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25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:45pm On Jan 26, 2017
Desertification


Many of the world’s deserts are growing larger every year. For example, the Sahara Desert has expanded to the south by another 250 km since 1900. This accounts for nearly 6000 square km.

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Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:46pm On Jan 26, 2017
Flynn Effect


On average, humans appear to be getting smarter by about 3 IQ points per year but scientists aren’t completely sure why

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:47pm On Jan 26, 2017
Cancer rates are down



Over the last 20 years cancer rates have have fallen by 20% and are still dropping.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:48pm On Jan 26, 2017
Rise of Africa




Africa is the fastest developing region of the world and it’s not nearly as bad as many western NGO’s make it out to be. It’s just hard to solicit funds for starving children without showing you pictures of starving children.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:49pm On Jan 26, 2017
Mexican Cartel Wars




More than 150,000 Mexicans have died since 2000 due to fighting between drug cartels.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:49pm On Jan 26, 2017
Deadly construction of FIFA World Cup stadium in Qatar




More than 1000 people have died building the stadium so far but those numbers don’t typically get published because many of the workers are “immigrants” from Asia. In fact, several foreign news teams have been arrested for reporting on this.

Note: we say “immigrants” because the working conditions have been compared to slave labor

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:50pm On Jan 26, 2017
Facebook's influence on elections



For example, Facebook has been shown to improve voter turnout for certain candidates based on whose “I voted” messages that were displayed.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:51pm On Jan 26, 2017
Blood farming




It’s just as crazy as it sounds. People are chained up like slaves and “milked” for their blood. This has been a growing problem in poorer countries like India. One particularly famous case came to be known as the Blood Factory by the Indian media. A farmer named Papu Yadhav was found to be holding numerous slaves on his property and bleeding them twice a week for over 2 years. But Papu wasn’t alone. There were even nurses, accountants, and delivery men involved in the blood farming ring. Sadly this type of blackmarket tends to flourish in poverty stricken countries where hospitals are overburdened.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:52pm On Jan 26, 2017
Bees


They’re dying. Maybe not as fast as the media makes it sound, but their population is nevertheless decreasing at an alarming rate.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:53pm On Jan 26, 2017
Antibiotics are failing



Since they are often used unnecessarily (on livestock for example), bacteria are slowly becoming resistant.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:54pm On Jan 26, 2017
Internet shills



Many of the comments you read on news websites, social media platforms, and forums are actually people being paid to spread subversive messages online.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by ghettowriter(m): 4:55pm On Jan 26, 2017
all I see is increase in both good and bad stuffs. I heard the population of Tigers are also increasing.
Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:56pm On Jan 26, 2017
Machine learning




It is advancing faster than anybody expected. Computers are actually able to learn and reprogram themselves. If it sounds science fictiony…it is. Google’s deep learning AI just beat the world Go champion. That was something we didn’t think would happen for at least another 100 years (Go is the most complex game ever created. It is significantly more complex than chess and it is impossible for even a computer to calculate all possibilities. It requires something that up until now we thought was distinctly human….instinct)

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:57pm On Jan 26, 2017
Designer babies



Because Asian countries like China and India have less public opposition to genetic modification and gene editing, they are likely to make use of CRISPR for the purpose of creating designer babies. This means that China could potentially have “enhanced humans” in the near future. That doesn’t bode too well for the west in terms of competition.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:58pm On Jan 26, 2017
Refugees



There are more refugees today than there have ever been in history. Taking only Syria into account, nearly 4 million people have either been killed or fled the country. That’s one fifth of the population.

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Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 4:59pm On Jan 26, 2017
Military suicides


More British soldiers die of suicide than in battle. This military suicide trend can be found in many other countries as well.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 5:00pm On Jan 26, 2017
Slavery


There are nearly 30 million slaves in the world. That is more than at any other point in human history.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 5:02pm On Jan 26, 2017
Coltan mining



Most phones require an ore called coltan and the largest source of coltan comes from mines on the Rwandan border. Unfortunately, a lot of this coltan is harvested using brutal slavery methods.

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Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 5:03pm On Jan 26, 2017
America's infrastructure is "greater" than you think


It is actually improving (particularly in the areas of rail and road), contrary to what you would think if you only read the American Society of Civil Engineers report card (D+).

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 5:05pm On Jan 26, 2017
Self driving cars


They are poised to massively reduce the number of traffic related fatalities

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by RoyalBlak007: 5:06pm On Jan 26, 2017
Toddlers with guns


Every year, more people are killed by toddlers with guns than by terrorists.

Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by andyboi4real(m): 5:13pm On Jan 26, 2017
All the beta news na just European countries... where naiha cone dae na, Abi are we no longer the giant of Africa
Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by OKUCHI11(m): 5:17pm On Jan 26, 2017
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Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by Nobody: 5:28pm On Jan 26, 2017
OKUCHI11:
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Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by Blakjewelry(m): 7:32pm On Jan 26, 2017
RoyalBlak007:
Internet shills



Many of the comments you read on news websites, social media platforms, and forums are actually people being paid to spread subversive messages online.
Sure like Nigeria with lazy brains, they will gladly spread false news without verification

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Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by Blakjewelry(m): 7:34pm On Jan 26, 2017
RoyalBlak007:
Machine learning




It is advancing faster than anybody expected. Computers are actually able to learn and reprogram themselves. If it sounds science fictiony…it is. Google’s deep learning AI just beat the world Go champion. That was something we didn’t think would happen for at least another 100 years (Go is the most complex game ever created. It is significantly more complex than chess and it is impossible for even a computer to calculate all possibilities. It requires something that up until now we thought was distinctly human….instinct)
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Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by bqlekan(m): 7:11am On Jan 27, 2017
We live in a world where anything can happen.. A world where deadly viruses are genetically engineered in a remote lab, and then released on a helpless/less civilised population..

A world where a 1st world country sends his soldiers to oust a leader of another country.. There is nothing strange in this world..

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Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by surrogatesng: 2:33pm On Jan 27, 2017
interesting
Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by ifyan(m): 12:57pm On Jan 28, 2017
Another explorer in making.
Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by Nobody: 9:08pm On Jan 28, 2017
sorry to bust your bubble, but the Flynn effect is a false effect. caused by increased nutrition and literacy as well as widespread IQ testing.
meanwhile, the rest of the thread seems legit.
Re: 25 Things Happening In The World Today That Many People Don’t Know About by hahn(m): 9:16pm On Jan 28, 2017
My personal contribution

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