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👐🌴Neighbours in 🇬🇧 Beckenham, UK raised almost $4000 to send their beloved street cleaner Paul Spiers on a well-earned break 🏖🏖
Paul’s employer banned him from accepting the gift 😭 But in a heartwarming twist, he got his dream holiday anyway 😍
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13739499/Beloved-street-cleaner-63-reveals-moon-winning-dream-holiday-Portugal-bosses-initially-refused-let-accept-3-000-gift-raised-grateful-neighbours.html
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French actor Alain Delon has passed away at the age of 88.
https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2024/08/18/alain-delon-etoile-du-cinema-francais-est-mort_6285257_3382.html
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😱✈️ Private jet crashes at Le Lavandou airshow in southeastern 🇫🇷 France
Pilot's fate is unknown, rescue operation is still ongoing 🙏
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😍 Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin donated all animal memecoins he had acquired over the year to charity — that’s roughly $530 thousand!
The popularity of memecoins, as he believes, can be channeled towards charitable causes.
Do you agree? 🧐🫰
https://www.cryptonewsz.com/vitalik-buterin-donate-animal-memecoin-charity/
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🌸😍 Talented gardener grew a world record-breaking orchid plant with 159 stunning flowers 😮
Kevin English from 🇨🇦 Waterloo, Canada broke his own last year’s world record of 131 with an even bigger plant:
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/8/bloomin-talented-gardener-grows-stunning-orchid-with-record-159-flowers
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😱 🇺🇸 US school worker Vera Liddell sentenced to 9 years in prison for stealing 🍗 chicken wings worth $1.5m
11,000 cases of poultry were meant for 🧑🎓 students during the height of the 🦠 COVID-19 pandemic. The prosecutor's office does not specify what happened to the food
https://news.sky.com/story/school-worker-jailed-for-stealing-chicken-wings-worth-1-5m-13195879
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🎆 Paris 2024 Olympics are over with 🇺🇸 US as the winner!
The national team return home with 40🥇, 44🥈 and 42🥉
https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/medals
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🌘🧑🏼🚀 Are you excited for the first human settlements on the moon? 🇺🇸 U.S. researchers have devised a way to protect explorers from brutally freezing lunar nights! 🥶
Imagine the first-ever Statue of Liberty-sized streetlight🗽😮 The Honeybee Robotics, a private space technology company, has now received state funding to build it:
https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/researchers-want-to-build-streetlamps-on-the-moon-and-they-d-be-taller-than-the-statue-of-liberty
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Plane which crashed in Vinhedo, Brazil was carrying 62 people — G1
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😇 It's always nice to see caring people helping animals in trouble!
This poor 🦝 raccoon was rescued from a drain grate by firefighters and bystanders in 🇺🇸 North Cambridge, Massachusetts
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🔥😱 Dog set a house on fire in 🇺🇸 Tulsa, Oklahoma by chewing on a power bank.
The fire caused extensive damage to the house, but two 🐶 and a 🐱 fortunately escaped the blaze through a pet door
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🏄♂️ Good boys and girls competed at the World Dog Surfing Championships with a large crowd supporting them at 🏝Pacifica Beach in 🇺🇸 California this weekend.
The annual event helps to raise money for local charities since 2006 😍
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💸 🔽 Bitcoin's price has dropped to $50,000, almost a 30% decline over seven days.
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🤨 👀 A mother from Texas temporarily lost sight in one eye after taking a shower without removing her contact lenses. A parasite entered her eye and damaged her cornea.
🧐 After a year and 82 visits to the doctor, she received a corneal transplant from a deceased donor. Now, she can see something.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13702203/Texas-woman-eye-contact-lenses-parasite.html
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😺 Attention! The kitten has four ears!
https://people.com/abandoned-kitten-born-with-4-ears-at-tennessee-rescue-8687715
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🛥 🌪 Billionaire Mike Lynch, often referred to as the “British Bill Gates,” has gone missing following a yacht crash off the coast of Sicily. There were 22 people on board, 15 of whom have been rescued.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/19/four-britons-missing-yacht-sicily-live-latest/
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Creators of🪡 ‘Coraline’ and 🧟♂️ ‘ParaNorman’ released the first teaser from their upcoming film, 🦉‘Wildwood.’ Laika Studios spent more than 10 years making this dark top-motion fantasy 😯
It’s giving us the chills already! Are you excited? 🎬
https://youtu.be/Prv_FLWLlq8
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🐘😇 Look at this cute wild elephant and his new toy!
This playful elephant targeted an SUV at Khao Yai National Park in 🇹🇭 Thailand. Thankfully, no one got injured
https://borneobulletin.com.bn/playful-elephant-flips-suv-in-thailand-for-fun/
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😮 From one of the heaviest people in the history of mankind to the happy healthy young man in 10 years — a Saudi resident had lost 542 kg with the help of remarkable medics 🧑🏽⚕️💊
Read the astonishing story of Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari and his life-saving transformation 😍
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/saudi-man-loses-over-500-kilos-after-former-king-steps-in-to-help-6335384
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😱🐻 An unexpected guest was waiting in a classroom for Elaine Salmon, who was preparing for the coming school year in rural 🇺🇸 Southern California.
However, he was more interested in snacks 😋 than school admission 🎒😂
https://youtu.be/p3bfJV_uUxk
https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/bear-sneaks-into-teachers-classroom-and-learns-a-lesson-on-kindness
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🧊🥶 The world's largest iceberg got stuck in the South Atlantic Ocean 🌊
The A23a iceberg split from the Antarctic coastline 38 years ago. Now this giant, more than twice the size of 🇬🇧 London, is slowly rotating by a current that will eventually break it apart, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute reports.
Nature never ceases to amaze 😱
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🍎✨ First peek at the new Snow White: Disney shows teaser trailer of a live-action musical, expected in theaters March 21, 2025
https://youtu.be/TbiPcMCz0Ek
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😻🇺🇸 This Colorado cat is now a symbol of hope after surviving the Quarry Wildfire 🔥 with just minor injuries!
Firefighters found the pet covered in flame retardant in the burn area and took it to a local animal shelter. The cat is now reunited with its family 😍
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🇧🇷 In Brazil, a passenger plane has crashed, with up to 68 people possibly on board.
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🦜 A parrot named Apollo, with the intelligence of a small human child, has made it into the Guinness Book of Records. He identified 12 objects in 3 minutes. Wow!
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2024/8/meet-apollo-the-record-breaking-tiktok-parrot-with-the-intelligence-of-a-human-toddler
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🏔️“Not gonna lie, it made me cry.” Photos taken by a British couple 15 years apart show melting Swiss glaciers 😭🫠
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/06/it-made-me-cry-photos-taken-15-years-apart-show-melting-swiss-glaciers
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🇧🇩 Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has resigned and is believed to have left the country after a month of violent protests.
Hasina held the position for over 20 years across two terms (1996-2001 and 2009-2024). Her resignation came on the day protesters breached the grounds of her residence.
Protests demanding the end of the civil service quota system began in July. Over 280 people have died in clashes since.
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🤖 🦷 An AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, completing it about eight times faster than a human dentist could.
https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/robot-dentist-world-first/
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🇸🇴 At least 32 people have been killed and 63 injured in a suicide bombing and gun attack at a beach in the Somalia capital of Mogadishu, police said.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/03/terrorist-attack-mogadishu-beach-somalia
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We hope you're not eating right now.
🤨 A live two-foot eel and a lime were removed from an Indian man. 🤨
https://nypost.com/2024/08/01/world-news/live-2-foot-eel-chews-through-mans-intestines-after-he-put-it-up-his-anus/
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