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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Ten Things: Did You Know...?

Stonehenge
DNA suggests Anatolian ancestors built Stonehenge/BBC.

News nuggets picked from the press.

  1. Sri Lanka is in shock after a wave of Easter bombings targeting churches and hotels left at least 359 people dead and about 500 injured. Most of those killed are Sri Lankan nationals, but officials say at least 38 foreigners are among the dead - including British, Indian, Danish, Dutch, Swiss, Spanish, US, Australian and Turkish nationals.
  2. The New IRA has admitted carrying out the murder of journalist Lyra McKee, according to the Irish News.
  3. Almost half of the child sexual abuse images reported to the Internet Watch Foundation last year were hosted in the Netherlands, the organisation says.
  4. Pop star Pink won't post any more pictures of her children on social media after receiving a backlash for previous posts.
  5. A wanted man in England was caught after he posted on his own police appeal on social media.
  6. The qwerty layout was designed for the convenience of telegraph operators transcribing Morse code and not for typists.
  7. Fans of low-fidelity art app Microsoft Paint are rejoicing after it was confirmed it would remain a part of the Windows operation system "for now".
  8. Across Germany, evacuations for old World War Two bombs sometimes involve entire populations.
  9. An Austrian deputy mayor has resigned amid mounting criticism over a poem he wrote about migration that compared humans to rodents.
  10. The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown. The Neolithic inhabitants were descended from populations originating in Anatolia (modern Turkey) .

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