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Researchers Have Conducted The First Successful Remote Controlled Test Flight Of A 22.5 kg And 3m Scale Futurist Airplane Model, Called Flying-V. The Plane Is Designed To Have Passenger Cabin, Cargo Hold, And Fuel Tanks In The Wings, And Shaped To Cut Aircraft Fuel Usage By 20%. However, More Work Is Needed To Get It Passenger Ready.

Ansu Fati, Age 17 Years And 311 Days, Became Spain’s Youngest Goalscorer In The Soccer Match In Madrid, On Sunday (9/6/2020), Against Ukraine. Ansu, The Barcelona Player, Broke The 95-Year Record Set In 1925 By Juan Errazquin, Who Was 18 Years And 344 Days Old When He Struck Three Times Against Switzerland.

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Josef Koeberl, An Austrian, Has Broken His Own World Record For Standing In A Box filled With Ice For 2.5 Hours. This Record, The World’s Longest Immersion, To Shoulder level, In A 1,800Kg Of Ice, In The Main Square Of The Austria Town Of Melk, West Of Vienna, Surpasses The Previous Time By 25 Minutes, Which He Set In 2019.

Researchers Are Indicating That The Earth Could Be Partially Responsible For The Rusting Of The Moon. This Denotation Is Based On Haematite (Rust) Found At The Moon’s Poles, And Given That The Moon Has No Oxygen For Rust To Form. And So, A Potential Source Of Oxygen Is Said To Come From The Earth, Transported Via The Earth’s Magnetic Field.

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Researchers, For The First Time, May Have Revealed The True Size Of Megalodons. They Did This Via Mathematically Comparing The Fossilized Teeth Of A Megalodon To Those Of Modern Day Sharks, And Determined That Megalodons Could Have Grown To 18m In Length, Weighed ~48 Tons, Have Fins As Tall As A Human Adult, And With Hand-Size Teeth.

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A Software Engineer, Ian Webster, Inspired By Plate Tectonics, Has Created A Map That Can Enable Anyone To “Time Travel” To The Past, Up to 750 Myrs Ago, To Find The Location Of Modern-Day Landmark Or City, With Associated Location Fossils. This Location Shift Is Because The Continents Have Been Drifting Away And Towards Each Other.

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MacKenzie Scott, The Recently Divorced Wife Of The Founder Of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Is Now The Wealthiest Woman In The World, With A Net Worth Of Over $66 Billion. Scott Got A 4% Stake In Amazon, As Part Of Her Divorce Settlement. The Company Share Is Said To Have Risen From Nearly $2,000 To $3,500 Since The Start Of 2020.

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Women Have Made Their Mark In NASA. And Now, Another Woman, Astronaut Jeanette Epps, Is Set To Build On That By Becoming The First Black Woman To Live And Work For A Long Term (6 Months) Aboard The International Space Station–She Is Scheduled To Launch In 2021. Astronaut Mae Jemison, In 1992, Became The First Black Woman In Space. Cool!

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Julio Ceasar Mora (110 Yrs Old) And His Wife Waldramina Maclovia Quinteros (Turns 105 In October), According To Guinness World Records, Based On A Combined Age Of 214 Years And 358 Days, Have Been Named The Oldest Married And The Oldest Living Married Couple In The World. The Couple, From Ecuador, Have Been Married For 79 Years.

SkyDrive Inc., A Japanese Company, Has Announced The First Successful Public Demonstration Of A Piloted Flying Car, Named SD-03. SD-03, According To SkyDrive, Is “The First Smallest Vertical Takeoff And Landing Vehicle That Takes Up The Space Of Two Parked Cars.” The Company Plans On Carrying Out More Developments And Tests To Ensure The Car Use Safety.