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Did you know ...
- ... that there are eleven ways (pictured) to unfold a cube?
- ... that Jeong Haneul went from being a North Korean soldier to a South Korean YouTuber?
- ... that the mosaic effect is the act of combining seemingly unrelated data to reveal sensitive or classified information that individual pieces of data would not disclose?
- ... that Simón Radowitzky was forced to pay a fare for his own deportation?
- ... that Palaeocarpinus fruit fossils have been recovered from Cold Ash and Hells Half Acre?
- ... that painter Low Kway Song founded the first Straits Chinese Methodist church in Malacca?
- ... that Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in Pyongyang features Dennis Rodman singing "Happy Birthday" to Kim Jong Un?
- ... that a worker attempted to kill labor activist Luisa Moreno with an ice pick at a union meeting?
- ... that Karma held the flag of Bhutan at the Olympics multiple times?
In the news
- American astronaut Jim Lovell (pictured) dies at the age of 97.
- In cycling, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot wins the Tour de France Femmes.
- In association football, the Copa América Femenina concludes with Brazil defeating Colombia in the final.
- An 8.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific Ocean.
On this day

- 955 – Hungarian invasions of Europe: Forces under Otto the Great were victorious at the Battle of Lechfeld (depicted) near present-day Augsburg, Germany, holding off the incursions of the Magyars into Central Europe.
- 1966 – The Heron Road Bridge in Ottawa, Canada, collapsed during its construction, killing nine workers.
- 2007 – Amid large protests against the impending demolition of the Queen's Pier, the High Court of Hong Kong dismissed legal attempts to preserve the landmark.
- 2019 – Jeffrey Epstein, an American financier and convicted sex offender, was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York.
- Joséphine Fodor (d. 1870)
- Angus Lewis Macdonald (b. 1890)
- Aletta Jacobs (d. 1929)
- Antonio Banderas (b. 1960)
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Celeste is a 2018 platform game developed and published by the indie studio Maddy Makes Games. The player controls Madeline, a young woman with anxiety and depression who aims to climb Celeste Mountain. During her climb, she encounters several characters, including Badeline, a personification of her self-doubt who attempts to stop her from climbing the mountain. Development of Celeste began in August 2015, when game developers Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry participated in a game jam, where they created Celeste for the PICO-8. It was released as a full game on January 25, 2018, for Linux, macOS, the Nintendo Switch, the PlayStation 4, and Windows, before being released on the Xbox One the following day, and on Google Stadia in July 2020. This cover art for Celeste depicts, from left to right, the characters Badeline, Oshiro, Madeline, Granny, and Theo. Cover art credit: Maddy Makes Games |
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