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Happy 50th Birthday to Hideki Matsui, aka “Godzilla”. The DH and outfielder was one of the best Japanese visitors to these shores who ever played in the Major Leagues. He enjoyed a 7-year career with the New York Yankees, during which he won the World Series in 2009 and was named…

Oleg Kononenko has become the first human to accumulate 1,000 hours of spaceflight over a 16-year career visiting and living aboard the ISS. The milestone comes on his fifth flight to space and during his third stint as the commander of the ISS. In February he passed the previous record of…

Passed back in 2021, a law in Washington state that bans single-use polystyrene food and drink containers has come into effect. Made from tiny hollow beads of different plastics that are extremely friable, polystyrene is arguably the most damaging form of plastic in the environment. Still permitted to be used in…

What started as a family hike in North Dakota by two young brothers Jessin and Liam Fisher quickly turned into a once-in-a-lifetime discovery that career paleontologists would kill for. Along with their dad, Sam Fisher, and their cousin Kaiden, they identified the remains of a juvenile T. rex skeleton of about…

The owner of this pickup has one of his dogs to thank for his life, after a loss of control in the mountains of Oregon saw him turn over into a ravine. Injured, but alive after his crash on US Forest Service Road 39, one of Brandon Garrett’s four dogs ran…

105 years ago today, Sir Barton became the first racehorse in history to win the Triple Crown. A chestnut colt bred in 1916 on a farm near Lexington, Kentucky. Sir Barton was sired by the British stallion Star Shoot out of the mare Lady Sterling, by Hanover. Sir Barton’s paternal grandsire…