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Prof. Avi Loeb, A Controversial Scientist, Is Stating That The Object He Identified As Interstellar, Which Crashed Into The Pacific In 2014, Could Be An Alien Craft. Prof. Loeb’s Speculation Comes After A US Space Command Report Indicated The Object To Be A Meteor. Prof. Loeb, Recently, Is Focused On The Possibility Of Life Beyond Earth.

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Douglas Smith, A British Gardener, Is A TrailBlazer Who Has Broken Records When It Comes To Garden Plants That Range From Pumpkin To Sunflower. Mr. Smith, In March Of 2022, Grew 1269 Tomatoes On A Single Stem, Thereby Breaking His Previous Guinness World Record, Which Has Been In place For More Than 10 Years When He Grew 488 Tomatoes.

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The World’s Skinniest Skyscraper Has Been Built In New York City. The Steinway Tower Is Said To Have A Height-To-Width Ratio Of 24:1, Making It “The Most Slender Skyscraper In The World.” The Tower Comprises 84 Stories With 60 Apartments, Which Cost From $7.75 Million For A Studio To $66 Million For The Penthouse.

~100 Scientists, From The Telomere-To-Telomere (T2T) Consortium, Have Completely Sequenced The Human Genome By 100% Since It Was 92% Sequenced ~20 Years Ago . This Complete 100% Sequencing Will Provide Information That Will Aid Us To Better Understand How We Form As Individual Organism, And How We Vary Btw Other Humans, And Other Species.

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Finland, For The 5th Year In A Row, Has Been Named The Year 2022 World’s Happiest Country. Denmark, Iceland, And Switzerland Came 2nd, 3rd, And 4th Respectively. The US And UK Came 16th, 17th Respectively. Afghanistan Came Last. The Rank Is Based On People’s Own Assessment Of Their Happiness, As Well As Economic And Social Data.

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The Trapp Family, From Minnesota, At An Average Height Of 6 Ft 8.03 In, Is Now The Guinness World Records Tallest Family In The World. The Tallest Is Adam Trapp, 22, Who Is 7 Ft 3.7 In; Savanna Trapp-Blanchfield, 27, Is 6 Ft 8.5 In Tall; Molly Steede, 24, Is 6 Ft 5.8 In Tall. Their Mom Is 6 ft 3.5 In Tall; And Father Is 6 Ft 8.2 In Tall.

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Vitomir Maričić, From Croatia, In September 2021, Has Broken The Guinness World Records For The Longest Underwater Walk Without Coming Up For Air. Vitomir’s 107 M (351 ft 0.5 in) Walk Broke The Previous Record Of 96 M (314 ft 11.5 in), Which Was Held By A Fellow Croatian, Boris Milosic, When He Walked In March Of 2020.

The Largest Ever, 58-Foot-Tall, Rogue Wave Has Been Recorded In The Waters Off British Columbia, Canada, In Nov. 2020. Rogue Waves, Also Called Killer Waves, Are Unpredictable, And Little Is Known About How They Form. And So, Studying Rogue Waves Could Help Scientists Better Understand The Forces Behind Them And Their Potential Impacts.

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A New Guinness World Records Has Been Set In The Balancing Category By A Man From Yemen. Mohammed Muqbel Set The New Record When He Balanced/Stacked 4 Eggs On Top Of Each Other, Breaking His Previous Guinness World Records Of Stacking 3 Eggs. Mohammed Attributted His Success To “Tremendous Patience, Focus, And Calmness. Congrats!

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A Lightning Bolt That Crossed Three Southern US States, Texas, Louisiana, And Mississippi In April 2020, According To World Meteorological Organization, Has Broken A New World Record By Being The Longest Lightning At 477 Mile Long. The Previous Record Was Set By A 440.6 Miles (709 km) Lightning Bolt, Which Was Recorded In Brazil In 2018.

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NASA Plans To Crash The International Space Station (ISS) Into Point Nemo, In The South Pacific Ocean, By 2031. Point Nemo Is The point In The Ocean That is Farthest From Land, And It Has Been A Watery Grave For Many Other Spacecrafts. The ISS, Launched In 2000, Has Received More Than 200 Astronauts From 19 Different Countries.

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Pakistan Has Made History With The Appointment Of Ayesha Malik, Age 55, As Its First Female Supreme Court Judge, In A Judiciary That Is Considered Conservative And Male-Dominated. Pakistan Is Said To Be The Only South Asian Country To Have Never Had A Female Supreme Court Judge, With Only 4% Of High Court Judges Being Women.

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Zara Rutherford, A 19-Year-Old Belgian/ Briton, Has Made History As The Youngest Female To Fly Solo Around The World. She Accomplished The Feat With Her Shark UL Plane In 5 Months, Covering 28,000 Nautical Miles, And Stopping In 41 Countries And 5 Continents. But Travis Ludlow, At 18 Years, Is Generally The Youngest World Solo Pilot .

Maya Angelou, Legendary Poet And Activist, Has Become The First Black Woman Printed On The US Quarter. Maya’s Quarters Are The First, In The American Women Quarters Program, To Honor Prominent Women In US History. Other Quarters, Later In 2022 Through 2025, Will Feature Others Like Sally Ride–The First American Woman Astronaut In Space.

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A Set Of Californian Twins Have Achieved An Extremely Rare Feat By Being Born In Different Years. The Male Twin, Alfredo Antonio Trujillo, Was Born On New Year’s Eve Of 2021. While The Sister, Aylin Yolanda Trujillo, Arrived 15 Mins Later, At Exactly Midnight On Jan. 1st, 2022. The Probability Of This Happening Is Said To Be 1 In 2 Million.

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NASA Is Said To Have Funded A Year-Long Program In Princeton, Which Paid 24 Priests To Find Out How The World’s Religion Would React If Evidence Of Alien Life Was Discovered. This Study Does Make One Curious About NASA’s Confidence In Finding Alien Life, Especially Given The Advances In Technology Like The James Webb Space Telescope.

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TikTok, Previously Ranked No. 7 For Web Traffic, Has Surpassed Google And Facebook To Become The Year 2021 Most Visited Internet Platform. This Ranking Is Based On Cloudflare Data Of Website Generated Traffic In 2021. The Other Top 9 Ranking Websites Are Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, Twitter, WhatsApp.

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Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe Is Now The First Spacecraft To Touch Our Sun. The Probe Successfully Flew Through The Sun’s Upper Atmosphere To Sample Our Sun’s Particles And Magnetic Fields. This Feat Will Give Us Deeper Insights Into Our Sun’s Evolution And Impacts On Our Solar System, Inferably Teaching Us About Other Suns In The Universe.

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Malta Has Became The First European Country To Allow Limited Possession And Cultivation Of Marijuana For Personal Use. The Law Allows Adults In Malta To Possess Up To 7g (0.25 oz) Of Cannabis And Grow Up To Four Plants. However, Adults Are Banned From Using It In Public Or Smoking In Front Of Children–Liable To A Fine OF 300-500 Euros

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UAE Will Be The First Nation In The World To Formalize A Work Week That is Shorter Than 5 Days. This Comes When The UAE Adopts A 4.5-day Workweek, Beginning Jan 1, 2022, With Weekends To Comprise Friday Afternoon, Saturday, And Sunday. The Change Is Expected To Boost Work-Life Balance/Enhance Social Wellbeing, While Increasing Performance.

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