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- Newly named Tolkien and Gandalf streets in Warsaw (Poland). Streets are in a business district commonly referred to as “Mordor”
- Spotted on a car in central Oklahoma of all places
- Astronomers spotted unusual stellar explosion rich in oxygen and magnesium
- Study examines feeding damage caused by spotted lanternflies on young maples
- Blinken postpones trip to China after suspected spy balloon spotted over U.S.
- A heavily battle-scarred Great White Shark that was spotted near the Neptune Islands, South Australia, 2022.
- Twin brothers of spotted hyenas are often attracted to the same new group when they disperse from their birth group
- In the 1970s, archaeologists in Bulgaria unearthed a vast Copper Age necropolis from the 5th millennium BCE. Inside burial 43 they found the remains of a high status male with more gold than it was found in the entire rest of the world in that period.
- In Die Hard (1988), the couple hooking up in the beginning are still together in the end.
- Police in UK utilised a metal detector in in order to tackle and deter knife possession.
- TIL in Nome, Alaska in 1925, a diphtheria epidemic struck and there was no antitoxin left. Land, air, and sea routes were unavailable, so 20 mushers and 150 sled dogs relayed the serum across 674 miles in 5 1/2 days, in subzero temperatures, near-blizzard conditions and hurricane-force winds.
- TIL in 2017, a woman named Chau Smith ran seven marathons in seven consecutive days on seven continents in celebration of her 70th birthday.
- In one of the most rewarding shots of my career, I captured the International Space Station in conjunction with the 53-mile-wide Tycho crater on the moon. More details in the comments.
- TIL There are only two confirmed cases of a Kangaroo fatally attacking a person: attacking a hunter in 1936 and a 77 year old woman in 2022. In contrast Lulu, a pet kangaroo, saved a farmers life by alerting the farmers family after a tree fell upon him in 2003.
- My 12yo son keeps making me cups of tea with marshmallows in. When I said ‘I don’t want a marshmallow in it this time’ he put in two.
