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TGIF, QuickTake readers! Start your weekend in high spirits with these 10 uplifting stories from the past week.

BTS fortune gets a boost

1. BTS band members make millions after their record label debuts on the stock market. K-pop agency Big Hit Entertainment's $820 million offering was South Korea's largest in three years. 

2. Researchers discover fossils of a new species in Arizona. The new species has been named Skybalonyx skapter, a part of a group known as drepanosaurs from the Triassic Period, about 220 million years ago.

3. Meet the world's first cloned Przewalski's horse. Little Kurt was created from cells taken from a stallion that were frozen at the San Diego Zoo for 40 years before they were fused with a domestic horse's egg.

4. Experts find more than 2,000 ruin sites near the proposed "Maya Train" route in Mexico. The laser elevation data showed "archaeological monuments" along 277 miles of the proposed route. 

5. Movie theaters reopen in India to small audiences after months in dark. To minimize the risk of Covid, cinemas have separated seats, staggered show times and are enforcing masks and temperature checks.

6. SpaceX is set to launch a new satellite tracking rising sea levels, a move to gauge climate-related risks and damage. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite lifts off Nov. 10 aboard a Falcon 9 rocket that will be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. 

7. A 2,350-pound pumpkin wins the 47th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. Travis Gienger, a first-time pumpkin champ won $16,450 for the second-heaviest pumpkin ever weighed at the event.

8. Meet LA's newest robot firefighter. The bright yellow machine, nicknamed RS3, can blast out 2,500 gallons of water a minute and go where it's not safe for humans to tread.

9. Finnair will sell business class airplane food in shops. The ready-made dishes include options like reindeer meatballs, Arctic char and Japanese-style teriyaki beef

10. The Rudolph and Santa Claus figures from the classic 1964 TV special are going up for auction. The 6-inch-tall Rudolph and 11-inch-tall Santa used to animate "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" are expected to fetch between $150,000 and $250,000.

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