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World’s Brightest Light Source Accelerates Electrons to 99.9999999985% of the Speed of Light

The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Mars Orbiter Mission (Mom) has captured this spectacular image of Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars (the other is Deimos), silhouetted against the Martian surface.

Pizza Night On The Space Station

Gautam Gambhir's attitude is just awesome

Bama fans right now....

Microsoft hires Eric Holder to audit AnyVision over use of facial recognition on Palestinians

TIL about Queen Soraya of Afghanistan who fought hard to improve the rights of women in the 1920's. She was also the minister of education for Afghanistan and the first Muslim consort to appear in public with her husband. In 1929 her husband was deposed and all their reforms were undone.

LPT: If you find it hard to get out of your bed after you wake up, just hold your breath until you do it. Getting out of air gives you a small adrenaline rush just enough to make you want to move.

Nancy Pelosi Hits Donald Trump Over Yovanovitch Attack: Knows He’s In Over His Head. “I think part of it is his own insecurity as an imposter,” said the House Speaker.

Bill Gates Surpasses Jeff Bezos, Reclaims Richest Person On Earth Title

TIL Female dragonflies fake their deaths to avoid male advances due to constant harassment for sex. Sometimes, even that doesn't work.

TIL that after Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 - 1945) the US hasn't had a President who speaks fluently a second language.

My favorite photo from our remote cameras at Starlink this week

I took a photo of every planet in our solar system and adjusted their size to show how huge our Sun is. Zoom in to see how tiny Earth is in comparison. [OC]

The disrespect on Baylor... already assuming they're gonna lose lol

AOC’s petition for Stephen Miller’s resignation now has over 20K signatures

New Research May Reduce Patient Eligibility Criteria for Weight-Loss Surgery

Not on E quite yet

Sanders says he would legalize marijuana with executive order

Davy Gallon KOs Ross Pearson with a rolling thunder

'Homophobic, misogynist and a bigot' — meet Jair Bolsonaro, India’s Republic Day chief guest

NASA finds Neptune moons locked in 'dance of avoidance'

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a secret TikTok account

LPT: You can use Windows+Shift+S to take a screenshot on PC

Time to get off this planet

I've become everything I vowed I wouldn't.

Virgin Galactic begins ‘Astronaut Readiness Program’ for first paying customers

Blindfolded, gangraped, cut with saw: Horror tales from Kashmiri Pandit exodus

I gotta plead ignorance on this thing

TIL of a garden in England dedicated entirely to poisonous plants. It's the most dangerous garden in the world. It holds over 100 killer plants such as, hemlock, strychnine, and nightshade.

Google reportedly manipulates search results to hide controversial subjects and favour big business

One-way mirror at a Thai theme park

PayPal has mysteriously cut its services from Pornhub

Google almost made 100,000 chest X-rays public — until it realized personal data could be exposed

How Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

Most Americans think they’re being constantly tracked—and that there’s nothing they can do. More than 60% of Americans think it’s impossible to go through daily life without being tracked by companies or the government, according to a new Pew Research study.

TIL Due to its physical intensity, the average hockey player typically loses between 5-10 pounds of water weight in a game.

TIL: The Zimbabwean government complained that Chinese made condoms were too small.

TIL: The last living person born in the 1800s died in 2017. When she was born, the last living person from the 1700s was still alive. In other words, we all lived alongside someone who lived alongside someone who was born when George Washington was president.

If You Could See Every Satellite, What Would The Sky Look Like? 360/VR

Solar panels waste a lot of energy. Scientists developed a means of harnessing otherwise-wasted “hot” electrons from semiconductors, a boost that could mean zero-emission solar panels could collect even more energy, as reported in Science Advances. “It theoretically could be up to 25-30 percent”.

Executive Privilege Should Have No Power When It Comes to an Impeachment

The 1st Sun Details from NASA's Parker Solar Probe Are Out. And They're Hot!

Yovanovitch gets standing ovation at the end of 5-hour hearing

TIFU. Today I got fooled and had to pay 1000 for my stupidity.

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival social network

NASA report finds Boeing seat prices are 60% higher than SpaceX

LPT: When visiting a zoo, make a point to wear the same color outfit as the employees that work there. Most animals will come up to you since you are wearing the same colors as the people that feed them.

TIL about Taarof, Iranian etiquette in which the host offers anything to the guest and the guest declines it repeatedly until eventually giving in, regardless of whether they want it or not. Taxi drivers might refuse payment initially as passengers are meant to insist on paying.

Strong same-sex friendships among male firefighters can help cut down on their stress, but loving relationships with their wives may actually increase anxiety for those who constantly face danger, suggests a new study (n=428), stemming from the desire to protect wives from awareness of the risks.