What have you learned today?
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On 24 october 1988, a dog fell from a 13th floor balcony in Buenos Aires. The dog landed on an elderly woman's head, killing both instantly. Another woman who stopped to join the crowd watching the scene was then hit by a bus, killing her instantly. A man who witnessed both accidents then got a heart attack, killing him.
On this day 38 years ago, Aretha Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She finally got the R-E-S-P-E-C-T she deserved.
That's... a lot. I guess when Death has a full itinerary, he finds creative ways to lighten the workload. Lemme guess, the EMT who showed up with the AED tripped, fell on the paddles and shocked himself to death?
Unrelated but relatable:
I learned this website exists: Furglamor
Now being the internet, you would assume its a website about furries. Not so; it is a website devoted to finding people wearing fur fashion in movies. I found it because I was after a shot of Catherine Zeta Jones from "The Phantom".
Despite the curation and centralisation to places like Reddit and Facebook, its nice to remember that strange niche corners like this exist.
Now being the internet, you would assume its a website about furries. Not so; it is a website devoted to finding people wearing fur fashion in movies. I found it because I was after a shot of Catherine Zeta Jones from "The Phantom".
Despite the curation and centralisation to places like Reddit and Facebook, its nice to remember that strange niche corners like this exist.
Yeah yeah, heard all your extinction events we're utterly helpless in if they start. Heard your grey goo planet sweep, your permafrost melt, and your...well, our ongoing microplastic, uhh, "situation" nearly everyone's dissociated themselves from now (gotta remain at least functional to survive day-to-day grind or it's starving to death in isolation tbf) - powerlessness is fun, no? Well toss this one onto the pile:
Mirror bacteria! Mirror life?
I dunno man, we gotta workshop the term to sound more threatening a bit maybe.
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Mirror bacteria! Mirror life?
I dunno man, we gotta workshop the term to sound more threatening a bit maybe.
Threat value scaled in vague units of possibility is below permafrost and microplastics but above grey goo planet wipe. So, fine? As long as the large influential countries don't do anything silly like dismantle their regulatory laws and/or enforcement of them, we fine!
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In 1913, a Greek fisherman dived 83 metres down to recover the anchor that had been lost by an Italian warship.