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Image Danny McBride, left, and Adam Devine in a scene from Season 3 of The Righteous Gemstones.Credit...Jake Giles Netter/HBO The Righteous Gemstones' When to watch: Sunday at 10 p.m., on HBO.Season 3 of The Righteous Gemstones kicks off with a quintessential over-the-top episode, full of adventurous bickering, outrageous circumstances and an unusual liturgy, as when Jesse Gemstone (Danny McBride) announces a successful mission trip that has restored people's vision through the power of God's love and LASIK surgery.

In general, people have a lot of misunderstandings about sharks, and it makes sense.Most of us only see sharks on TV or in movies, and they're often the villain of the story - a creature with sinister intentions stalking people and hungry for blood.However, the reality is very different, sharks are not very dangerous to humans, but they are everywhere - and there's a map that tracks where Sharks are roaming in the ocean.

Abida Mia, Malawi's minister of water and sanitation, left, waits for news updates from rescuers about the capsized canoe on the Shire River on Tuesday.(Austin Kachipeya/AP)Comment Gift Article A 1-year-old child was killed and 23 people were reported missing after a hippopotamus charged and capsized a canoe in southern Malawi, police said.

Two days after the Gestapo's 1944 raid on the annex where Anne Frank and others were hiding, Miep Gies, a seemingly ordinary secretary, and her colleague walked into the hiding place and encountered a chaotic scene left behind by the Nazis.Years later, Gies described what she saw that day as a mess of books, newspapers and other everyday items.

The oldest animal at the Houston Zoo, a radiated tortoise born nearly a century ago, is finally a father.The zoo announced last week that Mr. Pickles and Mrs. Pickles welcomed three tortoise hatchlings: Dill, Gherkin and Jalapeno.(All three comfortably in the family of pickle preserves.)It was an astounding feat, zoo officials said, not only because Mr. Pickles is 90 years old, but also because the critically endangered species rarely produces offspring.

Los Angeles' beloved and departed mountain lion is getting a library card.The Los Angeles Public Library announced this week that it would offer its patrons a limited-edition library card to honor P-22, the city's famous cougar who prowled Griffith Park for more than a decade before dying in December.

The Duke of Sussex has congratulated a disabled veteran saying he is the definition of inspiration and fully deserved his improved vehicle during a surprise appearance on Car S.O.S.On Thursday, an episode of the National Geographic car renovation show saw former Lance Corporal Stephan Van Niekerk, 36, have his Jeep Grand Cherokee taken in for persistent mechanical problems.

AUSTIN, Texas The bat population has a long history in Austin, with around 1.5 million of them residing under the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge.Without someone whose job it is to make sure City decisions are made with bats in mind, experts worry the colonies may suffer.Not only do the bats bring in millions of dollars in tourism to Austin, but they also eat large amounts of insects - which keeps the City safe from pesticides.

Australian park rangers believe they have stumbled upon a record-breaking giant toad deep in a rainforest of the country's northern Queensland state.(Video: Reuters)
As Kylee Gray got out of her car, she looked to the ground and gasped in disbelief.The ranger at Conway National Park in Queensland, Australia, had stopped the vehicle last week in a wild rainforest after she saw a snake slithering across the track.

Like a lot of Angelenos, I found myself consumed last week by the fate of P-22, the mountain lion that, a decade ago, was discovered to have taken up residence in Griffith Park.On Monday, the big cat was sedated and captured in a Los Feliz backyard, after apparently having been hit by a car the night before.

Media Goldberg will be the first woman to lead the company in its 71 years of history.Susan Goldberg will be GBH's next CEO, the public media nonprofit announced Monday.Goldberg is a seasoned journalist whose career spans over 40 years.She recently served for eight years as the editor of National Geographic Magazine, and is currently a vice dean at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University.

Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one.Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, Jan. 23-29.Details and times are subject to change.THE BACHELOR 8 p.m. on ABC.This long-running reality dating series is back for its 27th season.

DEAR TRAVEL TROUBLESHOOTER: Budget charged me a $450 cleaning fee for a vehicle that had dog hair in the back seat.I only had the rental car for one day.I traveled from the airport to my meeting, then to the hotel and back to the airport the following day.I never had an animal in the vehicle at any time.