Outer space is full of other planets, stars, moons, and even cool-looking—but dangerous—asteroids.

Everything is just fine as long as these asteroids stay in their place. Astronomers have named certain stand-out asteroids, and animator Alvaro Garcia Montoya decided to animate them and compare them to New York City so we could understand their magnitude.

14. 2008 TC3

2008 TC3 is twice the size of an average adult.

13. 2014 RC is Nearly 22 Meters in Diameter

12. 99942 Apophis is Roughly The Size of the Eiffel Tower

11. 69230 Hermes is Approximately 810 Meters in Diameter

10. (29075) 1950 DA is 1.1. Kilometers in Diameter

And it could crush New York!

9. 4769 Castalia is Even Bigger

1.4 kilometers in diameter is intimidating.

8. 719 Albert is Not to be Toyed With

2.36 kilometers is quite something.

7. 3200 Phaeton is Apocalyptic Territory

At 5.8 kilometers in diameter, let’s not imagine what would happen if this were to come near the Earth’s atmosphere.

6. 433 Eros is a Behemoth!

16.84 kilometers is basically the size of New York City!

5. 243 Ida Makes NYC Seem Invisible

At this point, NYC is irrelevant.

4. 323 Brucia Reminds Us to Be Humble

33 kilometers in diameter is no joke!

3. 1902 Shaposhnikov is Bigger Than Several Cities!

It’s only cool from a distance.

2. 5 Astrea Isn’t The Biggest One

1. 1 Ceres Takes The Cake

The video is super cool and quite humbling to watch. You can view it here:

What did you think of these animations? It sure is sobering to see how New York City stacks up against these asteroids.

Feel free to share how these comparisons made you feel in the comments.

We’re looking forward to reading them all!

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Of course, Italian people to find a moment of joy and beauty in what has otherwise been a nightmare for their entire country.

Italy is currently on coronavirus lockdown and it looks like it will be quite a while until life returns to normal again. The country has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus and 60 million people are being forced to quarantine.

You can only imagine how much this has disrupted the lives of the people there, especially because Italians are so well-known for their love of life.

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An Italian journalist shared a video of a vacant street in the city of Siena. In it, one man begins to sing in the darkness and then neighbors join in and all sing from their windows together.

The caption to the Twitter video says, in Italian,

“In Siena, the city to which I am very attached, you stay at home but you sing together as if you were on the street.

I was moved.”

The man who posted the video said a friend sent it to him. He said about the people of Italy:

“The Italians are experiencing a very difficult time.

People cling to what they can, including a traditional song like this.”

As of this writing, there have been more than 15,000 coronavirus cases in Italy and more than 1,000 deaths.

Check out the video below.

A Siena, città alla quale sono molto legato, si sta in casa ma si canta insieme come se si fosse per la strada. Mi sono commosso pic.twitter.com/IDPqNEj3h3

— David Allegranti (@davidallegranti) March 12, 2020

People on Twitter were moved by the outpouring of emotion in the city of Siena.

Wow, thank you for posting this. It’s beautiful. Best of luck, and I wish recovery to those who are sick.

— Truth-seeker (@Women__Exist) March 13, 2020

And there were well wishes from the United States.

Well this was my morning cry. Love to all of you in Sienna and Italy. Sending you my best wishes from America.

— Jill Lava (@JillyLava) March 13, 2020

And someone even shared a similar video of people singing from balconies in Naples, Italy.

Hey World! I want to make you smile. Do you remember the thrilling cries from Wuhan homes? Look what is happening in Napoli (Italy). Everybody singing local songs from balconies during lockdown. pic.twitter.com/sqGDQAB1lx

— ??? ????? (@dan_ceres) March 12, 2020

This person hit the nail on the head.

I’m weeping. Camaraderie and humanity are so beautiful.

— WASH YOUR HANDS (@BOOBSPACE) March 13, 2020

Be safe out there and be sure to take care of yourselves and each other!

And, as always, let us know what you think of this video in the comments! We love reading your thoughts!

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There’s one thing we can all agree on: love is tough. When you’re deep in the throes of being ~in love~ with someone, it can feel useless to try to explain why or how you got there. It’s because that person is just perfect for you, duh!

But if anybody knows what causes you to fall for one person and not another, it’s the researchers who investigate this very phenomenon for a living.

