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- NASA is concerned that thousands of pieces of "space junk" are floating around out there, just waiting to smash into a working satellite or even a spacecraft carrying people.
- Many colleges are still promising the Class of 2020 a make-up, in-person graduation ceremony. Will these 22-year-olds still care enough to attend?
- The New York State Senate has officially declared the late rapper DMX's birthday, December 18th, to be Earl "DMX" Simmons Day.
- Bad news for Italy, Greece, and Spain: American tourists won't save your economies.
- Tulips are popping in New York City.
- Enough people (1,495,709 to be exact) signed a petition in California to force a recall vote for Governor Gavin Newsom this fall.
- Here's everything you "need" to know about the allegedly boring interview with St. Vincent that her publicist still killed because the interviewer asked about St. Vincent's dad's incarceration for white-collar crime.
- Zoe Roth, a North Carolina college student whose photograph of herself smirking in front of a burning house as a four-year-old became the "Disaster Girl" meme, now has control over her image after an NFT of the picture sold for 180 Ether.
- And finally, this is not a dog:
this dog is fast af pic.twitter.com/mPyoA9K3He
— 💚𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖚𝖗 𝖇𝖇💚 (@M0NICASAUCE) April 24, 2021
