Utah schools banned the Bible because of vulgarity and violence.

A school district in the U.S. state of Utah has removed a King James Bible from elementary and high school libraries because it contains "vulgarity and violence." The decision was made after a complaint from one of the parents. The Bible has been removed from shelves as part of a 2022 law that bans pornographic and obscene books from schools. In most cases, books on the topic of sexual identity and the rights of the LGBT community were seized. Prior to this, the Bible was removed from school libraries in a Texas school district. This is attributed to the efforts of conservatives to ban teachings on controversial topics.

Yuji Naka will go to a colony for 2.5 years.

Sonic creator Yuji Naka will go to prison for 2.5 years and pay more than $1 million in fines due to insider trading and fraud with company shares. In short, the game designer cranked up a scheme for trading shares of gaming companies - he bought shares, threw in some kind of insider information that was beneficial to him in the media, and, after the predicted rise in their value, he sold at a higher price, receiving additional benefits.

LEGO has created a full-size model of the Ferrari Monza SP1 from 380,000 bricks.

From a real car to a sports car - tires and a metal frame. The exhibit is located at LEGOLAND in Denmark.

The movie "Barbie" provoked a worldwide shortage of pink paint.

Greta Gerwig's upcoming film Barbie required so much pink paint that the world was in short supply for a while. Especially for the film, a life-size city of Barbie was built - Barbieland, almost completely made in pink.

Australia is developing a drowsiness test for drivers.

According to the researchers, the test determines with a 99% probability that a person has been on his feet for too long. Very soon, a version is planned that will take into account a clear number of hours of sleep. Which is very useful, because many accidents on the roads happen due to lack of sleep. Especially for truckers.

Unusual jeans.

Canadian store Canac has released reliable jeans for plumbers that save the buttocks from accidental exposure, and those around them from an uncomfortable spectacle.

NASA invites everyone to send a "letter in a bottle" to Jupiter's moon with the Europe Clipper expedition.

The names of the participants will be engraved on a special microchip along with the text of Ada Limon's poem "For the Glory of Mystery: A Poem for Europe". Applications are accepted until December 31, 2023.

Based on the "Sleeping Beauty" will remove the horror.

Horror "Sleeping Beauty: Massacre" based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. Work on the film will begin in August, the film will be released this year. The project involves Laura Hristova, Leah Glaiter, Lianna Lasso and other actors. According to the story, after the mysterious death of her father, the life of Princess Thalia changes dramatically, and the sorceress Velma captures his kingdom. She plunges the heir to the throne into a deep sleep. But one day the heroine wakes up and begins to take revenge. Warren promises that the film will be "scary and dark."

Beer ice cream was launched by the Belgian brewing brand Hoegaarden.

So far, lovers of unusual sweets are offered two flavors: peach and raspberry, but if sales are successful, others are promised. The strength of the alcoholic dessert is 2.5%.

The first ever live broadcast from Mars.

The broadcast took place on June 2 on the official channel of the European Space Agency on YouTube. During it, images from the planet were updated every 50 seconds for an hour. The picture was broadcast by the Mars Express station, launched 20 years ago.

Chemists improved the taste of wine with the help of gold.

Researchers have come up with a new way to rid wine of the bad flavors that are created by volatile sulfur compounds. To do this, materials with gold nanoparticles can be added to the drink. The technology was tested on small samples of red and white wine. After 24 hours of exposure, up to 45% of free hydrogen sulfide was removed from it, along with other undesirable substances, including methanethiol. The material with gold nanoparticles can be used on equipment in the wine production process, on filter devices, in decanters and bottles.

An unknown pathogen that eats the flesh of sea urchins could wipe out an entire population.

A mysterious epidemic has begun in the Mediterranean and Red Sea, which can destroy all sea urchins, and possibly coral reefs. It destroys the tissues of animals, from which only skeletons remain. Scientists suspect that the pathogenic ciliary parasite, a single-celled microorganism that wiped out the entire population of sea urchins in the Caribbean in 1983, was to blame. Scientists are calling for the urgent creation of uninfected broodstocks of hedgehogs so that they can be returned to the oceans after the epidemic ends.

Porsche enters the scooter market.

Together with the manufacturer of electric motorcycles Yadea, an electric scooter was released. When developing the design, Porsche was inspired by racing cars. True, the scooter itself accelerates to 100 km/h.

Chemists have determined the composition of ancient Roman perfumes.

They are over 2000 years old. The chemists discovered that the content was based on vegetable oil, possibly made from olives. It also had the scent of patchouli, a plant that was not previously known to have been used during Roman times. The monumental characteristics of the tomb in which the vessel was found, and the material from which it was made, suggest that it was a very valuable product.

Hitler's pencil to sell at British auction for $99,000

In Belfast, a silver-plated pencil was put up for auction, which Eva Braun gave to Adolf Hitler on his 52nd birthday on April 20, 1941. The artifact is engraved in German with the initials of the Nazi dictator and an inscription with the name of his wife. The pencil is estimated at 60-99 thousand dollars.

The necklace, which sank to the bottom along with the Titanic, was found among the wreckage of the ship.

Magellan Ltd produced the first full-scale 3D scan of an liner that sank in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after colliding with an iceberg. The images show a necklace made from a tooth of a megalodon, a prehistoric shark, inlaid with gold jewelry.

Xiaomi has a novelty: an exercise bike that can charge your phone.

It does not need to be connected to a power outlet, and the built-in generator allows you to generate energy while pedaling. There are as many as 32 difficulty modes inside, as well as integration with the Mijia application, where there are detailed statistics and tips for classes. In China, Xiaomi Mijia Spinning Bike will be available for 1999 yuan.

A potentially dangerous asteroid will approach Earth on June 12.

A large potentially dangerous asteroid (488453) 1994 XD will approach the Earth on June 12, 2023. It will pass 3.1 million kilometers from the planet - the distance to the Moon is only eight times less. The diameter of the celestial body is more than 500 meters. A potentially dangerous asteroid was discovered on December 1, 1994. This was done by astronomers from the American Kitt Peak Observatory - it is located in the Sonoran Desert.

Rock band Keanu Reeves gave a concert for the first time after a 20-year break.

The musicians performed 12 songs at the BottleRock rock festival in California. Some tracks were new. Keanu Reeves is the bassist and backing vocalist for the trio. The band reunited for the release of a new album. Soon the musicians will go on tour to support him.

There is a special restaurant in New York where only grandmothers work.

The establishment is called "Enoteca Maria" and in addition to the sweetest staff in the world, grandmothers have developed a special menu. According to the owner of the restaurant, the concept was born from childhood memories, when his mother and grandmother prepared chic dinners for him. At the moment when the closest women in his life left for another world, a restaurant was opened, named after mother Maria.