In 1898, a pair of lions feasted on the most fearsome of predators: humans. Some think they could have killed 135 people constructing a railroad bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya, though research lowered that number down to 35 human lunches between the pair.
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North Korea marked the birthday of its founder on Sunday with a massive celebration featuring military musicians and singers performing beneath images that included a simulated missile attack on the United States.
Footage from North Korean state-run TV showed leader Kim Jong Un in attendance at the celebration of the 105th birthday of his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994.
About 1 hour and 13 minutes in, video screens in the concert hall highlighted various North Korean weapons, including missiles being launched. Eventually, the footage changed to computer graphics showing several missiles destroying a city.
The city wasn’t named, but one of the images featured a tattered American flag over a cemetery, with the entire scene engulfed in flames:
North Korea has a history of bellicose statements and videos, with many of them directed at the U.S. One video released last year depicted a nuclear attack on Washington, D.C.
The latest footage was released amid escalating tensions between Washington and Pyongyang — and just days after a failed missile test in North Korea. But the troubled nation may not be done showing off its arsenal.
“We’ll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis,” Vice-Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol told the BBC on Tuesday.
In an interview broadcast on Fox News, President Donald Trump was asked what the U.S. would do in response to additional weapons tests in North Korea.
“We’ll find out,” he said.
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An Oklahoma police chief just gave himself a $300 ticket for speeding.
“I am writing to inform everyone that I, Chief Burch, was breaking the law by speeding on 103rd St. N,” Chief Justin Burch wrote on the Sperry Police Department’s Facebook page.
Sperry, which had a population of 1,206 as of the 2010 census, is located just north of Tulsa.
“A citizen made a complaint about it and I acknowledge that I was wrong in traveling at 75 and 80 mph,” he wrote, adding:
“I did have a reason for being in a hurry, but my speeds were not reasonable. I am holding myself accountable just as anyone else would have to be. I have written myself a citation and will be paying it just like every other citizen. I regret my actions and I sincerely apologize.”
KTUL, the local ABC station, said the person who complained caught the chief speeding on video and sent it in anonymously. The station asked Burch if he would have written the ticket without the video evidence.
“You know, honestly, probably not,” he said. “But just like anybody else who did get caught, I need to be held accountable for my actions.”
Burch said the ticket will cost him $300.
The chief’s Facebook post has received dozens of comments, including many that praised his honesty.
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April 18 (Reuters) – An asteroid more than a quarter mile (400 meters) wide will pass close to Earth on Wednesday, zooming by at a distance of just over a million miles (1.8 million km), but with no chance of impact, according to NASA scientists.
Smaller asteroids routinely make closer passes to Earth, but 2014 J025, discovered in May 2014, will be the largest asteroid to come this near to the planet since 2004, flying by at only about 4.6 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, 1.1 million miles (1.8 million km).
“We know the time that the object is going to be closest within seconds, and the distance is known within hundreds of kilometers (miles),” Davide Farnocchia, a mathematician at NASA’s Near-Earth Object program, said by telephone on Tuesday.
Having several years of data on the asteroid’s trajectory gives scientists the ability to predict its path very confidently, he added.
The asteroid, estimated to be between one-quarter and three-quarters of a mile (600-1,400 meters) wide and twice as reflective as the Moon, won’t be visible to the naked eye, but sky watchers should be able to view it with home telescopes for one or two nights starting on Wednesday.
The approach of J025 will be the asteroid’s closest for at least the next 500 years.
In 2004, the 3.1-mile (5-km) wide asteroid Toutatis passed about four lunar distances, or just under a million miles (1.6 million km) from Earth.
Amateur astronomers may be watching J025’s journey, but Farnocchia said he and his colleagues have moved on to tracking even closer encounters, such as asteroid 1999 AN10, a half-mile (800-meter) wide rock predicted to pass only 236,000 miles (380,000 km) from Earth, or slightly less than the distance to the Moon, in 2027.
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Alec Baldwin told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert a little about how he prepares for his role as President Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live.”
“It’s totally a caricature, you just pick a few things. Like I was sitting in the room, I’m going left eyebrow up, right eyebrow down,” he said on Tuesday night’s show. “Shove your face like you’re trying to suck the chrome off the fender of a car.”
The result is what has become familiar to “SNL” viewers and the president himself, who has repeatedly complained about Baldwin’s Trump impression.
“I think like a lot of people when I saw your Trump, I went, ‘Oh, thank God,’” Colbert said. “Somebody has cracked that nut.”
But he may not be doing it much longer.
Baldwin said last month that he’s not sure if he will continue with the gig after this season’s “SNL” ends in May.
“I don’t quite know if people want to continue with that,” he told British news agency the Press Association. “If everything stays the same in the country as it is now, I don’t think people will be in the mood to laugh about it come September.”
Check out his full conversation with Colbert above.
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