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The Inside Skinny: Folklore + Life on the Moon + Throwback Thursday + come back Elizabeth Bathory all is forgiven

17/1/2019

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And we kick off today's stories with a reminder that the 17th of January is "Old Twelvey" or Old 12th Night because here in the UK some people still haven't got over the Julian-to-Gregorian calendar change in 1752! Still, it provides an another excuse to go wassailing!
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It seems like it was only the other day we were all stunned by the news the Chinese had succeeded in growing cotton seed on their new Moon lander spacecraft. Hang in, it was only the other day. Well it's gone to join the choir eternal – it's now dead – it couldn't survive the lunar night. Story by The Register.

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

The budding cotton seed hailed as the first plant to ever grow on the Moon, has, erm, died. Xinhua, China's state owned press agency, announced the unfortunate news merely hours after celebrating the plant's successful germination. "The experiment has ended," it said.

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And then there is the US medicare startup that proposes charging old people $8000 so they can fill their veins with the blood of young people because... Well just because as the scientific benefits of this form of therapy seem distinctly hazy. Oh, wait... it worked for Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Picture of Ingrid Pitt in the role of the Countess because... it's Ingrid Pitt in one of her most iconic roles.

A controversial startup that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with young blood to defeat aging now claims to be up and running in 5 cities across the US

A startup called Ambrosia Medical that charges $8,000 to fill your veins with the blood of young people is now accepting PayPal payments for the procedure online. Stanford graduate and Ambrosia founder Jesse Karmazin told Business Insider this week that the company was up and running in 5 cities across the US.

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Finally... Throwback Thursday – Austrian actors Senta Berger + Marissa Mell + Maria Perschy circa 1963.
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