• 👆 The Italian American St. Joseph Society in New Orleans prepared what it says is the world’s largest bowl of pasta; the massive dish, which contains 80-100 gallons of sauce and 1,000 pounds of fresh pasta, feeds 400+ people as part of the city’s St. Joseph's Day celebrations.

BUSINESS & MARKETS

• 📈 US markets rose last week (S&P: +0.5%; Dow: +1.2%; Nasdaq: +0.2%).
• 🚫✈️ London’s Heathrow Airport shut down nearly all day Friday after a fire at a nearby electrical substation caused a massive power outage; airlines are projected to lose $80+ million accommodating and rerouting the ~200,000 stranded travelers.
• 📝 Tesla's cap-ex over the last six months is ~$1.4 billion higher than the value of the assets that money was spent on, potentially signaling an anomaly, per the Financial Times. | 🏭 Johnson & Johnson plans to spend $55+ billion to build four plants in the US.

SPORTS, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

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• 🍎 Snow White brought in ~$43 million at the domestic box office this weekend; makes it Disney’s lowest-earning remake since the company began producing live-action versions of its animated classics 15 years ago.
• 📺 Adolescence, Netflix's newest crime drama, garnered 24.3 million views in the first four days after being released.
• 🏎️ McLaren’s Oscar Piastri won the F1 Chinese Grand Prix; Alpine’s Pierre Gasly and both Ferrari drivers (Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc) were disqualified for technical reasons.

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SCIENCE, SPACE & EMERGING TECH

• 👶🧠 Babies are able to form memories – but they become inaccessible later on in life, explaining why people can’t remember those experiences, per a new study.
• ✈️ Boeing was tapped by the Pentagon to build the F-47, a next-gen fighter jet.
• 🇨🇳🌳 China is home to ~142.6 billion total trees, or 100 per inhabitant, per a new study using LiDAR data from drones.

MISCELLANEOUS

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• ⛪ Pope Francis was discharged from the hospital yesterday following a five-week stay for bronchitis and other medical complications.
• 🇨🇦 New Canadian PM Mark Carney called for a snap election on April 28; Carney’s Liberal Party is expected to face a close battle with Conservatives for control of Parliament.
• 🌍 Israel’s military continued to launch airstrikes at Hamas targets in Gaza, killing the militant group’s top political leader; Gaza’s death toll surpassed 50,000 since the war began, per Hamas-run health authorities.

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