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From Toronto Life magazine<\/a>: “Amira and Nadya Gill were well-known on campus. The ambitious twins seemed to excel at everything they did. Amira was pursuing her master\u2019s in civil engineering, and she was a reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces. Nadya, a former NCAA soccer player, juggled her duties as an assistant coach for the women\u2019s soccer team with law school, and she was an associate editor for the Queen\u2019s Law Journal<\/em>, and a board member for the school\u2019s student law society. Throughout their studies, they won a number of awards and scholarships. And everyone knew they were Indigenous, a status they wore with pride. But then some holes started appearing in their stories.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He died in a Jewish ghetto. How did his art end up on a bench in San Francisco?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From the SF Standard<\/a>: “Jermaine Joseph, a city employee for the Port of San Francisco, was doing his maintenance rounds at Crane Cove Park on a sunny morning in May 2022 when he spotted something unusual: nearly 50 abandoned pieces of art arranged on a cement bench.\u00a0\u201cIt was really strategically set out in a nice pattern,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd looking at the frames and the paper, you could tell someone put a lot of time into them.\u201d\u00a0Joseph knew the artworks had not been there for long\u2014no morning dew had collected on them. But there was no evidence of an owner anywhere on-site.\u00a0Thirty-eight of the 48 pieces\u2014which included drawings, prints and paintings crafted with an obviously skilled hand\u2014had variations of the name Ary Arcadie Lochakov.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Weight-loss drug Ozempic was inspired by Gila monster venom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From The Conversation<\/a>: “Scientists found that a hormone in the Gila monster\u2019s venom called exendin-4 could be used to treat type 2 diabetes. Exendin-4 is similar to a hormone found in humans called GLP-1, which is released after eating and is important for controlling blood sugar levels in humans. Research into extendin-4 yielded semaglutide, a derivative of the molecule but one that will stay in the body for far longer. And that\u2019s how Wegovy and Ozempic, which both contain semaglutide, came into being. The Gila monster is not the only reptile to inspire groundbreaking drugs: the venom of the Brazilian pit viper inspired a class of drugs known as ACE inhibitors.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When people were convinced that killing vampires would cure tuberculosis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Now I Know<\/a>: “Today, tuberculosis is treatable, but for centuries, it was widespread and often fatal; in the mid-1800s, according to the CDC, tuberculosis killed one out of every seven people living in the United States and Europe. Understandably, the people of that time period did everything they could to stop the spread of TB, such as sending patients to warmer climates, inhaling turpentine, massaging themselves with vinegar \u2014 and by digging up dead bodies and burning their hearts. For centuries, TB was known as \u201cconsumption,\u201d so named because patients would suffer extreme weight loss, develop horrible coughs, and become pale, as if the life was being sucked out of them \u2014 which, coincidentally, sounded like something pretty vampiric.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The epic feud that shook the foundations of the Sriracha empire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Yahoo News<\/a>: “On the day that the foundation of Craig Underwood\u2019s business collapsed, he was on vacation in Hawaii. It was November 2016, and the California farmer had just completed a perfect pepper harvest\u2014another high point for a business that was the sole supplier of juicy red jalape\u00f1os for sriracha, Huy Fong Foods\u2019 iconic fiery-red chili-garlic sauce. The sauce was the brainchild of David Tran, who had first devised the recipe and sold the stuff in L.A. in 1980 as a Vietnamese refugee. Tran and Underwood had been partners and friends for 30 years. Then Underwood got the call that the relationship had ended due to an argument over payment for next season\u2019s crop.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Sherlock Holmes and the other female sleuths who were written out of history<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From The Guardian<\/a>: “Fresh research has revealed that, in real life, women have been at the sleuthing game for as long as men. And they were, in fact, often more sought-after due to their particular skillsets. Prominent among them is the trained opera singer Annette Kerner, who began her undercover career in the 1940s after flirting with a passenger on a channel crossing who turned out to be an intelligence officer observing a suspected spy. He asked her to get hold of the suspect\u2019s suitcase, which Kerner claimed she calmly did. After founding the Mayfair Detective Agency, Kerner became expert at donning disguises, transforming at will into a charlady, a society hostess or an opium addict, with the help of a few deft costume alterations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genghis Khan really didn’t want his burial site to be found<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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To keep Genghis Khan\u2019s burial a secret, all 2,000+ people who attended his funeral were executed. The executioners were then killed by members of his escort, who took their own lives when they reached their destination. The site still remains undiscovered to this day. pic.twitter.com\/sIiJprSvJc<\/a><\/p>— Creepy.org (@creepydotorg) February 26, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>