Dec 14 BREAKING: President Biden commuted the sentence of Rita Crundwell, the woman who embezzled over $53 million from a small Illinois town and spent it on luxury goods, real estate, and a horse breeding business, per Yashar Ali of Huff Post. Crundwell’s scheme was the largest municipal embezzlement.
Dec 14 Nancy Pelosi, 84, Fractures Hip Abroad After a ‘Hard Fall’ | The lawmaker slipped while walking down marble stairs inside the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg City.
Dec 14 The platypus is possibly the weirdest animal: it’s a mammal but lays eggs, its duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed and venomous. It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 26 pairs of chromosomes. It’s fluorescent and glows under UV light.
