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With plane carrying Dale Earnhardt Jr. on fire and filling with smoke, pilot kicked open cabin door

Iceland offering coronavirus stress relief by broadcasting world\\u2019s screams

Poorest Americans drink a lot more sugary drinks than the richest \\u2013 which is why soda taxes could help reduce gaping health inequalities

Deleting old media that has blackface in it is one step closer to us erasing other pieces of history and is akin to Orwell\\u2019s 1984

Twitch Forces U.S. Army To Stop Tricking Viewers With Fake Giveaways

Seven \'no log\' VPN providers accused of leaking \\u2013 yup, you guessed it \\u2013 1.2TB of user logs onto the internet

Flash VPN, UFO VPN, and five other services leaked 1.2TB of private information

The Morning After: Amazon\'s TikTok ban was just some kind of mistake

Amazon Makes Employees Delete TikTok From Phones, Citing Security Risk

Twitter got hacked...

Disney World Closes Mask Loophole, Bans Eating And Drinking While Walking

TIL:

TIL that the Founding Fathers, more often than not depicted as older man, were rather young. In July 4th, 1776, Aaron Burr was 20, Alexander Hamilton, 21; James Madison, 25; John Jay, 29; and Thomas Jefferson, 33

TIL Scientists in China have successfully grown tooth enamel which paves the way to replace fillings & crowns. A chemical mixture applied to whole human teeth created an enamel layer 2.7 micrometers thick within 48 hours. (Calcium & phosphate ions with triethylamine in alcohol).

TIL that LBJ constantly asked the flight crew of Air Force One to change the temperature of the cabin. Eventually, they installed a fake control knob for him to \'control\' the temperature himself. The president stopped complaining.

Shower Thoughts:

Our eyes and ears are both processing waves. Just in different spectrums

Fruit, like people, have bellybuttons where they were plucked

People are probably using the \'I don\'t feel good\' excuse a lot less lately

People worldwide somehow got to the conclusion that butterflies are "good" but moths are "bad"

We all grew up thinking quick sand was going to be a bigger deal than it is.

The future is the present. Just later.

Plants can literally taste the rainbow

The Flash would go faster on a bicycle than he would on a motorcycle

A good chunk of people in the \'A Quiet Place\' universe probably died believing staying silent was against their freedom of speech.

If dogs understood peanut butter cups, they would find it cruel that we took one of their favourite people foods and stuffed it in a shell of poison