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A First-Of-Its-Kind Study In Uganda & Ivory Coast Found That Wild Chimpanzees Consume ∼14g Of Ethanol Daily From Fermented Fruit, Equal To ∼2.5 Human Drinks (A Beer + A Wine Glass + A Shot)/Day. This Supports The “Drunken Monkey” Hypothesis That Our Taste For Alcohol Evolved In Primates ∼10Mya. Critics, However, Dispute The Intake Estimates.

Domen Škofic Made History As The First To Climb A Plane Mid-Flight. At 2500m Above Aigen, Austria, He Scaled A Very Hard (8a-Grade) Climb Route Bolted To A Modified Red Bull Let L-13 Blanik Glider. Starting At The Cockpit, He Climbed A Figure-Eight Path Across Both Wings & Fuselage In -10°C & 100km/h Winds, Redefining Climbing & Aerial Sport.

Elon Musk Briefly Became The World’s First Half-Trillionaire At $500.1B, On 10/1/25, Driven By Rising Valuations In Tesla, xAI, & SpaceX. With Tesla Stock Up About 15% This Year (2025), Bolstered By His $1B Share Purchase & Tesla’s Pivot Toward AI & Robotics, His Commitment Is Secured By A Proposed $1T Pay Package Tied To Ambitious Goals.

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In A World First, US Scientists Created Fertilizable Human Eggs By Swapping A Donor Egg’s Nucleus With One From A Skin Cell, Using “Mitomeiosis” To Cut 46 Chromosomes To 23. 82 Eggs Formed; Some Reached Blastocysts But Weren’t Cultured Further For IVF. Many Embryos Were Abnormal. This Could Help Infertility and Gay Couples, But Trials Loom.

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Chinese Scientists, In A World-First, Created A Clear Coating That Turns Any Glass Window Into Solar Panels. Using Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Concentrators, It Directs Sunlight To Window Edge Solar Cells Where Up To 38.1% Of Green Light Is Collected And Converted To Electricity. Scalable & Retrofit-Ready, It Could Reduce Carbon Emissions.

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Six Flags Over Texas (SFOT) Debuts “Tormenta Rampaging Run,” The World’s First Giga Dive Coaster, In 2026 For Its 65th Anniversary. At 309ft Tall, 87mph, & A 285ft 95° Drop, It Breaks 6 Records: Tallest, Fastest, Longest Dive Coaster; Tallest Loop (179ft); Highest Immelmann (218ft); & Steepest Drop. The Original SFOT Opened On Aug. 5, 1961

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Brazil’s Sandro Dias, 50, Shattered Two Guinness World Records In Porto Alegre With A 60 Meter Skateboard Drop, The Tallest Ever, From A Temporary Ramp Built Off The 22-Storey Caff Building. He Reached A Speed Of 103.8 Km/H In Just 8 Seconds, Setting The Fastest Skateboard Speed. The Red Bull Building Drop Stunt Took 13 Years Of Planning.

Bodhana Sivanandan, 10, From London, Is The Youngest Woman Intl. Chess Master & Youngest Female Prodigy To Beat A GM (Peter Wells) At The 2025 British Championship. She Won Best Female Player At The 2023 EU Blitz; Is England’s Youngest-Ever Intl.Sports Rep After Joining Women’s Team At 9 In 2024; Began Chess At 5 In Lockdown; & Aims To Be A GM.

UK Scientists, In A First, Found A Strong Link Between Thumb Length & Brain Size Across 94 Living & Fossil Primate Species. Longer Thumbs, Important For Gripping & Handling Objects, Are Tied To A Larger Neocortex, Which Controls Thinking & Senses. This Link Holds Without Humans, Showing Hands & Brains Co-Evolved Over Millions Of Years.

Radia’s Windrunner, Expected By 2030, Will Be The World’s Largest Cargo Aircraft By Volume (6,800m³+). Built To Fill An Airlift Gap, It Can Carry, E.G., Six CH-47 Chinooks Or 12 Apaches Intact. With 7–12x The Capacity Of Current Airlifters, It Targets Rapid Deployment To Remote Bases, Supports US Military/Special Ops, And Disaster Relief.

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