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magnum sipper.God above all.Chelsea fc💙💙💙🇰🇪🇰🇪

[CINEMATIC_BUZZ🍿🎥 @1cinematiczone]

Bros actually so smart tf 😳

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

Applied ✅️
Shortlisted ✅️
Interviewed ✅️
Hired ✅️

Congratulations ! May is your month.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

👊 Welcome to Wembley!

[Southampton FC @SouthamptonFC]

One must fall ⚔️

[MR AIRTIME @Aubrey_Senyolo]

Your unemployment days are over… that call is coming 📞🔥

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Mongolian kids start shooting bows at age 3. By 5, they're hunting from horseback. By 7, many race horses bareback, some of them across 18 miles of open grassland. The girl in that photo is ordinary for where she grew up.

The country has more horses than people. About 3.5 million horses to 3.3 million humans, the highest ratio on earth.

The bow itself is old-school engineering. It is made from birch wood, horn, deer sinew, fish glue, bamboo, deer antler, and silk thread, all glued and bound together. Shorter than an English longbow, but it hits harder and farther. A Mongol bow could drop an arrow on a target about three and a half football fields away. The English longbow, the best Europe ever made, maxed out at two and a half. A 13th-century account says Yesünge, one of Genghis Khan's nephews, hit a dinner plate six football fields out. Roughly a third of a mile, with a bow of wood, horn, and glue.

And girls have always been part of this, for practical reasons. In old nomad camps, boys took the big animals like camels and cattle far from the tent. Girls stayed close with the sheep and goats. Wolves preferred sheep. Camels were too big. So the girls had to learn to shoot, fast, at something moving, often with one arrow to spare the herd. They got good because they had to.

The most famous was Khutulun, the great-great-granddaughter of Genghis Khan. A trained archer and undefeated wrestler who commanded troops alongside her father in battle. Marco Polo wrote about her. In his words, she could ride into enemy lines and grab men off their horses like a hawk snatches a bird. She said she would marry any man who could beat her in a wrestling match, and they had to bet horses on it. She never lost. Collected thousands of horses from losers.

Modern Mongolia still shuts down for three days every summer to do all three things at once. The festival is called Naadam, "The Three Games," held July 11 to 13. Wrestling, horse racing, archery. UNESCO added it to its cultural heritage list in 2010. Archery has always been open to women and men alike, and at a recent national event, a 78-year-old man competed alongside a 3-year-old boy.

One detail about Mongolian archery: the archers pull the string with the thumb. In Western archery, you pull with three fingers. Here, a single thumb does the whole job, protected by a ring of bone or jade. It gives a cleaner release on horseback, when one hand is all you have free for the bow.

Look at that photo again. She is doing what her ancestors were doing on these same grasslands eight centuries ago, with the same kind of bow. Not many cultures can say that.

[Broke CEO @wavesandstorms]

Ndio maana irrespective of how cool mnatakanga kutwambia those politician kids are, when we're going for their families fagia wote.

[Somebody's Son @Wa_gacanja]

@ntvkenya So DJ 38K atakuwa anabaki na 18K?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[sobho @SoupLorrd]

Watching her fall out of love with me because every day she got up to go to work I stayed behind and watched vampire diaries the whole day.

It got to a point where I’d say “I love you and I miss us” and she just looked at me emotionless.

I vowed to never be like that ever again in my life. Broke is the worst thing that could ever happen to a man.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“What are you afraid of losing, when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?”

[Eric @amerix]

Never underestimate someone who is working in isolation and silence.

[Oketch Manhimselff 🇰🇪 @clichy_malooks]

Avoid the unhappy and unlucky.

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

i know you don’t know why, so i will explain the theatrics behind this for you

while growing up, i had a friend who refused to use a case, he said it ruined the design so one day his phone slipped out of his hand in slow mo, we both watched it hit the ground like a scene from an indian movie 😭

his screen cracked instantly but he picked it up, looked at it for a second… and just laughed. he didn’t fix it for months, that’s when i realized it wasn’t about the phone. .. some people don’t move through life trying to avoid damage, they move like they’ve already accepted it.

so rocking a caseless phone means your comfortable with risk or you’ve just accepted that damage is part of the experience, some people want protection but others want to feel everything even if it comes with consequences...

[Hasbulla @Hasbulla]

My neck hurts a bit, guys.

[Russia RX @Russia_RX24]

Speaking about the deep contradictions in human nature, Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada said:

“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one barely use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about the relatives still in their lives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have a partner often fail to appreciate them. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the full complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.

The key to happiness is gratitude—to truly see and value what we already have, and to understand that somewhere, someone would give everything for what we take for granted.”

[highFashion @rahman_jago_]

no matter how unrealistic it seems, it's going to happen. Keep believing.

[Ace Sage @acecrypt01]

Seen several buddies secure a job this week. March is the month for us guys. Send those CVs

[Linda @LndamyDark]

Marco Rubio made these predictions back in 2015. 🤯