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So many crazy things happen each week and here we are again bringing you the things that grabbed our attention. Less Covid stuff, but some, and a lot of tech and world news with some funny stuff mixed in. Feels so much like how things were before the world turned upside down. Also, TIL and shower thoughts. So much fun was had!

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The Avatar effect: Movie-goers feel depressed and even suicidal at not being able to visit utopian alien planet

Hungary prepares to end legal recognition of trans people

French researchers are planning to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients and health workers after a study at a major Paris hospital suggested Nicotinic agents could provide an efficient treatment for the disease.

Quantum supremacy is politically insensitive due to its close sounding connection to white supremacy 

Federal workers in BG should pick stuff up in fields for money

South Korean presidential aide says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is "alive and well"

US Intelligence does not believe Kim Jong Un is dead.

(chuckles) I\'m in danger

Google Will Require Proof of Identity From All Advertisers: A slew of scams and misleading ads pushed the search giant to expand its verification policy.

Google to require all advertisers to pass identity verification process

Amazon reportedly used merchant data, despite telling Congress it doesn\\u2019t

Fortnite\'s Travis Scott virtual concert watched by millions

Social distancing laser hat

Don\'t eat or inject yourself with disinfectant, warns FDA commissioner

Apple, Google in a \'standoff\' with Germany and France over contact tracing privacy

Glass bottom swimming pool hanging off the edge of a skyscraper

Dolphins kicking fish high into the air to stun them

Questions:

On his death bed, Kim Jong Un named you as next Supreme Leader of North Korea. What\\u2019s your move?

There\\u2019s a population of 7.5 billion humans and 1 quadrillion ants. If there was to be an ant rebellion, how would you kill your 133,333 ants?

TIL:

TIL New York City paid more for Central Park than America paid for Alaska.

TIL that the chunks of ice that break off of icebergs are officially called "bergy bits"

TIL When buttons were invented in the 13th century, wealthy women did not dress themselves \\u2014 their lady\\u2019s maid did. As most people are right-handed, it was easier for maids to fasten with the buttons on the left. And that\'s why men\'s and women\'s buttons are on opposite sides.

Shower Thoughts:

No tattoos thanks my body is a temple...Temples are littered with picture/tat\\xfaes \\u201cCistine Chapel\\u201d

When will using the term AI be politically incorrect. Insensitive 

If our world believed in reincarnation more than any other kind of happening after death, then our graves would have "B.R.B." instead of "R.I.P."

Ronald McDonald has killed more people than all other killer clowns combined.

Eventually, most of the content on the internet will be from dead people.

Small beds belongs in the corner, while big begs belong in the middle of the room

The fact that we can be surprised by something in a dream is amazing, considering we create the story line.

Listening to someone speak a foreign language to their dog is a great way to imagine how a dog would hear it.

"Turn the volume up" and "Turn the volume down" both can make you sound old

Your stomach is constantly filled with warm puke

You don\'t start liking old people stuff when you get old. It\'s just that stuff you liked all along becomes old people things.

If you take no one\'s advice, you are an idiot. If you take everyone\'s advice, you are also an idiot.

You could cosplay as Winnie the Pooh with just a red shirt and confidence

More people would watch documentaries if you could choose the voice of the narrator

We may not know the exact condition of Kim Jong Un, but we certainly know the condition of the person who botched his heart surgery

Landing on the moon is one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind. Flying from the moon back to earth is rarely mentioned.