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This is Lizzie Velásquez. She has a rare condition known as Marfanoid progeroid lipodystrophy syndrome which doesn't allow her to gain much weight. Even with these setbacks she is able to become a motivational speaker and encourage millions who deal with bullying.

 

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William grew up in a poor village in Malawi. His family had no electricity, no money, and he had to stop school at 14. He found a book in a library and learned how wind can make power. Using scrap and old bike parts, he built a windmill to give his home light and later helped with water for farming. He didn’t give up, even when people laughed at him.

 

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Meet Rebecca Sharrock - She has a condition called hyperthymesia, which gives her the ability to remember every single day of her life.

Sharrock’s mental health has suffered due to depression and anxiety. Her extraordinary memory makes her feel like she’s in an emotional time machine. "If I’m remembering an incident that happened when I was three, my emotional response to the situation is like a three-year-old, even though my mind and conscience are like an adult,” she says. This disparity between the head and heart leads to confusion and anxiety."

The woman who can’t forget

Some people can remember every single event in their life – what’s it like?

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Micronite is a brand name associated with the filter used in Kent cigarettes.

Specifically, the original Kent cigarettes, from March 1952 until at least May 1956, contained a filter called the "Micronite filter" which was made with compressed blue asbestos!

This asbestos-containing filter was a key marketing point for Kent, touted as providing "the greatest health protection in history"

 

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Blue form of Indonesian pit viper (Trimeresurus insularis)

 

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How the ‘Bunker Buster’ works

What we know about US air strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites

The sites targeted include a uranium enrichment facility at Fordo.

www.bbc.com

 

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Mahavir Singh Phogat is a former wrestler who trained his daughters Geeta, Babita, Ritu, and Sangita in wrestling, despite coming from a village where women weren’t even allowed to participate in the sport. Geeta became the first Indian woman to win wrestling gold at the Commonwealth Games and the first to qualify for the Olympics. Babita also became an Olympian, Ritu moved into MMA, and Sangita competes nationally. Their story inspired the film Dangal.

 

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A large elephant herd, 1976

In 1900, the African elephant population was estimated to be around 10 million, down from 25 million 500 years earlier. By 1979, the population had dropped to 1.3 million, and today it's estimated to be around 415,000.

 

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In 2016, a baby was born with DNA from three people — her mother, her father, and a donor woman whose mitochondria prevented a fatal genetic disease.

The mitochondrial DNA comes from our mothers. So no 3rd person is generally involved. What happened here was the mother had a faulty mitochondria so to prevent the child from inheriting that faulty mDNA they used the donor's healthy egg, removed the nucleus, used the mother's nucleus and the father's sperms to fertilise the egg. So the child would then have genetic material from 3 people: the nuclear DNA which comes from the mother and father and the mDNA which comes from the donor woman.

 

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This is the main artwork seen on the tunnels of Toronto’s Union Station. Since its instalment in 2015, the artwork has been widely criticized by the city’s residents for its depressive, dreary, and unsettling nature.

Is the new public art at Union Station depressing?

A new glass mural graces the renovated Union Station subway platform, but some riders say it’s creeping them out.

www.thestar.com

 

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First images from world's largest digital camera ~ Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals galaxies and cosmic collisions.

The Rubin Observatory is a brand new telescope in Chile, whose mirror is 8 meters in diameter and has the biggest digital camera in the world strapped to the back of it.

First images from world's largest digital camera reveal galaxies and cosmic collisions

Astronomers have been eagerly anticipating the images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which experts say could help solve some of the universe's most enduring mysteries.

www.nbcnews.com

 

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In Finland, they advertise the extra large size as 'American size'

 

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Newborn baby found with twin fetuses inside her abdomen

Fetus in fetu is a rare congenital condition in which a malformed fetus is found inside the body of its twin, usually in the abdomen. It occurs during early embryonic development when identical twins fail to fully separate, and one twin becomes enveloped by the other. The enclosed twin, known as a parasitic fetus, may partially develop with features like limbs, spine, or skin but lacks vital organs and cannot survive independently. This condition, seen in about 1 in 500,000 births, can cause health issues for the host baby and is typically treated by surgical removal.

 

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17th century road meets modern road

 

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A telephone cable is made up of 3600 color-coded wires

 

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A minor scandal in the art world occurred when the Ghent Altarpiece was restored in 2019 and was discovered that the Lamb had a more humanized face which was covered some time in the XVI century

Ghent Altarpiece: Lamb's 'alarmingly humanoid' face surprises art world

A project to restore the Ghent Altarpiece, a 15th Century masterpiece, surprises art critics.

www.bbc.com

 

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North Korea just opened a beach resort for 20,000 people.

Russian Tourists Set to Become First Foreign Guests at North Korea’s New Kalma Resort as July Travel Packages Launch Amid Strengthening Ties - Travel And Tour World

Russian tourists are poised to become the first international visitors to experience North Korea’s newly unveiled Kalma Resort, as exclusive travel packages launch in July following a significant boost in diplomatic ties between Moscow and Pyongyang.

www.travelandtourworld.com

 

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100 year old skull of a man with a rare disease called protues syndrome

 

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In the 1960s, a controversial psychological experiment secretly separated identical twins (and triplets) at birth and placed them into families of different socioeconomic backgrounds — rich, middle-class, and poor — without telling the adoptive parents. The study was led by Dr. Peter Neubauer and backed by the Louise Wise adoption agency in New York.

The goal was to study nature vs. nurture, tracking how environment affected development. Researchers visited the children under false pretenses for years, filming and evaluating them without revealing the real purpose.

The results were never fully published, and much of the data remains sealed until 2066. The truth only came to light when some of the separated siblings accidentally discovered each other as adults most famously in the documentary Three Identical Strangers.

 

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This McDonald’s throughout the 1990s, 2000s,and 2020s

 

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Japanese nambu with a katana.

 

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Hailstone that fell recently in Northern Italy

Happened in Francenigo, near Treviso.

 

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This is the 99-camera setup used to film The Matrix's iconic "Bullet Time" scenes.

 

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An Iridescent Pileus Cloud over China

 

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This girl had an allergic reaction to her skincare product