The speaker discusses various events and news from 2018, including:
* A super blue moon eclipse on January 31, a rare celestial event that occurs when there are two full moons in one month.
* A total lunar eclipse on July 27, which was the longest recorded in the last century.
* Facebook losing $110 billion in market value due to a data theft scandal.
* The death of the last male northern white rhino, Sudan, and the efforts to save the species through in vitro fertilization.
* Chinese scientists successfully cloning monkeys using a technique that could potentially be used to clone humans.
* A Chinese scientist, Jan Wijn, claiming to have genetically modified two twin girls to make them resistant to HIV, but the claim has not been verified.
* NASA launching the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to search for planets outside the solar system.
* The Parker Solar Probe being launched to study the sun's corona.
* The InSight lander landing on Mars and discovering an underground lake.
* Saudi Arabia allowing women to drive and attend football stadiums, and reopening cinemas that had been banned for over 30 years.
* India decriminalizing homosexuality.
The speaker also mentions that they will be discussing other topics, including politics, accidents, shootings, video games, and art, in future videos.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. A super blue moon eclipse occurred on January 31, 2018.
2. The super blue moon eclipse was the second eclipse to occur within a single month.
3. The term "super" refers to the proximity of the moon to the earth.
4. A total lunar eclipse occurred on July 27, 2018.
5. The July 27 lunar eclipse was the longest recorded in the last century.
6. Facebook lost $110 billion in market value due to the Cambridge Analytica data theft scandal.
7. The last male northern white rhinoceros, named Sudan, died in March 2018.
8. Sudan was 45 years old and died due to an infection in one of his legs.
9. Chinese neuroscientists successfully cloned two genetically identical monkeys in January 2018.
10. The cloning technique used was similar to the one used to clone Dolly the sheep.
11. The cloned monkeys were created to study human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
12. A Chinese scientist, Jan Wijn, claimed to have modified the DNA of two twin girls to make them resistant to the HIV virus.
13. The genetic modification was not formally published in a scientific journal and has raised doubts about its validity.
14. The Chinese government inaugurated the longest sea bridge in the world, connecting Hong Kong and Macao.
15. NASA launched the Parker probe in August 2018 to study the sun's corona.
16. The Parker probe will orbit the sun at a very short distance and is expected to last for at least 15 years.
17. NASA's InSight lander landed on Mars in November 2018.
18. Scientists discovered an underground lake on Mars, which is believed to be a salt lake.
19. The lake is about 20 kilometers wide and is buried under a layer of ice more than a kilometer thick.
20. Saudi Arabia allowed women to drive and enter football stadiums in 2018.
21. Saudi Arabia also reopened cinemas that had been banned for over 30 years.
22. Prince bin Salman is credited with bringing about these changes and wants to enrich Saudi Arabia with artistic and musical culture.
23. India decriminalized homosexuality in 2018, removing a law that had been in place for over 150 years.
24. 55.1% of the world's population was connected to the internet by the end of 2018.
25. YouTube users watched 77,000 videos per second, while Google searches numbered around 72,000 per second.