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The world’s oldest land animal celebrates his 190th birthday

Dec 8 2022 Share

Happy Birthday! To the world’s oldest land animal who turned 190 years old.

Jonathan hatched in 1832, and has officially been named the oldest tortoise ever and the oldest known land animal. He lives on Saint Helena, a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean, where it’s believed he arrived from the Seychelles back in 1882.

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Living on Saint Helena, a remote island in the South Atlantic, Jonathan celebrated his birthday with a fruit and vegetable cake.

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Volodymyr Zelensky named TIME’s person of the year

Dec 8 2022 Share

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was awarded for his leadership during the country’s conflict against Russia!

This award has been given yearly since 1927, and has been won by Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Greta Thunberg, amongst many others.

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Last year, TIME sparked controversy when Tesla CEO Elon Musk was handed the accolade.

 

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Christmas in the Capital just became more magical

Dec 8 2022 Share

Another attraction, to make it even more special!

During the ‘most wonderful time of the year’ projections on the Palace facade will feature Season’s Greetings in all 24 official languages of the European Union.

 

 

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‘Wordle’ is the most Googled word of 2022

Dec 8 2022 Share

The results are in – Google revealed their top searches in their annual ‘Year in Search report’.

Google’s most searched for term of 2022 has been revealed as ‘Wordle’.

‘Worlde’ is a popular daily word game which found mass appeal after it launched in 2021. It gives you six attempts to guess the word of the day.

Google revealed this in their annual Year in Search report, along with other top searches throughout the past 12 months.

Ukraine was the most news item searched by the people whilst Buckingham Palace was the most searched for landmark. This is mainly due to the fact that the biggest two news items worldwide during 2022, were the war in Ukraine and the passing of Queen Elizabeth.

On the other hand, Johnny Depp was the person that people searched for/about the most. This definitely comes from the worldwide interest in his case against Amber Heard, who also features on the list, but after Will Smith. Smith was the second most searched for person of 2022, probably after the incident with Chris Rock, who also features in the top 5 of this category.

To view the whole list – visit this link.

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