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"Streets" is a song by American rapper and singer Doja Cat (pictured). Appearing on her second studio album Hot Pink (2019), it is an R&B ballad with lyrics about a desire to return to a former romantic partner. The song became a sleeper hit around 15 months after the album's release—specifically, it went viral on the video-sharing application TikTok. It appeared in over 300,000 TikTok videos as background music for the "Silhouette Challenge", an online challenge in which participants danced while illuminated from behind with red lighting. Driven primarily by streams and digital sales, the song peaked within the top 20 of many national record charts, including the US Billboard Hot 100, and received platinum certifications in eight countries. "Streets" was sent to US contemporary hit radio stations as Hot Pink's seventh and final single on February 16, 2021. A corresponding music video premiered the next month, depicting Doja Cat's own version of the Silhouette Challenge. (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that Sir John Anderson (pictured) was described as the "world's most-shot-at-man" in 1935, after surviving three assassination attempts?
- ... that after the liberation of towns in Ukraine during the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive, authorities found evidence of numerous Russian torture chambers?
- ... that Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi is the first woman to referee a Serie A football match?
- ... that a Connecticut radio station was "the loser in a survival-of-the-fittest battle"?
- ... that Abdel Moneim Mokhtar travelled to the 1928 Summer Olympics to compete in gymnastics, but took part in diving instead?
- ... that Shaun Murphy lost a match at the 2022 British Open despite potting the winning ball?
- ... that the best novel of American science fiction author Garrett Smith did not appear as a stand-alone book until over 60 years after his death?
- ... that after Billie Eilish wrote the song "Wish You Were Gay", its subject came out to her as gay?
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- Amid a government crisis in the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Liz Truss (pictured) announces her resignation.
- Ulf Kristersson is elected Prime Minister of Sweden following a four-party agreement.
- Hurricane Julia leaves more than 90 people dead across South and Central America.
- After an explosion damages the Crimean Bridge, Russia attacks many Ukrainian cities with missiles.
On this day
- 1345 – Hundred Years' War: The English victory at the Battle of Auberoche marked a change in the military balance of power in Aquitaine, with the subsequent collapse of the French position.
- 1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses and 15 nuns were sent to the Ottoman Empire to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War.
- 1944 – World War II: The three-week-long Battle of Aachen concluded, making the city the first on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
- 1959 – The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (pictured), designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City.
- 1966 – A coal tip fell on the village of Aberfan, Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
- John Cooke (d. 1805)
- Isabelle Eberhardt (d. 1904)
- Georg Solti (b. 1912)
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There are more than 80 identified volcanoes in the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain, a series of volcanoes and seamounts extending about 6,200 kilometres (3,900 mi) across the Pacific Ocean. The chain has been produced by the movement of the oceanic crust over the Hawaiʻi hotspot, an upwelling of hot rock from the Earth's mantle. As the oceanic crust moves the volcanoes farther away from their source of magma, their eruptions become less frequent and less powerful until they eventually cease to erupt altogether. The chain can be divided into three subsections. The first, the Hawaiian archipelago, consists of the islands comprising the U.S. state of Hawaii. The second part of the chain is composed of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The oldest and most heavily eroded part of the chain are the Emperor seamounts, which are 39 to 85 million years old. (Full list...)
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The rose robin (Petroica rosea) is a small species of passerine bird native to Australia. It tends to feed in the tops of trees, with insects and spiders forming the bulk of its diet, most being caught while it is in flight. Unlike other robins, it does not return to the same branch while foraging. Its prey consists of a variety of spiders and insects, including caterpillars, wasps, bugs such as cicadas and cinch bugs, beetles, weevils, flies and ants. This rose robin was photographed in the Blue Mountains National Park, near Woodford, New South Wales. Photograph credit: John Harrison
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