1. Hurricane Beryl slammed into Texas yesterday, dominating news feeds and Tik Tok videos. Here are the numbers: at least six deaths, nine inches of rain, two million people without power, 47 high-water rescues.
2. Marjorie Taylor Greene just got an F in American History. She posted on X about the average age of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and listed their names. Sadly, six out of eight historical figures, including Aaron Burr and Paul Revere, were not signers of the Declaration of Independence and she found that out on the internet.
3. Jupiter-sized exoplanets have long intrigued astronomers with their scorching 1,700 degree temperatures, fierce winds and glassy rain. Now, data from the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed another interesting feature of the planet known as HD 189733b: its atmosphere smells like rotten eggs, because it contains hydrogen sulfide molecules, something that has never been found outside our solar system before. It’s safe to say we can cross this one off our list of potential new planets we’d like to live on.
4. A Las Vegas showman used the power of his eye sockets to break two incredible Guinness World Records. Andrew Stanton broke the records for the heaviest object pulled in an eye socket (a Cadillac and chauffeur) and the heaviest object lifted in both eye sockets (a 129-pound assistant while swallowing a sword).
5. When you wake up with a snake bite, there is only one logical way to react. Santosh Lohar While he was sleeping in a labour camp in India, a snake crawled onto his bed and bit him, so he caught the snake and killed it by biting it back. Lohar was rushed to hospital, given antivenom, and released the next day. Lohar said there is a legend in his village that if you are bitten by a snake, you have to bite it twice to neutralize the venom. There is a legend in my village that you should never sleep outside because there are poisonous snakes that will crawl onto your bed.
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