01 Jan 2022, 12:39 am
lostonearth35
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01 Jan 2022, 12:43 am
02 Jan 2022, 2:04 am
So shocking.... 
I remember Kirk Douglas, 103. Its more shocking these celebrities live that long, if anything.
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03 Jan 2022, 11:02 am
Does anyone know what her cause of death was 
I just heard that she passed away peacefully in her home which is probably one of the best ways to die if there is a good way to.
03 Jan 2022, 11:10 am
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05 Jan 2022, 9:26 am
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05 Jan 2022, 9:37 am
we all gotta go sometime. good ol' ms. white checked off all the usual bucket list boxes and much more. she had "been there and done that." so, IMHO the higher part of herself, her oversoul, called her home. in heaven she will be given a chance to rest up from the busy life she had, then she will likely busy doing good angelic works, perhaps even comparing notes with the spirit that was allen ludden. their agonizingly delayed reunion can be expected to be abounding with utter joy and at long last relieved longing. 
05 Jan 2022, 10:04 am
05 Jan 2022, 10:13 am
When beloved American actor and comedian Betty White died at the age of 99 on Dec. 31, 2021, no specific cause of death was immediately made public, though police said she appeared to have died from natural causes.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still a major public health concern, social media rumor-mongers were quick to invent a specific cause of death out of whole cloth: White, they claimed, died just three days after supposedly receiving a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot on Dec. 28.
Upon what evidence was this claim based? Only a fabricated quote -- something there’s no record of White actually saying — attributed to a Dec. 28 media interview in which the supposed quote does not actually appear.
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Source: This Snopes Article
05 Jan 2022, 10:45 am
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05 Jan 2022, 2:53 pm
05 Jan 2022, 3:32 pm
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/01/us/t ... index.html
It rained fish over a Texas town this week in a bizarre weather event
Earlier this week, residents of Texarkana reported small fish falling from the sky in what seemed like an epochal weather event. The reality was more mundane: The swimmers, many of them palm-sized, were likely picked up by a waterspout and dropped back down to earth as it lost momentum, the city told residents in a Facebook post.
The fish showers are an example of "animal rain," the city explained, and "while it's uncommon," it can happen when the weather is just right -- and the fish are just light enough.
The animals didn't originate in the sky before they started raining, of course -- rather, they were picked up off the ground by powerful waterspouts, which begin in the air and move down toward water's surface. As these spouts gain momentum, the vortex at the center of the waterspouts can start picking up small, light objects -- including fish. And when the waterspout loses energy, those small objects come falling back down, explains the Library of Congress.
Updrafts -- super-strong winds -- are more powerful than waterspouts and can pick up animals larger than skinny fish, according to National Geographic, including birds, bats, frogs and snakes.
The residents of Texarkana were by all accounts relatively nonplussed by the bizarre weather event. Tim Brigham told CNN affiliate KSLA he thought it was "pretty cool" to see tiny fish falling from the sky and useful, too -- he said he "started to get me a bucket and pick them up for fishing bait." The employees of Discount Wheel and Tire stepped away from the tires and instead started cleaning up their parking lot's surprise seafood platter.
Others shared photos of their own backyard fish finds after the city's Facebook page asked them to "show us your fishy pics." Most of them were no bigger than the palm of the hand of the resident who took the photo.
Texarkana's animal rain may be one of the only recorded instances of the phenomenon in the state, but California last saw the same thing in 2017, when elementary school officials in Oroville reported that 100 fish fell from the sky and onto school property. Fish have fallen from the sky in the town of Lajamanu in Australia's Northern Territory at least three times in the last 30 years, per the Weather Channel.
06 Jan 2022, 12:19 am
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06 Jan 2022, 7:50 am
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