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Born on June 7 in the united States’ New Jersey, Dr Virginia Apgar is known for creating the Apgar Score that makes understanding and summarising the health of a newborn baby easy and quick.

The 41-second clip, which was shared by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), shows the car going backward on the US Route 33 road, Indiana, USA. The video ends with the transport department urging people to not be that driver.

The last paragraph in the obituary shocked many on Twitter. Some seemed to be pretty shocked after reading the obituary and even joked about never upsetting the children. See the picture here.

Using the hashtag #ByeByeBikini, people applauded the decision taken by Miss America. However, there were many others, who said that covering up women was also no way of empowering them.

The said ‘Quantico’ episode was aired on June 1 — which shows an MIT professor in possession of uranium planning to attack an India-Pakistan summit with a nuclear bomb. Netizens called the narrative “stupid, ridiculous and nonsensical”.

Miss America is all set to be a “competition” and not a “pageant” that will judge on a woman’s outward appearance. Twitterati posted a string of happy tweets with a dash of humour.

Britt Harris, the 26-year-old mother – who planned the photoshoot – said, “I’ll tell her that there was a time when they were all together here and showed up just to see her.” See pics here.

This year on World Environment Day, the theme of the celebrations is Beat Plastic Pollution, highlighting how it is the need of the hour to ensure plastic is not used anymore, given how fatal it is.

Amid all the speculations about Melania Trump’s shift from the White House to New York, she herself cleared the air by tweeting about her whereabouts — but in quite a non-Melania-ish tone.

The Saudi Princess featured on the cover of a magazine, but people on social media called out magazine for not giving credit to the jailed women activists, who fought for the “driving ban”.

While the arrangement has been praised by male swimmers, who now say that after this move they can swim faster, it has triggered a public discussion over how fair it is for both, men and women.

NBA Finals: The image of LeBron James gesturing to Smith after his last-minute mistake created a stir on social media. Several memes were later created to describe a number of other frustrating situations.

A video game developer asked people to check what their phone predicts for their “My son is…” text. The tweet grabbed many eyeballs on Twitter, and the hilarious jokes will crack you up.

Meghan Markle’s lookalike Erica Lauren is a professional plus-size model. The comparison between the two increased in the past few months with all the hullabaloo around the Royal Wedding 2018.

A woman took a selfie in her bathroom. Even though everything was perfect about the way she looked, Twitterati couldn’t stop pointing out all that was wrong with her loo. See the picture here.

Gucci’s Fall 2018 collection at the Milan Fashion Week in February featured non-Sikh models wearing turbans and had hurt the Sikh community’s religious sentiments and subsequently had generated a debate on social media.

A Muslim girl recently posted a video on Twitter where she, wearing a hijab, asks some important questions. She says that she is on her period and hence is not observing fasts but is being shamed for it.

A website wrote a satirical news and said Tesla’s Roadster from Space “has fallen back down to earth and crushed Malala Yousafzai”! The news quickly went viral and the two had an hilarious conversation online that made people’s day!

A new set of “Where are you from” memes are all over social media and each one is funnier than the other with a bit of geography and sarcasm sprinkled on it. In case you are curious how it works, check it for yourself.

Kim Kardashian met US President Donald Trump, and Twitter is full of sarcastic memes and jokes. Catching a glimpse of “Kim and Trump” in the same frame was quite shocking for Twitter users.

Quite intrigued by the picture posted by Reekado Banks, Virender Sehwag cracked an ‘upgrade’ joke about Emmanuel Emenike’s marriage to Miss Nigeria 2014 after Miss Nigeria 2013, and left Twitterati in splits.

Every year, May 31 is observed as World No Tobacco Day. This year the focus of the day is “tobacco and heart disease”. The campaign intends to raise awareness about the link between the two.

Someone spotted a ‘tarbooz wala’ (watermelon seller) in our neighbourhood and there has been no stopping the social media users ever since. Quite similar to how pictures of the Pakistani chaiwala left many asking for more, this guy’s pictures has started a storm on Twitter too.

After Yanny or Laurel, now the recent to spark a debate has been a picture, rather an optical illusion. It is of a man standing and a woman hugging him from behind, but it is perhaps the way they are standing or the way it was clicked, it looks the other way round.

A user on Facebook recently shared a post that address these questions and also provides  a list of what not to do when. A resident of Vietnam, writes “DON’T give advice unless they ask for it,” “DON’T try to find the ‘Silver Lining,” “DON’T Generalise,” among others.