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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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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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The Largest Floating Office In The World, A 3,700 Sq M Building, Has Been Built In Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Building, Said To Be Self-Sufficient And Climate Neutral, Is Built Of Wood, Reusable And Recyclable Materials. The Building Is Headquater To The Global Center On Adaptation (GCA), An International ThinkTank On Climate Issues.

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Researchers Have Discovered Footprints In New Mexico That Mostly Belong To Children And Teenagers Who Lived Btw 21,000- 23,000 Years Ago. The Footprints Are The Oldest Evidence Denoting That Humans Reached The Americas ~7000 Years Earlier Than The 16,000 Years Originally Thought. This Discovery May Indicate An Unknown Great Human Migration.

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Betty Soskin, Who Turned 100 Years, Is Now The Oldest National Park Ranger In USA. Soskin, Born In Detroit On Sept. 22, 1921, Is Currently A Park Ranger At Rosie The Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park In Richmond, California. Soskin Has Had A School Named After Her And Has Also Received A Presidential Commemorative Coin.

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Umeno Sumiyama And Koume Kodama, Two Japanese Twin Sisters, Were Certified As The World’s Oldest Living Identical Twins By The Guinness World Records. The Twins, Born On 11/5/1913 On Shodoshima Island, Are Said To Be Over 107 Years And 300 days Old. The Previous Record Holders, Kin And Gin, From Japan, Were 107 Years And 175 Days.

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Speculations Abound That The Biblical Destruction Of Sodom May Be An Eye-Witness Account Of The 2nd Oldest Destruction Of A Human Settlement, After Abu Hureyra In Syria ~12,800 Yrs Ago, By Meteorite Impact. This Speculation Is Based On Evidence From Tall el-Hammam (Sodom) That’s Similar To Those Found At Tunguska And Chicxulub Crater Sites.

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The Volcanic Eruption, Near Reykjavik, Will Be Iceland Longest In 50 Yrs. The Lava Began Spilling On 3/19/2021, For ~6 Mths, From A Fissure Close To Mount Fagradalsfjall. However, The 143 MCUM Lava Spew, Is Smaller Than Iceland Biggest Lava Flow, In 230 Yrs, From The Shorter-Lived Holuhraun Eruption. Iceland Longest Eruption Lasted 4 Yrs.

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Mars Perseverance Rover Team, Based On Preliminary Analysis Of The Rock Samples Recently Collected, May Have Identified Salt Minerals In The Rock Samples. And The Salt Minerals, Is Said, Could Have Trapped Ancient Martian Water Bubbles, Which Could Act As A Time Capsule, Offering Clues On The Ancient Habitability And Past Climate On Mars.

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Researchers Have Discovered One Of The Biggest Animals From The Cambrian Period. The Long Head Ocean-Dwelling (OD) Animal, Named Titanokorys Gainesi, Related To The Horseshoe Crab, Was Discovered In The Burgess Shale In Canada. Gainesi Is Said To Be 1/2 Meter In Length Compared To Many Of The Other Cambrian OD Pinky-Finger-Size Organisms.

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Scotland Wants To Trial A 4-Day Work Week To Boost Worker’s Happiness & Productivity. Scotland Will Model The Trial After Iceland, One Of The Countries, Which Includes Spain, Japan, New Zealand, To Have Undergone A Trial And May Be Exploring A Permanent Switch. Scotland Workers Will See A 20% Work Hours Reduction Without Change In Wages.

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Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United Superstar, Is Now The Guinness World Records Holder For Scoring The Highest Number Of Goals At The International Stage. Ronaldo’s Two Goals Against Ireland Gave Him 111 Total Goals For Portugal And Broke The 15-Year Record Set By Former Iran Star, Ali Daei, Who Scored 109 Goals Between 1993 And 2006.

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover, On Sept. 1, 2021, Snagged The First Rock Samples From Mars At A Ridge Dubbed “Citadelle” (French For “Castle”). The Samples Are Expected To Be Delivered To Earth As Early As 2031 By A Joint NASA-European Space Agency Mission. The Samples, Once Delivered, Will Be The First Piece Of Another Planet On Earth.

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The Swiss Alps, A Popular Tourist Attraction, Is Being Protected From Increasing Summer Melt, Due To Global Warming, By Covering It With Special Blankets That Reflects The Sun’s Ray, Thereby Reducing Seasonal Melt By 70%. The 5 Mile Swiss Glacier Is Said To Have Shrunk, Over The Last 10 Years, With The Disappearance Of ~131 Ft Of Glacier.

A New Assessment Indicates That 30% (17,500) Of The ~60,000 Tree Species On The Earth May Face Extinction, Due To Factors Like Grazing And Farming, Fire, Logging, Development Etc. Preserving Existing Forest And Expanding Protection Areas; Utilizing Seedbanks And Botanic Gardens, Coupled With Reforestation Education Could Stem The Tide.

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Researchers May Have Inadvertently Discovered The Most Northernmost Island Off Greenland Coast . The Scientists Made The Discovery During An Expedition To Oodaaq Island, Previously Thought To Be The Most Northernmost Island. But They Soon Discovered They Were 800m (2,625ft) Further North Of Oodaaq Island, Where The 60X30m Island Is Located.

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Ms. Josephine Baker, Who Died In 1975, Will Be The First Black Woman To Be Given One Of The Highest Honors In France–Honored With A Memorial Plaque At The Panthéon Monument, Paris, On Nov. 30th. The Late Ms. Baker Was A French-American Singer, Dancer, And Actress Who Fought Against Racism And In The French Resistance During WWW II.

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