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For several years, up until 2018, Sweden’s official Twitter account was given to a random citizen every week to manage.

Sweden’s official Twitter account will no longer be run by random Swedes Sweden is rightly famous for many things — its natural beauty, its health care, its wealth, Ikea — but one of the country’s most public achievements, its Twitter, doesn’t always come up in those conversations. Since 2011, the Swedish Institute has handed over […]

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A study found that Ellen DeGeneres and Kim Kardashian rank among the highest for fake followers on social media, nearly 50%.

Report: Nearly half of Kim Kardashian’s Instagram followers are fake Reality TV queen Kim Kardashian boasts an Instagram following of well over 100 million people. But a recently released report says that nearly half of those are fake, according to The Daily Mirror. The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance in London just concluded an audit

A study found that Ellen DeGeneres and Kim Kardashian rank among the highest for fake followers on social media, nearly 50%. Read More »

The average delay of a Japanese bullet train is just 54 seconds, despite factors such as natural disasters. If the train is more than five minutes late, passengers are issued with a certificate that they can show their boss to show that they are late.

Reality Check: When is a train on time? A Japanese railway company made headlines after it apologised for sending a train off 20 seconds early. The idea of “deeply apologising” for the “severe inconvenience” of a lost 20 seconds seemed almost alien to commuters who have to put up with much greater disruption in other

The average delay of a Japanese bullet train is just 54 seconds, despite factors such as natural disasters. If the train is more than five minutes late, passengers are issued with a certificate that they can show their boss to show that they are late. Read More »

When Queen Elizabeth II dies, the BBC will cancel all comedy programming for 12 days

The death of Queen Elizabeth will be one of the most disruptive events in Britain in the past 70 years Two angles facing left, which often indicate, “return to the beginning.” Two angles facing right, which often indicate, “advance to the end.” Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of

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