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1. Category 6 Hurricanes https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240205164816.htm Sauce of the sauce (the actual research article from where the news came from) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308901121
2. Black holes before galaxies https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240206144917.htm Sauce of the sauce (the actual research article from where the news came from) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad1bf0
3. Blueberries https://www.sciencenews.org/article/blueberry-blue-color-nanostructure-wax-pigment Sauce of the sauce (the actual research article from where the news came from) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk4219
4. Fern with root-leaves https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fern-first-plant-dead-leaves-new-roots Sauce of the sauce (the actual research article from where the news came from) https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.4248
5. Spiraly lenses https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240208122046.htm
 

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During the Great Depression, popcorn was fairly inexpensive at 5–10 cents a bag and became popular. Thus, while other businesses failed, the popcorn business thrived and became a source of income for many struggling farmers, including the Redenbacher family, namesake of the Orville Redenbacher's popcorn brand. During World War II, sugar rations diminished candy production, and Americans compensated by eating three times as much popcorn as they had before. The snack was popular at theaters, much to the initial displeasure of many of the theater owners, who thought it distracted from the films. Their minds eventually changed, however, and in 1938 a Midwestern theater owner named Glen W. Dickinson Sr. installed popcorn machines in the lobbies of his Dickinson theaters. Popcorn was more profitable than theater tickets, and at the suggestion of his production consultant, R. Ray Aden, Dickinson purchased popcorn farms and was able to keep ticket prices down. The venture was a success, and popcorn soon spread.
 

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World's tallest man and smallest woman reunite​

Susie Coen
Mon, February 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM PST·2 min read
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Sultan Kosen and Jyoti Amge


Sultan Kosen and Jyoti Amge met up in California - Mehmet Veysi Bora/Getty
There may be more than six feet between them, but the world’s tallest man and shortest woman found common ground when they were reunited this week.
Sultan Kosen, who measures 8ft 3 (251cm), towered over his fellow Guinness World Record holder Jyoti Amge, who measures just over 2ft (62.8cm) tall, when they met in California on Monday.
Sitting cross-legged together on the floor, their vastly different statures could not have been more apparent.
One of Mr Kosen’s feet is 14.3in (36.5cm) and measures more than half of Ms Amge’s height.

World's tallest living man Sultan Kosen, who is 251 cm (8 ft 2.82) meets Jyoti Amge


World's tallest living man Sultan Kosen, who is 251 cm (8 ft 2.82) meets Jyoti Amge


World's tallest living man Sultan Kosen, who is 251 cm (8 ft 2.82) meets Jyoti Amge

World's tallest living man Sultan Kosen, who is 251 cm (8 ft 2.82) meets Jyoti Amge

The pair previously met in Cairo in 2018, where they visited the Pyramids of Giza together.
Mr Kosen, from Turkey, officially became the world’s tallest living man in 2009 when he was discovered to be more than 10cms taller than Bao Xishun, who held the record at the time.
He also holds the record for largest hands on a living person, each one measuring 11.22 in (28.5 cm) from the wrist to the tip of the middle finger.
Mr Kosen, 41, grew normally until he was ten, but a tumour caused him to develop a medical condition called pituitary gigantism.
The record holder, who boasts 241,000 followers on Instagram, needs specially made clothes and sleeps in a three-metre long bed.

Sultan Kosen, from Turkey, 34, the tallest man on earth according to the Guinness World Records, with a height of 246.5 cm ( 8 feet 1 inch), talks to Jyoti Amge


The pair last met in Cairo - Amr Nabil/AP
Indian actress Ms Amge, 30, is shorter than the average two-year-old and weighed 11lbs (5kg) when she was 18.
Her small size is caused by a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia, which means she will never grow beyond a certain height.
When Ms Amge was 15 she was awarded the record title of shortest living female teenager.
Three years later she became the shortest living female in the world, a title she has held ever since.
Ms Amge, who has 1.4million Instagram followers, achieved her dream of becoming the world’s shortest actress after she appeared in US TV series American Horror Story

 

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(Source) 1. 1/8 of the world is obese https://www.sciencenews.org/article/obesity-1-billion-people-world Sauce of the sauce (the actual research article from where the news came from) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02750-2/fulltext 2. April 8 Solar Eclipse https://gizmodo.com/great-north-american-solar-eclipse-2024-watch-guide-1851290096 3. Water-disc found forming a planet https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-planet-formation-earth-theory Sauce of the sauce (the actual research article from where the news came from) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acf5ec 4. Ai outperforms humans in creativity test https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240301134758.htm Sauce of the sauce (the actual research article from where the news came from) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53303-w 5. Meaty algae https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240227130709.htm Sauce of the sauce (the actual research article from where the news came from) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.3c08600
 
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