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Wain, The Wombat, Has Been Confirmed By The Guinness World Records As The Oldest Living Wombat. Wombats Are Said To Live To An Average Age Of 15 Years In The Wild And Up To 20 Years In Captivity, But Wain Is Currently At The Age of 32, Which Is Equivalent To 100 Human Years. Folks Can Visit Wain At The Satsukiyama Zoo, In Japan.

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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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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 Chihuahua, Named TobyKeith, Has Been Acknowledged By The Guinness World Records As The Oldest Living Dog. TobyKeith, Age 21 Years 66 Days, Based In Greenacres, Florida, Was Born On January 9th, 2001. The Oldest Dog Ever Recorded Was An Australian Cattle Dog, Named Bluey, Who Died At The Age Of 29 Years 5 Months.

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Douglas Smith, A British Gardener, Is A TrailBlazer Who Has Broken Records When It Comes To Garden Plants That Range From Pumpkin To Sunflower. Mr. Smith, In March Of 2022, Grew 1269 Tomatoes On A Single Stem, Thereby Breaking His Previous Guinness World Record, Which Has Been In place For More Than 10 Years When He Grew 488 Tomatoes.

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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.

~100 Scientists, From The Telomere-To-Telomere (T2T) Consortium, Have Completely Sequenced The Human Genome By 100% Since It Was 92% Sequenced ~20 Years Ago . This Complete 100% Sequencing Will Provide Information That Will Aid Us To Better Understand How We Form As Individual Organism, And How We Vary Btw Other Humans, And Other Species.

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Stan, The World’s Most Complete Tyrannosaurus Rex Skeleton, And Also The Most Expensive Fossil In The World, Now Has A New Home At The New Museum Of Natural History, Which Is Expected To Open In 2025 In Abu Dhabi. Stan, A 67 Million-Year-Old T. Rex That Is 39-Foot-Long (11.7-Meter-Long), Was Bought For $31.8 Million In 2020.

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Researchers, In A First, Achieved Asexual Reproduction, Parthenogenesis, In A Mammal Using CRISPR. And The Surviving Mice Birthed Asexually Was Raised To Adulthood And Reproduced Sexually. This Feat Could Have Implications In Agriculture & Medicine. However, More Research Is Needed To Improve The Process & Success Rate Of Viable Offspring.

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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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The World’s Most Complete And Best Preserved Triceratops Skeleton Was Exhibited For The First Time At Melbourne Museum In Australia. The Dinosaur Fossil Had 266 Bones, Comprising 85% Of The Total Skeleton. The Triceratops, Named Horridus, Stands About 2 m (6.6 ft) Tall, 6 To 7 m (19.7 to 23 ft) Long, And Weighs Over A Ton.

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The Trapp Family, From Minnesota, At An Average Height Of 6 Ft 8.03 In, Is Now The Guinness World Records Tallest Family In The World. The Tallest Is Adam Trapp, 22, Who Is 7 Ft 3.7 In; Savanna Trapp-Blanchfield, 27, Is 6 Ft 8.5 In Tall; Molly Steede, 24, Is 6 Ft 5.8 In Tall. Their Mom Is 6 ft 3.5 In Tall; And Father Is 6 Ft 8.2 In Tall.

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Researchers Have Found, In Montana, The Fossil Of The Oldest Known Ancestor Of Octopuses. The Fossil, ~330 Myrs Old, Indicates That Octopuses Existed Earlier Than Thought, Even Before Dinosaurs. The 4.7 Inch Fossil, With 10 Limbs (Modern Octopuses Have 8), Belongs To A Vampyropod, A Likely Ancestor Of Modern Octopuses And Vampire Squids.

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Vitomir Maričić, From Croatia, In September 2021, Has Broken The Guinness World Records For The Longest Underwater Walk Without Coming Up For Air. Vitomir’s 107 M (351 ft 0.5 in) Walk Broke The Previous Record Of 96 M (314 ft 11.5 in), Which Was Held By A Fellow Croatian, Boris Milosic, When He Walked In March Of 2020.