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Mark Hempsell suggests that an artificial planet could be created in the Solar System in preparation for future space colonization, most likely in the habitable zone between the orbits of Venus and Mars. It could evolve from a smaller artificial space habitat. Its purpose would be similar to that of other megastructures intended as living spaces (such as the O'Neill cylinder) or to that of colonizing (or terraforming) existing planets. Unlike a space habitat, an artificial planet would be large enough to create its own gravity field, which would prevent its atmosphere from escaping; the atmosphere would help protect the planet from radiation and meteorites. However, an artificial planet would have a much worse ratio of mass to usable surface area.

Material for artificial-planet construction could be extracted from stars or gas giants or from asteroids. A sufficiently advanced civilization could use those resources to mass-produce artificial planets, using a circumstellar factory that itself would likely be the size of a large planet

Construction of an artificial planet is theoretically possible but would likely take thousands of years and would be extremely costly. It has also been suggested that such an endeavor would be more challenging than terraforming existing planets, though both ideas are speculative at this point.

The Gurkhas are soldiers native to South Asia, chiefly residing within Nepal and some parts of North India. Former Indian Army Chief of Staff Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw once stated that: “If a man says he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying or he is a Gurkha.”

The Sudanese Greeks are ethnic Greeks from modern-day Sudan; they are small in number (estimated at around 150 in 2015), but still a very prominent community in the country. Historically, this diverse group has played a significant role in Sudan's political, economic, cultural, and sporting life.

David Kato was an Ugandan teacher considered a father of Uganda's gay rights movement. He was assassinated shortly after after winning a lawsuit against a magazine which had published his name and photograph identifying him as gay and calling for him to be executed.

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Volkswagen emissions scandal aka Dieselgate: in 2015, the US found VW had programmed its engines to activate emissions controls only during lab emissions testing; they emitted up to 40x more NOx in real-world driving. VW deployed this in ~11m cars, including 500k in the US, in model years 2009-15.

In May 2026, an epidemic of Ebola disease was reported in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Bundibugyo ebolavirus causes the epidemic. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization.

Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja (born 1946 in Spain) is a former feral child. He was sold to a hermitic goatherder at age 7 and after the goatherder's death, he lived alone with the wolves. At 19 he was returned to society, but had difficulty adjusting and later said he was disappointed in human nature.

Tommy McHugh was a British artist and poet. When he was 51, McHugh attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly due to a knock on the toilet door. The sudden pressure led to a stroke. He was in a coma for a week and acquired savant syndrome.

During development of Return of the Jedi, Star Wars creator George Lucas asked several notable filmmakers to direct. Empire Strikes Back helmer Irvin Kershner opted against returning, David Lynch and David Cronenberg also declined, and Steven Spielberg was barred due to Hollywood union rules.

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Cob is an ancient natural building material made from subsoil, water, fibrous organic material (typically straw), and sometimes lime. Cob is fireproof, termite proof, resistant to seismic activity, and uses low-cost materials. Its use has been revived in recent years.

A spite house is a building constructed or substantially modified to irritate neighbors or any party with land stakes. Because long-term occupation is not the primary purpose of these houses, they frequently exhibit strange and impractical structures.

The friendship paradox is the phenomenon first observed by the sociologist Scott L. Feld in 1991 that on average, an individual's friends have more friends than that individual.

The 1949 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was given to António Egas Moniz for the discovery of the now discredited form of neurosurgical treatment, the lobotomy

Kars4Kids is an American Jewish nonprofit car donation organization. The company jingle has become the subject of public ridicule, as critics have considered it to be an annoyance; it was described by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Peter Hartlaub as an "assault on [the] senses".

An artificial planet is a proposed circumstellar megastructure with sufficient mass to generate its own gravity field strong enough to prevent atmosphere from escaping

Baby of the House is the unofficial title given to the youngest member of a parliamentary house. Originated from the UK, the title is named after the Father of the House, which is given to the longest-serving member of the British and other parliaments.