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Queen Elizabeth’s favourite sandwich she ate every day for 90 years

Queen Elizabeth’s favourite sandwich she ate every day for 90 years

Published by Sam Flores

The late Queen Elizabeth may have been the longest-serving British monarch with access to the most lavish and exotic cuisines imaginable, yet when it came to satisfying her sweet tooth, she favoured something decidedly ordinary and distinctly British. Throughout her 70-year reign, the late monarch undertook more than 200 visits to Commonwealth countries alone, which would undoubtedly have exposed her to an array of delicacies served at formal dinners. However, when it came to her preferences, Elizabeth would choose a beloved English favourite that countless Britons have come to cherish — one that she enjoyed every day from childhood. Darren McGrady, who served the Royal Family for 15 years as a chef preparing meals for all the senior members of the Firm, disclosed what the late monarch’s preferred afternoon indulgence was. In a YouTube video, he discussed the annual summer garden parties, explaining: “With 6,000 people at each garden party that’s a lot of food, and fortunately, the royal chefs only have to cater for the royal tea tent.” He continued: “The [late] Queen was …

XL bully ‘basically ate’ beloved grandfather in ‘savage attack’ | UK | News

XL bully ‘basically ate’ beloved grandfather in ‘savage attack’ | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

John McColl died a month after the attack (Image: Cheshire Police/PA Wire) The owner of an XL bully which killed a pensioner in a “savage attack” has been jailed for 12 years. John McColl, 84, was attacked by the dog, owned by Sean Garner, after the pensioner wandered on to the driveway of Garner’s home in Warrington, Cheshire, in February last year. He died from his injuries about a month later. He suffered “catastrophic facial injuries” in the 45-minute attack, Liverpool Crown Court heard on Friday. The animal, which was called Toretto and weighed 7st 4lb, was shot 10 times by armed police and a second dog found in the house was also shot. An examination of the dog later found it had no food in its stomach, but it had begun to eat Mr McColl alive. Read more: ‘Dog destroyed my face as I had a fit – I only realised when I saw it on video’ Read more: Major warning for UK dog walkers as poisoned meat found in UK parks Sean Garner …

I Took RFK Jr.’s Advice and Ate Nothing but High-Protein Foods for a Week

I Took RFK Jr.’s Advice and Ate Nothing but High-Protein Foods for a Week

Published by skeptic

Not even two months into my job here at WIRED, I found myself barfing in the office bathroom. Technically, it was work-related stress, but not in the way you might imagine. It was, instead, the unfortunate and almost immediate result of my efforts to switch to a diet solely consisting of foods, drinks, and supplements marketed as high in protein—and thereby meet the level of daily protein intake recommended by the US Department of Health and Human Services under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The conversation on the porcelain telephone came about an hour after I sampled Ghost’s Nutter Butter–flavored whey protein powder. My partner Mads uses it as workout fuel, and I saw it as an easy shortcut to 26 grams of protein. She had already grumbled about me having some for journalistic purposes—“it’s expensive!”—but was relieved that she wouldn’t have to taste-test any of the other slop I had on my list to eat that week. I foolishly took the jar’s suggestion to add a heaping scoop of the Ghost powder to 5 or …

An odd-nosed crocodile ate our prehistoric ancestors

An odd-nosed crocodile ate our prehistoric ancestors

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Humans have contended with crocodiles for a really long time. The recent discovery of an ancient crocodilian species sporting a strange snout indicates the reptiles may have even preyed on our earliest known hominin ancestor. The species detailed in a study published today in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology even likely went after anthropology’s most famous historical hominid—Australopithecus afarensis, better known as  Lucy.  Today’s crocodiles—and the danger they pose—remain virtually unchanged since they first evolved on Earth over 200 million years ago. The newly described species Crocodylus lucivenator existed 3.4 to 3 million years ago in present-day Ethiopia, and looked similar to the American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus). While largely arid today, the region during C. lucivenator’s era was covered with shrubs and wetlands broken up by multiple rivers. In 2016, researchers began to suspect the existence of a previously unknown croc species while examining archival remains from dozens of specimens at a museum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital city. …

Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest ever animals ate

Fossil may solve mystery of what one of the weirdest ever animals ate

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Hallucigenia, one of the strangest animals of all time Alamy One of the weirdest animals that ever lived may have been a scavenger. A re-examination of fossils first described in the 1970s seems to show a swarm of Hallucigenia feeding on the corpse of a comb jelly. Hallucigenia was a small animal, up to 5 centimetres long. It had a worm-like body with multiple legs, as well as long, sharp spines on its back. Because of its peculiar appearance, palaeontologists at first reconstructed the animal upside-down, supposing the spines to be legs. It lived in the deep seas during the Cambrian period (about 539 million to 487 million years ago), when many major animal groups emerged. Hallucigenia was first identified in rocks from the Burgess Shale deposits in British Columbia, Canada. It is related to velvet worms, tardigrades and arthropods (the group that includes insects and spiders). Little is known about the ancient animal’s lifestyle. For instance, none of the Hallucigenia fossils found to date have preserved gut contents, so we don’t know what they …

The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another billion

The venture firm that ate Silicon Valley just raised another $15 billion

Published by skeptic

Andreessen Horowitz just announced the firm has just raised a little more than $15 billion in new funding. The haul represents over 18% of all venture capital dollars allocated in the United States in 2025, according to firm co-founder Ben Horowitz, but even more jaw-dropping is that it brings the organization to more than $90 billion in assets under management, putting it neck-and-neck with Sequoia Capital as among the largest venture firms in the world. Which is fitting, since a16z appears to be very friendly with actual sovereign wealth funds, including at least one from Saudi Arabia. The firm, which employs approximately hundreds of people across five offices – three in California, plus New York and Washington D.C. – has become a globe-spanning operation with employees on six continents. In December, it opened its first Asia office in Seoul for its crypto practice. That newly committed capital breaks down across five funds: $6.75 billion for growth investments, $1.7 billion each for apps and infrastructure, $1.176 billion for “American Dynamism” (more on that shortly), $700 million …

Ashley Tisdale French, Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, and the Disney Channel Mama Drama That Ate the Internet

Ashley Tisdale French, Hilary Duff, Mandy Moore, and the Disney Channel Mama Drama That Ate the Internet

Published by Sam Flores

The cherry on top is a sarcastic call to action on his fake article: “Read my new interview with @thecut.” It doesn’t exactly scream “this essay isn’t about my wife and her custom ‘mother’ sweatpants.” Tisdale French explained in her essay that she began feeling left out and uncool, echoes of her high school (not the musical kind, the learning kind) insecurities coming back to haunt her. “But I’m not in high school anymore,” she wrote. “I’m a mom.” She rationalized that she was setting an example for her kids by standing up for herself and letting her not-friends know that there would be no more mommy-n-me hangs for her, thank you very much. “Surely, it would have been easier to disappear without explanation—and that would have allowed all of us to convince ourselves that we simply ‘drifted apart’,” she wrote. Easier, yes, and arguably better. If you can afford to shell out for a $10.99 monthly HBO Max basic plan subscription—maybe even less if you take the time to track down a promo code, …