Archaeologists recently discovered the first evidence that wealthy women in ancient China played polo on donkeys. Source: https://www.livescience.com/donkey-polo-tang-dynasty-china.html
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The Beehive: 1,000 stars in Cancer
On a dark night, look for it as a smudge of light, with 3 times the moon’s diameter. It’s really a wondrous cluster of stars called the Beehive, or M44. Source: https://earthsky.org/clusters-nebulae-galaxies/praesepe-beehive-cluster…
Were snakes the source of China’s coronavirus outbreak?
A report suggests that snakes – the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra – might have been the original source of the coronavirus that’s triggered an outbreak of deadly infectious respiratory illnesses in China this year. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/snakes-original-source-china-coronavirus-outbreak…