1. Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention is in the books. President Joe Biden officially passed the torch to Kamala Harris who came out on stage to a deafening rock star welcome at the packed United Center in Chicago.

2. On the other side of the Presidential race, Former President Trump has shared a seemingly artificial intelligence generated image of Taylor Swift to falsely claim an endorsement from the singer.

3. Airplane Shark do do do do do do – Airline Lufthansa is testing the use of a thin material on the body of an airplane that mimics shark skin in an effort to save fuel; the microstructure on sharks is estimated to reduce drag by up to 10%

4. Oceanfront property in Arizona seems like a good idea after you watch the video of a home in the Outer Banks of  North Carolina being swept away by the surf that was churned up by Hurricane Ernesto.

5. and marathon swimmer Jim Dreyer, had his attempt to swim 80 miles across Lake Michigan to Wisconsin, come to an end the other day because he was lost. He wouldn’t have been if he had put fresh batteries in the GPS. Instead of swimming from East to West, his support team’s boat pulled alongside him to inform him he was 60 miles into his journey but he had been swimming north the whole time. Not gonna lie, they are the world’s WORST support team

and THAT’S TRENDING