Senate Dems Want to Cancel All Student Lunch Debt—A 'Term So Absurd That It Shouldn't Even Exist' | U.S. Sen. John Fetterman said the aim of the bill is to "stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger." (www.commondreams.org)
Is this okay to send to a professor anonymously? My class smells so bad and it’s gotten to the point where I get sick if I stay too long. What else can I do? (old.reddit.com)
Russian officers who hadn't been paid by Moscow sold key intel on the Black Sea Fleet to Ukrainian resistance fighters. Then the headquarters blew up. (www.businessinsider.com)
TIL when US President Harding died unexpectedly in 1923, Vice President Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office at 2:47 AM, and promptly returned to bed. (en.wikipedia.org)
People laughed at Shaq for selling his shoes at Walmart, but he has sold over 200 million pairs of affordable shoes to families who are struggling. Prices start as low as only $12. Shaq is really a man of the people 🙏🏽 (old.reddit.com)
Brazilian man was hiking up a mountain when the hospital called his name on the waiting list to receive a kidney transplant. He wouldn't have enough time to get in there by road, so a helicopter was sent. Everything was paid by the brazilian public healthcare system (old.reddit.com)
Trump Goes Full Deranged, Suggests Charging People He Doesn’t Like With Treason: This is not a joke. Donald Trump is stating very plainly what he would do if reelected. (newrepublic.com)
TIL that when a Japanese pilot was accepted into the Kamikaze program, his wife drowned herself and their 1 and 4 year old daughters in a river so that he would have no distractions in carrying out his mission (news.bbc.co.uk)
Paul Barton is a pianist who once performed in front of packed concert halls in Yorkshire. He has traded that life for the jungles of Thailand, where he performs for blind and handicapped elephants. (old.reddit.com)
TIL: Local Indonesian mythology says that Orangutans actually have the ability to speak human languages, but choose not to, fearing they would be forced to get jobs and work if were they ever caught. (redapes.org)
Wife won “dinner for two” at her workplace as a reward for submitting safety occurrence reports. This is what "dinner for two" turned out to be. (old.reddit.com)
Trump, who led the longest government shutdown in US history, calls on Republicans to let it happen again in 9 days so they can 'defund these political prosecutions against me' (www.businessinsider.com)
Astarion actor says Baldur's Gate 3 players haven't found a hidden 2-hour section: "I'm one of the few people that knows about it" (www.gamesradar.com)
Single Dad turned up in a dress at Daughter's School for the Mother's Day event; he didn't want her daughter to miss out on anything or feel alone. (old.reddit.com)
Big brain elephant using his tusk to pull out a high voltage electrical fence. The bull successfully pulled out the fence pole and flattened the wire to allow its herd to pass (old.reddit.com)
Violinist Manami Ito lost her arm in a traffic accident and feared she would never play again. Now, thanks to a customised prosthetic, that’s all changing (old.reddit.com)
TIL that in the event that the moon landing failed and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin where stranded, NASA planned to end communication with the men, leaving them to either run out of oxygen or commit suicide with no further earthly contact (www.history.com)
TIL that as a student Missy Elliott scored so high on intelligence tests that she skipped two years in school. As a result of the move she felt isolated so she failed on purpose in order to return to her original class. (en.wikipedia.org)