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From The Cut<\/a>: “Over the next six years, 8 Passengers<\/em> would grow into one of the most-watched family YouTube channels of all time, amassing, at its peak, roughly 2.5 million subscribers and more than a billion views. Ruby and her husband, Kevin, distinguished themselves as a messy-but-wholesome alternative to the polished, world-traveling, Montessori-practicing parenting influencers taking over feeds. The most die-hard 8 Passengers<\/em> fans not only followed along on YouTube but also gathered in dedicated online forums, where they analyzed the affairs of the Franke family, of which they had encyclopedic knowledge. These fans were, in late 2019, among the first to realize something was off. In 8 Passengers<\/em>\u2019 posts, Ruby appeared colder, they thought; the couple\u2019s already stern parenting style had sharpened. Late in the summer of 2023, Ruby\u2019s two youngest children, then ages 9 and 12 were found hundreds of miles from home. They were wounded and emaciated, the victims of abuse by Ruby and Hildebrandt.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She set a new record by hiking the 2,197-mile Appalachian Trail in 40 days<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From I Run Far<\/a>: “On September 21, 2024, Tara Dower set a new overall supported fastest known time (FKT) on the Appalachian Trail, in a time of 40 days, 18 hours, and 5 minutes, to be confirmed. The Appalachian Trail stretches 2,197 miles from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in Georgia, and travels through New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Oftentimes considered the original long-trail thru-hike, it\u2019s an unrelenting path through the eastern U.S. The trail has 465,000 feet of elevation gain. Dower\u2019s mark surpasses Karel Sabbe\u2019s previous overall and men\u2019s supported FKT of 41 days, 7 hours, and 39 minutes, which he set in 2018.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note<\/strong>: This is a version of my When The Going Gets Weird newsletter, which I send out via Ghost, the open-source publishing platform. You can\u00a0see other issues\u00a0and sign up here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

One of the world\u2019s oldest board games is even older than we thought<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Popular Mechanics<\/a>: “Since the ancient board game\u2014more commonly known as \u201c58 Holes\u201d\u2014was first discovered in Egypt (in the late 19th<\/sup> century), the prevailing theory was that the ancient game was invented there. But that might turn out to be incorrect. A recent study published in the European Journal of Archaeology<\/em> details the discovery of six game boards on the Abseron Peninsula in present-day Azerbaijan, which rewrites the ancient history of a game already considered one the world\u2019s oldest. Carved into rock or chiseled onto a transportable piece of wood, theses boards were laid out with two parallel lines of 10 holes at their centers. An arc of 38 holes around the central 10 brings the total for each board 58 holes. Frequently, though, holes were marked or connected to one another with a line, likely meaning that pieces would move to connected holes, analogous to a modern day game of \u201cChutes and Ladders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They exposed a tax cheater so they got to split a $74 million reward<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From the Washington Post<\/a>: “The IRS recovered $263 million from a single individual, ending more than a decade of tax evasion and one of its biggest whistleblower cases ever, according to lawyers from three firms involved in the case. The three informants will split $74 million, nearly a third of the government\u2019s proceeds and the largest award allowed by law, the lawyers said. It\u2019s a major win for the IRS whistleblower program, which rewards people who expose high-dollar tax cheats. The whistleblowers, who plan to remain anonymous, helped expose \u201can offshore tax evasion scheme\u201d spanning about 15 years of tax returns. Due to recent IRS rule changes that allow whistleblowers to get paid once one taxpayer fulfills their tax debt, the three whistleblowers have already received their payments. They could still earn more money if the agency finds the other taxpayers liable for debts and is able to collect them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ernest Duchesne is the forgotten original discoverer of penicillin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Amusing Planet<\/a>: “In 1897, a young French medical student named Ernest Duchesne submitted a ground-breaking doctoral thesis in which he introduced a revolutionary idea that bacteria and moulds are locked in a constant struggle for survival, and this antagonism could be exploited for therapeutic use. Although the therapeutic properties of fungi and plants in treating infections was known since ancient times, it was Duchesne who showed experimentally that certain moulds destroyed pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella typhi<\/em> (which causes typhoid fever) and Escherichia coli<\/em> in laboratory cultures and when injected into guinea pigs. What Duchesne had discovered was the natural antibiotic penicillin\u2014an achievement typically credited to Scottish physician Alexander Fleming. Duchesne\u2019s work remained largely forgotten until it was rediscovered more than 50 years later, after Fleming was awarded the Nobel Prize.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual moving of the Forty Acre Bog on Lake Chippewa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Time-lapse of the annual moving of the Forty Acre Bog on Lake Chippewa. pic.twitter.com\/nDrgHrwJC6<\/a><\/p>— MachinePix (@MachinePix) September 24, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>