amazement, the dates he came up with for both methods were the exact same.

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There's a man whose brain sees numbers with shapes, colors and feels. He can recite over 22k digits of Pi!

Savants are fascinating to observe because their brains are so incredible. While completely incapable of performing some tasks, they are so incredibly amazing at doing others that it has captured worldwide attention.

Daniel Tammet is one of these savants, who claims that numbers result in an emotional result in each person. For example, he claims each positive integer up to 10,000 has it's own shape, color, and feel. The number 289 is extremely ugly, while 333 is strangely attractive. Pi he describes as beautiful. 9 is large and towering, while 25 is fun and would be invited to a party.

This may sound bizarre to most of us, but to a savant it makes perfect sense. Tammet currently holds the world record for reciting the most digits of pi at 22,514, and taking only a week per language, learned Romanian, Gaelic, Welsh, Icelandic, and six others!

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A Japanese artist made a sculpture of himself that was so lifelike people couldn't tell the difference between it and himself!

Hananuma Masakichi learned he was dying of tuberculosis, and being an artist, decided he would leave something behind so everyone would know exactly what he looked like back in the 1800’s. Masakichi decided to make a wooden sculpture that would be extremely lifelike.

He worked on each body part separately, and painted and lacquered the wood to match his skin tone and accurately portray every tendon, muscle, bone, vein, and wrinkle. He crafted glass eyes that are also stunningly realistic. Amazingly, he even plucked a tiny hole for each of his pores! He used his own teeth, hair, and nails also!

By the time he was finished, even when standing right next to his work of art, people had difficulty knowing which was real and which was fake!

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