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Polarization the word of the year according to Merriam-Webster, editor at large Peter Sokolowski comments that it is a pretty young word that is most frequently used in the US to describe race relations, politics and ideology

Football team Manchester United scraps plan to dress the team in rainbow jackets before the game against Everton as Muslim player Noussair Mazraoui refused to wear the jacket, third similar event lately after Christian Crystal Palace player Marc Guéhi wrote about Jesus on his rainbow armband and Muslim Ipswich player Sam Morsy twice has refused to wear such armband

Elon Musk becomes world number one on Diablo 4, cleared level 150 of the Artificer's Pit in record time which is widely used as a measure of player skill, was previously reported to be top 19 in the world in ranking where everyone else in the top 20 was Asian

England's Football Association will contact Crystal Palace player Marc Guéhi regarding him writing "I love Jesus" on the league-issued LGBTQ+ campaign rainbow armband during a game, says the formal reminder that religious messaging is banned avoids the need for disciplinary action, only captain not to wear the armband is Ipswich practising Muslim Sam Morsy

YMCA is not a gay anthem according to Victor Willis who wrote the lyrics, has pulled in millions of dollars in royalties as Donald Trump played it extensively as part of his campaign, songwriter happy that unlike other artists he has not stopped Trump from using his music

Brain rot named Oxford Word of the Year 2024, the term that increased in usage frequency by 230% between 2023 and 2024 is defined as deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state as the result of overconsumption of trivial or unchallenging material, first recorded use of the term is found in Henry David Thoreau 1854 book Walden where he criticizes society's tendency to devalue complex ideas which he sees as indicative of a general decline in mental and intellectual effort

Fistfights in Serbia's parliament during discussion regarding rail station roof collapse in Novi Sad that killed 15 people after a recent Chinese renovation, the opposition displayed a banner reading "blood is on your hands" while the ruling party's banner accused the opposition of wanting "war while Serbia wants to work" and the scuffle took place after both sides tried to tear the opponents' banners down, widespread protester in the country where most large infrastructure projects are undertaken with Chinese state companies

Jaguar managing director Rawdon Glover disappointed to receive negative feedback on the company's rebranding effort to become a woke EV-manufacturer, says the company's new advertisements don't necessarily reflect how he thinks their customers look, but that they also need to attract new customers and that overall the new ads, with diverse androgynous models in an alien landscape, has been received well

Quincy Jones dies at 91, produced Michael Jackson's Thriller album, wrote award-winning film scores and worked with artists including Frank Sinatra and Ray Charles, died just days before receiving honorary Oscar

Canned air from Lake Como being sold for 10 euros to tourists, marketed in Menaggio and Lenno and at restaurants by the lake since October, Davide Abagnale from Italy Comunica believes American visitors are attracted to the area after George Clooney bought a villa there

Burial site from the Viking age with bone remains from people and dogs as well as three ships found during excavations outside Varberg in Sweden, the soil on the site has been cultivated so according to project manager Petra Nordin, everything has had to be analyzed from below

There is definitely a resurgence in interest in folklore among young people according to actor and writer Charlie Cooper who is currently making the BBC series Charlie Cooper's Myth Country, Siân Powell who makes content about Cornish and Welsh folklore has 90,000 followers on Tiktok and Professor Matthew Cheeseman at the University of Derby says the topic can be attractive for the sense of rootedness it provides

Football star Kylian Mbappé suspected of rape after a party night in Stockholm but calls the accusations fake news, is said to have landed with private plane on Wednesday and with his friend, the soccer player Nordi Mukiele, booked the entire nightclub V for private parties on Wednesday and Thursday during which there was a total phone ban

South Korean Han Kang is awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature with the motivation ”for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”

Jack the Ripper was Aaron Kosminski, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, according to DNA analysis of object from crime scene, author Russell Edwards says that Kosminski had contacts involved with freemasonry which might have helped him escape justice

18 audience members in Stuttgart, Germany need medical care after the radical feminist opera Sancta Susanna, about a nun who discovers her own sexuality, by the German Paul Hindemith from 1921 now has been performed for the first time as the premiere a hundred years ago was canceled , contains lesbians scenes, real blood, nudity and Jesus spanking a half-naked nun

