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A New Find In An Ancient Camp Site, In Northern Utah, Indicates That Humans Used Tobacco ~9000 Years Earlier Than Thought. The Find, Charred Tobacco Plant Seeds, Indicates Hunter-Gatherers, In Utah Desert, Smoked The Plant About 12,300 Years. The Earliest Evidence Until Now Was A 3,300-Year-Old Smoking Pipe Discovered In Alabama.

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MIT Researchers Have Developed A Robot, Called RFusion, Which Can Find Lost Items, In Addition To Other Futuristic Industrial Applications. The Robot, Integrated With Camera, Antenna, Robotic Arm, And AI Can Precisely Locate Lost Objects From The RF Signals, From The Robot’s Antenna, Which Are Reflected Off RFID Tags Originally Stuck To The Objects.

William Shatner, Who Played Captain James T. Kirk In The Original “Star Trek” Series More Than 50 Years Ago, Has Overthrown Wally Funk To Become The Oldest person, At 90 Years Of Age, To Venture Into Space. He Became A Real “Space Explorer” Via Jeff Bezos Blue Origin’s New Shepard On Wednesday The 13th Of October 2021.

France Will Ban Plastic Wrapping For Almost All Fruits And Vegetables, From Jan. 2022, To Reduce Plastic Wastes And Their Impact On Climate And The Environment. The Measure Is Expected To Prevent The Use Of >One Billion Plastic Packaging Items Per Year. France Previously Banned Plastic Straws, Cups, Cutlery, And Styrofoam Takeaway Boxes.

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Netflix, The World’s Largest Streaming Service, Has Officially Revealed The Squid Game As Their Biggest TV Series Launch Ever, Having Reached ~111 Million Fans. The Show Is Said To Have Surpassed The Previous Record Holder, British-Romance Series “Bridgerton,” Which Previously Set The Record After Being Watched 82 Million Times.

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Regina King, The Oscar-Winning Actress, Has Made History As The First Black Female Director To Have Her First Directed Film, One Night in Miami, Premier In The Venice Film Festival In Its 88-Year-Long History. The Movie Is Said To Be A Fictional Take On A True Event That Occurred On Feb. 25, 1964, When Muhammad Ali Beat Sonny Liston.

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Freetown Waste Management Recycle, Nigeria, In A First Of Its Kind In The Country, Has Found A Way To Protect The Environment While Creating Jobs From The ~12 Million Waste Tires Produced Every Year In Nigeria. The Tires Are Recycled And Used To Produce, E.G., Paving Bricks, Floor Tiles, And Other High Demand Goods In Nigeria. Nice!

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A Pittsburgh-Based Rail Freight Company, Wabtec, In An Effort To Achieve Zero Emission Of Carbon, From Rail Transport, Has Unveiled The World’s First Battery-Electric Freight Train. The Train, Perched On A Strip Of Rail At Carnegie Mellon’s Technology Campus, Would Help Move The 1.7bn Tons Of Goods Shipped On American Railroads Each Year.

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A Unique Fossilized Ankylosaur, An Armored Spikey Dinosaur, Was Discovered For The First Time In Africa, In Morocco. The Ankylosaur, Called Spicomellus, Is Probably One Of The Earlier (~168 Myrs Ago) Ankylosaurs To Walk On Earth. Ankylosaurs Are Well-Known From Northern Continents, I.E., N. America And Asia. Unlike The Southern Continents.

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