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CNN founder Ted Turner, a pioneer of cable TV news, dies at 87 (r/news)
- WREPGB: He’s been alive this whole time?
- hybridaaroncarroll: One thing I’m grateful for what he accomplished: TCM. Saving many old movies from the dustbin of celluloid history was a massive win for nerds like me.
- RipErRiley: The guy just dipped his feet into pro wrastlin and dethroned Vince McMahon temporarily. Impressive. Cable news? Meh.
South Korean judge who hiked ex-first lady’s jail sentence found dead just 8 days after sentencing (r/worldnews)
- HarlequinKOTF: Not suspicious at all.
- TheoreticalResearch: Creepy ass woman, creepy ass family.
- Grimtongues: Shin Jong-oh beat himself to death, dumped his body into a flower bed outside the courthouse, and then wrote a suicide note saying he was leaving this world voluntarily… seems legit
Alleged suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein unsealed by federal judge (r/news)
- ScottScanlon: And this thing just magically appears six years later. Totally believable.
- mrdominoe: Was it written on some bullets?
- sirdodger: They unsealed that pretty quickly after they found it. Funny that the rest of the files are going to remain sealed and redacted until it’s been so long that their provenance becomes in doubt and any witnesses and corroborating evidence are long gone.
What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? (r/AskReddit)
- Critical_Physics_770: Prions
- cmayfi: Ants measure distance by counting their steps. Scientists proved this by taking some ants out of a line and putting tiny stilts on them. Those ants then over shot the food source they were going too
- scary_warrior: Grizzly bears run as fast as the average horse
TIL Krakatoa’s eruption was estimated to be at 310 dB, the loudest sound ever. Well above the typical max sound limit of 194 dB (r/todayilearned)
- mryazzy: People forget decibels are logarithmic, not linear. This doesn’t mean twice the noise generated by a rock concert. It is many orders of magnitude louder.
- WontThinkStraight: How many decibels would the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs have been? Feels like that would have been louder.
- SpunNumeroUno: I wonder what it actually sounded like, just an explosion or something more complex… Hmm