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Kenyan Emmanuel Wanyonyi Breaks a World Record at a Road Mile Event
Emmanuel Wanyonyi is a seasoned 800m runner, having won the World Championships silver medal and bagged the gold at the Diamond League in 2023. The 19-year-old strayed away from his expertise and participated in the road mile category for the first time. he narrowly beat USA’s Hobbs Kessler and South Africa’s Ryan Mphahlele.
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Read more at The Sportsrush
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Arrives in Beijing for a Surprise Visit
Tesla rolled out Full Self-Driving, or FSD, four years ago. Musk said this month Tesla may make FSD available to customers in China. Tesla has since 2021 stored all data collected by its Chinese fleet in Shanghai as required by Chinese regulators.
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Read more at Yahoo Finance
Titanic Titanic Gold Watch Auctioned in England for £1.17 Million
a gold watch found on the body of the richest passenger on the Titanic was auctioned in England for £1.17 million ($1.46 million), AFP reported on April 27. The sum was a record sum for an object linked to the 1912 shipping disaster. A US buyer won the bidding war, smashing the auctioneer's pre-sale estimate of £100,000 to £150,000.
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Malaysian Lawn Bowl Athlete Makes History
Nor Farah Ain Abdullah made history by winning the gold medal at the 2024 World Indoor Bowling Championships in Guernsey, Channel Islands. For the record, the national team bagged three gold, two silver and two bronze at the 15th Asian Lawn Bowls Championship held in Pattaya from March 3 to 10.
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Read more at theSun
Coach Taylor's Next Pick in the NFL
Coach Taylor kind of held us to the same standard that Coach Saban holds us to in college. Flo's a calm customer, so that kind of carried in me to college and will carry on with me in the NFL. And you know, all of us, we're kind of wired because we've got to compete at the highest level.
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Tony Westacott Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Tony Westacott, 51, started career as a support worker before qualifying as mental health nurse. Among his many achievements, the 51-year-old spearheaded the launch of a new apprenticeship programme.
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Read more at BBC
Irish Life GAA Healthy Club Project Launched
St Mary’s Hurling and Camogie Club, Clonmel, has been selected to participate in the 2024/2025 GAA Healthy Club project. The GAA’s flagship programme to promote health and wellbeing in Ireland outside of its official games structures. It aims to support GAA clubs and communities to achieve health and wellness goals that reflect the national policy agenda for sport, physical activity, mental health and preventative health.
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Read more at Ireland Live
Heliconius Elevate - A New Butterfly Species
Heliconius elevatus, a species of Amazonian butterfly, was born from a cross between "Heliconius pardalinus' and 'Helicionius melpomene' This is enough to seriously shake up our representation of what we usually call the tree of life. In plants, speciation by hybridization has been observed in many cases, with two plants giving rise to a third. To achieve this, the third plant has to combine the genomes of the two
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Read more at Le Monde
Can You See UV Light?
In the back of the eye, the retina has photoreceptors that sense light and send signals about the wavelengths they detect through the optic nerve to the brain, which interpret them as color. In fact, our blue-detecting cones can detect some UV light. But the lens filters out most UV light, so the high-energy wavelength never actually reaches the cones.
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Read more at Livescience.com
Formula 1 Heads to Florida for the Sixth Race of the Season
Formula 1 travels to Florida for the Miami Grand Prix from 3-5 May. Max Verstappen looks to continue his dominant start to 2024.
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Read more at BBC.com