TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why (www.bbc.com)
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Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out, state officials have announced....
We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.
Who cares if nobody can work, the important is that those illegal streams are blocked
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cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5555641...
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Nearly two-thirds of Democrats say President Joe Biden should withdraw from the presidential race and let his party nominate a different candidate, according to a new poll, sharply undercutting his post-debate claim that “average Democrats” are still with him even if some “big names” are turning on him....
We all knew it
On a brisk day at a restaurant outside Chicago, Deb Robertson sat with her teenage grandson to talk about her death....
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12876226...