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Someone on Twitter pointed out that the worst part of the year of deaths is not simply that we’ve lost celebrities, but that we’ve lost a whole group of the celebrities who helped an entire generation realize that being different was somehow okay. That your sexuality and sexual identity/presentation didn’t have to be set in stone, or conform to the conservative standards. That you could have a mental illness and still be happy and successful and loved. The people we lost this year helped so many people come to terms with who they were, and losing them hurts precisely because they were so comforting in those ways.
This year has become a parody of itself. I cannot wait to toast its end on Saturday.
2016 has been horrific and disappointing in so many ways. But amongst the chaos a constant and generous force has emerged. No matter how dark the moment they have comforted and cheeered our tattered souls.
1. Gravitational waves are real.
More than 100 years after Einstein first predicted them, researchers
finally detected the elusive ripples in space time this year. We’ve now
seen three gravitational wave events in total.
2. Sloths almost die every time they poop, and it looks agonising.
3. It’s possible to live for more than a year without a heart in your body.
8. Earth has a second mini-moon orbiting it, known as a ‘quasi-satellite’. It’s called 2016 HO3.
9.There might be a ninth planet in our Solar System (no, Pluto doesn’t count).
10. The first written record demonstrating the laws of friction has been hiding inside Leonardo da Vinci’s “irrelevant scribbles” for the past 500 years.
12. Crows have big ears, and they’re kinda terrifying.
13. The largest known prime number is 274,207,281– 1, which is a ridiculous 22 million digits in length. It’s 5 million digits longer than the second largest prime.
16. Artificial intelligence can beat humans at Go.
17. Tardigrades are so indestructible because they have an in-built toolkit
to protect their DNA from damage. These tiny creatures can survive
being frozen for decades, can bounce back from total desiccation, and
can even handle the harsh radiation of space.
22. There’s a giant, 1.5-billion-cubic-metre (54-billion-cubic-foot) field of precious helium gas in Tanzania.
23. The ‘impossible’ EM Drive is the propulsion system that just won’t quit. NASA says it really does seem to produce thrust - but they still have no idea how. We’ll save that mystery for 2017.
Donald Trump becomes President of the United States
Murder clowns hide in the forest and jump out at cars
Alan Rickman, Muhammad Ali, Prince, and David Bowie all die
Brexit
A Gorilla is killed at the Cincinnati zoo which blows up from a rage fest and then into a full-out meme. Said gorilla claims over 14,000 votes in the US Presidential Election.
Ash Ketchum kisses a girl
Vine gets shut down
The cursed baseball team who hasn’t won a World Series in over 100 years wins the World Series
Lighting McQueen dies
I swear to god all these sound like onion articles