3D map of Iceland in the resolution of 2.5 meters is made public by the company Loftmydnir which used data collected over 30 years through aeroplane photos instead of satellite photos which is the approach most often used in creating 3D maps

The actor and country artist Kris Kristofferson passes away at the age of 88, born in 1936 as the son of a Swedish father, perhaps best known for the song Me & Bobby McGee, as a member of the band The Highwaymen and his acting roles in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973 ), A Star Is Born (1976) and the Blade trilogy (1998-2004) among others

President of Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council, Edgard Leblanc Fils, spills water in the lectern as he drinks straight from a pitcher instead of a glass, just after addressing the United Nations General Assembly, saying the country has inspired others to throw off the yoke of unbearable colonialism, Fils then demanded justice and respect for Haiti

Pope Francis tells a group of young people in Singapore that every religion is a way to reach God and rhetorically wonders where such claims as one's religion is more important than another's will lead us, former bishop Joseph Strickland who was deposed by the Pope in 2023 says this is called indifferentism, is heresy and goes against the position of previous popes

Previously unknown music composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart discovered in a library in Leipzig, Germany, is dated to the 1760s - Mozart was born in 1756 - and consists of seven miniature movements for string trio of a total of twelve minutes

Ancient Athens is the pre-modern empire that Americans view most favorably, according to a YouGov survey, with the Roman Empire second, Sparta third, and the Visigoths and the Huns last

The Muslim theologian and former professor of Islamology at the University of Oxford, Tariq Ramadan, convicted of rape in a Swiss court, is the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna and four other women have accused him of molesting them when they were his students and between 14 and 18 years old

Brazilian bossa nova musician Sergio Mendes dies at the age of 83 as his health, according to his family, has been suffering from long-term covid, known for the songs Mas Que Nada and The Look of Love among others

Monumental nine-hour documentary about Prince will probably never air, despite tens of millions invested by Netflix, new administration of the artist's estate blocks the project which is said to give unique and deep insights into his life and complex psychology, according to long essay in New York Times Magazine which gives numerous details about the contents of the documentary

Followers of Asatru in Iceland are raising capital to build a temple in East Iceland, according to the law, all legally recognized religious organizations in the country have the right to a plot of land to construct a sacred building, chief clergyman Baldur Pálsson says the goal is for it to be built in the area of Fljótsdalshérað, where the largest town in East Iceland, Egilsstaðir, is located

Russian TV produces comedy series "Goodbye" in which Joe Biden travels incognito to Russia to find out why sanctions against the country are not working, loses his passport and is forced to work as an English teacher to afford a new passport for the trip home while the CIA takes pensioner Ivanovich, who looks exactly like Biden, to the United States

Dorito launches chips for space travel and will be used by SpaceX's crew on the Polaris Dawn mission, which will include the first commercial spacewalk, is smaller than the usual corn chips and instead of powder topping will have an oil-based surface that prevents dust from flying around the cabin

Primary teacher Joanna Tulloch on the British island of Orkney is surprised to have a class with only boys, while the boys themselves, according to the article, don't care much about it and one of them, Logan, says the class is good without girls, head teacher Rebecca Robinson says interaction between boys and girls is important at a young age and that they will still have opportunities to interact with girls outside the classroom

Italian researchers date the Shroud of Turin, considered by some to be the Shroud of Jesus and portrait his face, to the time of Jesus' life from previously being dated to the Middle Ages and in 1389 it was condemned as a forgery by the Bishop of Troyes, Pierre d'Arcis, who allegedly had identified the responsible artist

The CEO of the information technology company Palantir, Alex Karp, is featured in an extensive interview by the New York Times, holds a doctorate in neoclassical social theory at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, has a Jewish father and a black mother who were both left-wing activists, describes himself as someone who doesn't fit in, is childless and unmarried, says he always donates in multiples of 18 because that number brings good luck according to Kabbalah as he donated USD 360,000 to the Biden campaign

Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has historically been used for political purposes, Melania Trump stepped into the Republican national convention this year to the tune of it, Leonard Bernstein, with musicians from both East and West, conducted the symphony in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the same year it was played by Chinese students in Tiananmen Square, it was the national anthem of Rhodesia, was performed on Adolf Hitler's birthday in 1942 and recently the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra toured with it

