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actually, i’m not just gonna leave that in the tags: Catholics used the Holocaust as an opportunity to steal and convert Jewish children. Catholic authorities refused to return the Jewish children they “saved” to their families after the Holocaust ended. we have no idea how many children we lost. 

they used our genocide to steal our babies.

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Me: *falling asleep to an audiobook on the science of the gut*

Book: saliva is actually filtered blood!

Me: ʕʘ‿ʘʔ

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Apparently this guy was at his mother in law’s house and they were all going through photo albums and he sees he photobombed his wife 11 years before they even met. I fucking love this.

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The Temple of Quechula was built in 1564 and abandoned in the 1700s because of a plague.

Source

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Today on “rules of English language I didn’t realise were a thing until someone pointed it out”

#words #language #english

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This week in crazy news headlines

UK surgeon finds 27 missing contact lenses in woman’s eye The 67-year-old patient was unaware that the contact lenses were missing, and later told surgeons that she thought her discomfort was due to dry eye and old age. (OT Today)

Walmart’s Website Really Described A Wig Cap As ‘N****r-Brown’ Following the backlash, the racial slur disappeared from the description for the wig cap... But Twitter users noted that the offensive description was still listed further down on the page. Walmart eventually took the listing down. (HuffPost)

R. Kelly Is Holding Women Against Their Will In A “Cult,” Parents Told Police As the R&B legend tours the country this summer, parents have told police that R. Kelly is running an abusive "cult" that's tearing families apart. (Buzzfeed)

Like magic, US students owing $5 billion of debt might suddenly owe nothing. All thanks to a fluke in paperwork, rather than politics or beneficence. (Quartz)

Notorious 86-Year-Old International Thief Doris Payne Arrested Again Payne is believed to have stolen about $2 million worth of items throughout the 60 years of her criminal history. (The Root)

Tyrannosaurus rex couldn’t run says new research The sheer size and weight of T. rex means it couldn’t move at high speed, as its leg-bones would have buckled under its own weight load. (University of Manchester)

Half of All Plastic That Has Ever Existed Was Made in the Past 13 Years Plastic production is rapidly accelerating, according to an ambitious new paper—but only 9 percent of it gets recycled. (The Atlantic)

Boy trips, falls and discovers million-year-old Ice Age fossil Jude Sparks said he literally fell on the 1.2-million-year-old skull of a stegomastodon while on a hike with his parents. (CBSNews)

Coffee with Viagra-like ingredient recalled after FDA discovery “Desmethyl carbodenafil is structurally similar to sildenafil, the active ingredient in Viagra, an FDA-approved prescription drug for erectile dysfunction,” the FDA said in a statement. (Washington Post)

#news #list

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From the Pew Research Center: A new analysis of Pew Research Center survey data from fall 2016 finds that 53% of Millennials (those ages 18 to 35 at the time) say they used a library or bookmobile in the previous 12 months.

#news #millennials #libraries #public library

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Why are these gifs relevant? This week in music  + news

After 27 Years, Kermit The Frog Is Getting A New Voice Steve Whitmire, the puppeteer who for 27 years has performed as Kermit the Frog, will be replaced by longtime show veteran Matt Vogel. (NPR)

Stop Trying to Break Into Drake's House A security guard spotted an unidentified man in the backyard of Drake’s California mansion Thursday night. (SPIN)

Prince Estate's $31 Million Distribution Deal Is Rescinded Universal accused representatives of the estate of fraud and misrepresentation during negotiations and threatened a lawsuit if the company was not allowed to withdraw from the deal and get its money back. (NYTimes)

Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller reports to prison to serve 366-day sentence The former “Dance Moms” star, 50, has reported to the Victorville Federal Correctional Institution in California to serve her 366-day sentence for bankruptcy fraud. (People)

‘Atlanta’ Is Lone Freshman Comedy to Break Through 2017 Emmys Overall, “Atlanta” earned six Emmy nominations. (Variety)

John Oliver & Stephen Colbert on Russia, Evolution of “Stupid Watergate”: “We’re Turbo-F***ed” There is a kind of uncanny, surrealist feeling to the entire situation. (The Mary Sue)

#list #news #music news #links

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Book of the day: The Drowned World (1962 sci-fi novel)

The Drowned World is a 1962 science fiction novel by British writer J. G. Ballard. The novel features a central character who, rather than being disturbed by the end of the old world, is enraptured by the chaotic reality that has come to replace it. The novel is an expansion of an out of print novella of the same title published in Science Fiction Adventures magazine in January 1962, Vol. 4, No. 24.

#books #book recommendations #book of the day

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Just reading the news in 2017 like...

#waka flocka #news

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George Bush doesn't care about Black people.

Kanye West, 2005

#quote #kanye west

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#music #music recommendation #playlist

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*figure out how to publish music playlists on tumblr*

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This week in news headlines that make you say “wut”

7,500 pounds of live eels spill onto Oregon highway, coat cars in slime – CBS News

Teens kill endangered birds, setting back conservation efforts 10 years – The Florida-Times Union

The sideways elevator of the future is here, and it is wild -- WIRED

White House releases sensitive personal information of voters worried about their sensitive personal information – WashingtonPost

A Delaware-sized iceberg has broken off of the Antarctic Peninsula -- PRI

#news #list