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After his wife lost her eyesight at the age of 52, this man planted a carpet of scented pink flowers outside their house to make her smile again.

Mr and Mrs Kuroki married in 1956. They had two children and settled into a happy life as dairy farmers in Shintomi Town, Japan.

It was tough work but, as they grew older, they started to plan their retirement – they were going to travel around Japan together.

But, after 30 years of marriage when Mrs Kuroki was 52-years-old, she lost her eyesight over the space of a week, due to complications with her diabetes, RocketNews24 reports.

She withdrew from life on the farm and became more and more isolated. Thinking about ways he could get friends and family to visit her each day, her husband spotted a pink shibazakura flower growing in the garden.

He realised these flowers weren’t just stunning to look at – they also had a beautiful scent.

He began to plant more of the bright pink flowers outside the house. He planted thousands of them over the next two years. In a bid to make his wife smile, he created a glorious scented carpet of pink outside their front door.

Slowly, she began to come out of the house again to enjoy the garden.

A decade on and the beautiful pink garden attracts a constant stream of visitors from surrounding towns – often around 7,000 a day in spring.

And Mrs Kuroki can often be seen walking around the garden with her husband, a huge smile on her face.

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You can look up the site of the garden here.

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That must have been scary! Glad you’re ok!

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Well, that’s disgustingly fascinating!

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Fascinating stuff!

She found worms, a French fry, broken glass, and a mostly undigested shrew, but no ticks.

Conclusion: Opossums are still metal and my spirit animal.

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You’re welcome - and thank you for being here! If I have my way, Lemmy will be flooded with opossums, raccoons, bats, beavers, and otters. And it will be beautiful! /sheds tear

Trump supporters gather outside courthouse and ask: Who among us hasn’t paid for sex? (www.independent.co.uk)

Donald Trump has not been accused of paying for sex, but several supporters protesting outside of his trial on Monday wanted to make it clear that they have. It seems the crowds that come out to protest the persecution of the former president are getting smaller, and weirder...

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The Stormy Daniels case is also about election interference. He interfered in the election by paying to conceal critical information that may have changed voters’ minds.

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These are his actual words… or word salad:

Union was saved by the immortal heroes at Gettysburg. Gettysburg. What an unbelievable battle that was, the battle of Gettysburg. What an unbelievable… I mean, it was so much and so interesting and so vicious and horrible and so beautiful in so many different ways. It represented such a big portion of the success of this country. Gettysburg, wow. I go to Gettysburg, PA to look and to watch. And the statement of Robert E Lee, who’s no longer in favor. Did you ever notice that? No longer in favor. “Never fight uphill, me boys, never fight uphill.” They were fighting uphill, he said. Wow, that was a big mistake. He lost his great general, and they were fighting. “Never fight uphill, me boys,” but it was too late.

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I think it’s a species from the genus Chlorociboria, but I’m not sure.

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It comes with fiber and nutrients!

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I’ve heard of that app before! I may check it out and go exploring. Give those giganerds something to work on :D

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I’m not sure of the breed, but it’s a tiny puppy called Wendy.

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Let’s do some research!

The frequency range of rat hearing is approximately 250 Hz to 80 kHz with the greatest sensitivity occurring between 8 and 38 kHz (Source)

Bat echolocation calls vary in their dominant frequency approximately between 11 kHz and 212 kHz. Most insectivorous bats call with dominant frequencies between 20 kHz and 60 kHz. (Source)

As you can see, there is overlap, so I think it’s accurate to say that some rats would hear some bats depending on the species. So you are not wrong!

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I love how much thought you’ve put into this!

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It happens to both hands sometimes, sometimes to just one.

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I stopped drinking a while ago, so I can’t answer that accurately. but check out what I found:

An extensive body of data shows concordant J-shaped associations between alcohol intake and a variety of adverse health outcomes, including coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, stroke, dementia, Raynaud’s phenomenon, and all-cause mortality. Light to moderate alcohol consumption (up to 1 drink daily for women and 1 or 2 drinks daily for men) is associated with cardioprotective benefits, whereas increasingly excessive consumption results in proportional worsening of outcomes.

So it sounds like 1 daily drink for me might improve the condition but more alcohol will worsen it.

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