PLATT - CURATED News

GENERAL INTEREST
Spot the amateur! Don't pre-order an in-flight vegetarian meal if you want an upgrade and always put a shoe in the hotel safe: 10 expert traveling tips from airline crew
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6645193/10-expert-travelling-tips-flight-attendant-Neil-Jackson.html

Alberta: Our 51st state?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/01/alberta_our_51st_state.html

HEALTH
• The Daily Mail reported on Dec. 14 that a Chinese man identified only as Peng, 37, was hospitalized in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, after he complained of a cough and chest pains. As doctors examined him, Peng admitted that he is "addicted to smelling his socks that he had been wearing." The pain in his chest, it turns out, was a fungal infection he had inhaled from his socks. While Peng is expected to make a full recovery, other people 'fessed up on Chinese social media that they have the same habit: "The reason I smell my socks is to know if I can continue wearing them the next day!" one commenter said. Another pledged to "wash my socks every day now." [Daily Mail, 12/14/2018] 

BUSINESS
Chick-Fil-A Commits To Using 100% Born-Again Chickens
https://babylonbee.com/news/chick-fil-a-commits-to-using-100-born-again-chickens
  
ROCKS IN FIRST
http://www.appleseeds.org/big-rocks_covey.htm



SPORTS
During Super Bowl 2019, you’ll see a female football player on your TV
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/during-super-bowl-2019-youll-see-a-female-football-player-on-your-tv-2019-02-02

WEATHER
Minnesota Man Forced To Warm Himself In Tauntaun Carcass
https://babylonbee.com/news/minnesota-man-forced-to-warm-himself-in-tauntaun-carcass

CLIMATE CHANGE
56 Million Native American Deaths Caused by European Colonizers Changed Earth's Climate, Study Says 
https://www.ecowatch.com/native-americans-colonization-climate-change-2627721578.html

NATURE
Wildlife is thriving in Chernobyl as scientists snap adorable image of an otter living in the Exclusion Zone
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6657305/Otter-spotted-Chernobyl-Exclusion-Zone-wildlife-continues-thrive.html

ORNITHOLOGY
Pennsylvania bird-watchers spot stunning rare cardinal that's half male and half female
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6658515/Pennsylvania-bird-watchers-spot-stunning-rare-cardinal-male-female-traits.html

TECHNOLOGY
A fact about electric cars I didn't know
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/

DEFENSE
Bombshell report finds some F35 fighter jets will only fly for a QUARTER of their expected life because of 'major structural issues'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6658797/US-F35-fighter-jets-fly-QUARTER-expected-life-structural-issues.html

VENEZUELA
Venezuelan general backs Guaido and urges mass protests as Maduro calls for early elections
https://news.yahoo.com/venezuelan-air-force-general-deserts-173611334.html

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which you can never afford to Lose – with the discipline to confront
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