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Human Rights Day – There are more people in slavery now than at any other time in human history.

10 Dec

According to research carried out by the organization Free the Slaves, more people are enslaved worldwide than ever before.
In its 400 years, the transatlantic slave trade is estimated to have shipped up to 12 million Africans to various colonies in the West. Free the Slaves estimates that the number of people in slavery today is [...]

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The smallest species of gorilla, the Western Lowland Gorilla, has the scientific classification ‘Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla’.

8 Dec

The west lowland gorilla, a subspecies of the Western Gorilla, is classified as critically endangered. As per usual with endangered species, they do sod-all to help themselves. They reproduce slowly because the females only become sexually at age nine or ten and then only bear children roughly once every five years. The males stand around [...]

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Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.

7 Dec

One of the least known facts about Beethoven is that he was not completely deaf, as Wikipedia states. In fact, in a letter written to Franz Gerhard Wegeler, his physician, he states…
“… It is curious that in conversation there are people who do not notice my condition at all; since I have generally been absent-minded, theey [...]