The RECC’E - DAY 55 | 02.24.22 | INVASION

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2YEARS ago today scientists identified the first animal that doesn't need oxygen to breathe - Henneguya salminicola, an 8mm parasite living in salmon tissue.

RECC’E OF THE DAY

5amUKRAINE time Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian people in a televised announcement to confirm Russia would carry out a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Moments later at least 4 explosions were heard just outside the city centre of Kyiv.

5RUSSIAN PLANES and one helicopter have reportedly been shot down by Ukrainian armed forces as the country now enters a month-long state of emergency issued at midnight on Thursday. Russia has denied attacking Ukrainian cities - saying it is targeting military infrastructure, air defence and air forces with "high-precision weapons".

51stARTICLE of the UN charter which allows for “self defence” has been provided as Russia’s justification for military operations.  Putin has warned other countries that any attempt to interfere would “lead to consequences you have never seen in history.”

NEED-TO-KNOW

0.7MMORE YEARS of potential life are now being lost to firearms over car crashes in the U.S each year; a new study reveals firearm deaths have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of death by trauma. In 2017 firearms totalled 1.44 million years of potential life lost.

8PEOPLE out of the roughly 4000 who have ever climbed Mount Everest were black. Now, a team called ‘Full Circle Everest’ will attempt to be the first all black expedition up the worlds highest mountain - 19 years since South African Sibusiso Vilane became the first black man to summit in 2003.

200MFAKE REVIEWS were prevented by Amazon in 2020 and it now has two lawsuits in the King County Superior Court in Seattle against ‘AppSally’ and ‘Rebatest’ over fake review packages purportedly offered by the companies which are “tarnishing” its brand.

SHOULD-KNOW

27YEAR OLD who sparked a 5-hour siege at an Apple store in Amsterdam less than 48 hours ago has died in hospital from his injuries. The man had entered the store with 2 guns demanding some €200m (£165m; $230m) in cryptocurrency before being deliberately hit by a police car after chasing his last hostage out of the building.

700TROOPS of the U.S National guard have been approved for deployment in Washington ahead of the arrival of around 25 separate trucker convoys protesting against pandemic restrictions. One Californian convoy has already raised almost $500,000 (£369,000) to support the protest.

4.64%RISE in the price of oil between Tuesday’s high of $97.76 a barrel and today’s 7 year high of $102.30 highlights the impact of Russian military action. Russia is the second biggest exporter of crude oil and is also the world's largest natural gas exporter. 

GOOD-TO-KNOW

196MHOURS were tallied up last week by Netflix viewers watching ‘Inventing Anna’; the most viewing hours for an English-language series in a week, beating the 179m by ‘You’. Korean-language show ‘Squid game’ remains Netflix's most-watched show overall, peaking at almost 572 million hours in a single week. 

$1BLOSSES have now been recorded by Virgin Galactic in the last 2 years - the news comes after an $80m loss in the final quarter of 2021. The company expects to have signed up 1000 buyers for suborbital space flight at $450,000 ticket by the end of the year; recouping nearly half a billion.

$5-7MEXPECTATIONS for Man Ray’s famed 1924 “Le Violon d’Ingres” which is poised to make history as the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction when it hits Christie’s in May. The current record is $4.3m for Andreas Gursky’s Rhine II.

SIGN-OFF STAT

66MYEARS AGO an object 11 to 81 kilometers wide with the energy of 1 billion Hiroshima atomic bombs wiped out 3/4 of all plant and animal species on Earth, most notably the dinosaurs. Now scientists have solved the puzzle as to why this extinction event was so selective - it happened in Spring, meaning many mammals survived. 

  

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