17 hours ago, NUance said:
Facebook's $100 billion-plus rout is the biggest loss in stock market history
By Fred Imbert | Gina Francolla www.cnbc.com Published 2:26 PM ET Thu, 26 July 2018 Updated 17 Hours Ago
The social media giant's market capitalization plummeted by $119 billion to $510 billion as its stock price plummeted by 19 percent. At Wednesday's close, Facebook's market cap had totaled nearly $630 billion, according to FactSet. LINK
Wow, largest one-day drop in the history of the U.S. I guess that would be history of the world too, right?
Wild police chase end with car rolling and ejecting driver
98.1 KMBZ FM 21 hours ago
(FLORENCE, S.C.) -- A wild police chase straight out of "Grand Theft Auto" ended with the woman's SUV rolling over three times and ejecting her from the car. Somehow, the 24-year-old South Carolina woman survived. LINK
What happens when you let computers optimize floorplans
By / Rob Beschizza / 5:59 AM MON JUL 30, 2018 www.boingboing.net
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Weird things on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokurokubi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agogwe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Doll
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant (NSFW: Penis warning!)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_methods_of_torture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipping_Tom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingoodie_artefact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_death_worm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Tanzler
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No kidding: Dozens of goats chow down in Idaho neighborhood
Boise, Idaho • About 100 escaped goats have munched on manicured lawns in Idaho’s capital city before being rounded up and hauled away.
It's not clear where the goats came from or how they got loose.
Goats are sometimes let loose in the nearby Boise foothills to eat wild plants and reduce wildfire threats.