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A Study Is Indicating That Folks Who Experience Bad Dreams In Older Age, Without Any Trigger, Are Twice Prone To Parkinson’s Disease. The Study Was Done Using 12 Years Of Data From 3818 Older Men Living Independently, And Questionnaires That Included Sleep Quality Questions. Researchers Plan To Do More Studies In Larger & Diverse Group.

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Dr. Thakgalo Thibela, At 21, Is The Youngest Active Medical Doctor In South Africa–Where She Works At Helen Joseph Hospital In Johannesburg. Dr. Thakgalo, Who Grew Up In Violetbank, A Rural Village In Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga, South Africa, Received Her Bachelor Of Medicine And Bachelor Of Surgery From The University Of Witwatersrand.

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Emily Whitehead, Who Was Diagnosed With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia At The Age Of 5 Years Old, After 2 Years Of Unsuccessful Chemotherapy And Rapidly Declining Health, Become The First Child To Receive The CAR T-Cell Therapy At Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia. Emily Is Now Celebrating 10 Years Of Being Cancer Free. Cool!

Trevor Noah, A South African, A Standup Comedian, And The TV Host Of The Popular “The Daily Show,” Has Made History As The First African To Headline The White House Correspondent Dinner (WHCD) On 4/30/22. WHCD Is Organised By The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA), An Organisation Of Journalists That Cover The White House And The US President.

The 9 Babies Born On The Same Day Of May 2021, Are Said To Be In Perfect Health Condition As They Celebrate Their First Birthday. The 9 Babies, 5 Girls And 4 Boys, Broke The Guinness World Records For The Most Babies Delivered In A Single Birth. The Babies Were Birthed In Morocco By A Malian Couple, Abdelkader Arby & Halima Cissé

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A New Study Of About 405,981 British Adults Indicates That Walking Faster Could Add 20 More Years To A Person’s Biological Age. The Researchers Discovered That Walking Faster, Regardless Of Other Physical Activities, Could Lead To Longer Telomeres, Which Are The Protective “Caps” On The Ends Of The Chromosomes That Help Stabilize The DNA.

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Researchers, In A Bid To Create Stem Cells, Rejuvenated A 53-Year-Old Woman’s Skin To Look And Behave Like The Skin Of A 23-Year-Old Woman. Unfortunately, Their Method Can’t Be Used Clinically As It Could Increase Cancer Risk. But The Study May Help Identify Rejuvenating Genes That Could Be Used In Burn Treatment And Human Life Extension.

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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.

Troy Kotsur Is Now The First Deaf Actor To Be Nominated For An Oscar Award. Troy Made History With His Supporting Role In Sian Heder’s “Child Of Deaf Adults” (CODA). The Role Also Earned Kotsur 31 Nominations, Including A BAFTA, A Golden Globe, And The First Screen Actors Guild Nod For An Individual Deaf Male Actor.

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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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A US Patient, With Leukemia, Is Believed To Be The Third Person And The First Woman In The World To Be Cured Of HIV. The Patient, Who Has Been HIV Negative For 14 Months, Was Treated With A Stem Cell Transplant From Someone With A Natural Resistance To HIV. But Some Experts Say This Treatment Method Is Too Risky For Most HIV Patients.

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Researchers, In A First Of It’s Kind, Using 130,000 Eye Retinal Images, Coupled With Machine Learning, Were Able To Estimate A Person’s Biological Age From Their Actual Age. And The Retinal Age Gap Seem To Be An Independent Predictor Of Increased Mortality Risk, Especially Of Non-cardiovascular Disease And Non-Cancer Mortality.

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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.

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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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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Walt Disney Co. Has For The First Time Appointed A Woman, Ms. Susan E. Arnold, As Chairman Of Its Board. Ms. Susan Has Being A Member Of The Disney Board For 14 Years. And She Also Comes With Executive Experiences From Procter & Gamble, The Carlyle Group, And McDonald’s. Ms. Susan Will Succeed Robert Iger Effective December 31st, 2021.

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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.

Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Elected As The First Female Prime Minister (PM) Of Sweden, Resigned On Wednesday, 11/24/21, Just Hours After Being Named The New PM. Ms. Andersson Resigned Out Of Self-Respect After Her Coalition Partner, The Greens Party, Quit The Govt., And Her Budget Failed To Pass. But She Hopes To Become A PM In The Future.

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Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris Became The First Woman To Have The Presidential Power Of The Most Powerful Country In The World, USA. VP Harris Had the Power For 85 Minutes When President Biden Was Under Anesthesia For His Routine Colonoscopy. This Temporal Transfer Of Power Is Not Unusual As It Has Happened During Past US Presidencies.

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The Longest Partial Lunar Eclipse In This Century And In ~580 Years Will Occur For 3 Hrs And 28 Mins, Begining Late Thursday Night To Early Friday (18th-19th, Nov. 2021) Across The USA. And Spectators Do Not Need Special Glasses To View It. A Partial Lunar Eclipse Occurs When The Sun, Earth, And Moon Are In An Almost Straight Line.