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Wrigley Field in its perfect form: two-thirds empty and filled with the drunk and unemployable.
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Indiana’s Charlie Becker apologized to Ohio State head coach Ryan Day after today’s game for his “O-H-F-U” chant after last year’s Big Ten Championship.
Becker’s dad played for Ohio State.
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In East Germany, the ruling Socialist Unity Party didn't need to watch you. Your neighbors did it for them.
The Stasi was one of the most complete surveillance states ever built. At the end it had about 91,000 full-time officers and at least 170,000 civilian informants, in a country of just 16 million.
Neighbors reported on neighbors, coworkers on coworkers, pastors on their own congregations, students on their teachers. In the worst cases, husbands and wives even informed on each other.
They steamed open mail by the sackful, tapped phones, and drilled pinhole cameras through apartment walls. They even kept jars of cloth rubbed with a suspect's scent, sealed and labeled, so dogs could track the person later.
For people they didn't want to put in jail, they had quieter weapons. They would spread a rumor to wreck a marriage. Quietly sabotage a career.
By 1989, the Stasi held files on roughly six million people, more than a third of the population. Laid end to end, the files would stretch about 70 miles.
When the regime fell, Germans won the right to read their own files. Many did and they found out who the informant in their life had been: a coworker, a close friend...or sometimes the person sharing their bed.
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While having fun on a boat, a man's phone fell into the sea when he wanted to record a video. The footage recorded by the phone at the bottom of the sea, however, drew attention.
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WATCH: Britain’s ITN has released ~4 hours of previously sealed 1989 Tiananmen footage — filmed by the team that smuggled the tapes out of China.
The material, archived for ~35 years, includes a 2-hour crackdown compilation and 90 minutes of secretly filmed raw rushes from the days after, showing military trucks on Beijing streets, crowds, and the aftermath.
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After the Bears fired him in 1993, Ditka made a cameo appearance on the SNL cold open with the Superfans. What a loss.
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Sine and cosine aren’t just formulas to memorize. On the unit circle, cosine is the horizontal projection and sine is the vertical one. Watch the point rotate and both waves appear at once.
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Forbes examined financial disclosures for every sitting House member. We found hundreds of representatives and at least $45 million in investments tied to the data center boom.
Read more: forbes.com/sites/kylemullins…
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A Japanese Mitsubishi Ki-51 "Sonia" kamikaze light bomber failed to penetrate the ship's 4.5-inch thick belt armor, crashing against the side before falling into the water. It happened on July 26, 1945, less than three weeks before Japan surrendered. HMS Sussex was a British heavy cruiser serving with a task force in the waters off Southeast Asia (the Netherlands East Indies).....
Two Japanese attack planes came in low. One of them struck the Sussex on the side of the hull, just above the waterline. It hit the thick band of armor that protected the ship’s engines and magazines.
The plane broke apart against the steel. The ship was barely damaged. What it left behind was a stain of oil and scorch marks in the exact shape of the aircraft.
You can make out the long, straight wings and the body in the center. Below them are two marks from the wheels. The Ki-51 had landing gear that could not fold up, and that detail is how the type of plane was identified from the outline alone.
The Ki-51 was an older army light bomber. By 1945 Japan was sending whatever aircraft it had left on these missions.
Other ships were not as lucky that day. A kamikaze hit the British minesweeper HMS Vestal in the same attack, and she had to be sunk.
Six weeks later, the Japanese general commanding Singapore came aboard HMS Sussex and signed the surrender of his garrison on her deck.
#archaeohistories
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I don’t want to hear about how good any running back today is until he bulldozes an All-Pro linebacker like he’s a third-grader and then leaves the field without his jersey because the defense had to rip it off his back just to slow him down.
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33 years ago this weekend, two Delta Force snipers made a choice almost nobody would make.
Master Sergeant Gary Gordon was 33, from Lincoln, Maine, with a wife and two young kids at home. Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart was 35, a farm kid from Newville, Pennsylvania.
On October 3, 1993, they were in a Black Hawk circling over Mogadishu when another Black Hawk, Super 64, was shot down. Pilot Mike Durant was alive in the wreckage with a broken back and a crushed leg. His crew was hurt. There were no friendly ground forces anywhere near them, and hundreds of armed militia and locals were already converging on the crash site.
From the air, Gordon and Shughart could see exactly what was coming.
They asked to be dropped in. Command said no.
They asked again. No again.
They asked a third time and finally got the green light.
Their helicopter set them down nearby and they fought their way to the wreck on foot. Two men, carrying only what they had on them. They pulled Durant out of the cockpit, set him up in a safer position, and started holding off the crowd.
For a while, it worked. They kept the mob back with precise, steady fire while the numbers against them kept growing.
Shughart was killed first.
Gordon kept fighting alone. When he was nearly out of ammunition, he went back to Durant, handed him a rifle, and told him good luck. Then he went back out. He was killed minutes later.
Durant was captured, beaten, and held for 11 days. He came home alive. He has said for decades that he's only here because of those two men.
In 1994 Gordon and Shughart were posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the first since Vietnam. The Navy later named two ships after them, the USNS Gordon and the USNS Shughart.
They didn't stumble into that fight. They watched it from above, understood the odds, and asked three times to go anyway.
Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart. Remember their names.
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“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless, and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.”
- Robin Williams
There is a painful paradox in comedy: sometimes the people who bring the most happiness to others are quietly carrying struggles of their own. Robin Williams, remembered for his extraordinary humor, warmth, and boundless energy, has often been associated with the sentiment that the saddest people may work the hardest to make others happy because they understand how deeply emotional pain can hurt.
The idea speaks to something profoundly human. For some people, making others laugh or feel valued becomes a way of transforming their own difficulties into empathy and kindness. Instead of allowing their pain to define what they give the world, they use their experiences to make sure someone else feels a little less alone.
It also reminds us that outward happiness doesn’t always reveal what someone is experiencing internally. A person can be funny, generous, successful, and surrounded by people while still facing private struggles that others may never see.
Perhaps that is why the message continues to resonate so strongly. It encourages us to look beyond appearances and extend compassion not only to those whose struggles are obvious, but also to the comedians, caregivers, and naturally uplifting people who spend so much of their lives making everyone else smile.
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Minnesota beat Michigan earlier today, and this might the best postgame locker room video I've ever seen 😲😲
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Bob Clark has been building data centers since the 1980s and completed 16 of them last year. He has another 77 in the works across 13 states. Data center construction is expected to account for 75% of Clayco’s nearly $12 billion in 2026 revenue, helping boost revenue by 43% over 2025.
“I’ve been in the data center business for most of my career, but never would’ve imagined what’s happening today,” he said.
Read more: forbes.com/sites/christopher…
📸: Aaron Kotowski for Forbes