French actor and icon Alain Delon dead at the age of 88, known among other things for the films The Leopard and Le Samouraï, in the 80's he became friends with Jean-Marie Le Pen, expressed his support for the party National Front and said in 2018 that he hates this era and vomits it

Peter Thiel is guesting Joe Rogan's podcast and says he believes Bill Gates set up his charity after the advice from Jeffrey Epstein to avoid letting his then-wife Melina get half the money in a divorce, the couple reportedly married without a prenuptial agreement and Melinda has disclosed Gates' meetings with Epstein being one of the reasons for the divorce

The perfume of Roman emperor Julius Caesar recreated and contains mint, rose, lemon, bergamot, lavender, jasmine, water lily, violet, oud cedarwood, patchouli, amber, iris, and rock rose, will go on sale in Turkey, France, and Italy starting in October and is a collaboration between a Turkish university and Milanese perfumers

Remco Evenepoel secures historic Olympic cycling double in Paris, the 24-year-old Belgian first man to win both the time trial and the road race during the same Olympic Games

25-year-old Algerian Imane Khelif, who was disqualified from the World Championschips due to high testosterone levels, is allowed to compete in women's boxing in the Olympics and 25-year-old Italian Angela Carini abandons the fight after 46 seconds, the Italian says she has never been hit so hard before, was forced to withdraw to preserve her life but apologize afterwards for not shaking hands

Pokemon cards have overtaken baseball cards in number of gradings by the American world-leading grading company Professional Sports Authenticators and prices rose almost 500 percent during the covid-19 lockdowns

Germany is trying to block Turkey's application to the European Commission to give döner kebab protected status like, for example, Neapolitan pizza and Spanish Serrano ham, claiming greater bureaucratic hurdles and higher prices for consumers

The opening of the 2024 Paris Olympics filled with LGBTQ propaganda and gay director Thomas Jolly says in an interview before the Games that he is thinking about how to write a show where everyone gets a moment when they feel represented and part of something bigger

The first ever olympic Games in esports will be held in Saudi Arabia in 2025 and will be organized by the International Olympic Committee, the IOC Esports Commission has developed a program that will address the interest of the esports community but at the same time respect what they believe to be the Olympic values ​​such as which games must be included as well as the promotion of gender equality

Former British footballer Joey Barton is being taken to court for criticizing the TV appearance of black female footballer Eni Alukoby by questioning how she even can talk about men's football when she can't even kick a ball properly, calling her the Fred and Rose West of football commentators, two serial killer, and writing that she can be compared to Josef Stalin for murdering the ears of hundreds of thousands of fans, Barton wonders if the police don't have enough on their hands

Adopted 61-year-old John Portmann from the US receives Irish citizenship after DNA test showing 100 percent Irish ancestry as proof that his biological parents came from there

Tadej Pogačar wins a third Tour de France by over six minutes, first rider since Marco Pantani 1998 to bring home Giro d'Italia and the Tour the same year, was also victorious in six stages

47-year-old Clinton associate Huma Abedin and 38-year-old Alexander Soros, son of George Soros, get engaged, source describes the relationship as effortless and that Huma is now relaxed, happy and in love after many tumultuous years

Norwegian cyclist André Drege dies following an accident during the Tour of Austria on Saturday, the 25-year-old Coop–Repsol rider was fatally injured on the descent of the Großglockner, Austria's highest mountain

The moon landings were real according to the CEO of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, on the grounds that Soviet scientists confirmed that lunar soil samples brought by the Americans did indeed come from the moon

The AI-composed techno song Je Partira Pas with a pro-deportation message is going viral in France, the title refers to older clip of immigrant screaming that he won’t leave while being forced to board a plane

The Danish toy company Lego publishes a commercial on the theme of Pride with, among other things, drag queens and furries, has already a product called "Everyone is Awesome" in rainbow colors and a product explicitely inspired by the gay series Queer Eye

Bao Zi becomes the world's fastest cat on a skateboard when the record 12.85 seconds for 10 meters is achieved and his owner Li Jingtao says he began to realize that the cat had talents other than catching mice when he showed an interest in skateboards which he then began to encourage

