A cop in Little Rock, Arkansas, beat the heat the other day by asking some kids if he could give their Slip 'N Slide a go.
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Richard Branson's company Virgin Galactic had its first commercial flight to space yesterday.
It's a "space plane," not a rocket. Three guys from Italy were on board and got to experience a few minutes of weightlessness. Around 800 people are on the waitlist to go. Tickets cost $450,000 a pop.
(Here's the livestream. Its boosters fire at 38:33, and then the weightlessness starts around 41 minutes in.)
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In food news: Archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old painting in Italy that might show an early version of pizza.
It looks like a personal pan, but they say it's actually flatbread without cheese or sauce.
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