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TIL about a freak βheat burstβ storm phenomenon that struck a small town in Kopperl, Texas in the middle of the night on June 15, 1960. Winds suddenly hit 70 MPH, and temperatures got so hot they burnt crops and burst thermometers in-town that maxed out over 140 F.
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TIL the WB Frog cartoon was inspired by a frog that survived 31 years entombed in a time capsule.
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TIL Republican Rome disdained wearing pants as the mark of barbarians, viewing Greek draped clothing as the emblem of civilization. As their empire expanded beyond the Mediterranean, the warmth provided by pants led Rome to adopt them, first as military garments borrowed from the Celts.
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TIL famed occultist Aleister Crowley, dubbed βthe wickedest man in the world,β was also a pioneering mountaineer who took part in the first serious expedition to climb K2. The worldβs second-highest mountain, K2 remains one of the deadliest, with roughly one fatality for every five summits.
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Dolly Parton passes at 80
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Dolly Parton, the globally beloved icon whose unique voice, prolific songwriting and vibrant personality shaped country music and American pop culture for over six decades, has passed away at the age of 80.
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Dolly Parton, the globally beloved icon whose unique voice, prolific songwriting and vibrant personality shaped country music and American pop culture for over six decades, has passed away at the age of 80.
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πΊπΈπ·πΊβ‘- CIA Director John Ratcliffe was aboard the C-17A Globemaster that flew into Moscow, Russia, this morning ahead of a day of meetings.
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JUST IN: π¨π¦πΊπΈ Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Canada is going to throw everything on the US, including sanctions on electricity, fuel, uranium
He says Canada will put massive pain on US President Trump
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He says Canada will put massive pain on US President Trump
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π·πΊπΊπΈ The head of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, made a surprise visit to Moscow to convince President Putin not to declare mobilization against Ukraine, per WSJ
NATO intelligence had also picked up signals that pointed towards a Russian plan to βtest NATOβs resolveβ by carrying out limited incursions into Europe.
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NATO intelligence had also picked up signals that pointed towards a Russian plan to βtest NATOβs resolveβ by carrying out limited incursions into Europe.
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A new paper called "Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World" by Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde of the University of Pennsylvania and Patrick Norrick of Northwestern University, prepared for the Annual Review of Economics and circulated this month, concluded: "As of 2026, humanity is likely below replacement fertility. That has never happened before, not in wars or pandemics."
The replacement rate is usually quoted as 2.1 births per woman, which is the figure for a rich country with low child mortality; globally, the authors put it nearer 2.20 to take into account the higher mortality rates in poor countries - and the world's own fertility rate is now at roughly that level. The UN's central projection still has the crossing two decades away.
If Fernandez-Villaverde and Norrick are right, world population peaks at about 9bn around 2056 and then falls, "first slowly, then fast". The UN's medium variant has it rising to about 10.3bn into the mid-2080s. That is not a rounding difference; it is thirty years and 1.3bn people, and it is the difference between a problem for someone else's career and a problem for this one.
Their evidence is that the decline has stopped being a rich-world story. Fitting a single-factor model to 236 countries since 1950, the authors find the common component peaked in 1978; what is driving fertility down now is country-specific, and of those country trends 219 are negative and not one has levelled off. The steepest falls are in low- and middle-income countries and among poorer, less-educated women - the groups every projection assumed would keep the average up. In recent data, 37 countries recorded about 1.65mn fewer births than the UN had projected, a shortfall of 9.3%.
No standard explanation fits. The authors run through several candidates - income, housing costs, childcare, women's education, urbanisation - and conclude none accounts for the pattern, offering instead a conjecture: modernity itself, which makes a third child expensive and childlessness cheap. IntelliNews has tracked the same phenomenon through the baby bust that crept up on everyone and the demographic point of no return as the number of women of child-bearing age is now in decline.
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βIf you use any of this information Iβd like to remain anonymous. I just really feel like the whole truth should be heard.
I wasnβt there at the pub where this all started but I know people who were and was told by eye witnesses about what happened.
Henry and the football society were out at a local pub having some drinks. While in the pub the attacker barged into Henry while walking past. Henry said something to him (paraphrasing here but it was something along the lines of βexcuse youβ) the attacker turned around a confrontation started, the details of this vary but it got quite heated with the attacker mostly escalating the situation. Some of the football society were able to intervene and defuse the situation, but it was heated enough that police were called (I think due to possible threats made by the attacker). The attacker went away and Henry went back to talking with the lads. He was still quite agitated by what had just happened and after a while his friends convinced him to call it a night.
