My mother-in-law wore a wedding dress to my wedding. So, yeah, top that one, Twitter. #weddingfail @jimmyfallon pic.twitter.com/IjqvnXT6Ps

— Amy Pennza (@AmyPennza) June 19, 2019

Weddings are the bride's moment as we all know but just as much, there's no perfect wedding. In response to Jimmy Fallon's challenge to share wedding woes, Amy Pennza tweeted a photo of her mother-in-law wearing a wedding dress at her wedding. That must have been an awkward moment but there's a reason why.

According to Pennza, she had no idea what her MIL was planning to wear that day, and hadn't thought to ask (why would she?) But then, it happened. She reportedly doesn't remember much about the wedding day, as, like most people say, it was a blur. However she does remember telling her MIL, "You... You could be the bride..." Yikes.

Thankfully, the wedding unfolded "without bloodshed, or anyone being shoved into the Champagne fountain." Now that's what I call keeping it classy.

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When you look at our world from a different perspective, it truly would take our breath away in ways we have never experienced before. In this collection of drone photos of various places in the natural world, you will have a whole new appreciation of the Earth's beauty.

In the space of a few short years, drone photography has become hugely popular, meaning there are more eyes in the sky than ever before. These flying cameras can be positioned out over waterfalls, above forests and in the midst of wildlife to show us perspectives on the world that simply haven't been seen before.

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The ESA have conducted tests on various materials being used to build spacecraft, satellites, and other space parts by burning them. The insights they gain from these tests would allow them to design future space equipment which could easily burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.

The ESA has begun testing its sturdiest parts, in hopes of finding their breaking points. That's why the tough magnetotorquer had to burn. Ditto the optical instruments, propellant and pressure tanks, drive mechanisms operating solar arrays, and several other parts that wouldn't go down without a fight.

Currently, there are thousands of debris just floating in space which poses great hazards for collision. At the moment it's a bit difficult to clean up all the trash hanging around in low Earth orbit but ESA hopes that their D4D process would change that for the future.

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Before he made improvements on the light bulb, Thomas Edison was into cement since he felt that concrete houses would pave the way for the future. And he invested big on these projects.

Edison’s foray into the cement making business, however, was accidental. For ten years, Edison was milling iron ore unsuccessfully selling off the waste sand the mills produced to cement manufacturers. Struggling against steep competition from ore mills in the Midwest, Edison tried to keep his business afloat using stocks from his immensely successful General Electric Company.

But once Edison realized that he was flogging a dead horse, he decided to switch to cement making instead using the same waste that he had been selling to his now competitors.

However, Edison's cement business venture didn't go as planned and he soon realized that the method he was using to build concrete houses wasn't at all feasible. He even applied a patent for his idea to mass produce cheap concrete houses by pouring in a single continuous cast instead of doing it one floor at a time.

Despite this massive failure, they were able to build a few decent houses which still stand today in Union and Montclair, New Jersey.

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Living in the city would limit the chances for us to see a great view of the night sky brimming with the stars, constellations, planets, and even galaxies. But that doesn't hinder us from seeing some neat stuff despite being in the brightest urban areas.

Sarah Barker, an astrophysicist and science communicator, stargazes in New York, too. She cuts through an urban park to get home every night, and says that “more often than not, you can see a few things—a bright planet, Orion—really clearly.” “Even in the biggest, brightest city in the world,” Barker says, “there’s always something to see.”

Here are a few tips to navigate your way through the night sky and find something cool every now and then.

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Baby names of recent times have been bland to say the least, and I'm not just referring to some celebrities' babies. One hundred years ago, people used to give interesting names and nicknames to others.

At HuffPost, they share some of the names that Nameberry dug up while they were looking into the most popular names of 1919. They compiled a list of around a hundred nicknames which future parents should consider giving their children.

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The list of potential planets that could be inhabited keeps on growing as two more planets have been added just recently. Some of the few criteria we always look for in considering exoplanets for habitation and possible future migration are water and certain gases like oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen among others.

The planets orbit a sun known as "Teegarden's star," which is only 12.5 light-years from Earth. The two planets look an awful lot like Earth and our neighboring worlds, the researchers said.

"The two planets resemble the inner planets of our solar system," lead author Mathias Zechmeister, a research scientist at the Institute for Astrophysics at the University of Göttingen in Germany, said in a statement. "They are only slightly heavier than Earth and are located in the so-called habitable zone, where water can be present in liquid form."

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Some of the most defining features of the planets in our solar system include Mars's redness, Jupiter's giant red spot, and Saturn's magnificent rings. The others don't have much to make them stand out from the rest. But we are discovering new things about them as time passes.

Recently, astronomers have seen a warm glow on Uranus's rings, which are very difficult to see as it is. These were detected using some very powerful telescopes which observe infrared wavelengths and electromagnetic radiation.

The new images taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) allowed the team for the first time to measure the temperature of the rings: a cool 77 Kelvin, or 77 degrees above absolute zero -- the boiling temperature of liquid nitrogen and equivalent to 320 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.

The observations also confirm that Uranus's brightest and densest ring, called the epsilon ring, differs from the other known ring systems within our solar system, in particular the spectacularly beautiful rings of Saturn.

