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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Dumb AF, Claims Coronavirus Hasn’t Killed Anyone Under 25

Fire and ice

New COVID-19 Drug Shows Promise

TIL - some Hermit Crabs ( Dardanus Pedunculatus ) will pick a Sea Anemone as a body-guard. The relationship is symbiotic and they’ll be together for life.

TIL Classical Greece wasn't filled with pure white marble everything. The statues and ruins we see today were actually painted in all kinds of vivid colors that were just stripped bare back to their original white marble by time.

LPT: If you get an email saying someone has digital evidence of you watching pornography or having sex, and will distribute it to all your contacts unless you pay them bitcoin, put that email right in your junk mail. It’s a scam.

There is a Dmart store in Egypt. Indian people are ordering and ranting online, giving one star on the App.

Bernie Sanders Proposes Emergency Version Of ‘Medicare For All’ For The Pandemic

This comet was predicted to reach naked-eye brightness in May, but new reports suggest it is currently breaking up as it approaches the Sun. I shot this video showing 4 hours of movement across the sky. [OC]

Using two telescopes pointed at the same target, I was able to create one of the deepest images ever of this galactic duo [OC]

Messier 83 From Chile

14 Hours of Earths Rotation; feat. The Moon [OC]

Here is my first attempt at a high resolution moon. I user over 7000 images to create this!

Pandemics depress the economy, public health interventions do not: evidence from the 1918 Flu

TIL in 2015 "Hello Barbie" was released. She used speech recognition and connected to wifi. When you pressed her belt buckle, Barbie saved what you said to the cloud so she could learn your likes and dislikes and incorporate them into future conversations. Some parents found it "too creepy".

They were blasting.

Sorry mom

Trump reportedly said he would reject a bailout package if it included aid to keep the US Postal Service functioning

A future Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force decided to become an aviation engineer when as a boy was catching sweets from the American planes during the Berlin Airlift. Dr. Yarymovych worked also for NASA on Apollo program and is credited with initiation of GPS

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday?

The overwhelming shock they must have had

NFL star and 'MAS*H' actor Timothy Brown dies at 82

Google has banned the Zoom app from all employee computers over 'security vulnerabilities', Business Insider

LPT don’t force kids to hug you/show you affection. They will like you better after that

Karnataka CM Feeds Stray Cat, Urges All To Put Out Food & Water For Animals Amid Lockdown

Our University (UoA) donated 44 lakhs to PM-CARES Fund but has not released student stipends and salaries since two months!

LPT: Now that people arent going out as often (if at all), start taking vitamin D supplements since the sun is one of the main sources!!

LPT: when checking out online always try a few common coupon codes

Accurate

Tough indeed

COVID-19 tests are going unused due to hospital IT challenges

Dr. Walter Koroshetz, director of Neurological Disorders at NIH, said we should prepare for an increase of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome caused by COVID-19

The Ranking Of HeavyWeight

Zee News Apologises for running fake news

Why you’re still paying for sports on cable when there’s no live sports

Trump tweets about ratings for his coronavirus press briefings for the third day in a row as death toll approaches 17,000 and unemployment nears 17 million

Republicans Admit They Lose When Elections are Fair and Free

Hubble captured this unique view of The Pillars of Creation using infrared light, revealing many stars that are typically hidden by the huge columns of gas and dust.

What space nerds do when they have a lot of spare time...

Scientists report evidence that a class of particle called an anyon appears in two-dimensional materials and that they behave unlike any known particle.

TIL that a teenager fooled an entire school, multiple police officers, and a car dealership that he was the youngest State Representative ever. He was escorted to the school, given a tour, and spoke to the high school students about being involved in politics.

TIL a principal once punished a mischievous student by making him read the U.S. Constitution in a basement until he could recite it. The student, Thurgood Marshall, would go on to become the first black associate Justice of the Supreme Court

we were all scared of him

PUSH (2020) - A short film about the growth of distance skateboarding, and the quest to get 300 miles achieved in 24-hours. Distance skateboarding is an inclusive sport that has made waves internationally and pushed towards making competition and recreational travel by board commonplace.

Go Ducks!

Just, how?

The most amazing last mile in a triathlon - epic sprint finish

This amount of power is almost unheard of

LPT: If you have two children who always fight over who got a bigger piece when something (like a candy bar) has to be split in two, have one child break it in half, and the other child choose which piece they want.

LPT: Watch the actual news event, i.e. full press conference with Q&A, then read the news headlines and articles and you can better judge the integrity of the media and separate fact from fiction.