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Twitter Routing All Links Through New Anti-Phishing Service ـ46 clicks
blog.twitter.com
As Director of Twitter's Trust and Safety team, a big part of my job is focused on the detection and prevention of spam and abuse. A couple weeks ago, Biz explained how Twitter users were being victimized by phishing scams spread primarily through links in Direct Messages. Basically, people click the link and bad things happen. My team can only detect these scams after malicious links have already been sent out. Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blo...
Dark dress of Moon on Sun's burning body ـ568 clicks
telegraph.co.uk
A photo montage captured during a solar eclipse over the Marshall Islands in July 2009. The beautiful image shows the solar corona that makes up the sun's atmosphere in amazing detail as the sun passes behind the moon...
Fish Jumps Directly in Herons Mouth ـ3840 clicks
blog.sakkoo.com
Stupid fish jumps out of the water and ends directly in heron’s mouth. I guess luck was not on its side.
Snake Eats Giant Lizard ـ3276 clicks
blog.sakkoo.com
It took a total of 5 hours for the snake to finish off the goanna, according to a eyewitness.
Leopard Seal Hunting ـ3005 clicks
blog.sakkoo.com
The Leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the Southern Elephant Seal). It is most common in the southern hemisphere along the coast of Antarctica and on most sub-Antarctic islands, but can also be found on the coasts of southern Australia, Tasmania, South Africa, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island, Tierra del Fuego, the Cook Islands, and the Atlantic coast of South America. It can live twenty-six years, possibly more. Orcas and large sharks ...
Did you think to your mother like this? ـ510 clicks
shenidar.com
Do you know that the human body can tolerates the pain, in 45 units of the pain? but a woman in childbirth, feel until 57 units of the pain that it is equal to breaking of 20 bones. Then Love your mother.
Scientists find mathematical formula for the perfect wife ـ981 clicks
telegraph.co.uk
A bride should be five years younger than her groom, should come from the same cultural background, and be the more intelligent of the pair if couples are to have a successful marriage, scientists have announced. Sticking to the formula would increase a couple's chances of a long and happy marriage by a fifth, the team from the Geneva School of Business found.
Snake Wine ـ2472 clicks
blog.sakkoo.com
Snake wine and Scorpion wine are asian beverages that can be found in some Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Laos Cambodia, but also in Korea, and Japan. To prepare this incredible beverage a cobra snake or some scorpions are put into a bottle fulfilled with transparent rice wine liquor and some herbs are added before the drink is left to ferment for months. The venomous cobra snake used to make Snake wine is preserved to have the snake poison dissolved in the rice wine, b...
Chile Earthquake Altered Earth Axis, Shortened Day ـ263 clicks
news.nationalgeographic.com
Saturday's Chile earthquake was so powerful that it likely shifted an Earth axis and shortened the length of a day, NASA announced Monday. By speeding up Earth's rotation, the magnitude 8.8 earthquake—the fifth strongest ever recorded, according to the USGS—should have shortened an Earth day by 1.26 millionths of a second, according to new computer-model calculations by geophysicist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. For comparison, the same model estima...