Ten Things of Time and Tiny

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1. Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson has said she never wants to be prime minister because she values her "mental health too much".
2. Elderly people in good health should not take an aspirin a day, according to a major study in the US and Australia.
3. An 82-year-old man has been delivering newspapers in his Derbyshire village since 1947. John Cooper has claimed that, at 71 years of service, he is the world's longest-serving paperboy.
4. Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge has smashed the marathon world record, clocking a time of two hours one minute 39 seconds in Berlin.
5. Big Brother being axed in the UK after 18 years is "not a great loss" because it was going in an "awful direction", says one former winner. But it might not be the end of the reality TV staple, as the production company Endemol did hint "about future possibilities".
6. The American space agency has launched a laser into orbit to measure the condition of Earth's ice cover. The satellite mission, called ICESat-2, should provide more precise information on how these frozen surfaces are being affected by global warming.
7. Scientists have discovered three new species of “hardcore” fish living in one of the deepest parts of the ocean, the see-through, scale-free creatures perfectly adapted to conditions that would instantly kill most life on Earth.
8. Two rare, mummified animals have been discovered by gold miners in Canada. It is extremely rare for fur, skin and muscle tissues to be preserved in the fossil record, but all three are present on the ice age wolf pup and caribou, which have been radiocarbon-dated to more than 50,000 years old.
9. Until recently, it was assumed that bread must have emerged with the first large scale grain agriculture around 10,000 years ago. But a Canadian anthropologist found a cave in Mozambique containing pounding stones, with the wild grain still imbedded in them, which dated back to 100,000 years ago.
10. Sweating in a steamy room is considered a luxury in most countries, but for the Finns it’s an everyday occurrence and a hugely important part of their national identity. The genesis of the country’s sauna culture is difficult to trace but there is evidence of Finnish saunas existing since 7000 BC.

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