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Sophie Anderson (top) and Rebecca More

... that The Cock Destroyers (pictured) released a trans-inclusive sex education video for Netflix before hosting Slag Wars: The Next Destroyer?
... that Northern Cypriot minister of health İzlem Gürçağ Altuğra warned that her country would be destroyed unless it started producing drugs?
... that the barracks at the Xifeng concentration camp were named for Confucian tenets such as righteousness and filial piety?
... that Nathania Ong had not seen Les Misérables before successfully auditioning for the role of Éponine?
... that "All Hell Breaks Loose", the last episode of Charmed to feature Shannen Doherty as Prue, was also directed by her?
... that a poem by Moses da Rieti includes an encyclopedia of the sciences, a Jewish paradise fantasy, and a post-biblical history of Jewish literature?
... that El Eternauta: tercera parte kept Héctor Germán Oesterheld, the creator of the original comic, as a narrator after he was disappeared?
... that the assassination of Fengshan resulted in a pun combining fried eggs and bombs?

On this day

Æthelred II of England

1002 – King Æthelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
1914 – Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces at the Battle of El Herri in Morocco.
1963 – A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.
1966 – Arab–Israeli conflict: In response to a Fatah landmine incident, the Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu.
1974 – Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six members of his family in Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville Horror and a subsequent media franchise.

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