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Zahid Quraishi Is The First Muslim American Federal Judge, In US History, After He Was Confirmed By The US Senate To The U.S. District Court For The District Of New Jersey. He Was Also The First Asian-American To Serve On The Federal Bench In New Jersey After His Appointment, In 2019, As A U.S. Magistrate Judge For The Same District.

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An Endangered Stingray, Caught In The Mekong River In Cambodia, Is Said, To The Best Of Known Record, To Be The World’s Largest Freshwater Fish. The Stingray, Caught On 6/13/22, Weighed 300kg (661lb) And Measured 3.98m Long And 2.2m Wide. This Record Beats The Previous Record Holder, A 646lb (293kg) Mekong Giant Catfish Caught In Thailand In 2005.

NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), For The First Time In History, Has Appointed A Woman As Its Head. Dr. Laurie Leshin, Who Is Also The Vice President Of Caltech, Is A Distinguished Geochemist And Space Scientist. Dr. Leshin, An Advocate For Gender Equality In STEM, Wants To Make JPL An All-Inclusive Environment For Great Minds.

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Scientists Are Indicating That The White Rock Spinosaurid, A Giant Crocodile-Faced Dinosaur, Discovered On The Isle Of Wight, Could Be Europe’s Biggest Predatory Dinosaur. The Animal, Estimated To Be 125 Myrs Old And Said To Exceed 10 Metres (33 Feet) In Length, Could Be A New Spinosaurid Species, And The Youngest Spinosaurid Ever Found.

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A Study Is Indicating That Folks Who Experience Bad Dreams In Older Age, Without Any Trigger, Are Twice Prone To Parkinson’s Disease. The Study Was Done Using 12 Years Of Data From 3818 Older Men Living Independently, And Questionnaires That Included Sleep Quality Questions. Researchers Plan To Do More Studies In Larger & Diverse Group.

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LeBron James, Aka King James, According To Forbes, Is Now The First Active NBA Player To Become A Billionaire. LeBron James, 37 Years Of Age And The Highest Paid NBA Player, Is Said To Have Made Most Of His Money, ~900 Million, From Brand Deals, Real Estate, And Investments. While ~$387 Million Came From Playing On The Court.

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The ~2073 Ft Long Pedestrian Glass Bottom Bridge, Which Was Built In Vietnam, Has Been Deemed The Longest Glass Bottom Bridge In The World By The Guinness World Records. The Bach Long Bridge, Which Has 3 Layers Of 40 mm Of Tempered Glass That Can Support 450 People At A Time, Is Suspended ~500 Ft Above A Valley.

Researchers, For The First Time, Discovered Microplastic In Freshly Fallen Snow In Antarctica. Scientists Found From Each Of The 19 Sampled Sites, An Avg. Of 29 Plastic Particles Per Litre Of Melted Snow. And Identified 13 Different Plastic Types–With The Most Common Plastic Being PET Plastic—Used Mostly In, E.g., Soft-Drink Bottles.

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Angel Alvarado, Age 19 And From A Colombia, Has Set A New Guinness World Records For The Fastest Time In Solving 3 Rubik Cubes While Juggling Them At The Same Time. The New Record, Set At ~4 Minutes 31 Seconds, Beats His Previous Record By 20 Seconds. Angel Alvarado Attributed His Victory To 9 Months Of Practice.

Researchers Have Injected The First Human Patient With A Virus Engineered Solely To Kill Cancer. The Virus, Vixinia, Was Effective Against Cancer In Animals, Especially For Lung, Breast, Ovaries, Pancreas, And Colon Cancer. Vixinia Is Said To Boost The Body’s Immune Response To Cancer And Make Cancer Cells More Visible To The Immune System.

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The US Senate Has Confirmed Sunshine Suzanne Sykes, Age 48, To The US District Court For The Central District Of California. Her Confirmation Would Uniquely Make Her California’s First-Ever Native American Federal Judge And The 5th Indigenous Woman In US History To Serve On The Federal Court, Which Has ~900 Authorized Federal Judgeships.

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Wain, The Wombat, Has Been Confirmed By The Guinness World Records As The Oldest Living Wombat. Wombats Are Said To Live To An Average Age Of 15 Years In The Wild And Up To 20 Years In Captivity, But Wain Is Currently At The Age of 32, Which Is Equivalent To 100 Human Years. Folks Can Visit Wain At The Satsukiyama Zoo, In Japan.

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Dr. Thakgalo Thibela, At 21, Is The Youngest Active Medical Doctor In South Africa–Where She Works At Helen Joseph Hospital In Johannesburg. Dr. Thakgalo, Who Grew Up In Violetbank, A Rural Village In Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa, Received Her Bachelor Of Medicine And Bachelor Of Surgery From The University Of Witwatersrand.

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Tafheen Sharif, Who Was The Youngest Councilor In England, In 2012, Has Once Again Made History. She, A Member Of The Labour party, Is Now England’s First Muslim Female Deputy Mayor After Being Elected In Tameside In The UK. Tafheen Sharif, A Pakistani By Origin, Also Served As A Deputy Police Commissioner Of Bedfordshire.

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Alexandr Wang, At Age 25, Is Now Said To Be The New Youngest Self-Made Billionaire. And This Is All Thanks To The 6-Year-Old San Francisco–Based Company, Scale AI, Which He Cofounded After Dropping Out Of MIT At Age 19. Scale AI Technology Is Used By Major Companies And Organizations, Including The US Airforce, To Unlock Data Potential.

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A Nepalese Teen, Dor Bahadur Khapangi, Has Been Confirmed By The Guinness World Records As The Shortest Living Male Teenager. Dor Bahadur, Age 17, Measured An Average Height Of 73.43 cm (2 ft 4.9 in) To Break The Record Previously Held By The Late Khagendra Thapa Magar, At A Height Of 65.58 cm (2 ft 1.8 in), Who Is Also A Nepalese.

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Doctors Have Reattached The Hands Of A 5-Year-Old Kid, In What Many Are Describing As The First Of Such Medical Feat in Asia. And also The First Re-Implantation Of A Minor’s Hands In Pakistan. The 10 Hour Surgery Was Performed At The Children’s Hospital In Lahore After The Boy’s Hands Were Cut-Off In A Spinning Blade Machine At Home.

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A Relatively Recent Controversial Research Is Indicating That Humor May Generally Be The Most Effective Way To Flirt, In Heterosexual Relationships, Regardless Of Whether One Is Looking For A Fling Or A Long-Term Romance. The Study Was Based On A Questionnaire Done On 415 Men And Women In Norway, And 577 In The US.

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Spain May Approve A 3-Day Per Month Leave For Workers Who Experience Severe Period Pain. The Law Is Part Of A Reproductive Health Rights Reform, Which Includes, E.g., Enabling Girls Aged 16-17 To Have An Abortion Without Parental Consent. Spain Will Become The First Western Country To Offer Menstrual Leave If The Law Gets Approved.

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Emily Whitehead, Who Was Diagnosed With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia At The Age Of 5 Years Old, After 2 Years Of Unsuccessful Chemotherapy And Rapidly Declining Health, Become The First Child To Receive The CAR T-Cell Therapy At Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia. Emily Is Now Celebrating 10 Years Of Being Cancer Free. Cool!