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high profile pay gap in sports is coming to a close U. S. Soccer agreeing to equal pay for its men's and women's teams. Now under this historic agreement, US Soccer will be the first federation equalizing FIFA World Cup prize money. The deal comes after female players pushed for more gender equality, especially in the wake of the US women's team out performing the men several times just to highlight the staggering difference. American women got a $110,000 bonus for winning the World Cup in 2019. If the men had one in 2018, they would have received $407,000. So quite the discrepancy there. In other news, our oceans are in serious danger hitting record high temperatures. A new climate report showing ocean's hit their hottest and most acidic levels last year, experts say greenhouse gasses caused by humans are trapping heat in the atmosphere warming the planet for many generations to come oceans which take the most damage from emissions are expected to become even warmer and reversing the trend would likely take centuries or even millennia. Happy the elephant is getting her day in court, New york state's top court considering whether Happy the elephant should have the same legal rights as a person hears the story for person for years now, animal rights activists have pushed to free Happy from the Bronx zoo arguing she is being illegally imprisoned. Happy has been kept separate from other elephants since 2006. Now, despite the species being social animals, the zoo says Happy is well taken care of and that moving her to a sanctuary would not be in her best interest. Today's hearing is an appeal of a 2020 ruling dismissing the original petition. Let's stick with animals. The Ringling brothers circus is making a comeback, but without animals in the ring, The touring circus shut down five years ago after 146 years in business, Ringling had faced falling ticket sales and harsh criticism over its use of animals including elephants and tigers. Well in 2016, 1 year before shutting down, Ringling ended elephant acts. After a series of expensive court battles. A us tour of new production is set to kick off in September of 2023. A rare moth that hasn't been seen in more than a century, just reappeared at an airport officials at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport found the moth babies inside a bag flown in from the Philippines. The passenger claimed the seed pods were for key. Now after the moths were seized and put in quarantine the insects hatched. The Smithsonian later identified them as a long forgotten species amazing. A famous painting with ties to comedy, music and sports has a new owner after selling for more than $15 million 1976 by former pro football player Ernie Barnes. Some may recognize the piece from the sitcom Good Times or Marvin Gaye studio album. I want you. That's the way I thought I saw that Hedge fund manager and poker player Bill Perkins won the auction after more than 10 minutes of bidding. The final sale was 76 times the paintings estimated price. But the sugar shack isn't the only painting making headlines. Remember that portrait Pablo Picasso did of his lover that looked kind of like a sea creature to some? Well that painting also sold for $67.5 million dollars at auction. Picasso completed the abstract portrait in 1932. It stayed in his family for decades. Sotheby's had predicted it would sell for $60 million. Now another Picasso portrait of the same woman sold for more than $103 million dollars just last year. But if you prefer art, that's more hands on legos. Got you covered the company launching a special set for adults of Vincent van Gogh's masterpiece, the starry night but building the brick painting isn't for the faint of heart since it has more than 2300 pieces to put together. It also includes a minivan go figure with a paintbrush in his hand. I love that. The set costs about $170 and will go on sale for the general public on June one