News At A Glance #37

By ASH Smyth
April 2023

—    The Nelson Evening Mail, 23 July 1906

There are 5000 people in Letterkenny.

Miso ramen is only the 14th-best soup in the world.

In Tennessee you do not need training or a background check to carry a hidden, loaded handgun in public.

Thomas Hardy probably didn’t read Proust.

The most important thing in cruising in a small boat is to feed the men well.

Waitrose sourdough bread is taking the piss.

Churchill was captain of the Cambridge University Ice Hockey Club in 1932, and won 15 international caps.

Aaron Sorkin takes between six and eight showers a day.

When water is hard your skin can suffer.

It’s possible to house-train a goat (with major caveats).

Much has already been written about the fertile dub music scene that has flourished in the southern regions of rural Australia since the mid-Seventies.

Hypatia was murdered during Lent.

At Twitter there’s a library that no-one goes to.