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20 Mar 2024, 16:52
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Wednesday twentieth March 2024
Credit: Worcester Public Library Mass
Let’s take our hats off to a US library that’s accepting cat footage in place of fines for the entire month of March!
Say hiya to the Worcester Library in Massachusetts March Miaowness marketing campaign, a slice of feline genius the place individuals are capable of benefit from an amnesty to herald their overdue books with the fines waived in place of a cat image or drawing.
They’ve additionally permitting canine footage and even the odd whale. The level of the amnesty is to clear the backlog of overdue books and to acknowledge the truth that individuals are petrified of bringing the books again as a result of the fines have constructed up. Lots of individuals let books grow to be overdue in the course of the pandemic then simply by no means got here again with them. The March Miaowness marketing campaign has been a roaring – perhaps that’s not the appropriate phrase – meowing – success, with 400 books coming again within the first 5 days. Kindness and kitties, what’s to not love about this.
Via: twitter.com
Credit: Trevor Penny/Facebook
You find out about steel detecting, have you learnt about magnet fishing, its underwater equal the place folks fish for treasure in a river with a magnet in a rope?
Trevor Penny is a magnet fisherman who was attempting his luck in an Oxfordshire river and was pulling out scaffolding pole after scaffolding pole till the tip of the day when he hauled up one thing actually attention-grabbing. “It’s a sword!” Said his buddy and it was an old one. Trevor thought it have to be at the least 250 years old.
Trevor couldn’t consider it when consultants dated his discover as Viking and at the least 900 years old. It was very regular for Viking warriors to be buried underwater and for his or her swords to be with them, so they might get into Valhalla. Interestingly whereas Vikings have been good at many issues they have been horrible at metallurgy. Their swords had actually excessive slag content material and have been liable to breaking in battles. Vikings who made money at all times purchased swords made in France or the U.Ok. there’s a twist to the story although. the rivers belief don’t permit magnet fishing however they’ve stated they’ll take no motion if Trevor offers the sword to a museum, which he was completely satisfied to do.
Via: goodnewsnetwork.org
