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Iced dogs, ancient snowflake drawings, and a fatal wine complaint

Aug 10, 2026

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Happy Monday! Today's stories: A 1976 Viking lander experiment on Mars may have detected signs of life after all. A Japanese lord spent 20 years drawing snowflakes under a microscope. The UK government spent £85,300 removing a Banksy mural. And a complaint about bad wine left 93 dead and put Oxford on the hook for payments lasting 470 years. Thanks for …

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