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Amit Shah, not Modi, running the show, says Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel:

Thanks for the discount I guess?

LPT: If someone wants you to listen to a song, at least to listen to a little bit of it. More often then not it'll be their favourite song/genre and it means they think highly enough of you to show you that.

No, Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment pens didn’t cost $2,025 each

TIL that Mount Everest has so much garbage and equipment left behind by climbers, that the Government of Nepal now demands that each climber deposit $4,000, which is refundable only if the climber brings down at least 17.6 pounds of trash on his or her way off the mountain.

TIL Ancient Veggies Were Small, Unpalatable. Ancient tomatoes were the size of berries; potatoes were no bigger than peanuts. Corn was a wild grass, its tooth-cracking kernels borne in clusters as small as pencil erasers

Incredible Basketball Trickshots

Voter ID card, passport prove citizenship: Mumbai court

As Modi govt doubles down on CAA, long-time friend Bangladesh moves closer to China

15 years ago, Opportunity Rover came across this meteorite specimen on the plains of Mars. The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel

The Big Dipper sure has lots of cool Galaxy treasures. I share with you the pinwheel Galaxy M101 taken with my own gear and dark skies. Clear skies y'all!

FBI Takes Down Site With 12 Billion Stolen Records

I took a 1.5 hour long exposure of the Double Cluster from the roof of my light polluted apartment [OC]

I pointed my telescope at this Sunspot and caught some Solar Flares close by.

I took this 5 hours worth of exposure of the Carina Nebula from my backyard

I collected light for 28 hours with an amateur telescope to build this detailed portrait of the Sunflower Galaxy. Its hazy outer halo contains billions of stars that were strewn across space as it absorbed a companion galaxy. [OC]

A pair of pristinely preserved fossils suggest scorpions have looked mostly the same since they first crawled onto land 437 Million Years Ago

LPT: When you finish explaining something, don't ask "do you have any questions?" ask "what questions do you have?"

‘Qawwali nahi chalegi’: Kathak dancer says performance stopped

Seriously

For real tho

The most distant dying galaxy discovered so far, more massive than our Milky Way -- with more than a trillion stars -- has revealed that the 'cores' of these systems had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, about 1 billion years earlier than previous measurements revealed

Timelapse - Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis just out of Reykjavík [OC]

Toronto Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry yeets the ball and manages to swish it into the rim from 30 feet back

Coach O Impressions on Bourbon Street

Wernher von Braun explains the possibility to reach the Moon. "Man and the Moon", Dec. 28, 1955

LPT: If someone cuts you off in traffic and you feel your adrenaline kick in, you're entering fight or flight mode. Take a few deep breaths and choose to move on with your life.

Giant jet engines aim to make our flying greener

Government Assurance on NRC, by Satish Acharya.

"In Kerala, No One Links Food With Religion": Minister On Beef Tweet Row

That Blockbuster Lev Parnas Interview Is Really Bad for Trump

TIL that J.P. Morgan was sensitive about his nose- it was inflamed and purple due to rhinophyma. He hated being photographed and always made sure photographers touched up his nose. He lashed out at anyone who tried to photograph him in public, and would hit them with his cane.

TIL Cannonball Run's director Hal Needham's tradition of showing bloopers during the closing credits of his films inspired Jackie Chan to do the same at the end of most of his films too.

TIL Warner Bros cancelled Home Alone because they didn't want to spend $14,7 million on it. 21st Century Fox continued the production and the film grossed $476 millions worldwide.

Giants hire ex cowboys coach Jason Garrett as OC

YouTube’s algorithm is pushing climate misinformation videos, and their creators are profiting from it

LPT: Don't use Netflix on Google Chrome. Chrome only allows up to 720p, while Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge allow for 1080p.

LPT: Taking a silent pause always sounds more professional than saying “umm”. Get in the practice of pausing while thinking rather than using filler words.

Elon Musk gives details about sending 1 million people to Mars by 2050.

Four strange new objects found orbiting the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. The bizarre objects look like common clouds of gas and dust, but they stay compact like stars as they circle our galaxy's gargantuan black hole, making astronomers think they actually might be merging binary stars.

Picture of Pam Bondi and Lev Parnas emerges after she joins Trump impeachment defense

Trump’s Evil Is Contagious: The president has shown us exactly what happens when good people do nothing

Study: Cows talk to each other, including about food

LPT: Publicly answering those "Find your Jedi/Princess/Pornstar name" memes will expose your password reset information.

Coca Cola, wonderbra

After a Century, Geologists Find Crater Responsible for Meteorite Mystery

LPT: In America and can't afford medication? Most manufacturers have a patient assistance program that will pay for your meds. You can search for the drug on needymeds.com to see if you qualify

LPT: Considering upgrading your living situation but not sure you can handle the increase of cost? Try “paying” the new amount, and put the difference in a savings account.

TIL in Japan ~%99 of people are cremated. After cremation, the family uses chopsticks to transfer the bones out of the ash and into an urn. This is the ONLY time is acceptable to pass anything from chopsticks to chopsticks. Doing such outside of a funeral can remind bystanders of a recent funeral.

TIL the Moriori were a tribe that practiced pacifism. When the Maori began to kil, cannibalize, and enslave them two chiefs declared, "the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed; it was a moral imperative." Of a population of ~2,000 only 101 survived.