Five Things

#5 Titanoboa The name alone should be enough to send chills down your spine. As you might have guessed it, Titanoboa was a snake and not just another type of snake you see on the discovery channel. Titanoboa was the largest snake ever. It lived roughly 60 million years ago. It's weight was that of a small car, about 1.2 tonnes and it reached length up to 15 meters (49.2 ft). The main reason for the enormous size of Titanoboa was the climate in the tropical environment in which it lived. Scientists approximate the temperature around 30 °C (90 °F) Titanoboa was discovered on an expedition by a team of international scientists. They couldn't believe their eyes when they dug up the fossils. Prior to the discovery of these fossils it was considered mere fantasy to even speculate in scientific terms the existence of snakes with the caliber of Titanoboa. #4 Predator X This monster is a giant extinct type of lizard that lived roughly 147 million years ago. It's of...

Number 1 – YAHOO The biggest user data attack ever, which occurred in 2013, affected more than 3 billion Yahoo accounts. It was previously stated by Yahoo back in 2013 that “only” 1 billion user accounts were impacted by the hacking scandal, however, in 2017 it publicly announced that the correct number was in fact a staggering 3 billion. This dramatic incident took Yahoo almost 3 years to reveal and more than 4 years of investigation. The new acquired intelligence discovered that every single Yahoo account that existed until 2013 was hacked. The data hacks included personal names, emails, phone number, birth dates, and passwords. The hackers were so deep in the system that they also managed to compromise the secret questions and answers of the users. Yahoo was sold to Verizon in June 2017. The original deal got cut by 350 million because of the data breach.     Number 2 – EQUIFAX The second biggest cyber security breach occurred in September 2017 and affecte...

                   #5. Dark Matter & Dark Energy Originally known as the “missing mass problem”, dark matter’s existence was first inferred by Swiss American astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who in 1933 discovered that the mass of all the stars in the Coma cluster of galaxies provided only about 1 percent of the mass needed to keep the galaxies from escaping the cluster’s gravitational pull. But the name "Dark Matter" is very misleading. Because it implies we know it is matter of some kind. But we have no idea what this thing is. A more fitting name would be, dark gravity, because we can detect the gravitational effects of this thing, but we don't know what it is. While dark energy, is an unknown form of energy, which is hypothesized to permeate all of space. Dark energy, is a theoretical repulsive force that counteracts gravity and causes the universe to expand at an accelerating rate. Together, ...