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[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

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[Retro Recall (☥𝐃𝐁) @RetroMoviesDB]

Never forget

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

Friendly reminder to stay safe this Fourth of July weekend

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate.

On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other".

Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion.

Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself.

Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo.

Rest in peace, Chuck!

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

Thanks to a little begging from Ben Stiller, the world was gifted the Chuck Norris cameo in "Dodgeball"

"I said no at first because it was a three-hour drive down to Long Beach...Then Ben Stiller calls. He goes, ‘Chuck, please, you’ve got to do this for me!’"

More: https://t.co/Bgeb7RAFFO

[LOTR Universe @Lordoftheringsu]

Did you know? Sauron actually hated the name “Sauron.”

His original name was Mairon (in Quenya meaning “the Admirable” or “the Excellent”). He bore this name while he was a Maia of Aulë. However, after he was corrupted by Melkor/Morgoth, the Elves mockingly began to call him Sauron. In Quenya this name means “the Abhorred” or “the Abominable” essentially a complete insult.

In The Lord of the Rings (especially in The Two Towers, in the chapter “The Departure of Boromir”), Aragorn says: “Neither does he use his right name, nor permit it to be spelt or spoken.” In other words: “He does not use his true name, nor does he allow it to be written or spoken.”

For this reason, Sauron’s followers (especially the Orcs and those in Barad-dûr) usually referred to him not by name but by titles such as “the Dark Lord,” or “the Great Eye,” and they used terms like “Lugburz” for Barad-dûr.

He himself never used the name Sauron; instead he adopted other names or titles such as Annatar (“Lord of Gifts,” the name he used to deceive the Elves in the Second Age), Gorthaur (a Sindarin form meaning “Dread Abomination”), or other aliases.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

The administration plans to use claims that "China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”

The premise, it almost goes without saying, is a total lie. https://t.co/U5pJIco7Vn

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

The last prison guard to see Jeffrey Epstein alive made suspicious cash deposits before his death and searched the internet for the sex offender just minutes before his body was found, US Department of Justice files reveal.

Read more here ⬇️
https://t.co/mm7lhBIELH

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters. https://t.co/gHqQjyXIH6

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Ben Stiller calls out the White House for using 'Tropic Thunder' clips in a war video

"We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie"

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

FBI Director Kash Patel fired roughly a dozen agents and staff members who once had ties to an investigation into Donald Trump, including agents who specialized in Iran and its proxies.

Three days after the firings began, the U.S. was bombarding Iran. https://t.co/T1MRb4dinb

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Somebody’s paying attention.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bamboo can grow up to 91 cm (about 35 inches) in a single day, making certain species the fastest-growing plants on Earth according to Guinness World Records. Hemp yields up to 250% more fiber than cotton while requiring significantly less water—often 50–90% less, depending on conditions and studies (e.g., around 2,000–5,000 liters per kg of fiber for hemp vs. 10,000+ liters for cotton).

Both plants have deep historical roots, cultivated for thousands of years across civilizations: hemp dates back over 10,000 years (with evidence of fiber use as far as 50,000 years ago), serving as a source of textiles, paper, rope, food, and medicine in ancient China, India, Europe, and beyond. Bamboo has similarly ancient uses in Asia for construction, tools, and daily life.

Today, bamboo is increasingly used in construction as a sustainable alternative to steel and concrete in applications like reinforced composites, scaffolding, beams, and low-rise structures—thanks to its high strength-to-weight ratio and renewability (though it doesn't fully replace them in heavy-duty or large-scale projects due to variability and engineering limits).

Hemp's versatility shines in modern innovations: it produces bioplastics (stronger and biodegradable alternatives), biofuels (ethanol or biodiesel from stalks/seeds), paper (higher yield than trees with less environmental impact), insulation (hempcrete for eco-friendly buildings), and even battery components (hemp-derived carbon for supercapacitors that rival graphene in performance but at lower cost).

These two ancient, rapidly renewable plants offer powerful tools for reducing reliance on resource-intensive industries that harm the planet—yet their full potential remains under-discussed and under-scaled compared to conventional materials. With growing investment and innovation, they could play a much larger role in sustainable futures.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A dolphin wouldn’t stop “checking” her belly on vacation, and a doctor later said it may have saved two lives.

Lena was eight months pregnant and spending a quiet week at a resort, and the highlight of her trip was a supervised dolphin encounter where the animals gently swam up to visitors. She was smiling the whole time, especially when one dolphin drifted close and pressed its head near her stomach the way people describe as “using sonar.”

At first, it felt sweet and almost funny, because the dolphin kept coming back to her even when the trainer tried to redirect it. Then the dolphin’s behavior changed. It became unusually focused, circling her and making short, insistent sounds, and it refused to swim away like it normally would. The caretaker’s face dropped, and he quietly told Lena something he almost never tells guests: the dolphin was acting “off,” and if she felt even slightly unwell, she should go get checked immediately.

Lena brushed it off at first, but she couldn’t shake the feeling, so she went to a local clinic the same day. Within minutes, the doctor’s tone turned serious. Her blood pressure was dangerously high, and she was diagnosed with severe preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication that can escalate quickly and put both mother and baby at risk. The medical team decided the safest option was an early delivery, and her baby arrived prematurely, but safely.

A few weeks later, Lena returned to the resort with her newborn, partly for closure and partly because she couldn’t stop thinking about that moment in the water. When the dolphin swam up again and lingered calmly beside them, Lena held her baby close and whispered, “Thank you,” like she was speaking to the only creature who somehow knew before anyone else did.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

These are the Members of Congress who voted to bury sexual harassment records of Members of Congress and keep you in the dark:

[Lauren @laurthegoblin]

If I’m dating you I’m going to date all of you. this includes the parts of you that you may not like and the parts you’re working on. because that’s what people do when they’re in love.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: The UN’s nuclear watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, says inspectors have not found evidence of a coordinated Iranian programme to build nuclear weapons despite Israeli and US claims.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/Pp5PMsskiW

[The Hill @thehill]

Ted Cruz: ‘No indication’ that Iran was ‘close to getting nuclear weapons’
https://t.co/UC19EAz34T

[Toei Animation @ToeiAnimation]

Today in 1992, Vegeta transformed into a Super Saiyan for the first time in Dragon Ball Z.
Tag a Vegeta fan to celebrate.