Here is the series!

The longest-running series, Guiding Light, aired on television from 1952 to 2009, has 18,262 episodes, which will take 594 days and 1 hour to watch continuously.

The Dog Surfing World Championship was held in Northern California.

More than fifty dogs from all over the country took part in the unique competition. Surfer dogs competed in different weight categories. By the way, the Norcal Dog Surfing event & World Championships is an annual competition founded in 2016 and all funds raised during the championship go to charity.

Women like men with small dogs in their arms.

These conclusions were reached by Spanish scientists from the University of Jaén during a study involving almost 300 female students. The participants liked it more when the dog was present in the photo.

Sea sponges can sneeze.

Sea sponges - simple creatures without a brain - know how to sneeze. So they remove garbage and waste from the body. The secreted mucus is a delicacy for fish and other underwater inhabitants.

In 25 years, Antarctica's ice shelves have lost twice as much ice as previously thought.

Since 1997, the ice shelves of Antarctica have lost not 6 trillion tons of ice, but 12 - that is, twice as much as scientists thought. NASA experts came to such conclusions. Ice shelves act as a support for melting ice, preventing it from reaching the ocean directly. Due to the loss of their mass, they have weakened, from this the rate of global sea level rise is increasing.

Xiaomi introduced its first humanoid robot CyberOne.

The machine was developed by Xiaomi Robotics Lab. The humanoid robot is 1.77 cm tall, weighs 52 kg, and has an average speed of 3.6 km/h. The robot is equipped with a set of sensors that allow it to navigate in space, recognize people nearby and, if necessary, respond to them. So, CyberOne is able to answer questions and talk on various topics, recognizing 45 human emotions. Xiaomi believes that CyberOne can become a household assistant, performing small tasks. However, the company emphasized that this is only the first model and it is very far from really "smart" robots. When and at what price CyberOne will go on sale is unknown.

Adrenaline

Adrenaline gives a person tremendous strength: in a critical situation, he is able to lift the car. And this is no coincidence. In stressful situations, adrenaline mobilizes all the forces of the body for self-defense. Such a phenomenon is especially necessary in case of injuries, when, being in a state of shock, a person does not feel pain in full force, while a strong pain shock can lead to death.

Did you know?

One large container ship releases the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing substances into the environment as 50 million cars. And the 15 largest container ships in the world combined pollute our planet like 760 million cars.

Useful app.

Volvo has launched a smartphone app that will alert pedestrians staring at the screen when a car is approaching. For now, the app will only work with a specific pool of cars. But in the future, development may start saving lives.

Spiders can dream.

It turned out that during sleep, the limbs of arthropods twitched, their retina also moved at certain intervals. They increased during the night. Researchers do not deny the possibility that spiders can dream. It is assumed that eye movements in the fast phase are directly related to night visions.

The neural network has learned to recognize the faces of people in masks and veils.

An international team of scientists has created a convolutional neural network that, with 99.95% accuracy, recognizes the appearance, gender and age of people with closed faces: in masks, niqabs and veils. Also, in 80.9% of cases, the algorithm for one eye determines whether a person is smiling. Further, scientists plan to test it with more diverse images - for example, taken from different angles, in different lighting, and so on. The technology can be used in the field of security, medicine, and education. It will probably work with low quality images as well.

Gorillas at the Atlanta Zoo have learned a new call to keepers.

This means that these primates have the ability for complex vocal learning. The new sound is like a cross between a cough and a sneeze and is equivalent to a human "ahem". In English, it was called snough - sneeze ("sneeze") + cough ("cough"). Gorillas use this sound to get food and attention from humans. Experiments have confirmed that the call is used purposefully. Analysis of the sound showed that it differed acoustically from standard gorilla audio signals.

Mercedes has confirmed plans to get rid of manual transmissions by the end of 2023.

Volkswagen spoke about the same intentions and pushed the deadline a little further. It is obvious that other manufacturers will follow the leaders.

In the US, speleologists accidentally found a missing dog that had been living in a cave in complete darkness for two months.

Fish and crustaceans live in caves 35 kilometers long - there is water there, but no light at all. Cavers Hayley and Jerry Keene were surprised that the dog could survive so long in complete darkness. After they rescued the dog, they went around all the houses in the area in search of her owners. One of the women recognized her pet - her nickname is Abby. The American woman had not seen the dog since June 9 and was worried that she had lost her forever.

Physicists have figured out which ice cream melts the slowest in the heat.

Chocolate covered ice cream won. Its hard shell melts at a higher temperature, protecting the soft filling. Thanks to this, ice cream can withstand +30 ° C for a long time. In second place are the horns. They may not melt for 40 minutes at +28 °C - waffle and a special shape limits the effect of the heat of our hands on ice cream. Cylindrical fruit ice melts the fastest - it begins to melt already at +17 °C.

James Webb photographed the farthest star from Earth.

The James Webb Infrared Space Observatory has obtained a new image of the "star at the edge of the universe" - the so-called object "Earendil" (Earendel). It is the farthest observable star from Earth discovered to date. The light of Eärendil has been traveling to us for 12.9 billion years. Its mass is 50 times greater than the sun, and its radiance is millions of times brighter.

Tesla Semi

Elon Musk said the Tesla Semi, with a range of 804 km, will start shipping this year. It is known from the media that PepsiCo Corporation has already pre-ordered a large batch of tractors. Already installed Megachargers at the Frito-Lay plant in Modesto, California. Elon also said that Cybertruck will be released next year.

Wireless headphones with solar panels.

A Swedish startup has unveiled the world's first wireless earbuds with solar panels built into a charging case. The manufacturer promises eight hours of continuous operation of the Phoenix itself, and together with the charging case, the headphones can work up to 32 hours. Sales will begin in the fall of 2022, and their cost will be $149.

A copy of Paris - the city of Tianducheng.

In China, not far from Shanghai, in 2007, an almost exact copy of Paris was erected - the city of Tianducheng. It has the Eiffel Tower - 110 meters high (almost 3 times smaller than the original), a reduced copy of the Champs Elysees and the Luxembourg Gardens, residential buildings, copies of expensive houses from the center of Paris. The city was designed to accommodate 10 thousand people. A few years later, it became a ghost - only 2 thousand people live in it. Of these, 80% are the poor and the military, to whom the local authorities provided housing for temporary use "until the city is fully populated."

Interesting facts about shaving.

The human beard grows at a rate of 14 centimeters per year. Men, with a daily shave, spend 3,350 hours in their lifetime shaving off 8.4 meters of stubble.