Ten Things: Did You Know...?

Las Vegas sees the deadliest shooting in modern US history/GETTY.

Nightmarish news nuggets picked from the press.

1. A 29 year-old white man has been charged with the attempted murder of a 15 year-old Muslim teenager who was stabbed close to a Birmingham mosque in England.
2. Over 50 people have been killed with at least 500 injured in a mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert when local resident, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel toward the open-air music festival being held close by.
3. The leader of Catalonia has declared that the Spanish region deserves the right to become an independent state following Sunday's unofficial referendum, marred by large-scale violence.
4. Rock star Marilyn Manson was injured during a concert in New York when a large piece of stage scenery fell on him on stage.
5. Tattoos are viewed with suspicion in South Korea, where the country's laws and culture makes it tough to get inked.
6. In the highlands of Madagascar for centuries, Betsileo men have hosted "Savika" bull wrestling tournaments to win the hearts of local women.
7. New Zealand's 2003 Prostitution Reform Act allows brothels to operate as legitimate businesses, a model often hailed as the safest option for women in the sex trade.
8. The UK is promising "the country's biggest ever peacetime repatriation" as it co-ordinates efforts to bring home 110,000 customers currently overseas following the collapse of Monarch Airlines, the UK's fifth largest airline.
9. Charles Coolidge Parlin is widely recognised as the world's first professional market researcher and the man who invented the idea of market research.
10. Computers are being trained to beat you in an argument.

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