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Mellody Hobson Will Be The First Black Woman To Be A Part Owner Of An NFL Team, When The Ownership Group, In Which She Is A Member, Takes Over The Denver Broncos In A $4.65 B Deal. Hobson, Age 53, A Co-CEO Of The $17.8 B Ariel Investments, Married To Star Wars Creator, George Lucas, Sits On Many Boards Like Starbucks And Estée Lauder.

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NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), For The First Time In History, Has Appointed A Woman As Its Head. Dr. Laurie Leshin, Who Is Also The Vice President Of Caltech, Is A Distinguished Geochemist And Space Scientist. Dr. Leshin, An Advocate For Gender Equality In STEM, Wants To Make JPL An All-Inclusive Environment For Great Minds.

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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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Researchers, For The First Time, Discovered Microplastic In Freshly Fallen Snow In Antarctica. Scientists Found From Each Of The 19 Sampled Sites, An Avg. Of 29 Plastic Particles Per Litre Of Melted Snow. And Identified 13 Different Plastic Types–With The Most Common Plastic Being PET Plastic—Used Mostly In, E.g., Soft-Drink Bottles.

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Angel Alvarado, Age 19 And From A Colombia, Has Set A New Guinness World Records For The Fastest Time In Solving 3 Rubik Cubes While Juggling Them At The Same Time. The New Record, Set At ~4 Minutes 31 Seconds, Beats His Previous Record By 20 Seconds. Angel Alvarado Attributed His Victory To 9 Months Of Practice.

Researchers Have Injected The First Human Patient With A Virus Engineered Solely To Kill Cancer. The Virus, Vixinia, Was Effective Against Cancer In Animals, Especially For Lung, Breast, Ovaries, Pancreas, And Colon Cancer. Vixinia Is Said To Boost The Body’s Immune Response To Cancer And Make Cancer Cells More Visible To The Immune System.

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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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A Nepalese Teen, Dor Bahadur Khapangi, Has Been Confirmed By The Guinness World Records As The Shortest Living Male Teenager. Dor Bahadur, Age 17, Measured An Average Height Of 73.43 cm (2 ft 4.9 in) To Break The Record Previously Held By The Late Khagendra Thapa Magar, At A Height Of 65.58 cm (2 ft 1.8 in), Who Is Also A Nepalese.

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Doctors Have Reattached The Hands Of A 5-Year-Old Kid, In What Many Are Describing As The First Of Such Medical Feat in Asia. And also The First Re-Implantation Of A Minor’s Hands In Pakistan. The 10 Hour Surgery Was Performed At The Children’s Hospital In Lahore After The Boy’s Hands Were Cut-Off In A Spinning Blade Machine At Home.

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Spain May Approve A 3-Day Per Month Leave For Workers Who Experience Severe Period Pain. The Law Is Part Of A Reproductive Health Rights Reform, Which Includes, E.g., Enabling Girls Aged 16-17 To Have An Abortion Without Parental Consent. Spain Will Become The First Western Country To Offer Menstrual Leave If The Law Gets Approved.

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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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The United Arab Emirate Will Make History By Being The First Arab Nation To Send An Astronaut, In The Spring Of 2023, For A Long Term, 6 Months Mission To The International Space Station (ISS). The Mission Will Also Be The First Non-ISS Partner Professional Astronaut Flight, Facilitated By A US Commercial Space Company Called Axiom Space.

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Walter Orthmann, In Brazil, Has Broken His Own Guinness World Record For Having The Longest Career In The Same Company, Now Called ReneauxView. Mr. Orthmann, As Of The 01/6/2022, Has Been Working For The Same Company For 84 Years And 9 Days. Mr. Orthmann, Who Began As A Shipping Assistant, Turned 100 Years Old On 4/19/2022.

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NASA, In A First Of Its Kind “Holoportation,” “Teleported” A Hologram Of A Doctor And His Team To Space. The Hologram Of The NASA Flight Surgeon, Dr. Josef Schmid, And His Team Were Teleported In October 2021 To The International Space Station. However, Holoportation Is Not New As It Has Been Used In Advertising, Medical, And Education.

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Amber Fillary, A South African, Broke Her Initial Guinness World Record For Swimming A Distance Of 229 Ft 7.9 in Under Ice In Oppsjo, Norway, When She Recently Swam A Distance Of 295 Ft 3 in Under Ice In Kongsberg, Norway. Amber Also Holds The Guinness World Record For The Longest (359 Ft, 6 in ) Underwater Walk With One Breath.

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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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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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