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Everyone with blue eyes descends from a single person who lived around 10,000 years ago

A simple treadmill number may be the strongest single predictor of a long life

Your grip strength may predict how long you will live better than blood pressure

One bite from Australia’s inland taipan holds enough venom to kill 100 grown adults

A pretty seashell in shallow water fires a venom harpoon that can stop a human heart

A golf-ball-sized octopus in tide pools carries enough venom to kill 26 people

Tardigrades can survive boiling, freezing, and the vacuum of space, and we still are not sure how

The Greenland shark can live over 400 years, so some alive today predate the United States

One tiny jellyfish can reverse its own aging and start life over again

The red giant Betelgeuse could explode as a supernova bright enough to see in daylight

Voyager 1’s radio whisper now takes nearly a full day to reach Earth

Asteroid Apophis will sweep closer than our own satellites in 2029, bright enough to see by eye

A restless supervolcano under Naples has bulged upward beneath 500,000 people

Yellowstone sits atop a supervolcano whose last big blast buried half of North America in ash

The giant heads of Easter Island have full buried bodies hidden beneath the soil

Someone carved giant animals into the Peruvian desert that only make sense from the sky

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