Henry left the pub and started to walk back to his accommodation and went down Saint Dennyβs Road, while sending snapchats to his friends. On his way he saw the attacker again (at the intersection between Saint Dennyβs and Belmont Road), this time carrying a knife. The rest is the same as what is covered by the news outlets.
The police were already on their way when the attack happened (I think because they were following up from what happened at the pub and they were trying to find him to find out what had happened and see if he was ok). The police got there and the attacker claimed he had been racially abused etc etc.
The attacker and his mother both lived further along Saint Dennyβs Road (past Belmont but before Thomas Lewis way). There is a video (which most of us have seen at this point) of the mother walking back to their house carrying the knife.
The above is all true, I have neglected the parts that have been covered by the BBC etc as it is the same.
The following is our theory of what happened:
The attacker went away after the initial alteration at the pub, weβre unsure whether he stayed and then followed Henry home (implying that he already had the knife on him) or went back to his house to get the knife and just happened to bump into Henry while walking back to the pub. Either way the attackers mother arrived to the crime scene suspiciously quickly to be able to get the knife before the police arrived. Hence we believe the latter option to be most likely.
My housemate walked past about 15min after this all took place and called me outside, by this point half of the police force had swarmed the area and we werenβt able to make out much. We obviously later found out about what had happened which shocked all of us. By the morning the entire road had been taped off and several police officers stood at the entrance to the road guarding it for just over a day.
The point I wanted to make here is that this wasnβt some freak attack. Henry didnβt just get unlucky and stumble across a random murderer when walking home. There was clear intent from the attacker. What happened was tragic and shouldnβt be forgotten with the passing news cycle, the attacker was an evil human with a lack of morals and should under no circumstances be let off with anything other than the maximum in this trial.
I hope this information can provide useful and I hope more people learn about this, as this shouldnβt be a thing that happens in our country. There should be uproar and there need to be real consequences.β
βIf you use any of this information Iβd like to remain anonymous. I just really feel like the whole truth should be heard.
I wasnβt there at the pub where this all started but I know people who were and was told by eye witnesses about what happened.
Henry and the football society were out at a local pub having some drinks. While in the pub the attacker barged into Henry while walking past. Henry said something to him (paraphrasing here but it was something along the lines of βexcuse youβ) the attacker turned around a confrontation started, the details of this vary but it got quite heated with the attacker mostly escalating the situation. Some of the football society were able to intervene and defuse the situation, but it was heated enough that police were called (I think due to possible threats made by the attacker). The attacker went away and Henry went back to talking with the lads. He was still quite agitated by what had just happened and after a while his friends convinced him to call it a night.
Henry left the pub and started to walk back to his accommodation and went down Saint Dennyβs Road, while sending snapchats to his friends. On his way he saw the attacker again (at the intersection between Saint Dennyβs and Belmont Road), this time carrying a knife. The rest is the same as what is covered by the news outlets.
The police were already on their way when the attack happened (I think because they were following up from what happened at the pub and they were trying to find him to find out what had happened and see if he was ok). The police got there and the attacker claimed he had been racially abused etc etc.
The attacker and his mother both lived further along Saint Dennyβs Road (past Belmont but before Thomas Lewis way). There is a video (which most of us have seen at this point) of the mother walking back to their house carrying the knife.
The above is all true, I have neglected the parts that have been covered by the BBC etc as it is the same.
The following is our theory of what happened:
The attacker went away after the initial alteration at the pub, weβre unsure whether he stayed and then followed Henry home (implying that he already had the knife on him) or went back to his house to get the knife and just happened to bump into Henry while walking back to the pub. Either way the attackers mother arrived to the crime scene suspiciously quickly to be able to get the knife before the police arrived. Hence we believe the latter option to be most likely.
My housemate walked past about 15min after this all took place and called me outside, by this point half of the police force had swarmed the area and we werenβt able to make out much. We obviously later found out about what had happened which shocked all of us. By the morning the entire road had been taped off and several police officers stood at the entrance to the road guarding it for just over a day.
The point I wanted to make here is that this wasnβt some freak attack. Henry didnβt just get unlucky and stumble across a random murderer when walking home. There was clear intent from the attacker. What happened was tragic and shouldnβt be forgotten with the passing news cycle, the attacker was an evil human with a lack of morals and should under no circumstances be let off with anything other than the maximum in this trial.
I hope this information can provide useful and I hope more people learn about this, as this shouldnβt be a thing that happens in our country. There should be uproar and there need to be real consequences.β
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