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Most clutch moment in sports of the 2010s

Injury-Plagued NBA Draws Fewer TV Viewers

NASA 2020: Are You Ready?

Theres more?

LPT: Don't feel bad if you’re spending New Year’s at home or alone. Many people going out would rather be doing that anyways.

Bernie Sanders Out-Raises Everybody in the Democratic Field

Scott Manley - The Most Important Space Things From The Last Decade (IMHO)

TIL about Bayard Rustin, an openly gay black man who advised Martin Luther King Jr. on the principles of nonviolence, was a major civil rights leader, and was the main organizer of the March On Washington. He has been largely forgotten (especially relative to other activists) due to his sexuality.

But how will they watch frozen?

LPT: regardless if you are a man in love with a woman, a woman in love with a man, a man in love with a man, or a woman in love with it a woman or anything in between, make the first move. It is always better to take that chance.

Twitter.UrbanNazi.com: Report you have been waiting for. More in comments.

Trump's State Department reportedly launched a full-fledged investigation to find out which employee liked a Chelsea Clinton tweet

Healthy young men who exercise regularly may have better quality semen than their sedentary peers. Researchers analyzed thousands of sperm samples from hundreds of men who qualified to donate sperm based on their health history and semen quality.

TIL in terms of being considered "beautiful" by others, research has found facial attractiveness is a lot more important than body shape.

TIL Eddie Deezen, who played a ton of movie nerds in the 70s and 80s and who's role as Eugene in Grease is considered the archetype for the movie nerd, was turned down for a role in "Revenge of the Nerds" because he was "too geeky"

LPT New Year: Turn all of your hangers backwards in your closet on January 1. When you wash and hang an item you wore, hang the clothing normally. At the end of the year, donate all clothing with the hanger still backwards. You haven’t worn it in a year.

The Universe Is Awesome

Stallone Syndrome

The Decade We Learned There’s No Such Thing as Privacy Online - And a corrupt U.S. government seems incapable and unwilling to do anything about it.

Josh Allen joins the Bills Mafia!

Amyloid plaques may not cause Alzheimer's disease, suggests new study (n=747), which found that early declines in memory and thinking in Alzheimer's patients tend to occur before amyloid plaques begin to appear, not after. This is "pretty strong evidence that amyloid-lowering is the wrong target."

Trump Runs The Country Just Like He Ran His Failed Businesses

Trump is openly calling for his trial to be as corrupt as possible

Trump biographer says President ‘can’t stand’ being laughed at following impeachment vote

New industry develops around sucking carbon dioxide out of atmosphere

Microsoft says North Korea-linked hackers stole sensitive information

Children can foster climate change concern among their parents

Heterosexual men reported significantly higher body satisfaction than heterosexual women and gay men, and lesbian women reported significantly higher body satisfaction than gay men, finds a new NZ study (n=17,005), which suggests the male gaze may play a key role in body satisfaction.

Black Democrats energized to vote Trump out: poll

Scale comparison from the Planck lenght to the observable universe - credit goes to Epic Teaching of the History

LPT: If you think you're being followed on a bus, get them to show their hand before you leave the bus. Then get help.

LPT for girls: when considering picking up weightlifting, don't worry about looking bulky. Let's be real - most GUYS that weightlift don't end up super bulky. The vast majority of girls who weightlift end up just looking great. Get after it!

TIL in the summer of 2011, authorities were finally able to create a DNA profile of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and upload it to the FBI’s national database when vials of his blood, taken in 1978, were discovered previously untouched and forgotten in a Florida crime lab

Humanity's space travel plans, 2020–2030

Nebraska Farm Bureau Eager For 'Right To Repair' Agreement In 2020: The Nebraska Farm Bureau hopes to reach a deal with equipment manufacturers on the right to repair farm equipment – and if that’s not done by this time next year, they’ll pursue legislation that would force the issue.

Lions trailed the Packers for a total of 0 seconds this year, but ended up 0-2.

TIL that when Alexander the Great’s dearest friend Hephaestion died, Alexander threw him a lavish funeral worth around £1,500,000,000. He also had a 60-metre-high pyre commissioned, with 7 layers of golden objects. Hephaestion was also worshipped as a divine hero. Shrines were erected in his memory.

TIL that a wedding planner in England died after eating a scalding-hot fishcake at a wedding. It burned his throat so badly that it left him unable to breathe. The cause of death was ruled as asphyxiation. The coroner said it was similar to smoke inhalation from house fires.

Interstellar Civilizations & Time (Isaac Arthur)

India has spoken. ‪India Does Not Support CAA ‬

Ivanka Trump Is a Senior Adviser to the President. She Should Be Asked Tough Questions.

LPT: Give someone a simple but often used item and they will think of you every time they use it

LPT - Even if you don't have any guns in your home, talk to your kids about what to do if they encounter one.

Megan Rapinoe is The Guardian's Footballer of the Year!

New autoinflammatory disease called CRIA syndrome discovered by Melbourne-based International researchers looking at defect in RIPK1 gene, important in cell death pathways

TIL of Paige Hunter, a UK young woman who has prevented at least 6 suicides by tying over 40 handwritten notes of hope to a bridge infamous for suicides.

How Mitch McConnell Engineered A Sweet Deal For The Coal Industry - The Senate Leader Gave Corporations a Break and Left Sick Miners and Taxpayers Footing the $15 Billion Bill

[OC] With 2019 almost over I want to share with you my best effort at imaging Saturn with my telescope. It's my first year owning one and photographing the planets with it has become my favorite hobby. Also, I made a timeline to show the progress I've made over the course of the year.

Dangerous protestors (credit- sanitary panels)

We have put the Delhi Police to notice calling on it to urgently stop it’s facial recognition system. It is illegal and unconstitutional. - Internet Freedom Foundation