You'll be surprised what memes can do to you and your mental health

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The word "Arctic" is from the Greek for bear, "Arctos", making it the "bear-place".

The Antarctic is the anti-Arctic, the "no-bears-place".

Consuming memes helps people deal with pandemic-related stress.

in the 60s, the Dutch were so frustrated with the government's monopoly on TV that they built an artificial island in the North Sea to transmit uncensored television. Eventually, the Netherlands legally expanded its maritime claim and the military raided the island by air. Some radio stations did the same, they were called pirate radio stations and one in Amsterdam has been converted into a restaurant.
26 Oct 2021 1AM English South Africa Society & Culture · Daily News

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