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"Habits (Stay High)" is a song recorded by Swedish singer Tove Lo, self-released as a single in March 2013, and re-released on 6 December 2013 by Universal Music. It appeared on her debut extended play, Truth Serum, and was the lead single from her debut studio album, Queen of the Clouds. Written by Lo and its producers, Ludvig Söderberg and Jakob Jerlström, it is an electropop song featuring a minimal and upbeat electronic instrumentation. The lyrics describe the singer's attempts to forget her previous boyfriend through substance abuse, drinking and other hedonistic practices. The song was well received by most critics, who commended its lyrics and production. It sold over 2.6 million copies in the United States and peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest position on that chart by a Swedish artist since "The Sign" by Ace of Base (1994). The track topped the charts in Poland and Romania, and peaked within the top ten in many countries. The single was named Song of the Year at the 2015 Grammis Awards in Sweden. (Full article...)

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Cucumber offering to Kappas

... that offerings of cucumber (pictured) are left at the Kappa-dera Temple to appease Kappas?
... that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel shot down a helicopter, hijacked 39 vehicles, and burned multiple banks, gas stations, and businesses in a single day?
... that Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah writes a blog on African women's sexuality entitled Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women?
... that the parasitic wasp Comperiella bifasciata is used to help control red scale and yellow scale on citrus?
... that Gideon Brooke's grave was unmarked for 136 years?
... that the first World Day of the Poor, observed on 19 November 2017, was established by Pope Francis in his Apostolic Letter celebrating the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy?
... that Mitzi Johanknecht, the new sheriff of King County, Washington, was the first female deputy to lead the county's SWAT team?
... that the High Capacity Metro Trains on order for the Melbourne rail network will have the ability to automatically estimate their passenger load?

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Cyclone Ockhi

U.S. President Donald Trump announces that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Cyclone Ockhi (satellite image shown) strikes India and Sri Lanka, killing at least 39 people and leaving hundreds of others missing.
The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics, following investigation into doping at the 2014 Games.
Former President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh is killed amidst the ongoing conflict in Sana'a.
In sumo, yokozuna Harumafuji Kōhei retires amidst investigations into an assault on fellow wrestler Takanoiwa Yoshimori.

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December 7: Armed Forces Flag Day in India; Pearl Harbor Day in the United States

HMS Spiteful

1904 – Comparative trials began between HMS Spiteful (pictured), the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and a similar Royal Navy ship burning coal.
1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia.
1975 – The Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of anti-colonialism and began a 25-year occupation.
1987 – A former airline employee on Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 shot his former boss and the pilots and deliberately crashed the plane near Cayucos, California, leaving no survivors.
2007 – A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed into an oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-ever oil spill.

Charles Saunders (d. 1775) · Willa Cather (b. 1873) · Martha Layne Collins (b. 1936)

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Anthidium florentinum, a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants that are involved in pollination. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bees in seven recognized biological families. Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants. Bees range in size from tiny stingless bee species whose workers are less than 2 millimetres (0.08 in) long, to Megachile pluto, whose females can attain a length of 39 millimetres (1.54 in).

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