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Sometimes, when I commute around the city, I find some coins lying on the street and even on rare occasions, lone small bills litter on the oddest of places. In such instances, you'd find yourself not really caring to pick them up at all because to whom would you return it?

But lost wallets are a different matter. They bear more risk and it's a completely different situation when you encounter someone else's wallet. One might think such lost items will never be returned. However, a study has shown that people are more honest than we think.

If you find a wallet with no money and don’t return it, you’re just lazy, but when the wallet contains cash, it feels like stealing, says Michel Maréchal of the University of Zurich in Switzerland.

Maréchal, along with Alain Cohn of the University of Michigan and their colleagues turned in over 17,000 “lost” wallets to institutions in cities across 40 countries. The wallets each contained a unique business card with contact details of a fictional owner, and some contained a small amount of cash. On the whole, wallets containing money were returned 51 per cent of the time, compared to 40 per cent of those without cash, the team found.

In some countries, there are cases in which tourists or foreigners forget their precious valuables in taxis and other public transport which later get returned to them. These stories gain a lot of attention on local news showing how we generally perceive these acts to be either infrequent or unlikely to happen for them to be featured on television.

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We all depend on the ocean for life and sustenance. Many island nations and countries situated near the ocean need to take better care and manage their aquatic resources not just for their sake but also for the sake of everyone else. Research shows how ocean currents affect the migration of fish throughout the world in a map showing how they connect all our fisheries in one big network.

"Now we have a map of how the world's fisheries are interconnected, and where international cooperation is needed most urgently to conserve a natural resource that hundreds of millions of people rely on," said co-author Kimberly Oremus, assistant professor at the University of Delaware's School of Marine Science and Policy.

The research shows that ocean regions are connected to each other in what's known as a "small world network", the same phenomenon that allows strangers to be linked by six degrees of separation. That adds a potential new risk: threats in one part of the world could result in a cascade of stresses, affecting one region after another.

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David Spaulding, 85, was spending his usual morning when his great grandson called him and brought news that their baby was going to be born. Upon learning this, Spaulding suddenly started to feel unwell. So his wife, Dorothy Spaulding, rang 911 immediately, and she and her daughter, Deb rushed him to the hospital.

Lattin was four centimeters dilated and awaiting an epidural. Sullivan wondered how to share the news. She explained that Spaulding had a massive heart attack but he was on the cardiology floor in the hospital and he was stable.

“It was hard to deal with,” Lattin told TODAY. “But it was a motivation. Let’s have this baby. He needs to meet his great-great grandfather."

Thankfully, Spaulding had recovered due to the speedy intervention of various medical professionals and he was able to meet his great-great grandson. His health is still being monitored but what a joyous day fraught with nervous excitement that was.

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It's basically a marketing stunt obviously but despite knowing that, it makes one curious what these "new footage" for Avengers: Endgame involves. We didn't see any mid-credits or post-credits scenes so it's most likely that.

On an eyerollingly cynical level, this isn’t surprising. Avengers: Endgame is gunning for Avatar’s $2.788 billion global box office record but has lost its momentum as of late. Since its late April release, Avengers: Endgame sunk James Cameron’s Titanic with brutal efficiency yet trails Avatar with a comparatively paltry $2.743 billion global box office gross.

So far, Avengers: Endgame hasn't been able to beat Avatar's record for the highest grossing film of all time and this move is likely in the interest of doing that since many other blockbuster movies have hit the theaters and Endgame has slowed down significantly. It still earned a lot but Disney and Marvel are aiming to clinch the top spot and beat the record.

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A lot of the popular Japanese anime films often involve two teenagers pitted in very contrasting situations from which they start to develop emotional bonds with each other until some turning point wherein that thread will be abruptly cut and things start to become serious.

The recently released film 'Ride Your Wave' directed by Masaaki Yuasa is not in his usual style of storytelling but it does contain certain elements that are clearly his style. Matt Schley of The Japan Times writes a short review of it here.

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Going all-electric on large aircraft may still be implausible so for now, Harbour Air which has the largest seaplane airline fleet in North America, will convert their seaplanes to all-electric.

The carrier is partnering with magniX, an electric-propulsion start-up in Redmond, Washington, which says that its magni500 motor and battery pack will provide an hour’s worth of juice—half for flight time and half for reserve power.

Because all of Harbour Air’s flights are short hops, averaging about 30 minutes in the air, the magni500 will provide more than enough power to replace the PT6 engines that have kept the small aircraft flying.

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Owen Davey is the artist behind the designs of popular apps Two Dots and The Robot Factory. His distinctive minimalist approach to illustration have caught the attention of some prominent companies like Google, Airbnb, The Guardian, and even National Geographic and as such, he has worked on several projects for them.

"I think there's something really beautiful in being able to reduce stuff down to its essence. My favorite example is a picture of a house. You can draw a square with a triangle on top and immediately the vast majority of people will recognize it to be a house."

A collection of his illustrations have been compiled and published in the book, Wer bin ich? Berufe, Hobbies, und was man dazu braucht in which you will see wonderful illustrations that capture the essence of things they depict.

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