#FiveThingsYouNeedToKnow: Elon Musk facing first interest payment on Twitter debt
World's oldest known person has died in her sleep at her nursing home, loadshedding has resulted in traffic gridlocks due to non-operational traffic lights, and much more...
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Elon Musk may be facing the first interest payment on the debt he took on to buy Twitter as early as this month. He bought Twitter for $44-billion in October, financing the deal with $13-billion from banks including Morgan Stanley and Bank of America. Can you imagine the interest on that loan?!
Read more: Musk says will step down as Twitter CEO once successor found
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Prince Harry's memoir, released on 10 January, has become the UK's fastest-selling non-fiction book ever. Prince Harry says he left out revelations about his family in his memoir because he doesn't "think they would ever forgive me" and that he has enough material for another book!
Read more: Harry's racism 'olive branch' dismissed in UK as book comes out
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Loadshedding has resulted in traffic gridlocks due to non-operational traffic lights and a booming opportunity for homeless people standing in as self-appointed traffic controllers. Police discourage motorists from giving out incentives to people controlling traffic, because, at times, the beggars may damage the infrastructure to induce the incentives.
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Vervet monkeys in a KwaZulu-Natal reserve are the first wild primates to learn to use a touchscreen. They built a 15kg box containing a screen, a battery, and corn kernels, tied it to a tree and activated a web hotspot. When small primates touched a blue square – first in a static position, then as it moved around the screen – they earned a few kernels of corn dispensed through a chute.
Finally, we analysed performance on the final training task Tecla presented. In this task, monkeys had to learn to touch a blue square to get a reward. The square changed position on each trial. In this video, you can see adult male Ouagadougou having a go. pic.twitter.com/Y22XfBGYsX
— Dr Rachel Harrison (@RachelAHarrison) January 13, 2023
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The world's oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died in her sleep at her nursing home in Toulon aged 118. Sister Andre was born in southern France on 11 February 1904 when World War I was still a decade away.
Read more: Oldest person in America shares secret to a happy life before passing
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