Creola Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. During her 35-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist".
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World's biggest economies in 2075, projected by Goldman Sachs:

🇨🇳 China: $57 trillion
🇮🇳 India: $52.5 trillion
🇺🇸 United States: $51.5 trillion
🇮🇩 Indonesia: $13.7 trillion
🇳🇬 Nigeria: $13.1 trillion
🇵🇰 Pakistan: $12.3 trillion
🇪🇬 Egypt: $10.4 trillion
🇧🇷 Brazil: $8.7 trillion
🇩🇪 Germany: $8.1 trillion
🇲🇽 Mexico: $7.6 trillion
🇬🇧 UK: $7.6 trillion
🇯🇵 Japan: $7.5 trillion
🇷🇺 Russia: $6.9 trillion
🇵🇭 Philippines: $6.6 trillion
🇫🇷 France: $6.5 trillion
🇧🇩 Bangladesh: $6.3 trillion
🇪🇹 Ethiopia: $6.2 trillion
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: $6.1 trillion
🇨🇦 Canada: $5.2 trillion
🇹🇷 Turkey: $5.2 trillion
🇦🇺 Australia: $4.3 trillion
🇮🇹 Italy: $3.8 trillion
🇲🇾 Malaysia: $3.5 trillion
🇰🇷 South Korea: $3.4 trillion
🇿🇦 South Africa: $3.3 trillion
🇹🇭 Thailand: $2.8 trillion
🇨🇴 Colombia: $2.6 trillion
🇵🇱 Poland: $2.5 trillion
🇦🇷 Argentina: $2.4 trillion
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan: $2.1 trillion
🇵🇪 Peru: $2.1 trillion
🇬🇭 Ghana: $1.5 trillion
🇨🇱 Chile: $1.2 trillion
🇪🇨 Ecuador: $0.7 trillion

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Mark Twain was born in 1835, the same year the famous Halley's Comet was visible from Earth. He joked that he arrived with the comet and would leave when it came back. And in a strange twist, he died in 1910, right when Halley's Comet appeared again.
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In 2014, famed molecular biologist, James Watson, put his Nobel prize medal up for auction due to financial hardships. The medal sold for US$4.1 million, but the buyer later returned the medal to Watson.
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This is gongylus gongylodes, a species of praying mantis found across Asia. It has extremely slender limbs and large appendages, and the insect sways its body and back and forth to look like a stick flowing in the wind. Because of this, it is called the wandering violin mantis.
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What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you'd be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?
-Karen Salmansohn
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Horror movie soundtracks sometimes include infrasound, which is sound below the range of human hearing. Even though we can’t hear it we can still feel it and infrasound has been shown to induce anxiety, heart palpitations, and shivering.
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Nine women, called "The 9 Nanas," kept a decades-long secret that even their husbands knew nothing about. For 30 years, they gathered at 4 a.m. to bake cakes, anonymously paid bills and bought clothes for those in need. They also sent care packages to people, with a homemade pound cake and a note that said, "Somebody loves you."
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World’s most polluted countries:

1. Cameroon 🇨🇲
2. Myanmar 🇲🇲
3. Lebanon 🇱🇧
4. Nigeria 🇳🇬
5. Ghana 🇬🇭
6. Mongolia 🇲🇳
7. Bangladesh 🇧🇩
8. Afghanistan 🇦🇫
9. Nepal 🇳🇵
10. Vietnam 🇻🇳
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11. Egypt 🇪🇬
15. China 🇨🇳
17. Chile 🇨🇱
21. Venezuela 🇻🇪
25. Iran 🇮🇷
27. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
30. Pakistan 🇵🇰
31. India 🇮🇳
33. Philippines 🇵🇭
42. Indonesia 🇮🇩
47. Turkey 🇹🇷
48. Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦
55. Ukraine 🇺🇦
58. South Korea 🇰🇷
61. Russia 🇷🇺
65. Mexico 🇲🇽
69. South Africa 🇿🇦
72. Italy 🇮🇹
66. Poland 🇵🇱
73. Brazil 🇧🇷
75. Argentina 🇦🇷
77. UAE 🇦🇪
84. France 🇫🇷
85. UK 🇬🇧
86. Japan 🇯🇵
89. USA 🇺🇸
90. Spain 🇪🇸
96. Canada 🇨🇦
97. Australia 🇦🇺
98. Germany 🇩🇪
102. Slovenia 🇸🇮
103. Switzerland 🇨🇭
104. Denmark 🇩🇰
105. Estonia 🇪🇪
106. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
107. Netherlands 🇳🇱
108. Norway 🇳🇴
109. Sweden 🇸🇪
106. Austria 🇦🇹
111. Iceland 🇮🇸
112. Finland 🇫🇮

According to Numbeo ranking as of April 14, 2024.

Many languages have the same roots.
English, Portuguese, Latvian, Pashto, and Greek all sound very different today, but these languages all have a common ancestor called Proto-Indo-European. Though we don't have any written examples of it, linguists have worked backwards from a variety of modern languages to try to reconstruct it. Using their reconstruction, the sentence "The king wanted a son" would be written as "H3rḗḱs súhxnum u̯l̥nh1to."
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Thomas Aquinas identified five types of gluttony:
Laute - eating food that is too luxurious
Studiose - eating food too daintily
Nimis - eating too much food
Praepropere - eating at an inappropriate time
Ardenter - eating too eagerly
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For the cornfield scene in Interstellar, Christopher Nolan grew 500 acres of corn, which he knew was feasible from his work in Man of Steel. The corn was later sold, and they actually made a profit.
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Sinistrophobia is defined as a "fear of either left handed people, or objects located on the left side." The phobia mostly develops from negative past experiences.

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Croatia is known for its stunning beaches and crystal-clear waters, but it's not just the scenery that makes it a popular tourist destination. Croatia is also one of the few countries in the world that has dog lifeguards. A special school trains a number of different breeds for this activity but Golden retrievers, Labradors and Newfoundland's are the most common breeds. These breeds are seen as friendly by 'victims' and are usually superb swimmers. Their fur is more water resistant and the Newfoundland even boasts webbed paws. The calm temperaments of these furry helpers are an important quality. It is easy for people or dogs to panic in tricky situations so being able to remain calm is valuable. 

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Sweden is the world’s first country to install permanent electrified roads that can charge electric vehicles while driving.
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In the 1920s, a farmer accidentally stumbled across a stash of jade artifacts in Sichuan, China. This site, called Sanxingdui, had a major breakthrough in 1986 when workers discovered thousands of artifacts of great artistry. A large bronze figure, giant masks and a bronze tree about four meters tall are some of the artifacts unearthed here.
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During the 1972 Summer Olympics, American swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion, Mark Spitz, jokingly told a Russian swim coach that his mustache deflects water away from his mouth, allowing him to swim faster and better. By the next year, all the men in the Russian swim team had grown mustaches.
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Anthony Ervin is a competitive swimmer who won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He retired at the age of 22 and later descended into drug use and depression. However, in 2011, he began to train again. Then, in 2016, at the age of 35, he became the oldest winner of an individual Olympic gold medal in swimming.
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In 1915, Charles Hatfield promised to make it rain over the city of San Diego using his secret chemical formula. The city council even agreed to pay him $10,000 if he could fill the Morena Reservoir and end their drought. The result, some days later, was one of the worst floods in the city’s history.
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😴 Chronic lack of sleep leads to the same consequences as alcoholism - study.

Lack of sleep causes metabolic changes that lead to fatty liver disease, similar to long-term alcohol use.

Already 30% of people suffer from this - it is asymptomatic, but leads to cirrhosis and cancer.

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