1. Beryl dominated news feeds and Tik Tok videos yesterday as the Hurricane, now tropical depression slammed into Texas. Here are the numbers: At least 6 dead; nine inches of rain; two million without power and 47 high water rescues.
2. Marjorie Taylor Greene just got an F in American History. She posted on X about the average age of signers of the Declaration of Independence and then listed of names. Sadly, 6 out of the 8 names of historical figures like Aaron Burr and Paul Revere, were NOT signers of the Declaration of Independence, and the internet let her know all about it.
3. An exoplanet the size of Jupiter has long intrigued astronomers because of its scorching temperatures of 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, screaming winds and sideways rain made of glass. Now, data from the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed another intriguing feature of the planet known as HD 189733b: The atmosphere smells like rotten eggs because it contains the molecule Hydrogen Sulfide, which has never been found outside our solar system up until now. Safe to say, we can check that off the list of possible new worlds we want to live on
4. A Las Vegas man who works as a sideshow artist broke a pair of eye-popping Guinness World Records using the strength of his eye sockets. Andrew Stanton just broke the records for heaviest weight pulled with eye sockets – a Cadillac and driver – and the heaviest weight lifted with both eye sockets – a 129 pound assistant – while swallowing a sword.
5. and when a snake wakes you up with a bite, there’s only one logical way to react. Santosh Lohar was asleep in a laborer’s camp in India when a snake crawled into his bed and bit him, so he grabbed the snake and bit it back, killing it. Lohar was rushed to the hospital and given anti-venom and was released the following day. Lohar said that in his village, there’s a belief that if a snake bites you, you must bite it back twice to neutralize the venom. Well, there’s a belief in my village, DON’T SLEEP OUTSIDE WHERE THERE ARE POISONOUS SNAKES THAT CAN CRAWL INTO BED WITH YOU
AND THAT’S TRENDING
