1. Almost 200 American prisons have closed in the past 20 years. Some have been turned into stylish apartment buildings! 🎉🥳
2. The Wangari Maathai Award for Environmental Leadership is given by various organizations to young environmental activists.
3. Koalas smell like cough syrups and sleep for 18 hours a day.
4. In Oct ‘23, there were 2.3million folks in Gaza. Trump announced wanting to resettle the “1.8million Gazans” remaining to Jordan & Egypt. This means 500,000 people were killed or ‘cleansed’.
5. Sea Otters have favourite rocks and often sleep holding hands.
6. Nelson Mandela Place - in Glasgow - was given that name at the height of the anti apartheid protests, precisely because the South African Consulate was located there. It was expert trolling; it forced their address to become:
The South African Consulate
Nelson Mandela Place
Glasgow, Scotland. 😂✊🏿
7. Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-sweeping “Not Like Us” is at once a Drake-slaying diss track, a No. 1 single, a West Coast unity anthem, a Kamala Harris rally singalong, a World Series fight song, and a bar mitzvah dance floor party-starter.
8. Chang and Eng Bunker were co- joined twins fused at their sternum and livers. They were brought to the US as a circus act, settled in North Carolina, married sisters and fathered 21 children.
9. Temperatures at the north pole soared more than 20C above average, crossing the threshold for ice to melt.
10. Some Inuits believe the northern lights are the spirits of hunted animals.