A blind mystic ‘foresaw the coronavirus in 1996’

It has been claimed that a blind mystic predicted the coronavirus outbreak in 1996. According to her followers, Baba Vanga also foresaw both 9/11 and Brexit. A devotee who met the mystic shortly before she died, says she told her: “The Corona will be all over us.” She also apparently predicted that Donald Trump would suffer a brain tumour leaving him deaf or dead.

Dating app launched for men of modest means

A dating app for men with smaller penises has entered the market. Dinky One sets out to “normalise the situation” by giving men the opportunity of dating in a context where “everyone using the site is fully aware”. It tells users that although “body image is generally in your control, penis size is not”.

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Monkey brawl breaks out in Thailand

A mass monkey brawl has broken out in the middle of a city in Thailand. Up to three different groups of them converged on the streets of Lopburi, north of Bangkok, for the punch-up because of a lack of food since tourism declined. “I think the monkeys were very, very hungry,” said an onlooker.

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