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World's biggest underground thermal lake found in Albania — Credit: Neuron Foundation

World's Largest

World's biggest underground thermal lake discovered in Albania at bottom of 330 foot (100m) abyss, the results of a new expedition confirm. Researchers from the Czech Republic first found the lake four years ago, but they did not have the right instruments to measure it at the time, according to the Neuron Foundation - an organization that promotes research by Czech scientists. Now, the team has announced had returned to the lake with state-of-the-art 3D scanners, confirming that the hidden water body is the biggest of its kind known to science, reports Live Science. The scientists named the lake "Neuron" after the foundation, which funded the recent expedition. The lake measures 454 feet (138m) long and 138 feet (42m) wide.

Netflix Bites

Netflix has officially released one of its most ambitious projects yet - an upscale restaurant on the Las Vegas strip called Netflix Bites that puts popular movie and TV IP onto your dinner plate. Netflix hopes that Netflix Bites (which it had road-tested as pop-ups in recent years) can combine two popular trends - themed dining experiences and cultural franchises - to become a new destination for Vegas visitors. If successful, it could launch a food franchise literally built on favorite franchises… and bring Netflix a little closer to becoming The Walt Disney Company of the streaming world.

Evie Riski with her first and latest diaries — Evie with her first and latest journals | Credit: Good Samaritan Society / LinkedIn

Evie Riski’s Journals

Move over Bridget Jones! Evie Riski, a centenarian from North Dakota, has taken lifelong journaling to a new level. Back in 1936, she received a journal from her father for her 11th birthday. Nine decades later, she has written every single day, with nearly 33,000 entries to show for it. “No excuse for me not to,” she said.

US Energy Milestone

America has reached an unprecedented clean energy tipping point, with carbon-free sources providing 95 percent of all new power capacity in 2024. The nation added 48.2GW of clean energy - enough to power 36 million homes - a 47 percent jump from the previous year, reports DistilledEarth. Traditionally fossil fuel-dependent states like Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana are now leading the solar surge.

Country's Top Car Buy

You may never have heard of the Principality of Andorra. It's a tiny nation, with a low tax rate, tucked away in the Pyrenees mountains between Spain and France, with a footprint of roughly 181 square miles and a population of about 81,000 people. And those people, as it turns out, love their Porsches. How do we know? Because the Porsche 911 was the best-selling new car in Andorra in 2024. It's the only country in the world where that is the case. The Cayenne and Macan were the third and fourth bestsellers respectively. This data comes to us from Felipe Munoz, who works for the automotive research industry analysis firm JATO Dynamics and recently posted this remarkable quirk of Porsche 911 sales on his carindustryanalysis Instagram page.

Inside London's new super sewer — Credit: Thames Tideway Tunnel

Cleaning Up London

London's new £5 billion super sewer has been fully connected and is already stopping half a million tonnes of sewage from entering the River Thames. After 10 years of construction work, the last of the 21 connections of the Thames Tideway Tunnel was made to the city's century old Victorian sewage system. The 16 mile (25km) pipe - wide enough to fit three London buses side by side - will divert sewage outflows that have been discharging into the Thames. Tideway chief executive Andy Mitchell said: "This is another significant step forward - with this final connection complete, the super sewer is fully up and running and protecting the Thames."

"A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, a song is no song 'til you sing it. And love in your heart wasn’t put there to stay. Love isn’t love 'til you give it away." Oscar Hammerstein from Sound of Music