Court of Arbitration for Sport dismisses American transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' challenge against rules where men who have been through male puberty are banned from competing in women's races, World Aquatics comments that it welcomes the decision and considers it a major step forward in the efforts to protect women's sport

The Netflix documentary series Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial came about because of the millennial generation's ignorance of the Holocaust according to director Joe Berlinger, who says that the ignorance is so great that it used to be Holocaust denial, but now it’s moved into Holocaust affirmation, like Hitler was right

The cost of launching cremated remains into space is between 3,500 and 13,000 USD and since 1997 the company Celestis has, among others, launched the remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, physicist Gerard K. O'Neill and lunar astronaut Philip Chapman

France's plan for air-conditioning free Olympics thwarted as more than 3,000 athletes are expected to bring own portable units, all countries replying to Washington Post's survey say they will use ACs, Greece comments that they will bring units as the athletes need support while Uganda expresses funding concerns, IOC thus far has declined to respond to the Post's request for a comment regarding potential questions about fairness between richer and poorer countries

The restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona in Spain with a focus on molecular gastronomy is named the world's best restaurant in 2024 according to The World's 50 Best Restaurants, the Danish Alchemist in eighth place is the best Nordic while the best in Sweden, Frantzén, ends up in place 35

Five 500-year-old Eskimo mummies are returning to Greenland after 100 years at Harvard University in the USA via Copenhagen, where on behalf of the Greenland National Museum they are being taken care for now as the necessary equipment is not available in the home country, among other things they have been used to study how their diet affects blood flow

18 percent of the 628 professional male footballers in Great Britain and 22 percent of the female who responded to a survey use snus and nearly half of the men but only nine percent of the women wish to stop, the product is banned for sale in the country but not for use

84-year-old British Iris Jones, who married 37-year-old Egyptian Mohamed Ibriham after they got to know each other through Facebook, warns others about online dating and calls for awareness that they are only interested in getting their filthy paws on your money and will sweet-talk you for months in order to achieve their goal

Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog that became the Doge meme and inspiration for Dogecoin, dies at about 18 years old, its owner Atsuko Sato thanks for all the love and support for Kabuso over the years and will arrange a farewell party on May 26

The Vatican State is revising its process from 1978 for when they have to investigate whether a miracle has happened or not and the events will be assessed on a six-point credibility scale instead of being given a binary judgement, so far fewer than 20 apparitions have been approved by the Vatican in its entire history according to Michael O' Neill, who runs the online apparition resource The Miracle Hunter

First official painting of King Charles III unveiled showing the king in red uniform and red background with a butterfly on his right shoulder and Baphomet can be seen if the painting is mirrored and put side by side and the lighting manipulated

On his 74th birthday, Stevie Wonder is granted citizenship in Ghana by President Nana Akufo-Add after in 1975 expressing his desire to quit music and move to the country where he believed he could trace his ancestral lineage from, in 1990 expressing his desire to set up a home there and in 2021 saying he intends to move there to escape racial injustice in the United States

Since the 1950s, the United States has been maintaining a barrier against the screwworm, which kills livestock, by dropping 14.7 million sterile males from airplanes into the rainforest between Panama and Colombia every week, since the female only mates once, the sterilization is done with radiation and a facility in Panama breeds 20 million per week

High levels of lead as well as arsenic and mercury are detected in Ludwig van Beethoven's locks which are believed to have contributed to his ailments such as hearing loss, gastrointestinal problems, jaundice and liver disease, the composer's DNA has been sequenced and is publicly available

The last privately owned land in the Arctic, 14,830 hectares in Svalbard, is up for sale as the owner, the Norwegian limited company Kulspids, which has owned it for over a hundred years and had plans to establish an asbestos mine, is on the market for EUR 300 million

Skeletons without hands and feet belonging to five people, three adults, a teenager and a newborn, are found under Hermann Göring's residence at the former Nazi command center Wolfsschanze in Gierłoż in present-day northeastern Poland, the identities and age is still unknown and it is unclear whether Göring knew to the fact that the bodies were there during the time he lived there

Author Paul Auster dead at 77, had breakthrough with trilogy of detective novels set in his home city of New York, said that the core of his philosophy was the impact of the unexpected and that "once you are born you are destined to die and pretty much everything in between is up for grabs"

