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New Jersey cops told to halt all use of controversial facial-recognition technology

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The Skull/Rosette Nebula in SHO Palette

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It’s personal brad

TIL about Lester Moore who in 1880s Arizona got into a gunfight with a customer over a package. They killed each other and Lester was buried in Boot Hill where his tombstone reads, "Lester Moore, four slugs from a .44, no Les, no more."

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TIL a Missouri man was sentenced to watch "Bambi" once a month while serving 1 year jail time for illegal deer hunting; he and his family used lights to startle deer for easy kill, used illegal weapons, & killed deer from a cruising vehicle. At times he took the head for a trophy and left the body.

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LPT: Before you get in that hot tub, be sure to check the filter first. A dead rat missing most of it's fur could be floating in there and could make you horrendously sick for a week or more.

Porsche's first Super Bowl ad in 23 years is for the electric Taycan

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A Star 20 times larger then our sun exploded 21,000 years ago to create this stunning nebula. The Easter Veil Nebula

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I still need practice but here is my first attempt at Andromeda from my backyard

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To celebrate the opening of our new southern hemisphere observatory, I combined our first 10 images into an 8K wallpaper using over 200 hours of exposure [OC]

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After nearly a month of bad weather, I finally managed to capture over 20 hours of exposure on the infamous Horsehead nebula located 1,500 light years away in the Constellation of Orion.

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Cancellation of Marathon in Hong Kong

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NFL needs to get with the modern times and change the Superbowl to a Saturday. Otherwise we just don't watch the whole game or call in sick the next day. Let's change this!!

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LPT: Cover some grapes with a jello powder of your chosen flavor. Freeze overnight. Eat fresh out of the freezer and thank me later. They taste like heaven and the texture is more like frozen yogurt.

The Video of Donald Trump Telling Associates to “Get Rid of” Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Has Been Released

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Mozilla has banned nearly 200 malicious Firefox add-ons over the last two weeks

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KELT-9b, the hottest known exoplanet, is so hot that even molecules in its atmosphere are torn to shreds, new paper finds.

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LPT: Check in on your friends every so often, even the happy ones.

Just another day in Florida

'I really hope she is the future': AOC's support of Sanders fuels 2024 speculation

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NPR host says Pompeo had a meltdown when she asked him about Ukraine | Secretary of state used the F-word and demanded host Mary Louise Kelly find Ukraine on a map, journalist says

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Google is going to charge cops for your data

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Rocket Lab's 1st launch of 2020 is for the National Reconnaissance Office, the US spysat agency

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LPT: If you're playing a mobile game that's not multiplayer, put your phone on airplane mode and all the ads will stop.

LPT: if your phone suddenly doesn’t charge anymore, take a toothpick and gently clean the inside of the charging port, you’ll be amazed about how much dust there will be.

Just sayin’

For those who still insist that CAA, NPR have no effect on Indians & those who are here legally

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TIL that grasshoppers are the same insect as locusts. When forced into overcrowded areas with little food, they transform, becoming stronger, more aggressive, and swarm to eat anything in sight

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Erling Håland of BVB goal against FC Köln

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LPT: Your tax refund check is not “free money” from the government, it’s a reimbursement for an overpayment of your previous year’s taxes

LPT: Don’t waste your money on a diamond ring. Moissanite and even Cubic Zirconia are beautiful and no regular person can tell the difference.

British police will scan people's faces to see if they're criminals, and critics say it's a massive expansion of surveillance

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Trump debuts official Space Force logo — and it's literally a ripoff of Star Trek

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Astronomers Find Planet Hotter Than Most Stars

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NASA to Pay Tribute to Fallen Heroes with Day of Remembrance

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ABC News has a recording that seemingly reveals Trump demanding to 'get rid of' Marie Yovanovitch

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TIL in the 80s a British Harrier pilot got disoriented and, with less than a minute of fuel remaining, successfully landed on top of a flower shop van on the deck of a Spanish cargo ship. The ship's crew were awarded over 500,000 pounds for the safe delivery of the Harrier to the Royal Navy.

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TIL Guinness modified its filtration process eliminating the use of isinglass (derived from the dried swim bladders of fish) making its beer officially vegan.

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5 reasons to never trust a free VPN

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Wow.

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Why u do this to me?

I am smort

Bernie Sanders is climbing everywhere

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TIL over 80,000 dams in the United States produce no hydroelectric energy. 54,000 of them have the potential to add 12+GW of total hydropower capacity, powering 4 million households.

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Trump presents the new Space Force logo on Twitter

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Henrik Harlaut is from The Matrix

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CenturyLink, Frontier took FCC cash, failed to deploy all required broadband

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Dr. Becky, Astrophysics: Why Betelgeuse (probably) isn't going to explode (yet) | Night Sky News January 2020

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A giant star ate its dead neighbor and caused one of the brightest supernovas ever, new study suggests

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Big Virg (LIV) meets big Traoré (WOL)

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