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‘Chocolate snow’ falls over Swiss town after Lindt factory accident
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
Dreams do come true — or at least they do in Switzerland, where chocolate fell from the sky due to a malfunction at the Lindt & Sprüngli factory in the town of Olten. The chocolate maker says a ventilation problem launched cocoa powder into the open air outside its facility last...
Military helicopter shot at over northern Virginia, crew member injured
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago • LOCKED
The FBI is investigating the shooting of a U.S. Air Force helicopter as it flew over northern Virginia on Monday. One crew member had a minor injury, according to the FBI and the Air Force. The UH-1N Huey helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing at a nearby airport and a bullet was...
Teen shoots two Taliban dead with AK-47 after militants come to kill her parents
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
When the Taliban came to kill her parents, one Afghan girl took matters into her own hands, bursting from her home brandishing an AK-47 and killing two of the militants. The Daily Mail reports that Qamar Gul, a teen aged between 14 and 16, wounded other fighters, too, after her mother and...
Black Lives Matter protester seen carrying a white man through an angry crowd in London says he wants 'equality for all races and people'
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
The black man seen carrying an injured white man to safety during a chaotic scene at protests in London Saturday told CNN he did it to avoid catastrophe. The image of Patrick Hutchinson's selfless act has now spread across the globe. Hutchinson told CNN Sunday it was the first Black Lives...
Massive 3,000-year-old ceremonial complex discovered in 'plain sight'
Via: Freefaller • Anthropology & Archeology • 5 Comments • 6 Likes • 4 years ago
An enormous 3,000-year-old earthen platform topped with a series of structures, including a 13-foot-high pyramid, has been identified as the oldest and largest monumental construction discovered in the Maya region, according to a paper published today in the journal Nature. It’s the latest...
Arctic explorers stranded amid coronavirus lockdowns
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
With only reindeer and polar bears for neighbors, two women Arctic explorers are enduring the world’s most extreme lockdown conditions with no clear end in sight as the coronavirus pandemic leaves them stranded. Sunniva Sorby, 59, and Hilde Fålulm Strøm, 52, co-founders of the Hearts in the Ice...
Documentary ‘Meat the Future’ shows us the possible future of meat
Via: Freefaller • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 4 years ago
The burger of tomorrow will probably look not unlike the burger of today, but if Dr. Uma Valeti has anything to say about it, the story behind that burger will be radically different. Valeti is a cardiologist-turned-entrepreneur, and the CEO and co-founder of Memphis Meats, a leader in the...
Man, 64, accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet at 2,500ft
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 3 Likes • 4 years ago
A 64-year-old man agreed to accept a gift from colleagues of a surprise flight in a military jet, only to accidentally eject himself from the aircraft as it hurtled through the sky at 2,500 feet. The defence company executive was said to have screamed with fear during the ordeal but escaped...
Krakatau's strongest eruption since 2018 occurs, shoots ash 15 km skywards
Via: Freefaller • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 2 Likes • 4 years ago
An Indonesian volcano has just experienced its strongest eruption since crumbling in 2018, according to a NASA scientist. Anak Krakatau, which erupted starting Friday night and continued into Saturday morning local time, sent columns of ash 15 kilometres into the air. It is considered to be the...