Russell Brand turns to Christianity and is baptized after months of public wrestling with religion, says he is desperate and needs God to cope in this world

2005 report still the benchmark in research around showers and it is unclear whether daily showers are healthy, traditionally man has cleaned himself by bathing and the culture around this is rich and according to Dale Southerton, professor of consumer sociology at the University of Bristol, we have in the last 100 years started washing our bodies so much more than before

German-American businessman Karl-Erivan Haub was declared dead in 2021 after disappearing in the Swiss Alps in 2018 but is now suspected to be alive and his brother is being investigated for perjury at the death declaration after journalist says the disappearance may be linked to a Russian mistress and that there are photographs of him in Moscow from 2022

American philosopher Daniel Dennett dies at age 82, one of the so-called Four Horsemen of New Atheism alongside Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris and his 2003 TED talk "The Illusion of Consciousness" has been viewed more than four million times

The British pub Lower Red Lion in St Albans is being noticed for its sign that says animals are welcome but children not, after a photograph by a guest spreads online, owner David Worcester says they have had the policy for eleven years, that one child is enough to disturb the peace of customers and that all other pubs in the city are child-friendly

Brazilian MMA fighter Renato Moicano says after winning a fight that, among other things, he is a huge advocate of the First Amendment, that he wants to fucking carry all the fucking guns, loves private property and that if one care about ones country one should read Ludwig von Mises and his six lessons of the Austrian economic school

Chef Gordon Ramsey's York & Albany pub in central London is occupied by six professional squatters who barricaded themselves with kitchen equipment in connection with the temporary closure due to an upcoming change of partnership and put up a legal notice on the front door stating they have the right to stay

Former American football star O.J. Simpson, who became world famous after being charged with the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her new boyfriend and the subsequent trial 1995 in which he was acquitted, dies of cancer at the age of 76

The book "Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe, banned in schools in Florida and Texas, tops the American Library Association's list of most challenged books for the third year in a row, followed by the books "All Boys Aren't Blue" and "This Book is Gay"

27-year-old Briton Russell "Hardest Geezer" Cook runs across Africa from south to north in 352 days, starts urinating blood on day 43, is subjected to armed robbery on day 64, captured by Congolese villagers with machetes for money on day 102 and says after the finish line that he is pretty tired

The food museum in Rome, Museo della Cucina, exhibits more than 400 historical meals such as the lunch on the Titanic the day she sank, Fidel Castro's flight lunch during round trip to Mexico in 1960, the meal Hitler and Mussolini ate in Venice 1934 during their first meeting ever and Queen Victoria and emperor Alexander II meal in 1874 during their first meeting in 35 years

Chloe Cole, who through surgery and hormone therapy tried to change gender to boy at 16 and then regretted it, takes the floor at Disney's annual general meeting by saying, among other things, that "Disney has become the Ursula that is stealing the voices of thousands of little Ariel’s" and that the company during CEO Bob Iger runs a gender ideological agenda

111-year-old John Tinniswood from Merseyside in the UK the world's oldest living man after 114-year-old Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez Mora passed away on Tuesday, born in 1912, married in 1942, retired in 1972 and was widowed in 1986, the world's oldest person is 117-year-old Spanish woman Maria Branyas Morera

First indie-produced video game from Cuba, Saviorless, is launched by the studio Empty Head Games, a hand-drawn platform game in 2D and initiator Josuhe Pagliery says that the country has always been fortunate culturally and has produced top-tier artists in nearly every art form and that the rich five-century-old cultural heritage has given motivation to fuel their dreams

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer says about his project to build a replica of the Titanic that it would be a beacon of hope in the midst of wars, bring people together after the lockdowns, be an antidote to "woke" and an environment free of covid vaccines but clarifies that vaccinated are welcome as he means that we have got to extend our hand in love and friendship for them despite the side effects

Harvard removes the binding of human skin to 19th-century book Des Destinées de l'Ame due to the book's ethically charged origin and subsequent history, the binding is said to have been made by the author's friend, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, who made it of a female patient who had died of natural causes

Increasingly popular to experiment with drugs at work, Elon Musk says his ketamine use has benefited his companies and Journeymen Collective which offers luxury guided magic mushroom retreats in Vancouver from USD 15,000 per person increased their bookings by 183 percent between 2022 and 2023

