The Greatest Human Escape: Extreme Poverty Has More Than Halved — And the Warning Hidden Inside the Numbers Published March 24, 2026 | New data from Our World in Data and the World Bank confirms one of the most significant achievements in human history: more than 1.5 billion people have been lifted out of e...

The world lifted 1.5 billion people out of extreme poverty in 35 years. 📊
New data confirms the achievement, and the warning hidden inside it.

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[History: World in Focus] The Last Outbreak: How Humanity Defeated Its Oldest Killer In 1967, smallpox was still killing two million people every year and infecting fifteen million more. Thirteen years later, on May 8, 1980, the World Health Organization made an announcement that had ...

Smallpox killed 300 million people in the 20th century. 🔬

On May 8, 1980, humanity made it extinct.

The most underreported good news story in modern history:
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America's Murder Rate Just Hit a 125-Year Low. Here Is What Actually Caused It. In 2025, murders in the United States fell by approximately 20 percent — the largest single-year drop ever recorded. Following declines of 13 percent in 2023 and 15 percent in 2024, the US homicide ra...

US murders just hit a 125-year low. A 20% drop in 2025 — largest ever recorded. But the claim that ICE caused it? The decline started in 2023 — 2 years before Trump took office.

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Explosions Rock Tehran as Israel Launches Pre-Emptive Strike on Iran Behind the Blasts: What’s Driving Israel’s Strike on Tehran In the early hours of Friday, explosions echoed through Tehran. Residents

Israel Launches Airstrikes on Tehran Amid Rising Nuclear Tensions

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Right now, 1.1 billion people are living with sight loss - and this number is growing fast!

Too many people are living needlessly blind. This doesn’t have to be the future. But we must act now!

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And Still, the World Unfolds A Modern Verse Chronicle of March 31, 2025

And Still, the World Unfolds This modern verse captures March 31, 2025—from Arctic cracks to Seoul protests, from quiet unrest to the pulse beneath it all.
🖋️ Slow down. Read deeper.
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Let’s steal a lesson from this sunlit sage. War’s shadow may loom, but life’s golden moments still shimmer. Today, choose joy.

Choose cobblestone naps, salt-kissed breezes, and the courage to cherish peace where it grows.

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