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A TikTok screenshot shared on Facebook claims Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old man who opened fire on 2024 Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump’s July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, purportedly had $1.5 million in three offshore bank accounts. Verdict: False The claim is false. A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]

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Our 10 Best Classic Rock Songs About Secrets presents a showcase of wonderful songs that define the meaning behind the word Secret. Of course, there can be multiple meanings to the word as there is to any word in the English language. Those dual meanings and interpretations can be found across this wide variety of songs that have to do with the concept of keeping secrets, sharing secrets, telling secrets, discovering secrets, love secrets, and a whole lot more. This one should be fun. # 10 – Secret Journey – The Police We open up our 10 Best Classic Rock The post 10 Best Classic Rock Songs About Secrets appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

A bi-disciplinary scientific study has revealed the likely presence of a layer of diamonds 11 miles thick at the boundary layer of Mercury’s core and mantle. It was a remarkable finding, and came from what is the least understood planet in the solar system, despite being one of the closest to Earth. Diamonds are forever—a […] The post Mercury Could Have A Layer of Diamonds 11-Miles Thick Beneath the Surface appeared first on Good News Network.

News Bat Boy Creators of Riverdale and One Piece Will Now Bring You … a Bat Boy Series Not that kind of batman By Molly Templeton | Published on August 2, 2024 Screenshot: The CW Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: The CW Gotta admit, I did not see this one coming. Deadline has the news that Netflix is developing a Bat Boy series—yes, that Bat Boy, of Weekly World News in the ’90s fame—from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale, pictured above) and Joe Tracz (One Piece). If anyone is going to make Bat Boy fly, it’s probably these two. Aguirre-Sacasa co-created Riverdale and created Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and thus has spent considerable time in the supernatural-high-school-wacky-drama trenches. Tracz is co-showunner of Netflix’s popular One Piece, also a writer and producer on Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and was a writer on A Series of Unfortunate Events. Deadline notes that while yes, there was a Bat Boy musical, this new series is entirely unrelated. Here’s how they describe the series: In the coming-of-age series adaptation, the titular character is a teen named Bobby Bates. With the help of fellow teens Charisma and her weird sister Olive, Bobby re-enters mainstream society after living in seclusion on the outskirts in the remnants of a long-dissipated carnival. When Bobby enrolls at Cypressville High, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery while attempting to find his place among his new peers and society and trying to solve a mystery bubbling up from the Florida swamps. All that while rocking his half-bat-like features like sharp teeth and pointy ears — oh, there’s also the small matter of his need for human blood. Think, Edward Scissorhands meets Nightmare Alley-ish. I feel like that “ish” is doing a lot here. Weekly World News CEO/editor-in-chief Greg D’Alessandro will be one of the show’s producers, should it fly up and out of the development phase and onto Netflix subscribers’ screens.[end-mark] The post Creators of <i>Riverdale</i> and <i>One Piece</i> Will Now Bring You … a Bat Boy Series appeared first on Reactor.

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In the 1820s there lived a couple in Kentucky whose family would become known as the Blue Fugates. Why? Because they carried a rare genetic condition that gave several members of the family blue skin.Yes, really.What caused the Blue Fugates' blue skin?The highly unusual condition is known as methemoglobinemia. It’s characterized by elevated levels of a form of hemoglobin called methemoglobin, which has iron in the ferric state rather than the ferrous state – a crucial difference that prevents oxygen from binding to it.Most of us have a very small amount of methemoglobin in the blood as our bodies have mechanisms for converting it back into normal, oxygen-carrying hemoglobin. However, in rare cases these mechanisms are disrupted, causing the levels of methemoglobin to rise and leading to methemoglobinemia.Methemoglobinemia is when levels of methemoglobin are unusually high. The symptoms include blue skin, purple lips, and blood that is chocolate brown.The Blue Fugates GenesCases of methemoglobinemia are more commonly acquired, meaning the condition developed as a consequence of exposure to certain chemicals or drugs – but in rare cases, it can be inherited. This was the case for the Blue Fugates, who had not one but two parents who carried the rare genetic trait.Martin Fugate moved to Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, around 1820. He married and had children with Elizabeth Smith, who was said to be pale “as the mountain laurel that blooms every spring around the creek hollows,” and he was blue.Curiously, four of their seven children followed in Martin’s shoes in developing blue-hued skin. It’s thought this is because Elizabeth carried a recessive version of the rare genetic disorder, so that even though she herself didn’t have blue skin, she – along with Martin – was still able to pass it on to some of their children.Were the Blue Fugates otherwise healthy?Despite their shared condition, most of the Blue Fugates lived well into their 80s and 90s without any severe illness related to their methemoglobinemia. However, in some cases, the condition can be fatal.Research in the 1960s revealed a possible cause for inherited cases of methemoglobinemia as it found cases in Alaska were linked to loss of function in an enzyme called cytochrome b5 reductase that’s responsible for reducing methemoglobin into hemoglobin. This specific enzyme deficiency only seems to cause blue skin but spares the carrier the failure to thrive connected to other cases of methemoglobinemia, which could explain why the Blue Fugates were able to live well into their old age despite the curious blue hue of their skin.