Today's interesting news item

[minestrone]

And here was me thinking that Napoleon died in his sleep.

[Sysman]

That reminds me of a ghost story I wrote at skool.

Poor marks until English teech realised it was a satire based on Latin teech.

When the penny dropped he got me to read it out in front of the class and I had them in fits.

He upped my marks for that.

[darmstadt]

[xoggoth]

Most news is all the same. Here's something different, about the proliferation of wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

Life after Chernobyl: Sergei Gaschak

At the time of the disaster, there were few wild animals living in the region around the nuclear plant. But as the humans moved out in the wake of the catastrophe, large mammals appeared and thrived. While the animals showed incredibly high levels of radiation, they still looked normal. There were no giant wolves or three-headed deer.

According to a book on animal and plant life in the zone, A Natural History of Chernobyl, the only abnormalities found in animals has been albino spots and deformities in barn swallows.