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Important News Overshadowed By You-Know-What

Turns out there's actually other news in the world.

Important News Overshadowed By You-Know-What

April 22, 2020

PSA: Be safe, stay home, and stay informed. -Ed

News these days is all COVID, all the time, for pretty good reasons. But that means you've probably missed some important and/or fascinating things that happened in the last week or so.

Things like:

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AFTER AN EPIC 10-DAY STRUGGLE, HUGE WILDFIRES WERE EXTINGUISHED AROUND CHERNOBYL. It took 400 firefighters, three planes, and three helicopters droppi — Source: BBC News, CNN, Deutsche Welle

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TRUMP KICKED OUT TWO OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPPOSED TO KEEP AN EYE ON HIM. Michael Atkinson Glenn Fine He fired Glenn Fine, the Inspector General for — Source: The Guardian

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VENEZUELA LOST A NAVY SHIP IN THE DUMBEST WAY. RESOLTIC RCGS The cruise liner The Navy ship warned a cruise liner it was in Venezuelan waters (it wasn — Source: Deutsche Welle

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IN NORWAY, THE RETREAT OF ICE REVEALED A MOUNTAIN PASS FULL OF VIKING ARTFACTS. There are arrows, leather shoes, knitted mittens, and more, all perfec — Source: The Guardian

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THE FBI AND THE ESTONIAN POLICE BUSTED A 13-YEAR-OLD NAZI GROUP LEADER. The Estonian boy (who called himself Commander, online) was a key figure in Fe — Source: TIME

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KOBE BRYANT POSTHUMOUSLY GOT BASKETBALL'S HIGHEST HONOR. zRs He's one of nine people inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020. And his daught — Source: NPR, Yahoo Sports

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WE FOUND THE LONGEST ANIMAL EVER, IN AN UNDERWATER CANYON NEAR AUSTRALIA. A photo of the siphonophore It's a 150-foot-long siphonophore, a coral-like — Source: Live Science

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VIRGINIA MADE IT A LOT SAFER TO BE LGBTO. The Virginia Values Act, which became law on April 11, makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexu — Source: Prince William Times

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SOUTH KOREA GOT TOUGHER ON SEX OFFENDERS. For the first time in Korea's history, after 2.7 million people signed an online petition, they unmasked a S — Source: South China Morning Post

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SOON, PLASTIC POLLUTION MIGHT NOT BE A PROBLEM. BOLO luege XI Eh a Scientists mutated a bacterial enzyme SO that it breaks down plastic bottles into r — Source: The Guardian

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SCIENTISTS MADE TINY BIOLOGICAL ROBOTS, AKA XENOBOTS. Xenobots are living clumps of several thousand tadpole cells, designed in a Minecraft- program f — Source: The New York Times

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NASA IS PLANNING TO PUT A GIGANTIC TELESCOPE ON THE MOON. Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) Crater (3-5km diameter Deployable Wire-mesh 01-km diamet — Source: VICE

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