Ken Yun

On 9/19/25, Russian Farmer Alexander Chusov Set A New National Heaviest Pumpkin Record With A 969kg Entry At Russia’s Giant Veggie Contest, Surpassing His Previous Mark. A 144kg Watermelon & 73kg Courgette Also Won. Winners Will Be Displayed At Moscow’s Apothecary Garden. The World’s Heaviest Pumpkin Is 1,247kg, Grown By Travis Gienger In California.

A Very Rare Insect, The Giant Lacewing, Or Polystoechotes Punctata, Of The Jurassic Era, Has Been Spotted For The First Time Since It Vanished In The 1950s From E. North America. The Bug, Found In 2012 At An Arkansas Walmart, Was Identified In 2022. Factors Like Pollution & Artificial Light Are Said To Have Caused Its Disappearance.

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John Williams, At 90, Has Made History As The Oldest Person Nominated For An Oscar Award For His Score In “The Fabelmans.” If He Wins, At 91, He Would Become The Oldest Person To Have Won The Award. Mr. Williams Is The Living Person With The Most, 53, Oscar Nominations And The 2nd Most Nominated Person In Oscar History After Walt Disney.

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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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The Largest Ice Comet Nucleus Ever Seen Has Been Confirmed Via NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The Comet, C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), ~80 Miles In Diameter, Was First Observed In 2010 From An Observatory In Chile When It Was ~3 Billion Miles From The Sun. The Previous Record Holder, C/2002 VQ94, Discovered In 2002, Was ~60 Miles Across.

A New Study, Via Testing 22 Blood Samples, Has Detected, For The First Time, Tiny Particles Of Plastic In Human Blood. And Warn That The Microplastics Could Damage Human Cells. Half Of The Blood Samples Had Plastics From Drink Bottles, Another Third Had Plastics From Packaging Food. The Remaining Quarter Had Plastic From Shopping Bags.

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More Promising News On The Coronavirus Vaccine: The 1,077 People Trial, Conducted By The University Of Oxford, Showed That Their Vaccine Appears Safe And Triggers An Immune Response That Can Fight Coronavirus. Regardless, Larger Trials Are On The Way To Verify The Vaccine Effectiveness. The UK Has Already Ordered 100 Million Vaccine Doses.

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The First COVID-19 Experimental Drug In The USA, Created By Moderna Inc. And The National Institutes of Health, Is Set To Advance To The Final Stage After Scientists Discovered That It Responded As Expected And Triggered An Immune Response In People. The Final Test Will Begin Around July 27th, 2020 In A 30,000 Person Study. Nice!

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Scientists May Have Developed An Eco-Friendly Living Building Materials (LBM) To Solve Some Problems, E.G., With Sourcing For Construction Materials And Building In Remote And Austere Environments. The Living Concrete, Which Involves Enlisting Bacteria, Gelatin And Sand For Its Construction, Still Needs More Work To Make It Stronger For Practical Uses.

Two Major Movie Franchises, Wick 4′ And ‘Matrix 4,’ With A Common Character, Keanu Reeves, Is Set To Be Released On The Same Day Of May 21st, 2021. And The Internet Has Dubbed The Release Date “Keanu Reeves Day.” This May Be The First Time That Such Blockbuster Releases Have Ever Happened In The World. Looking Forward To The Movies!