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…passenger jet in near-collision with UFO – Will the next president come clean about UFOs? They’re already doing this in the UK!

On Monday, Oct. 20 The Sun newspaper in the UK reported that in 1991, an Alitalia passenger jet was coming in for a landing at Heathrow airport had a near miss with a UFO. The UFO is described as a “brown, missile-shaped object.” Air traffic controllers also reported an unknown object on their screens.

The Ministry of Defense investigated but left the matter unsolved, although they DID rule out a missile, weather balloon or space rocket.
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It’s all in the POST season! – What’s the baseball post-season worth to a team?in money, that is? New research shows for each postseason win, the Philadelphia Phillies organization will receive approximately $2.5 million in revenue this year and $3.3 million in revenue next year. Each Tampa Bay win will bring in approximately $1 million this year and $1.4 million next year (since Tampa’s metro media market is smaller.)

Economists Charles Link and Dan Brown found that performing well in the postseason earns the team (and its media affiliates) much more money than a string of regular season wins. Link says, “This has important implications on player valuation and team building strategies.”

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We all know that we should wash our hands often, and here’s a new reason WHY.

Don’t you wish everyone washed their hands after going to the bathroom? (YOU do, don’t you?) BBC News found that more than one in four subway and bus commuters has bacteria from feces on their hands. Researchers discovered this when they swabbed over 400 people at bus and train stations in five major cities in England and Wales. For some reason, people who rode the bus had higher rates of hand contamination than subway riders. Surprisingly, manual workers had cleaner hands than students, retired people or the unemployed (or maybe it’s not surprising?these people have to wash their hands frequently).
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When you talk to people who are against immigration, do you ever hear this? “My great, great grandparents came to America and quickly learned English to survive. Why can’t today?s immigrants do the same?” It turns out this isn’t true.

Researcher Joseph Salmons, who has studied European immigrant languages in the Midwest, discovered that little research had been done about how quickly past immigrants learned their adopted country?s language.
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