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The Geneva-based Libra Association that will issue and govern Libra plans to launch a single digital coin backed by the dollar

David Marcus, the head of Facebook Financial

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Dubai become the world’s first government to turn 100 per cent paperless in 2021.

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The Mars Science Laboratory mission's Curiosity rover landed in Mars' Gale Crater the evening of August 5, 2012.

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Six NATO countries will build a 'drone wall' against Russia.

Six countries include: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Finland & Norway

Aim: To protect borders against Russia.

Note: NATO is a military founded in 1949 to control Soviet Union.

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In April 2024, Zimbabwe introduced a new gold-backed currency called ZiG to tackle inflation.

ZiG stands for "Zimbabwe Gold"

The ZiG replaces a Zimbabwean dollar, the RTGS, that had lost three-quarters of its value so far

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Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals discovered in Sweden in January 2023.

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The transplant was performed by Bartley Griffith in the United States.

The transplant was the first heart to be taken from a genetically modified pig. 

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• In 2023, Scientists in Zambia have discovered what are believed to be the remains of the world’s oldest wooden structure.
• Dated to some 476,000 years ago, they are almost a hundred times older than the Pyramids in Egypt.

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The sample, which is the second-ever to be successfully taken from space rock and ferried back to Earth, could teach us about the origins of life.

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