A rare £100 banknote found in a charity shop has sold online for £140,000 – 1,400 times its original value. The £100 Palestine pound note was issued to high-ranking officials during the time of the British Mandate in Palestine in 1927. Paul Wyman spotted the unusual note in a box of items donated to an Oxfam branch where he volunteers. He contacted an auction house where experts valued it at £30,000, but it sold for £140,000 when it went under the hammer at auction, reported The Daily Mirror.
Man runs half marathon in 111 T-shirts
A man has broken a Guinness World Record by running a half marathon while wearing 111 T-shirts. David Rush, who has broken more than 200 Guinness World Records to promote STEM education, completed the half marathon with a time of two hours, 47 minutes and 55 seconds. “My arms lost circulation and after a couple of hours my hands swelled to what felt like twice their size,” Rush told UPI. “My normally loose wedding ring was a constricted ring and I couldn’t even touch my thumb across my hand.”
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Gran buys rude book for granddaughter
A grandmother was embarrassed after she accidentally bought an x-rated book as a present for her young granddaughter, reported LadBible. Sue Mackay thought she was buying an Enid Blyton book for her seven-year-old granddaughter, Skyla-Rae, when she picked up Five Get Gran Online. Skyla-Rae’s mother later received a note from her teacher saying that the book her daughter had brought to school was “inappropriate for children” and contained words such as “b***ocks” and “b***ard”. The book was part of a parody series written by Bruno Vincent.
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Moon dust has earthly elements thanks to a magnetic bridgeUnder the radar The substances could help supply a lunar base
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World’s oldest rock art discovered in IndonesiaUnder the Radar Ancient handprint on Sulawesi cave wall suggests complexity of thought, challenging long-held belief that human intelligence erupted in Europe
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Claude Code: the viral AI coding app making a splash in techThe Explainer Engineers and noncoders alike are helping the app go viral
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China’s Xi targets top general in growing purgeSpeed Read Zhang Youxia is being investigated over ‘grave violations’ of the law
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Panama and Canada are negotiating over a crucial copper mineIn the Spotlight Panama is set to make a final decision on the mine this summer
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Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mineThe Explainer The country’s natural landscape makes the task extremely difficult
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Iran cuts internet as protests escalateSpeed Reada Government buildings across the country have been set on fire
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US nabs ‘shadow’ tanker claimed by RussiaSpeed Read The ship was one of two vessels seized by the US military
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How Bulgaria’s government fell amid mass protestsThe Explainer The country’s prime minister resigned as part of the fallout
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Femicide: Italy’s newest crimeThe Explainer Landmark law to criminalise murder of a woman as an ‘act of hatred’ or ‘subjugation’ but critics say Italy is still deeply patriarchal
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro behind bars after appeals run outSpeed Read He will serve 27 years in prison
