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Chewing Gum
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:08/29/2025
Posted By:utopia online

When you were a kid and given gum to chew, there is a pretty good chance that your mother told you not to swallow it or else it would stick to your intestines for a number of years. This was enough to scare a number of children into never wanting to chew it, and for those that did there would be years of mental torture to follow. But what’s the truth? Can it stick to your intestines in the way that your mother described? The quick answer is that no it can’t. In fact, it will just pass through your system without any problems whatsoever and you will end up depositing it in just the same way as other food that you have been eating recently. But that’s not to say that it will always be like this. For reasons that are unknown, there have been some incidents where it did not become as plain sailing as it should be. Instead, some rather unlucky people have found that the gum has become stuck to their rectum, and your mind is probably working overtime as to how horrible this would be to fix. It ended up with them developing one or two issues when passing long, sticky pieces of gum.


Type:Technology
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Nelson Mandela
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:08/29/2025
Posted By:utopia online

After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela was elected president of his country. His primary goal was to convince blacks and whites of the power and wisdom of forgiveness. When Nelson Mandela was young, racism was not only perfectly legal in South Africa, it was the law! Black people were not allowed to vote, go to the same schools, shop in the same stores, or live in the same areas as white people. The system was called apartheid, and people were jailed if they spoke out against it. Mandela was one of many people who fought against apartheid. At first, as a young lawyer, he tried to combat it through the legal system. But he got so angry with the beatings, murders, and other mistreatment of black people that he started urging them to fight back . . . to meet violence with violence. As a result of his actions, he was arrested and sentenced to prison for life. Even in prison, because he was black, he got worse treatment than the white prisoners - poor food, hard labor such as breaking rocks in the hot sun, and only one letter or visitor every six months. Nelson Mandela spent twenty-seven years in those terrible conditions. In the meantime, the world outside South Africa became more aware of, and more opposed to, apartheid. Around the globe, people and governments demanded justice, including freedom for Mandela. Finally, the South African government gave in - they agreed to end apartheid, have an election where everyone could vote, and let Nelson Mandela go free. Over the years, Nelson Mandela had become a symbol of the fight against oppression. Most people expected him to come out of prison angrier than ever; they thought he would call on black people to seek revenge. But Mandela had spent all those years thinking about everything he had seen, and he had changed his mind about fighting and hating. He wanted to find a way to work together with whites, to build a “rainbow nation” where every person would be equal, like the colors in a rainbow. In the first free election in South Africa, Mandela was elected president. He worked to get black and white people to forgive each other for bad things they had done in the past. “If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy,” he said. “Then he becomes your partner.” Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. The man who had lost so much had taught his nation, and the world, the importance and power of forgiveness.


Type:other
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Florence Nightingale
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:08/29/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Eschewing the upper-class British life into which she’d been born, Florence Nightingale became a nurse on the front lines of war, advocated for improved sanitation in hospitals, and started the world’s first official training program for nurses. A woman born into a wealthy, upper-class British home in the early 1800s was supposed to do just one thing: become the wife of a wealthy, upper-class man. But, Florence Nightingale had other ideas. Her father had taught her advanced mathematics, so young Florence knew she had a good brain. To Florence, the comfortable lives of the wealthy women around her seemed shallow. She felt she was destined for something more worthwhile. At age seventeen, Florence announced that she had found her calling in life - she wanted to become a nurse. Her mother and sister were horrified. Wealthy young women of that time simply did not work, and certainly avoided all contact with “the lower classes.” It took a lot of strength of character for Nightingale to go against the conventions of the day and the wishes of her family. But she persisted, working hard to study nursing, and traveling around Europe and the Middle East to broaden her education. Other wealthy English people thought she was eccentric or shameful, but the Crimean War changed everything and made Florence Nightingale a national heroine. The war involving the British, Russian, French, and Ottoman empires created terrible conditions for wounded soldiers. There was little medicine, a scarcity of trained doctors, and virtually no sanitation. More soldiers were dying of diseases in the hospitals than were being killed on the battlefield. Florence Nightingale led a group of volunteer nurses to the front lines in what is now Turkey. The soldiers there described her as an “angel,” and nicknamed her The Lady with the Lamp due to her late-night visits to comfort the sick and dying. The story of this wealthy woman who put aside riches and comfort to risk her life in filthy conditions became a national sensation in Britain, and inspired many people to follow her example. After the war, Florence Nightingale used her skills in advanced mathematics to determine why so many soldiers had died. She realized that sanitation was the key to saving lives, and began to campaign for cleaner conditions in hospitals. She invented a new kind of pie chart, the “Nightingale Rose Diagram,” to prove her point to politicians and bureaucrats who didn’t understand statistics. Florence Nightingale took advantage of her newly acquired fame to raise funds and set up the world’s first official training program for nurses. She is considered the founder of modern nursing.


