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- Saying "how are you?" when we mean "hello"
- Smiling at strangers.
- Flying flags… everywhere.
- Rarely taking a vacation.
Dec 21, 2020 · CNN — It was an unusual year marked by unusual events: an unprecedented global pandemic, youth-led protest movements, impassioned Black Lives Matter demonstrations, a divisive US...
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Sep 16, 2020 · Societies that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic often anchor the extremes of these global distributions. Among the most prominent features that make people WEIRD is prioritizing impersonal pro-sociality over interpersonal relationships.
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- Mr. Peanut was killed off, then reincarnated as Baby Nut. On Jan. 22, Planters announced that its mascot — a fictional, anthropomorphized, top-hat-wearing legume given the baffling honorific "Mr.
- The weather went wild. In 141 years of climate records, there had never been a hotter January than the one this year. New York City was reclassified as a "humid subtropical climate zone," a designation shared by … Florida.
- A man named Deval Patrick ran for president. Huh, who knew?
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- Murder hornets made their way to the United States. Back in May, we found out about a terrifying winged creature called the “murder hornet” that had been spotted in the United States.
- The Pentagon released three videos of UFOs. When news broke in April that the U.S. Department of Defense had reportedly released three Navy videos of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), it seemed too strange—even for 2020.
- People were obsessed with Tiger King. While there have been plenty of extremely popular true-crime docuseries over the past decade, few have had as expansive an influence as Netflix’s Tiger King.
- A high school student discovered a new planet. Only a few days into 2020, news broke that NASA had identified a new planet. Specifically, a 17-year-old high school student discovered the planet on the third day of his internship with NASA.
Dec 18, 2020 · 2020 has been a strange year by nearly any metric you choose to use. Here are some of the weird TV moments, memes, documentaries, and shows that got us through it all.
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Dec 29, 2020 · Ninety Fascinating Finds Revealed in 2020. This year’s most intriguing discoveries include an Aztec skull tower, fossilized footprints and Nazi shipwrecks. Fascinating finds revealed in 2020...