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The United States regularly releases millions of flies over Panama’s Darién Gap each week. The practice is part of a long-running pest control effort targeting the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae infest open wounds in animals. In the 1950s, scientists developed the sterile insect technique, in which male flies are sterilized with radiation and released in large numbers so that wild females produce no offspring. By 1959, this approach had eliminated screwworm from the United States. Over the following decades, the program expanded through Mexico and Central America. Today, the focus is prevention—stopping the pest from moving north out of South America. To maintain that barrier, Panama and the United States still release millions of sterile flies each week over the Darién Gap.

@sciam The unique form of matter left behind by the 1945 Trinity bomb test is called Trinitite, a glassy, radioactive residue formed when the heat of the explosion melted desert sand.

The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure inside it spklr.io/6012Ezw2r

@Rainmaker1973 The interior seats of the boat are arranged in an alternating pattern so that when passengers sit facing each other, their legs interlock and mimic the metallic teeth of a zipper.

Japanese designer Yasuhiro Suzuki built a zipper-shaped boat that seems to unzip the water.

From late 2020 through 2022, Wang worked alongside a co-conspirator named Yaoning Sun under the direction of Chinese government officials to spread propaganda in the United States. In June 2021, a Chinese official used the encrypted messaging app WeChat to send Wang pre-written news articles, including an essay explicitly denying the occurrence of genocide in Xinjiang. Wang and other members of a group chat published these pre-written articles on their own websites, prompting the Chinese official to thank them for their reporting.

The Mayor of Arcadia California has been charged for acting as an illegal foreign agent on behalf of China Eileen Wang has plead guilty, via the Justice Department

@DailyLoud A coveted Sky Moon Tourbillon (Ref. 6002G-010) sold for nearly $4.2 million at the same auction.

Patek Philippe "South America" world-time watch sells for over $10 million at auction

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Lake naming in British Columbia, Canada, really operates on a whole different level.

@historyinmemes Mikhail Gorbachev was reportedly paid a talent fee close to 1 million dollars for his appearance in the commercial. Factoring in inflation, his payment would be equivalent to approximately 2 million dollars today.

In 1997, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev found himself in need of money—while Pizza Hut was looking for a spokesperson.

Recent reports suggest that developers are now willing to offer the family close to 60 million dollars to acquire the property. If the developers eventually acquire the land, they could fit between 40 and 50 new houses on the block by dividing it into smaller lots of 300 square meters or 3,229 square feet.

This Australian family has spent decades refusing to sell their 5-acre property, even as developers built an entire suburb around them, reportedly turning down offers over $50 million. Full Article: realestate.com.au/news/aussie-fa…

This lunar hole is almost circular with a diameter of 60 to 70 meters or 197 to 230 feet and a depth of 80 to 90 meters or 262 to 295 feet. Unlike typical meteorite impacts that have a diameter-to-depth ratio of about 5 to 1, this specific hole features an extraordinary ratio of nearly 1 to 1.

Japanese probe "Kaguya" discovered a cave on the Moon and it leads to a vast underground tunnel.

The Most Evil Man in Africa's History

The cave formed during the Quaternary period and is 262 meters or 860 feet long. Archaeological traces indicate that humans inhabited the cave during the Neolithic and Chalcolithic eras. The naturally eroded holes in the middle chamber let light into the cave and were featured in a scene from the 1988 Bulgarian film Time of Violence.

THE EYES OF GOD in Prohodna Cave, Bulgaria. It was inhabited by humans 7,000 years ago...

Before the name Mr. Bean was chosen, the creators considered several other vegetable-influenced names like Mr. Cauliflower. The character was tested at a French-speaking comedy festival in Canada to see if the physical comedy would work with a non-English speaking audience. The series has been sold in 245 territories worldwide because the lack of dialogue makes it easily accessible to many cultures.

Although Mr. Bean only had 15 episodes, when I was younger, it somehow felt like it had been on for at least 10 full seasons.

The Pilot Who Was Sucked Out of the Cockpit but Survived

Astronauts returning from space often feel like Earth is loud, heavy, and dizzying, experiencing "re-entry" vertigo, temporary height increases of up to 2 inches, and severe back pain as gravity compresses their spines. They may take days to readapt to walking and often need to be immediately placed in chairs to manage the intense, newfound weight of their own bodies.

Imagine the astronaut’s intense anxiety during reentry, fully aware that the capsule’s exterior is blazing at nearly 2,800 degrees as it hurtles through Earth’s atmosphere.

@HELLANBIGLOVE @historyinmemes For sure.

@Tiger_Detective @historyinmemes Brave men

In 1991, during the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein ordered the ignition of more than 600 oil wells in Kuwait. The resulting fires burned for months and were so massive they could be seen from space, darkening the skies even in daylight. At their peak, the burning wells consumed up to 6 million barrels of oil per day.

@greeleyman @historyinmemes Nice. Didn't know that one.

@Tiger_Detective @historyinmemes I saw a great PBS documentary about this, "Lessons of Darkness" Still have it on VHS somewhere (but no VCR)

The James Webb Space Telescope confirmed a significant discrepancy in the measurement of the universe's expansion rate, which is a problem known by scientists as the Hubble Tension. Measurements taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019 and the James Webb Space Telescope in 2023 show that the universe appears to be expanding at different speeds depending on the specific location.

James Webb has confirmed there's something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe. JWST points towards the existence of unknown physics.

@CuriosityonX Scientists confirmed in 2022 that upon reaching the Sargasso Sea, mature female eels release millions of eggs that are externally fertilized by the males.

Scientists have NO idea how eels reproduce. They scooped 7,000 eggs from the Sargasso Sea where eels supposedly mate. Guess how many were eel eggs? Zero. GPS trackers? Eels shake them off. Hormones? Don't work. Predator stomachs? Nothing. No one has ever seen a mature eel there. In 2022 we finally tracked an adult there but nobody has still ever seen them mate. Nobody has ever witnessed eels mating. No mature adults have been caught in the act. No verified eel eggs have been collected from the Sargasso.