Step into a captivating journey through 2020 and witness the remarkable events that left an indelible mark on our world.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Jan 8\r\n\r\nJustin Bieber posted on Instagram that he has Lyme disease, a bacterial illness spread by ticks.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJan 11\r\n\r\nDiego, a 100-year-old tortoise, was retired from a breeding program after fathering 800+ children.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Diego lived at the San Diego Zoo until 1977, when he was sent to the Galápagos to save his species from extinction. Over the following 43 years, Diego almost single-handedly returned the Galápagos giant turtle population to acceptable levels. Diego has since retired to the island of Española, where he was initially found.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJan 13\r\n\r\nA meteorite that landed in Australia in the 1960s revealed stardust up to 7 billion years old.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nThat makes it the oldest known solid material on Earth.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJan 22\r\n\r\nOne hundred million people were placed in lockdown in Wuhan, China, amid the Covid-19 outbreak.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
All forms of transport in and out of the city were suspended from 10:00 local time.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 6\r\n\r\nThe United States had its first official COVID-19 related death.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It occurred in Santa Clara County, California, where a woman passed away at home.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 17\r\n\r\n$10 billion was pledged to help fight climate change by Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 24\r\n\r\nAn animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The tiny parasite is called Henneguya salminicola and lives in salmonid fish.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 27\r\n\r\nScientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jan 11\r\n\r\nDiego, a 100-year-old tortoise, was retired from a breeding program after fathering 800+ children.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Diego lived at the San Diego Zoo until 1977, when he was sent to the Galápagos to save his species from extinction. Over the following 43 years, Diego almost single-handedly returned the Galápagos giant turtle population to acceptable levels. Diego has since retired to the island of Española, where he was initially found.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJan 13\r\n\r\nA meteorite that landed in Australia in the 1960s revealed stardust up to 7 billion years old.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThat makes it the oldest known solid material on Earth.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJan 22\r\n\r\nOne hundred million people were placed in lockdown in Wuhan, China, amid the Covid-19 outbreak.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
All forms of transport in and out of the city were suspended from 10:00 local time.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 6\r\n\r\nThe United States had its first official COVID-19 related death.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It occurred in Santa Clara County, California, where a woman passed away at home.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 17\r\n\r\n$10 billion was pledged to help fight climate change by Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 24\r\n\r\nAn animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The tiny parasite is called Henneguya salminicola and lives in salmonid fish.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 27\r\n\r\nScientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jan 13\r\n\r\nA meteorite that landed in Australia in the 1960s revealed stardust up to 7 billion years old.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThat makes it the oldest known solid material on Earth.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJan 22\r\n\r\nOne hundred million people were placed in lockdown in Wuhan, China, amid the Covid-19 outbreak.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
All forms of transport in and out of the city were suspended from 10:00 local time.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 6\r\n\r\nThe United States had its first official COVID-19 related death.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It occurred in Santa Clara County, California, where a woman passed away at home.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 17\r\n\r\n$10 billion was pledged to help fight climate change by Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 24\r\n\r\nAn animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The tiny parasite is called Henneguya salminicola and lives in salmonid fish.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 27\r\n\r\nScientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jan 22\r\n\r\nOne hundred million people were placed in lockdown in Wuhan, China, amid the Covid-19 outbreak.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
All forms of transport in and out of the city were suspended from 10:00 local time.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 6\r\n\r\nThe United States had its first official COVID-19 related death.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It occurred in Santa Clara County, California, where a woman passed away at home.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 17\r\n\r\n$10 billion was pledged to help fight climate change by Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 24\r\n\r\nAn animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The tiny parasite is called Henneguya salminicola and lives in salmonid fish.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 27\r\n\r\nScientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Feb 6\r\n\r\nThe United States had its first official COVID-19 related death.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
It occurred in Santa Clara County, California, where a woman passed away at home.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 17\r\n\r\n$10 billion was pledged to help fight climate change by Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 24\r\n\r\nAn animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The tiny parasite is called Henneguya salminicola and lives in salmonid fish.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 27\r\n\r\nScientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Feb 17\r\n\r\n$10 billion was pledged to help fight climate change by Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 24\r\n\r\nAn animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The tiny parasite is called Henneguya salminicola and lives in salmonid fish.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 27\r\n\r\nScientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Feb 24\r\n\r\nAn animal was discovered to not need Oxygen to breathe.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The tiny parasite is called Henneguya salminicola and lives in salmonid fish.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFeb 27\r\n\r\nScientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Feb 27\r\n\r\nScientists observed the biggest explosion in the universe, 390 million light-years away.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Mar 7\r\n\r\nA COVID-19 quarantine hotel collapsed in China, leaving 70 people trapped.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 11\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that the spread of Covid-19 was now at a Pandemic stage.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Mar 20\r\n\r\nTiger King was released on Netflix.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\nThis American true-crime documentary miniseries was about the life of a zookeeper, Joe Exotic.\r\n\r\n
