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The cosmos are majestic place.

They remind us at once of our insignificance on the grand scale of the universe, and the absolute miracle of the fact that we get to live here and witness it all.

They're also a place we like to mount weird junk on giant rocket boosters and fire into. Because, you know, humans gonna human.

Without further ado, here are the weirdest things we've sent into space:

A block of cheese

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Health care was one of the better-performing sectors Friday.

Health care was one of the better-performing sectors Friday.

DALLAS (AP) — More than 30 people who attended an event with motivational speaker Tony Robbins have been treated for burns after Robbins encouraged them to walk on hot coals as a way of conquering their fears, Dallas fire officials said.

The world stands on the brink of economic catastrophe but it’s ok because a few more tourists from Phoenix are going to buy Titleist polos at the Turnery pro shop. With Britain now a free agent, the world eagerly waits to see if the Organization of American States will make a ten-year offer, with a trade deal to be named later. And House Republicans introduced their tax agenda, which is now the second development this week that will likely end with a lot more of us seeking the warmth of oil drum fires. Читать дальше...

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Wham bam‚ thank-you ma’am! Caster Semenya kickstarted a late flurry of three golds for South Africa at the African championships in Durban on Friday night.

Results in a northern English city provide a snapshot for how Leave campaigners, long running behind, engineered a remarkable turnaround and fundamentally altered the future of Europe and the U.K.

CHICAGO (AP) — "Star Wars" creator George Lucas announced Friday that he has abandoned plans to build his art museum in Chicago, blaming delays over a lawsuit from a parks group opposed to development along the city's prized lakefront.

The mayor of Calais wants changes to a deal which allows Britain to carry out immigration checks on the French side of the English Channel, after a UK vote to leave the EU.

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One of the most innovative schools in the world is now little more than floating pile of driftwood.

After getting pummeled by a heavy rain storm in early June, the Makoko Floating School — located just outside Lagos, the country's capital — now sits in the lagoon as a crumpled version of its former self.

The collapse strips the local community of its meeting center and space for elementary education, both desperately needed in the poor region.

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The worst things about this referendum are its finality and the uncertainty, Andrew MacDougall writes. There will be no do-over, but it will take years to sort out the U.K.'s new relationship with the world.

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JACUNDA, Brazil, June 24 (UPI) -- An environmental activist in Brazil released a video showing him shoving two living vampire bats in his mouth.

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MIELEC, Poland, June 24 (UPI) -- PLZ Mielec, a subsidiary of Sikorsky, has delivered an S-70i Black Hawk helicopter to be used as a prototype for the Turkish T70 utility helicopter program.

The US military received the Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) surface vessel Carson City, named after a city in the US state of Nevada, the US Navy said in a press release on Friday.

The day after Britain voted to exit the European Union, a shocked world grasped for answers to the question: What compelled 51.9 percent of U.K. citizens to dispense with their EU membership? Analyses conducted Friday using economic data and vote tallies show the importance of economic factors in predicting how districts voted. Income, education and age all proved to be strong determinants of support for the move to leave the EU.

GARY, Ind. — Gary police have filed charges against a 17-year-old East Chicago youth accused of kidnapping his son from foster parents and the maternal grandmother of the child. Police spokeswoman Lt. Dawn Westerfield says Timothy Franklin Jackson is charged as an adult with burglary and two counts of kidnapping. She says he remained at

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A Manitowoc doctor is charged in federal court with drug trafficking.

Thousands of Canadians trying to file their census information online were cut off on May 2 because of website problems. Statistics Canada acknowledges it did not pre-test the image-rich webpage that led to severe congestion.

The launch was the fifth in a series of advanced Navy communication satellites for use by the U.S. military worldwide.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen from Athens about how Muslim refugees are spending this year's Ramadan inside of migrant camps.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton wanted the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union. But Clinton opponent Donald Trump hailed the vote to leave the EU, drawing parallels with the U.S. presidential campaign.

The leader of the National Front political party, Marine Le Pen, wasted no time in calling for a referendum in France on European Union membership after the United Kingdom voted to Brexit. Other right-wing leaders in Europe echoed her.