Ten Things: Did You Know...?

Himba women apply red ochre as a daily beauty ritual/BBC.

Nuanced news nuggets picked from the press.

1. Having survived genocide by German troops in the 1900s, Namibia's Himba people are now facing a bigger threat to their way of life - encroaching modernity.
2. The winner of a British beauty pageant says she has handed back her crown after being told she was "too big" and needed to go on a diet.
3. The Home Office has apologised for telling a man who has lived in Britain his entire life that he must leave the country or face the prospect of jail.
4. A Marvel star has slated 'racist' Hollywood over her forced name change from Chloe Wang to Chloe Bennet in order to make it in the industry.
5. President Trump has said "all options are on the table" after North Korea fired a missile over Japan.
6. Parts of Texas have been hit by more than 50in of rainfall since Hurricane Harvey landed on 25 August, setting new records before it was downgraded to a tropical depression.
7. The US has approved the first treatment to redesign a patient's own immune system so it attacks cancer.
8. Nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, is taken by hundreds of thousands of people every year as a recreational drug.
9. Autumn can worsen anxiety and depression.
10. You can turn the dead into vinyl records.

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