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Japanese ninja certification exam attracts 131 candidates from Japan and abroad

That's it. That's the headline. 

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https://japantoday.com/category/national/ninja-certification-exam-attracts-131-candidates-from-japan-and-abroad

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c17ynlek5djo?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark

An email sent to Wowcher customers on Saturday featured a list of getaways and activities under the subject line: "Snap up these deals quicker than a croc can catch a kid!"

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the British are so polite.

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Got recommended a "Meanwhile, in America":

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I need to know more about those storage sheds. What are Americans storing in them?

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Headline: What Australia can learn from Norway about creating athletes like Haaland

All of these words and the actual answer is, "Have a multimillionaire former professional footballer for a dad and an Olympic level track and field athlete for a mother."

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/norway-punches-above-its-weight-in-sport-heres-what-australia-could-learn/msxo9gjya

The national multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster unironically and unintentionally promoting eugenics wasnt on my bingo card today.

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Norway makes the quarters for the first time in its history after not qualifying for the world cup 6 times in a row: "How can we become a football powerhouse such as Norway?" - Famous sports lightweight Australia

Oh, there you go:

Norway does not encourage competition in youth sport.

"Before the age of 13, there's no public league tables, no official match scores, no national rankings, and that's enshrined in law."

In Norway, young people have the right to participate in safe and secure training environments without "pressure or exploitation" under the Children's Rights in Sports framework.

Better ban homeworks and school exams as well just to be sure.

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The really stupid thing is we already do that in football in Australia. 

U13s is the first competitive season where tables and scores are kept. 

Just ignorant "journalism"

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Both an Italian AND Australia story:

”It’s absolutely not an Italian thing,” she said, pointing out that the man who drove her away from the bar was a European expat.

“Unfortunately for me and a lot of my girlfriends, much worse things have happened to us here in Australia.

“I think we’d like to say it’s isolated to other countries. But we can see by domestic violence rates and the amount of women being unalived in Australia that it’s not safe here either.”

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