Happy 49th birthday to David “Big Papi” Ortiz. The Dominican-American slugger spent nearly his whole career at the Boston Red Sox where he played a key role in breaking the 86-year World Series drought. He was elected into the MLB Hall of Fame in 2022, at the first year of his…
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151 years ago today, the Rival cities of Buda and Pest put their differences aside and their names together to form Budapest—the capital of Hungary still to this day. Divided by the Danube, the two cities were very different despite their proximity. The residents of Pest, on the eastern bank, were…
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A rare pink pigeon has been hand-reared at a UK zoo for the first time, using an innovative method for feeling baby birds. Found in the wild only on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, pink pigeons have been on the endangered ‘red list’ for both the IUCN…
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There’s no doubt that exercise does a body good—strengthening muscles and bolstering our bones, blood vessels, and immune system—but now, MIT engineers have found that it also has benefits at the level of individual neurons. They observed that when muscles contract during exercise, they release a soup of biochemical signals called…
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There’s an old adage that good things come to those who wait. But sometimes, it takes a shot in the dark or a leap of faith. CTV recently shared the story of a Canadian photographer who was able to photograph Taylor Swift on her recent Eras tour—all because when she was…
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A couple in Arkansas have emptied their savings and wedding fund to save a 10-month old dog found stricken by the side of the road. Weeks have passed, and their their love has inspired $39,000 in donations to help save the pooch and replace the money they so self-sacrificingly forked over…
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In the Washington county of San Juan, the transition to a 32-hour, or 4-day workweek, has generated a year’s worth of data that has county workers excited. The cash-strapped San Juan had projected that the union-negotiated salary rises would climb above the payroll budget for the year, and the reduction in…
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