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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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Doctors, For The First Time, Successfully Transplanted A Pig’s Heart Into A Human. The Genetically Modified Pig’s Heart, In A 7 Hours Operations, Was Transferred To A 57-Year-Old David Bennett, Who Suffered A Life-Threatening Arrhythmia And Was Deemed Ineligible To Recieve A Human Heart Transplant. This Feat Could Curb Organ Donor Scarcity Crisis.

BMW Has Created The First Car, From A BMW iX, Which Changes Color. And This Color Changing Ability Is Due To The Car’s Body Panels Comprising E Ink Displays, Just Like Those Found In Screens Of E-Readers. The E Ink Display Technology Would Enable The Car Or Part Of The Vehicle To Display Different Colors And/Or Information Like Images And Text.

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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“Spider-Man: No Way Home” Has Become The First And Only Movie Released In 2021 To Cross A Global Ticket Sale Of A Billion Dollars. And The Movie Achieved This Feat In Just Over A Week Since Its Dec. 17th, 2021 Release. The Movie Is Also Said To Be The Only Movie To Have Done This Since The Pandemic Began About 2 Years Ago.

Oriini Kaipara, A 38-Year-Old Māori Journalist At The “Newshub Live” Bulletin In New Zealand, Is Now The First Person With Traditional Facial Markings To Ever Host A Primetime News Program On National Television. Ms. Oriini, Previously Made History In 2019, At TVNZ, As The First Person With Māori Facial Markings To Present A Mainstream TV News Program.

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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Gabriel Boric, A 35-Year-Old Congressman And A Former Student Protester, Has Become The Youngest President In Modern Chile History. And Also The Youngest Leader In South America. The Left-Wing Gabriel Boric Won The Largest Majority Ever Recorded In A Chilean Election, On 12/19/21, To Defeat The Ultra-Conservative José Antonio Kast, Age 56.

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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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New Zealand, In A Bid To Become Smoke-Free By 2025, Will Be The First Country To Ban Cigarettes By Preventing People Aged 14 And Under From Ever Buying Cigarettes, Begining From The Year 2022. The Plan Would Also See The Reduction In Cigarettes Nicotine Levels Available To Older People. While Also Raising The Smoking Age Year By Year.

Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Who Resigned From Office As The First Female Prime Minister (PM) Of Sweden, Has Made History Again As The First Female Elected Twice As Sweden’s PM, After Being Re-Elected On Monday 11/29/2021 By Parliament. Ms. Andersson Was Re-Appointed As PM When Majority Of The Parliament Did Not Vote Against Her.

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Sesame Street, The 52-Year-Old Show, Has Added The First Asian American Muppet To Its Show. The Muppet, Called Ji-Young, A 7-Year-Old Korean American Who Loves Playing The Electric Guitar And Skateboarding, Will Usher In Rock Music, Asian Culture And Talk About Racism, Given The Surge In Racism And Violence Targeting Asians And Asian Americans.

Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Survey, By Comparing The Cost In Dollars For Goods And Services In 173 Cities, Has For The First Time Named Tel Aviv, Israel, As The World’s Most Expensive City To Live In, While Paris And Singapore Came A Joint Second. Zurich Came Third. Damascus, In War-Torn Syria, Remains The World’s Cheapest City.

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Honduras Has Elected Its First Female President, Ms. Xiomara Castro. Ms. Castro, Who Had Contested Twice For The Presidency After Her Husband, Manuel Zelaya, Was Ousted In A 2009 Coup, Will End The Right-Wing National Party 12-Year Reign. Ms. Castro Promises Changes To A Country Plagued By Large-Scale US Migration, Violent Crime, And Drug Trafficking.

Researchers Have Discovered A New Strain Of Coronavirus That Has About 50 Mutations, Compared To The Fewer Than 20 Mutations In The Delta Variant. The New Strain, Called Omicron, Is Said To Pose Very High Risk, And Is Probably The Most Contagious Strain. Omicron Has Been Found In More Than A Dozen Countries Across At Least Five Continents.

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An Indian Government Survey, Between 2019 And 2021, Shows That, For The First Time In History, India Now Has More Women Than Men, With 1,020 Women For Every 1,000 Men. The Survey Of 650,000 Households Also Shows A Decline In India’s Reproductive Rate, Implying That India’s Current Population Of 1.4 Billion May Be Near Its Peak.

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NASA Has Launched A Spacecraft To Test The First Technology That Could Save The Earth From Catastrophic Asteroid Impact. The Nasa’s Dart Mission Will, In Late Sept. Or Early Oct. 2022, Crash A Spacecraft Into A Non-threatening Asteroid Called Dimorphos, At 15,000 Miles/Hour, To Test How Difficult It Is To Stop A Huge Space Rock From Colliding With Earth.