Rainn Wilson Created An Idiot’s Guide to What? » 4 Crazy News Facts Quiz

Rainn Wilson created An Idiot’s Guide to Climate Change – a comical six-part docu-series on YouTube. ‘I always believed in the science of climate change; I just was never really doing anything about it,’ Wilson explained in an interview with Mashable, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020.

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Drugmaker AstraZeneca announced on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, that its experimental coronavirus vaccine has shown an average efficacy of 70% in large-scale trials. The vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, showed 90% efficacy when it was mistakingly given as a half dose, followed by a full one a month later. The AstraZeneca vaccine can be stored, transported, and handled in normal refrigerated conditions for at least six months. It will also be cheaper than rival coronavirus vaccines from makers Pfizer and Moderna.

California has, for decades, been granted repeated waivers by the federal government, allowing it to establish its own air quality and auto emissions standards, which are stricter than federal rules.

In 2019, The Trump administration announced it was revoking the California waiver. While Ford, BMW, Honda, and Volkswagen agreed to have a fleet of vehicles averaging 50 miles per gallon, obeying California’s standards, GM and other automakers, including Toyota and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, joined on the side of the Trump administration to support a single, lower, national standard.

In a letter to environmental groups, General Motors announced, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, it is withdrawing its support from the Trump administration lawsuit.

The website YourNewsWire.com published a fake article on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, that said authorities arrested George Soros in Philadelphia for election interference, and that a judge ordered a media blackout on the arrest. 

The indictment in the article was forged to include Soros’s name. A reverse-image search revealed that a real indictment from Oct. 15, 2020, was digitally manipulated. The original document involved six Russian nationals, who were allegedly behind several high-profile cyberattacks and accused of being hackers with Russian military intelligence.

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