Bizarre ‘Road To Atlantis’ Discovered In Unexplored Part Of Pacific Ocean

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WINGS, SWEAT, AND TEARS

If you've never seen the hit YouTube show Hot Ones, now in its 17th season, the premise is deceptively simple. All celebrities have to do is eat ten hot wings, each doused in a progressively hotter sauce, while host Sean Evans eats along with them and asks them questions. The result, typically, is celebrities losing their minds, sweating, crying, coughing, chugging milk, cursing out their agents, and barely able to hear the last few questions Evans asks. Eater

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OVER $9 TRILLION HAS BEEN ERASED FROM U.S. EQUITIES AND THE NASDAQ IS DOWN 25% IN 2022

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How 80-1 Shot Rich Strike Won The Kentucky Derby | AP

HOW 80-1 LONG SHOT RICH STRIKE WON THE KENTUCKY DERBY

This doesn't happen. Horses at odds of nearly 80-1 don't win the Kentucky Derby. Jockeys who have never won any big stakes race of any kind don't win the Kentucky Derby. Owners with fewer than ten career wins don't win the Kentucky Derby. Rich Strike and his connections disagree with those sentiments. AP

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CREATE YOUR OWN WEB APPS WITH THIS WEB3 DEVELOPMENT PRIMER

The concept of Web3 is still very new, and no one's quite sure how it will resolve the thornier issues around freedom of speech and creator's rights. But one thing is certain: It will be wide open to developers, so if you're looking for a way to get in on the ground floor of this new vision for the internet, the Complete Web3 Programming Masterclass Bundle can be your guide. PC Mag

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BIZARRE 'ROAD TO ATLANTIS' DISCOVERED IN UNEXPLORED PART OF PACIFIC OCEAN

A team of researchers were astonished to find an odd geological feature that they declared looks like 'the road to Atlantis' in the middle of an unexplored part of the Pacific Ocean last month. Vice

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THIS COMPACT ELECTRIC SCREWDRIVER DOES ALL THE WORK WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A BULKY DRILL

Everyone needs a screwdriver. Actually, everyone needs two: a flat head and a Phillips head. Luckily, the HOTO Electric Precision Screwdriver Kit has both those covered. In fact, it has 25 S2-steel precision bits to choose from. And unlike a standard screwdriver, the electric-powered HOTO does all the hard work for you with just the touch of a button. It's perfect for smaller jobs where you don't need a bulky drill. In addition, it features magnetic storage to help keep your bits neat and tidy, as well as a USB-C port for easy charging. HOTO

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A VISIT TO THE HUMAN FACTORY

Will Jackson, CEO of robotics company Engineered Arts, says he isn't sure what's worse: the angry emails that accuse him of building machines that will one day overthrow humanity or the speculative ones enquiring if the sender can f*ck the robots. 'Everybody wants to see a humanoid robot,' Jackson says. 'They love to imagine all these things that are going to happen. Part of what we do is fulfilling that desire.' (Though not, he is careful to stress, the sex-robot stuff.) The Verge

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