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A bank collapse exposes the dark side of Latin America’s star economy

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By Ciara Nugent Verified, Charles Parkinson
| Financial Times Verified
The stunning downfall of Paraguay’s president and collapse of its most popular bank have exposed cracks in a free-market success story...
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This Clinic Was Registered As A Hairdresser, While Advertising Surgery Openly For Month

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By Charles Parkinson
| Bored Panda Verified
When Yulixa Toloza walked into Beauty Láser in southern Bogotá for a laser liposuction and fat transfer, she had good reason to be apprehensive. But while one staff member said she was “a bit nervous” about the procedure, Toloza’s close friend Amalia Pardo told local media she went reassured by the fact people she knew had been to the clinic for the same procedure and “nothing had happened” to them. The reported $900 price tag was also enticing. “I told her that’s very cheap.
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Bat Bombs: The Unbelievable WWII Superweapon That Almost Happened, But Never Would Have Worked

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By Charles Parkinson
| Bored Panda Verified
As reports of the attack on Pearl Harbor reached the American public on December 7, 1941, a dental surgeon named Lytle S. Adams was driving home to Pennsylvania from a trip to New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns, where he had witnessed the famed spectacle of millions of bats spiraling out of the cave mouth at dusk. Inspired by the chiropteran display, Adams came up with an idea he believed could win the war: strap tiny bombs to bats, release them over Japan, and let the animals do the rest.
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