American science fiction author Vernor Vinge passes away on March 20 at the age of 79, the 1981 short story True Names is often credited as the first to present a full concept of cyberspace and in 2020 he received the Heinlein Award from the Heinlein Society

80 year old Arthur Schubarth from Montana, pleads guilty to trying for nearly a decade to genetically engineer large sheep hybrids to sell to hunting facilities, imported parts of the world's largest sheep species, the Marco Polo argali, from Kyrgyzstan and had lab create cloned embryo he then implanted in female sheep on his ranch that produced an offspring he named Montana Mountain King

Pope Francis says that to erase differences is erase humanity, during conference in the Vatican, regarding the gender ideology that he believes is the worst danger today, he says he asked for studies on the subject that he calls the ugly ideology of our time

Humpback whale sex is photographed for the first time and is said to have taken place between two males in Hawaii in January 2022 according to a study published in the journal Marine Mammal Science, one of the males were weak and sick and the other strong and healthy

British-Jewish financier Lord Jacob Rothschild dies aged 87 and being succeeded as chairman of the Rothschild Foundation by 61-year-old daughter Hannah, was among other things former president of what is now called Jewish Policy Research, co-founded financial firm St James's Place and was active in the art world

The world's tallest human, the 2.51 meter tall Turk Sultan Kösen, and the world's shortest human, the 63 centimeter tall Indian Jyoti Amge, have breakfast together in Irvine, California, is the second time in six years that they have met as last time were 2018 in Egypt and posed in front of the Sphinx of Giza

The production of camembert is threatened as production since 1902 has been done by means of asexual reproduction of a single strain of the fungus penicillium camemberti which does not receive new genetic material and accumulates mutations over time, according to researchers at France's national research center CRNS, research leader Tatiana Giraud assures that the threat is long-term and that Camembert production is not threatened in five to ten years' time

Elon Musk writes on X that hormonal birth control makes women fat, doubles the risk of depression and triples the risk of suicide, the post has been viewed 37 million times and leads to testimonies from women about their negative experiences with birth control

Americans between the ages of 15 and 34 have incrementally slept more and more over the past decade according to data from American Time Use, sleeping an average of nine hours and twelve minutes per night according to research by the company Sleep Number, on Tiktok "ASMR sleep" videos have trended and listening to jazz is becoming popular again

Charlotte Nichols, UK Labor MP, proposes posthumous gender reassignment, following a petition last year signed by 14,000 people calling for a similar change to the law after the murder of transgender teenager Brianna Ghey

Unvaccinated dating site Unjected launches and founder Shelby Hosana says that the spike protein is a concern but the altering of DNA is the most concerning thing and that they believe it's possible the spike protein is sexually transmitted

Indian police release pigeon that was first suspected of being a Chinese spy when it was found with Chinese words attached to its legs but turned out to be an escaped racing bird from Taiwan, in 2016 pigeon was found with note threatening Prime Minister Modi and in 2020 a bird belonging to Pakistani fisherman was released after it was ruled out that it was a spy who flew across the border

24-year-old Sasha and 63-year-old Marie-Juliette from the French group Riposte Alimentaire throw pumpkin soup at the painting Mona Lisa in the Louvre museum in Paris, saying the agricultural system is sick, that healthy and sustainable food is more important than art and that farmers are dying at work, the painting is undamaged according the museum which is forced to close for an hour to clean

Humanity's relationship with beds is long, it is believed that for most of our existence beds consisted of piles of leaves with pest resistant leaves on top, bed frames that began to appear 5,000 years ago can be seen at the ruins of the village of Skara Brae on the Orkey Islands, in Tutankhamun's tomb were six beds found, the Romans called them differently depending on the use case and the coil spring mattress was patented by a German man at the end of the 19th century

Icelanders are asked by the organization BirdLife Iceland to count birds for one hour between Friday and Sunday when the annual bird count takes place, only birds that land should be counted to avoid double counting and those who do not have a garden are asked to go to a public park

Mark Epstein does not believe his brother Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and wants a new investigation into his death on the grounds that if you look at all the evidence, including the autopsy, the photographs of his body and the DOJ report, you would never come up with the conclusion that this was a suicide