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Feedback still gets pulse-raising flashbacks to the lockdown of early 2020, when we were home-educating Feedback Jr and consequently had to teach said child how to do things that we didn’t ourselves ...

NASA clarified that the alien object was actually a purple potato. (Image: X/@ISS) The purple object on ISS was a potato grown in microgravity. Tentacle-like shape came from roots spreading in all ...