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Adiah And Adrial Nadarajah, According To The Guinness World Records, Are The World’s Most Premature Twins. The Canadian Siblings Were Born At 22 Wks– 126 Days Early, Surpassing The Previous Record Of 125 Days Early Birth Set In 2018 By Identical Twins Kambry and Keeley Ewoldt In Iowa, US. A Full-Term Pregnancy Is Usually 9 Months (39 Wks).

An Arctic Walrus, For The First Time In Over 25 Years, Was Spotted Along The W. Coast Of Scotland. Walrus Are Long Distance Travelers, And Some Experts Are Speculating This To Be The Same Walrus Seen In Netherlands, France, England, & Iceland. 2 Walrus Groups Are Thought To Exist In The Wild: ~25,000 Atlantic And ~ 200,000 Pacific Walruses.

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A Very Rare Insect, The Giant Lacewing, Or Polystoechotes Punctata, Of The Jurassic Era, Has Been Spotted For The First Time Since It Vanished In The 1950s From E. North America. The Bug, Found In 2012 At An Arkansas Walmart, Was Identified In 2022. Factors Like Pollution & Artificial Light Are Said To Have Caused Its Disappearance.

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The Biggest Living Frog On Earth, Said To Grow As Big As A Cat, Is Now Endangered As It Has Been Over-Hunted For Food And Pet Trade In Cameroon And Equatorial Guinea. A Conservative Group Is, However, Effectively Making Efforts To The Save The Frog By Working With Hunters And Setting Up Alternative Food Sources, Snail Farms, For The Locals.

Spain, Like Demark First Did In 2014, Has Passed A Law That Would Enable People Over 16 To Legally Identify As Another Gender Without Medical Evaluation, And Confirm It 3 Months Later. The Law Changes The Usual Process That Required A Medical Diagnosis Of Gender Dysphoria And To Be On Hormonal Treatment For 2 Yrs Before A Gender Change.

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Zoe Saldaña, Age 44, Is Now The First Actor To Star In 4 Movies That Made Over $2 Billion At The Box Office. The Movies Are 1) 2023’s Avatar: The Way of Water; 2) 2009’s Avatar, 3) 2019’s Avengers: Endgame, and 4) 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War. James Cameron Also Made History With 3 $2 Billion Movies: Movies 1 And 2 Above And 1997’s Titanic.

John Williams, At 90, Has Made History As The Oldest Person Nominated For An Oscar Award For His Score In “The Fabelmans.” If He Wins, At 91, He Would Become The Oldest Person To Have Won The Award. Mr. Williams Is The Living Person With The Most, 53, Oscar Nominations And The 2nd Most Nominated Person In Oscar History After Walt Disney.

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María Branyas Morera, Following The Death Of 118-Year-Old Lucile Randon Of France, Is Now Said To Be The Oldest Living Woman And The Oldest Living Person By The Guinness World Records. Ms. Morera, Who Is 115 Years And 321 Days Old, As Of 1/19/2023, Was Born In California, USA, On 3/4/1907. But She Returned To Spain 8 Years After Her Birth.

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Scientists, For The First Time, Have Developed A Living Solar Cells From The Succulent Plant Corpuscularia Lehmannii. The Cell Works When Electron Is Transported, Via Water And Nutrients As Electrolytes, During Photosynthesis. The Plant’s Leaf Is Said To Generate 20 µA/cm2 of Photocurrent Density, For Over A Day, When Exposed To Light.

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EctoLife Is The First Artificial Womb (AW) Concept Facility, Which, In Theory, Could Grow About 30,000 Babies Per Year. Parents Can Engineer Their Embryos Before They Are Implanted In The AW. The Facility Is Said To Be A Solution For Countries With Depleting Populations, For Infertile Couples, Or For Women That Have Lost Their Wombs.