Mar 25\r\n\r\nCharli D’Amelio became the most followed person on TikTok with 64.5 million followers.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\nRead More\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\nOn this day, Charli overtook the previous most followed person, Loren Gray.\r\n\r\n
Apr 1\r\n\r\nShenzhen became the first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This decision was geared by the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Apr 18\r\n\r\nA gunman named Gabriel Wortman rampaged through Nova Scotia, Canada.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\nHe carried out multiple shootings and killed 22 people. He was finally shot and killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.\r\n\r\n
Apr 19\r\n\r\nNASA’s Ingenuity helicopter became the first helicopter to fly on another planet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApr 23\r\n\r\nPresident Donald Trump suggested a dangerous theory that injecting disinfectant could cure the Coronavirus.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\nIn his press conference, he said: “And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning?”\r\n\r\n
May 3\r\n\r\nLegendary investor Warren Buffett dumped all his holdings in the four major US airlines.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The move sent shockwaves through the financial markets, as Buffett warned that the “world has changed” due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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May 17\r\n\r\nA pair of Michael Jordan’s Air Jordan sneakers sold for a record $560,000 at auction.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\nThe pair of autographed Air Jordan 1s were worn by the famous basketballer during his glory days. They sold for almost four times the estimated auction sale price, beating the previous record by over $100,000.\r\n\r\n
May 26\r\n\r\nA series of worldwide protests began in reaction to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nMay 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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May 30\r\n\r\nSpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jun 8\r\n\r\nDr. Kathy Sullivan became the first woman to reach the deepest part of the ocean in the Marianas Trench.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
This was not the first time Dr. Sullivan had broken history, as she was the first US woman to complete a spacewalk in 1984.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jun 10\r\n\r\nSwedish authorities finally closed a 34-year-old inquiry into the murder of their prime minister.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
On February 28, 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme was walking home from the cinema with his family when he was fatally shot in the back. Over the following 34 years, over 10,000 suspects were interviewed. A new team investigated the case in 2017 and concluded that Stig Engström, a now-deceased suspect, was the killer and decided to close the case for good.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jun 21\r\n\r\nThe guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jun 24\r\n\r\nPakistan International Airlines grounded 150 of its pilots after discovering their licenses were fake.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
An internal investigation into Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) began after a horrific plane crash that claimed 97 lives was found to be caused by pilot error.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jul 6\r\n\r\nAmerica officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jul 7\r\n\r\nTourists in Kazakhstan beat a seal unconscious on a beach so that children could take pictures with it.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A group of men surrounded a seal that had swum close to shore, attacking it with sticks and boulders. Others gathered around to watch, but no one did or said anything to stop the assault.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jul 10\r\n\r\nTurkish President Recep Erdogan decreed that Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia should be reopened as a mosque.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The Hagia Sophia, originally built in the sixth century as a cathedral and later used as a mosque, has a long and tumultuous history. Until 2020, it had spent the previous 80 years as a museum showcasing its Christian and Islamic past.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Jul 24\r\n\r\nTaylor Swift released her eighth studio album, “Folklore.”\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The album, released as a surprise with little-to-no promotion, was conceived during the early 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Aug 4\r\n\r\n2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, exploded.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The blast, ignited by a warehouse fire, resulted in the tragic loss of 218 lives, left 7,000 people injured, and caused over $15 billion in damage. This explosion was one of the most powerful non-nuclear blasts in history.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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Aug 19\r\n\r\nApple became the first US company to be valued at $2 trillion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\nApple was also the first to be valued at $1 trillion on August 2, 2018, meaning the company doubled in valuation in just over two years.\r\n\r\n
Aug 29\r\n\r\nElon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAug 31\r\n\r\nR&B icon Akon ceremoniously laid the first stone for Akon City, a futuristic Wakanda-like city in Senegal.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 3\r\n\r\nMacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife, became the world’s richest woman with a net worth of $68 billion.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 4\r\n\r\nChina’s space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Not much is known about the specifics of the launch, but from what experts have gathered, the launch’s payload was most likely a reusable spaceplane. Whatever it was, it reached an altitude of 217 miles (350 km), deposited an unknown object into orbit, and then returned to what is most likely the Taklamakan Desert in China’s northwest.\r\n\r\n
\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 22\r\n\r\nThe COVID-19 death toll passed 200,000 in the US.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShare\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSource\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSep 25\r\n\r\nDavid Attenborough gained one million followers on Instagram within 4 hours and 45 minutes of his first post.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The famed British naturalist broke the record for the fastest time to reach a million followers on the social media platform. The previous record-holder was Jennifer Aniston, with a time of 5 hours and 16 minutes.\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\nOn this day, Elon Musk demonstrated his ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface.\r\n\r\n