Alex Dobrenko

🎧🍎 Apple Podcast users, rejoice: many of Spotify's Gimlet Media podcasts like Science vs. This will soon be available outside of the Spotify platform -->

☝️ A glowing spiral appeared in the night sky above Alaska during the Northern Lights on Saturday morning

🍄🍿 The Super Marios Bros. Movie is breaking records...again. How Mario might become this year’s first film to pass $1 billion in box office receipts -->

☝️ Sergii Gordieiev, an engineer and YouTube creator, recently developed a custom working bike with square wheels.

📱🌏 In 2021, this country made only 1% of the world's iPhones. Now, that number is up to 7%. Where Apple is moving its iPhone production and why -->

☝️ The first-ever image of a black hole – captured four years ago by a global network of radio telescopes – has been touched-up by an AI program to provide a more accurate visual representation. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

🤔📺 Why would HBO Max rebrand as just...Max? It actually makes a lot of sense, when you think about it - hear why the execs at Warner Bros. Discovery made the decision -->

☝️ A pair of signed Air Jordan XIII Breds worn by Michael Jordan in Game 2 of the 1998 NBA Finals sold at Sotheby's for $2.24 million on Tuesday; it marks the highest price ever paid at auction for a pair of sneakers. Click to see more stories.

📔✍️ If it looks like Twitter, feels like Twitter, and allows users to post, share, and repost short-form content like Twitter – then is it, basically, Twitter? Why Elon Musk doesn’t love Substack’s new recommendations product, Notes -->

☝️ A three-year-old Chihuahua named Pearl was recently named the world’s shortest living adult dog by the Guinness Book of World Records, measuring 3.59 inches tall; Pearl is descended from the previous record-holder, Miracle Milly.

👨🍄 Guess who bounced his way into theaters this weekend and took down the largest opening for an animated film… well, ever? Here’s a hint: he’s a plumber. With a mustache -->

☝️ NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently took this image of the ice giant Uranus, making it the third instrument in human history ever to capture the planet’s faint dusty rings on the outer edge of its orbit.

🏀🎥 Michael Jordan told Ben Affleck he could make Air, under one condition. Find out what MJ asked + Affleck’s new model for taking care of his crew with back-end participation -->

☝️ In Madawaska, Maine, a group of volunteers cut an enormous circle in a frozen lake last weekend and set it in motion, claiming a world record for world’s biggest ice carousel at nearly six football fields in diameter.

🗣📱 What were the first words spoken on a cell phone call? Happy 50th birthday to the cell phone + where we’re headed next (according to the dude who invented it) -->

☝️ An enormous red halo of light flashed in the night sky over northern Italy last week, appearing then disappearing in a matter of seconds – but not before photographer Valter Binotto managed to capture this shot. Click to see the explanation + more stories you should know for today.

❓ What do the WWE and UFC have in common? Following yesterday’s $9.3 billion acquisition announcement, they’re part of the same company.

☝️ A new commemorative quarter honoring the late Edith Kanakaʻole, a legendary Hawaiian hula teacher, officially entered circulation last week. Click to see more stories you should know for today.

🎞️🤔 Why is a 2018 cop drama starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn currently #4 on Netflix’s most-watched list? Inside how Netflix makes the old new again -->

☝️ You’re looking at some of the 20 most-beautiful libraries in the world, as rated by Travel + Leisure. Click to see more stories you should know for today.