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TikTok’s Global Carbon Footprint Nearly Exceeds Greece’s, Study Finds

December 13, 2024 admin

An astonishing new study has claimed that TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is greater than most social media platforms and probably greater than that of Greece. An average user of the short-video app was generating greenhouse gases equivalent to driving an extra 198 kilometres in a gasoline-powered car each year, according to estimates from Greenly, as…

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Japan Airlines Combats Overcrowding With Same-Day Luggage Delivery Service

December 12, 2024 admin

Japan Airlines has launched a same-day luggage delivery service that offers foreign tourists arriving at Haneda Airport’s Terminal 3 an option to transport their bags straight to their hotels for a fee of 4,500 yen (about USD 29) per suitcase, reported CNN. The airline promises to deliver the luggage the same day, excluding weather or…

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Asteroid Collision To Plague-Like Outbreak And More

December 10, 2024 admin

As 2024 draws to an end, social media users have once again turned to the ‘prophet of doom’, Nostradamus, for their fill of 2025 predictions. Born Michel de Nostredame, Nostradamus was a French astrologer and physician who lived in the 1500s and predicted some of the modern-day epochal moments such as Adolf Hitler’s rise to…

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United Airlines Offers Free ‘Fantasy Flights’ To See Santa At North Pole

December 8, 2024 admin

US-based United Airlines is spreading Christmas cheer by offering free ‘Fantasy flights’ to children in need to the ‘North Pole’ to see Santa Claus. The flights will depart from 13 cities including Los Angeles London and Tokyo among others. One of the first “Fantasy Flight” took off from Honolulu on Saturday (Dec 7) bringing some…

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Anti-Israel Students Launch ‘Columbia Intifada’ Newspaper At US University

December 8, 2024 admin

A section of anti-Israeli students at Columbia University are being criticised after they distributed a hateful newspaper, “The Columbia Intifada” on the campus, according to a report in the NY Post. The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group printed 1,000 copies of the broadsheet and handed it out to students on the campus of…

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World’s Most Expensive Dinosaur Fossil ‘Apex’ Returns To NYC Museum

December 7, 2024 admin

A 150-million-year-old fossil of a Stegosaurus which became the most expensive dinosaur fossil ever sold earlier this year, has been put on display at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. The Stegosaurus, nicknamed Apex, will be available for public viewing for the next four years after billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, who bought the…

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Parents Awarded Rs 2,600 Crore After Son Falls To Death At Orlando Park Ride

December 7, 2024 admin

A jury in the US state of Florida has awarded $310 million (Rs 2,624 crore) to the family of a teenager who was killed after falling off a Free Fall Tower drop ride at Orlando’s ICON Park in 2022. Tyre Sampson was only 14 years old when he plummeted 70 feet from the ride at…

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JD Vance’s Picture With Wife’s Indian Family Goes Viral. Social Media Reacts

December 3, 2024 admin

US Vice President-elect JD Vance’s photo with his wife Usha Vance’s Indian family has gone viral on social media. In the picture, Mr Vance can be seen wearing a blue t-shirt and jeans while holding his son on his shoulder. His wife, dressed in a yellowish-brown outfit can be seen on the left side, holding…

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JD Vance’s Picture With Wife’s Indian Family Goes Viral. Social Media Reacts

December 3, 2024 admin

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Thesis Linking Body Odour With Racism Goes Viral. Internet Reacts

December 1, 2024 admin

A social media user recently took to X (formerly Twitter) to share they had completed their doctorate by presenting the dissertation and acing the “viva with no corrections”. While the news of acquiring a PhD would have been fairly innocuous and not invited much traction, the post instead went viral due to the choice of…

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