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The good news is your prostate feels great. And the bad news? Well, I'm afraid I'm not a doctor, I was just passing.

A black hole roughly 36 billion times the mass of the sun has been discovered in the distant Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, according to a new study. It is likely the largest black hole ever discovered and is almost 10,000 times bigger than Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way.
Every galaxy in the universe is believed to be anchored by at least 1 massive black hole—the bigger the galaxy, the larger its black hole. The newly discovered object is dormant and no longer sucking in new material.

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Foreign criminals from 15 more countries face deportation before they have a chance to appeal, in an expansion of the UK government’s “deport first, appeal later” scheme.

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Half of the people arrested during the protest in relation to Palestine Action in London on Saturday were aged 60 or above, according to police figures. A total of 532 people were arrested at the largest demonstration relating to the group – all but 10 under section 13 of the Terrorism Act for displaying supportive placards or signs.

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"We are all a little weird, and life is a little weird too. But when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible to ours, we match our weirdness and call it love."
Dr Suess

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Oliver Cromwell died on September 3, 1658—probably from an infection . He received a huge funeral and a burial in Westminster Abbey. Then, under his son Richard, the monarchy was restored in 1660, and Charles II returned. In 1661, his body was dug up, 'tried' for treason, hanged at Tyburn, beheaded, and thrown in a common grave. The head was spiked above Westminster Hall. Ironically, Cromwell had allowed Charles I's head to be sewn back on so the family could pay respects.

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Stella Rimington, who died this week aged 90, always harboured bitterness for the handling of her appointment as the first female director-general of MI5, says The Daily Telegraph. John Major had come under attack for having no women in his Cabinet and decided to use her promotion as a “PR coup”. Without consulting Rimington, the government broke with precedent and announced her name to the public, prompting hordes of press to gather outside her front door.

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The so-called “housewife superspy” was forced to decamp to a hotel, then to sell her house and move into secure accommodation, and she and her family were given false names. “So mum,” her daughters would ask as they left the house, “who am I today?”

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Stella Rimington, who died this week aged 90, always harboured bitterness for the handling of her appointment as the first female director-general of MI5, says The Daily Telegraph. John Major had come under attack for having no women in his Cabinet and decided to use her promotion as a “PR coup”. Without consulting Rimington, the government broke with precedent and announced her name to the public, prompting hordes of press to gather outside her front door.

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Not to brag or anything but I just went into another room and actually remembered why I went in there...
It was the bathroom,
but still....

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Trump and Putin are to meet in Alaska on Friday to talk Ukraine ceasefire. Trump announced the meeting yesterday amid the approach of the deadline he had set for Putin to end his country’s invasion of Ukraine or face the imposition of steep “secondary tariffs” on its trading partners. Zelensky appears to have already rejected the idea of coding land saying in a video address early this morning, “Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier,” per the New York Times.