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The width of the moon's newest crater — wider than two end-to-end football fields — carved when a building-sized object slammed into the lunar surface in 2024. Impacts that big happen only about once a century, making it a once-in-a-lifetime observation.
Source: Smithsonian
This weekend: A herd of 40 life-size bison puppets, each maneuvered by three puppeteers, roams Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn to honor Indigenous history and resilience.
Tomorrow: The NFL's Week 3 Sunday slate kicks off across the league.
- 1783The Montgolfier brothers launch a sheep, duck and rooster in a hot-air balloon at Versailles
- 1893New Zealand becomes the first country to grant women the right to vote
- 1970The first Glastonbury Festival is held on a farm in Somerset, England
- 1982Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticon :-) on a Carnegie Mellon message board
Ole Miss vs. LSU rivalry: 160 years of love, hate and the river's edge
How 160 years of love, hate and river-town geography forged the Ole Miss-LSU rivalry.
ESPN · Wright Thompson
People protecting nature and land set up self-defence units amid threat of murder
Why people protecting nature and land from organized crime are forming self-defense units amid threats of murder.
The Guardian · Jonathan Watts
Inside the squishy nightmare: Explosions, burns, and thousands of calls to poison control
What exploding squishy toys, burn injuries and thousands of poison control calls reveal about a children's toy craze.
Business Insider · Dominick Reuter, Julia Pugachevsky, Jane Ridley
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