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FACTS OF THE DAY

17 March 2017

Since 1950, only one job in the US has been totally eliminated by automation – elevator operator.

qz.com

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The CIA uses board games to train its spies – and doesn’t mind if they cheat.

arstechnica.com

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Marijuana grown by the US government for research purposes doesn’t look or smell anything like marijuana.

washingtonpost.com

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The Trump administration still hasn’t even nominated people to fill more than 500 of the 553 key positions that require Senate confirmation.

washingtonpost.com

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The Times has described Jeremy Corbyn as having ‘the charisma of Albert Steptoe and the intellectual dexterity of a cinnamon whirl’.

thetimes.co.uk

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Doctors at a Dublin hospital, unable to remove a titanium ring that had caused a man’s ‘penile strangulation’, called the fire brigade who cut it off with a grinder.

standard.co.uk


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