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The world will end in 2060?

Five Things You Need To Know for Friday, November 11, 2022.

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Five Fun Facts For Friday!

2. Isaac Newton believed the world would end in 2060 . . . not based on his scientific studies or findings, but based on the extreme religious beliefs he developed late in his life.


3. Sonic the Hedgehog was originally going to be from a small town in Nebraska. Sega eventually dropped that back story.

4. The world's first cyberattack happened in 1988 when a student at Cornell University wrote a program to detect how many computers were connected to the Internet . . . and he wound up clogging up the entire thing.

5. Based on the way our bodies are built, we SHOULD faint every time we stand up . . . and scientists are just now figuring out why we don't. They believe it has to do with some special neurons that keep it from happening.

Five Things You Need To Know for Friday, November 11, 2022.