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4 years ago+20 20 0South African man arrested for lying and eating free KFC for a year. Twitter calls him a legend
A 27-year-old student was arrested for eating at KFC for free for a year in South Africa. He used to tell the employees that he was sent from the KFC headquarters for quality check. The man whose name has not been disclosed was a student of the Unive ...
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4 years ago+21 21 0187 countries -- not including the US -- agree to restrict global plastic waste trade
The governments of 187 countries have agreed to control the movement of plastic waste between national borders, in an effort to curb the world's plastic crisis -- but the United States was not among them. Nations agreed to add plastic to the Bas ...
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4 years ago+17 17 0The True Story Of "Chernobyl" Will Devastate You
On the surface, the expansive Sky Atlantic mini-series Chernobyl does exactly what the title indicates: Unspool the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant over the course of five nail-biting episodes. But creator Craig Mazin thinks Cherno ...
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4 years ago+10 10 0EA reveal plans to release Apex Legends on mobile devices
The battle royale genre was taken by storm when Respawn Entertainment launched Apex Legends on February 4, and its success has sent a message to EA to get it into more players’ hands. Apex Legends hit the ground running as soon as it launched as it g ...
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4 years ago+4 4 0Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses
Newly obtained tax information reveals that from 1985 to 1994, Donald J. Trump’s businesses were in far bleaker condition than was previously known.
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4 years ago+6 6 0Scientists warn a million species at risk of extinction
One million animal and plant species are at imminent risk of extinction due to humankind’s relentless pursuit of economic growth, scientists said on Monday in a landmark report on the devastating impact of modern civilization on the natural world.
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4 years ago+16 16 0EU to launch formal competition inquiry into Apple over Spotify’s complaints
In March, we covered Spotify’s It’s time to play fair campaign where the company laid out reasons it felt Apple wasn’t playing fair. Like most services, Apple obligates Spotify to pay a 30% cut in order to use in-app purchases when signing up new sub ...
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4 years ago+7 7 0Two Giant Killer Hornet Colonies Battle to the Death
A giant killer hornet war is waged between two colonies, and the resources, territories, and survival of a new generation are at stake. Watch the battle unfold as these huge hornets risk their lives for their kingdoms.
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4 years ago+22 22 030 countries unite over Huawei 5G security concerns
Security officials from 30 countries have hammered out a common approach to wireless network safety, responding to concerns over equipment made by Chinese company Huawei Technologies. The non-binding proposal warns governments against relying on supp ...
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4 years ago+4 4 0Why Martin Scorsese Likes Netflix: ‘They Came Up With the Money and the Freedom’
Martin Scorsese is gearing up for a busy 2019 with two major film projects set for release. First up is the director’s summer music documentary “Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese,” followed by his expensive gangster movie “T ...
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4 years ago+9 9 0Secrets of solar system formation revealed by cosmic dust
A tiny grain of stardust — older than the solar system itself — sheds light on how planetary systems like ours form. A microbe-sized particle — a graphite grain originating from a nova explosion which occurred over 4.5 billion years ago — has been l ...
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5 years ago+15 15 0At least 4 potential whistleblower calls made to FAA about Boeing 737 Max
The Federal Aviation Administration has received at least four calls from potential Boeing employee whistleblowers about issues with the company's new 737 Max jetliner, CBS News has confirmed. The calls began coming in within hours of Ethiopian ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Scientists use LHC to hunt dark matter siblings
Dark matter has long frustrated researchers. It seems to make up most of our universe, yet it barely interacts with that universe. And despite a plethora of active experiments hunting for dark matter, so far they’ve all turned up empty. That has some ...
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5 years ago+17 17 0Massive Death Of Emperor Penguins In Antarctica Due To Weather
It is a hecatomb in Antarctica: scientists warn about the serial death of thousands of emperor penguin babies. In question, particularly hot weather for three years. The second colony in the world has almost disappeared. Every year, 25,000 emperor pe ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0The US could have a huge say in China's future
As leaders and officials gather in Beijing this week for the second Belt and Road summit, they will do so nearly three decades since the key economies of Asia began stitching back together the Silk Roads that linked them before five centuries of colo ...
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5 years ago+18 18 0Ancient DNA of Crusaders Reveals Warriors Were Also Lovers
Between the years 1095 and 1291 A.D., Christian invaders fought a series of religious wars against Muslim armies in the Near East—primarily to secure control of important holy sites—in what we refer to today as the Crusades. Now, a DNA study publishe ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0Former University of Texas coach admits to taking $100K bribe in college scam
Michael Center, 55, is the third coach to plead guilty in the nationwide scandal that has also ensnared wealthy parents.
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5 years ago+4 4 010 Lessons I Learned From Making Many Mistakes in My 20s
One of the biggest mistakes we make is that we assume we always learn from our mistakes. I’ve met enough people who learned little from their own stupidity. We all know these people. In fact, we probably are these people. You know why? It’s damned ha ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Loot Box Practices Coming Under Heavy Fire
It is no secret, that loot box practices have saturated the lifeblood of the video games industry. What was once a flash in the pan concept, is now a proliferating issue set to spiral out of hand. In truth, most, if not all triple-A releases, contain ...
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5 years ago+10 10 0Seven seconds of Spiderman viewing yields a 20% phobia symptom reduction
Summary: Study reports people with insect phobias reported a 20% reduction in symptoms following seven-seconds of exposure to the superhero movies Spiderman and Antman.Source: Bar-Ilan University