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9 Mar 2023
This is Minik.
It’s 1897, and in this photo, he’s around 7 years old.
But little does he know -
His life will soon tragically take a turn for the worse, all because of a North Pole explorer and a New York City museum.
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7 Jan 2024
Two trekkers in the Rwandan jungle, a camera, and finally — irrefutable evidence that it’s not just me who eats like a “damn animal”:
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3 Jan 2024
“As an American, what’s your deepest, darkest fear?”
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5 Oct 2023
Today I learned there's a university in Punjab called Lovely Professional University...
And lovely and professional it is! LPU is among the top 50 universities in all of India.
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26 Sep 2023
Wow.
26 Sep 2023
We need to move fast
Autonomous cars are coming and this will decrease the number of organs available for transplant by 33%
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21 Sep 2023
Today I learned:
21 Sep 2023
Why is a shot called a shot?
A shot is called a shot because in the Wild West, they didn't carry cash on them, but they all carried bullets. So, at the bar, they could slap a bullet on the bar and ask for "a shot's worth of whiskey." At the end of the day, the owner would swap a jar of bullets for $$$ at the gun store.
Everything is payment ops.
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17 Sep 2023
I know it’s been said, but man Season 2 of The Bear is television at its finest
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11 Sep 2023
“Stop crying,” he told her. “I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.” newyorker.com/magazine/2002/…
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25 Aug 2023
Eugene Debs earned nearly 1 million votes (3.4%) in the 1920 US Presidential election…
All from behind bars.
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19 Aug 2023
The Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
18 Aug 2023
Where is the most interesting place you've traveled to?
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13 Aug 2023
I re-watch Band of Brothers in its entirety every 4-5 years, and honestly it gets better each time.
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14 Aug 2023
Yesterday marked three years since the Abraham Accords were announced, so now seems like a good time to re-share my experience as a Jew living in the United Arab Emirates...
An experience that all started eight years ago with a (broken) promise to Mom:
17 Sep 2021
I moved to the UAE in 2015 as a 21-year-old and promised my (crazy) loving mother two things:
1) I’d wear my seatbelt anytime I was in a car.
2) I wouldn’t tell anyone I was Jewish.
Now, over six years later, I reflect on my Jewish life in the UAE and how things have changed:
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12 Aug 2023
This dude has the hand eye coordination of a park bench
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11 Aug 2023
Interact is one way to put it, as I learned the hard (and romantic) way back in 2016.
11 Aug 2023
Giraffe Manor in Nairobi, Kenya is a a hotel where you can eat with giraffes and interact with them.
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11 Aug 2023
Instead of “Yehudi” (Jew), the Arabic subtitles read “ghareeb” (foreigner/stranger).
And when mentioning the Nazi persecution of Jews, the subtitles referred to the Jews as the Nazis’ “aadauhum” (enemy).
10 Aug 2023
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10 Aug 2023
Ok so maybe I’ve been living under a rock but I’m watching a documentary on North Korea and just found out how Kim Jong-nam was assassinated?
As in, the half brother of Kim Jong Un?
It starts in 2016 when a guy who goes by “James” - a purported TV producer - approaches Siti Aisyah in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
James asks Siti if she wants to be featured in a “comedy show” that involves “pranking people”.
Siti figures “why not?” and for months, both she and another woman named Đoàn are instructed by “James” and his crew to “ambush unsuspecting members of the public” by smothering their faces with “cosmetic creams”.
These strange facials of sorts, they’re told, are all part of a haha-very-funny hidden camera TV show.
But it’s not a hidden camera TV show.
It’s practice.
Because on February 13th, 2017, Siti and Đoàn’s handler (unbeknownst to them) swaps their typical “body lotion and baby oil” for a “deadly nerve agent”.
Their target?
Kim Jong-nam, an alleged CIA informant and half-brother of the Supreme Leader of North Korea.
With their hands unknowingly covered in poison, Siti and Đoàn are ordered to rub the face of “the man in the grey suit” at Kuala Lumpur International Airport and that if they do a “good job”, they’ll get a “bonus”.
Well, they do a “good job”.
Because the man in the grey suit - Kim Jong-nam - is dead less than 30 minutes later.
Fortunately, Siti and Đoàn’s murder charges are dropped after two years.
Wild.
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9 Aug 2023
Every face on a US dollar bill has always been that of a dead guy.
Well...
Except one.
His name was Spencer M. Clark, and you'll hardly believe what he pulled off to get his own damn face on the five-cent bill back in 1866.
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9 Aug 2023
Like this story? Learn something new today?
Follow me @DavidZabinsky for more just like this one.
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9 Aug 2023
If you like stories about trolls like Spencer M. Clark (and who doesn't?), then you'll love this one:
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22 Feb 2023
With a population of "normally like two people", it’s the world's smallest country (seen here).
But where Sealand lacks in size, it most certainly doesn’t lack in shocking history…
One that includes the Russian mafia, helicopter sneak attacks, and a whole lot more.
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