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'Straight Out of a Movie': Woman Discovers Late Mom Was Boyfriend's Kindergarten Teacher
An 18-year-old in Adelaide, South Australia, found out that her late mom was her boyfriend’s kindergarten teacher in a moment that she described as “straight out of a movie.”Leah Menzies posted footage to TikTok on May 20 recapping the discovery that her mother, who died when she was seven, had taught her boyfriend Thomas in kindergarten — after believing her mom would never get to meet her partner.The pair figured out the connection when Thomas, also 18, showed her a class picture from a childhood photo album.“The kindergarten class photo was on the front page and he recognized my mother from photos I had shown him,” Menzies told Storyful.It seems Menzies’s story has given the internet the collective chills, with the emotional video having over 10 million likes at the time of writing.“It’s incredible that she knew him,” Menzies told Today. “What gets me is that she was standing with my future boyfriend and she had no idea.” Credit: Leah Menzies via Storyful
Why Australia has had only one mass shooting since 1996
Australia’s government banned automatic and semiautomatic guns, created a national firearms registry and made a 28-day-long waiting period for gun purchases. Twenty-six years ago, on a Sunday afternoon at a café in Australia, a man ate lunch before pulling a semiautomatic rifle out of his duffel bag …
How to Prevent Gun Massacres? Look Around the World
Australia, Britain, Canada, and other countries have enacted reforms that turned mass shootings into rare, aberrational events, rather than everyday occurrences. On April 28, 1996, Martin Bryant, a disturbed twenty-eight-year-old Australian who had been bullied at school, walked into a café in the …
Like a Bat Outta Shell! Scallop Makes Quick Getaway Across Seabed
A scallop decided to make a quick getaway beneath the waves at Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, recently, with footage showing it hurriedly skipping away from its mollusc mates.The video, shot by diver and keen photographer Jules Casey, shows the scallop resting between two others at Blairgowrie Pier, before quickly springing into action, opening and shutting its shell to propel itself off into the distance.Casey often posts footage of what she sees below the waves at Port Phillip Bay to her OneBreathDiver Instagram account, where she has over 90,000 followers.Her work documents interesting marine life, as well as dangers posed to underwater creatures by pollution. Credit: Jules Casey via Storyful