Type:other
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:08/25/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Composer, writer, and producer of the most popular musicals of all time, Andrew Lloyd Webber is an Oscar, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, and a huge contributor to the arts in Britain.Music was in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s genes. His father was a classical composer, andhis mother played both the violin and piano; Webber’s younger brother grew up to be aworld-renowned solo cello player.So it’s not surprising that Andrew loved music as a child, and showed a remarkablenatural talent. By age nine, he was composing suites of classical music.Among Andrew’s talented family members was his Aunt Viola, an actress whointroduced him to the world of theater and took him to see many plays and musicalshows. The bright little boy fell in love with the stage and dreamed of being involved inshow business.Andrew was a top student in school and went off to the famed Oxford University to studyhistory. But his love of music and the theater was so strong that he realized he wouldnever be happy unless he followed his passion. He switched to the Royal College ofMusic, determined to pursue his dream.There are always many bright young musicians trying to make a living composing music,but Andrew Lloyd Webber stood out from the crowd by using two important aspects ofhis artistic background - the discipline and power of classical music, and the fun andappeal of the popular theater. The musicals he created from that artistic fusion include the most popular of all time. Hisshows, including Cats, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita, ThePhantom of the Opera, and Jesus Christ, Superstar, have set box-office records, becomepopular films, and generated such hit songs as “Memory,” “The Music of the Night,” and“Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina.”With one smash hit after another, Webber was instrumental in bringing musicals backinto popularity. He has won a long list of awards, including an Oscar, four Grammies,and seven Tony Awards.Webber has invested some of the hundreds of millions of dollars he has made (he’samong the richest people in Britain) into buying theaters, supporting upcomingplaywrights and composers, and creating a charitable foundation.He has contributed so much to the arts in Britain that the Queen knighted him, and latermade him a baron. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber is still following his passion for musicaltheater, creating new shows that tour the world and bring his unique brand of music tonew generations of fans.


Type:other
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An Affair to Remember
Catagory:Facts
Author:BILL O’NEILL
Posted Date:08/15/2025
Posted By:utopia online

They say affairs are the easiest way to kill a marriage, but how long before past trysts no longer matter? Antonio, a former military officer in Naples, Italy, divorced his wife in 2011 after finding letters his wife had written to a lover he had never known about. The twist? The man was 99 years old, his wife was 96 years old, and they were married for 77 years. Antonio’s wife, Rosa, had corresponded with her lover over sixty years earlier, and Antonio found the letters in a drawer. The split of the couple put a strain on the family they had built over the years, including five children and twelve grandchildren. As of the time of their divorce, they became the oldest couple in the world to get divorced. The title had previously been held by a British couple who divorced at the age of 98.


Type:Technology
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Catagory:Biography
Author:LARRY ANDERSON
Posted Date:08/15/2025
Posted By:utopia online

As wife of a politician who became president of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt used her high profile and spirited personality to become a renowned international activist, speaker, and author. Eleanor Roosevelt was born into privilege and wealth. Her family had plenty of money and was part of New York high society, and her uncle Teddy was president of the United States. But Eleanor’s early life was hard; her mother and brother both died of illness when she was very young, and her father drank himself to death. She was a lonely, quiet, shy girl with no confidence, despite the fact that she was very intelligent. It was only as a teenager that Eleanor began to blossom. She started doing well in school, volunteered to do social work in the poor neighborhoods of New York, and began to believe in herself. Even though she knew that she was no great beauty, Eleanor decided that honesty and loyalty would show in her face and make her attractive from the inside out. It seems she was right - she attracted the attention of a distant relative named Franklin, a tall, handsome man who seemed destined for great things in politics. But again, fate set out a hard road for Eleanor Roosevelt. Her husband had an affair, then developed polio and was very ill for a long time. This is when Eleanor Roosevelt’s real character came out, and her determination and spirit only grew stronger. She began to be a force in politics herself, stepping in for her sick husband in public appearances while getting him back on his feet again at home. Thanks in large part to Eleanor, Franklin won the election to become governor of New York State and then, in 1933, to become president of the United States of America. Eleanor Roosevelt now had a very high profile. From then on, this remarkable woman used her fame and dynamic personality to fight for every cause she believed in. She was a great supporter of equality for women and minorities, helped form the United Nations and write its Declaration of Human Rights, and won praise from soldiers for her compassionate visits to the front lines in World War II. As an international author, speaker, and activist, she was a role model for women around the world at a time when few women had such public roles. Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged all people, whatever their gender or race, to live up to their potentials and pursue their dreams, just as she had done. Today, polls in the United States still rank her as one of the most admired Americans in history.


Type:other
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Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse
Catagory:News
Author:BBC
Posted Date:08/14/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Staff at the UK's national institute for artificial intelligence (AI) have warned the charity is at risk of collapse, after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle threatened to withdraw its funding. Workers at the Alan Turing Institute raised a series of "serious and escalating concerns" in a whistleblowing complaint submitted to the Charity Commission. The complaint, seen by the BBC, accuses the institute's leadership of misusing public funds, overseeing a "toxic internal culture", and failing to deliver on the charity's mission. A government spokesperson said Kyle "has been clear he wants [the Turing Institute] to deliver real value for money for taxpayers".


Type:Technology
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Cats develop dementia in a similar way to humans
Catagory:News
Author:BBC
Posted Date:08/14/2025
Posted By:utopia online

Cats develop dementia in a similar way to humans with Alzheimer's disease, leading to hopes of a breakthrough in research, according to scientists. Experts at the University of Edinburgh carried out a post-mortem brain examination on 25 cats which had symptoms of dementia in life, including confusion, sleep disruption and an increase in vocalisation. They found a build-up of amyloid-beta, a toxic protein and one of the defining features of Alzheimer's disease. The discovery has been hailed as a "perfect natural model for Alzheimer's" by scientists who believe it will help them explore new treatments for humans.


Type:Science
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