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💬 Quoted…​​ “Unusually close."

  • On Tuesday, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory revealed that multiple telescopes recently watched a black hole roughly 10x the mass of our sun "tearing apart an unlucky star that wandered too close"; the black hole event took place about 250 million light-years from Earth, making it the fifth-closest ever recorded.

⚽ Stat of the Day: The World Cup final drew nearly 26 million US viewers across Fox and Telemundo, the second-highest total for a soccer match in history behind the 2015 Women’s World Cup final (26.7 million).

🤯 Did You Know?... Purple-colored Skittles are blackcurrant flavored in Europe and Australia, instead of the usual grape that’s sold everywhere else.

📖 Worth a Read: How Ada Lovelace used embroidery to create the first computer program → (Inverse)

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