Ayala Malach Pines is a clinical psychologist and faculty member at Ben Gurion University in Israel. Ayala studies couples, and she’s written around 60 research papers and a handful of books on the subject.

In one book, “Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose,” Ayala breaks down the 11 factors that are involved in falling in love.

The first factor is “similarity in attitudes, background, personality traits,” Joanie Faletto at Mental Floss writes. The next factor is geographic proximity, and the third factor is “desirable characteristics of personality and appearance.”

After that is reciprocal affection — or, whether the person has feelings for you too. So if there’s a cute, nice person who lives nearby, has some things in common, and likes you? You’ve already got several of the factors involved in falling in love with them.

Additional factors include whether the person satisfies your needs, physical and emotional arousal, and “social influences, norms, and the approval of people in our circle.”

Readiness for a romantic relationship also plays a role, as well as opportunities to be alone together (ahem). Then there are the specific cues in the person’s “voice, eyes, posture, way of moving.”

And lastly, there’s mystery, because sometimes not knowing everything about someone can make things more alluring.

While this information probably won’t make relationships any less confusing and hard, it does provide a helpful starting place for understanding how to get into one in the first place.

Have you noticed any of these factors in your life?

Let us know in the comments!

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It’s cool to learn new historical facts you thought couldn’t possibly be true. Young children are often surprised to find out that some people believed the Earth was flat, and adults are often surprised to know there are some people who still believe this.

One Tumblr thread dedicated itself to pointing out historical facts that seem too good to be true. We’re not a detective agency and this is the internet, so take these with a grain of salt.

Some of these as yet unchecked facts seem cool though!

8. Tiffany is an Ancient Name

My 11th favourite

7. Nipple Rings Were a Thing

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6. Romans Were Good at Mapping

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5. No One Discusses This Historic Pet Elephant

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4. Ancient Persians Knew How to Make Frozen Treats!

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3. This Ancient Egyptian Pregnancy Test is Really Something

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2. Peasants Knew How to Read

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1. That Flat Earth Theory Never Held Up

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These Tumblr posts definitely challenge our view of the world. Not all of these might be true, but they sure are fun!

Did any of these stand out to you? If so, why?

Be sure to share your reasons in the comments section!

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You may or may not have heard of Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon and one of the richest men in the world. With a net worth of $122 billion, Jeff’s wealth is difficult for the human mind to even fathom. That’s why one TikTok user made a handy visual aid using, of all things, grains of rice.

Humphrey Yang, or @humphreytalks on TikTok, used one grain of rice to represent $100,000. Then he showed piles of rice representing $1 million (10 grains of rice) and $1 billion (10,000 grains of rice).

The video took him “hours” to make, and it’s a stunning visual representation of just how much more $1 billion is than $1 million.

This TikTok has a really good visual representation of a million versus a billion dollars, which is especially relevant now that people are trying to compare Bernie’s $2.5 million to Bloomberg’s $64 billion pic.twitter.com/oX8GUpe2Iq

— bees are cool and nice (@Leila__007) February 23, 2020

In a follow-up video, Humphrey carefully measured out the correct amount of rice to represent Jeff Bezos’ wealth.

It’s a whopping 58 pounds of rice.

These teens on TikTok are out here doing the lord’s work. pic.twitter.com/KzGKGqR0w2

— Caitlin Duffy (@cait_duffy) February 28, 2020

He tells BuzzFeed News that he didn’t intend to make a political or social statement with the videos. An e-commerce consultant in San Francisco, he makes financial literacy videos on his channel on a regular basis. (And he’s not a teen, contrary to some viral tweets.)

Humphrey said,

“I wanted to present the information the best I could without putting a spin on it; other people can put their spin on it.

But I realize now after I posted the video that a ton of the comments — I’d say 80% of the comments — are saying that wealth is such an inequality, no one should have that much money, and ‘we’re out here struggling for half a grain of rice, which is 50K.’

That’s what’s sparking it.”

The videos have gone viral on TikTok as well as Twitter, because of how clearly they demonstrate wealth inequality.

One person on Twitter wrote, “I love how the single rice grain that represents $100,000 would change my entire life.”

Many others wrote: “TAX THE RICH!!”

Humphrey tells BuzzFeed News that he thinks the reason behind wealth inequality doesn’t lie with individual rich people, but rather with “the system itself — capitalism itself.”

What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments!

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