The International Fund for Animal Welfare celebrated Sunday’s World Wildlife Day with a call to young artists around the globe. The organization received more than 3,000 entries from children in 141 countries and sovereign areas for its annual International Youth Art Contest, and pared those submissions down to just 15 semifinalists and then two winners. “The passionate submissions gathered from around the world reinforce a dedication to wildlife conservation from future generations, which is exactly what the world needs,” Danielle Kessler, IFAW’s U.S. director, said in a statement. Check out the winning artwork, equal parts adorable, impressive, and imaginative.
About two years after Portland, Oregon’s Sports Bar opened its doors and became the nation’s first women’s sports bar, the concept is gaining steam. Last Friday, the start of Women’s History Month, Jillian Hiscock opened A Bar of Their Own in Minneapolis, the first sports bar in the Midwest exclusively for women’s sports (and only the fourth in the U.S.), per MPR News. Yes, the name comes from A League of Their Own, and yes, the walls bear a poster of the Rockford Peaches baseball team, which inspired the iconic movie. “As a young kid, I didn’t even know that it was missing because I didn’t know what was available,” Hiscock told the outlet, reflecting on the lack of visibility of women’s sports. “We have to make it easier for kids, and young women in particular, to be able to see themselves on television.” A Bar of Their Own is emblematic of a larger trend in professional sports. Female athletes — from basketball’s Caitlin Clark, to the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, to tennis darlings Naomi Osaka and Coco Guaff — have growing, loyal fanbases, and those fans want the same attention paid to women’s sports as men’s. “When I was an athlete, opportunities to play beyond college were limited,” said Nicole Lukic, head coach of the Minnesota Aurora soccer team. “Watching women on TV was very sparse — it’s taken off tremendously. I think it is only going to continue to get better for all women’s sports.”
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In this age of inflation, it can be hard to find money-saving news, but the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau thankfully had some for us earlier this week. The agency announced a new rulerequiring major credit card companies to slash their late fees in a big way. The typical fee will be reduced from $32 to $8, which CFPB determined was enough for companies to cover collection costs due to late payments. The 2010 loophole that’s responsible for the high fees has been costing American families over $14 billion a year. The new rule, set to go into effect in about two months, should save families more than $10 billion annually, with an average savings of $220 per year for the roughly 45 million people who are charged late fees. “For over a decade, credit card giants have been exploiting a loophole to harvest billions of dollars in junk fees from American consumers,” CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said in a Tuesday statement. “Today’s rule ends the era of big credit card companies hiding behind the excuse of inflation when they hike fees on borrowers and boost their own bottom lines.” Learn more about what the change means for you.
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“Pristine” Sweater Found in 200-Year-Old Danish Package That Was Seized at Sea
The National Archives
Archivists finally opened a more than 200-year-old package that was intended for Denmark, but had been sent on a ship that was seized by the British Navy during the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. The U.K.’s National Archives said the parcel contained a “pristine” red sweater along with a letter. It was sent by a carpenter in the Faroe Islands by the name of Niels C. Winther, and addressed to Mr. P Ladsen in Copenhagen. “My wife sends her regards, thank you for the pudding rice. She sends your fiancé this sweater and hopes that it is not displeasing to her,” the note reads. The ship carrying the package — the Anne-Marie — was targeted by the British off the coast of Norway on Sept. 2, 1807, less than two weeks after departing from the Faroe Islands, and both cargo and mail were taken. “This is a rare example of a parcel surviving in the Prize Papers, which often contain letters consigned to ships for delivery by sea,” said the Archives’ Amanda Bevan.
California is expected to have another “superbloom”this spring. That means colorful flowers will blanket the hills in the southern part of the state — see pics from last year.
The Secure Act 2.0, which has been slowly rolled out since it was passed by Congress in 2022, is making it easier for small businesses to offer employees retirement plans.
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Dutchman Bert Janssen set a Guinness World Record as the longest-surviving heart transplant patient, 39 years and 100 days after his operation. “I consider that day more important than my birthday,” he said of the anniversary of his 1984 transplant.
For those who live in California’s Sierra Nevada, trips to town may have to happen on skis for the foreseeable future, as snow continues to dump on the region. The wintry scenes do make for some pretty cool pictures, though.
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Correction: Tuesday’s Quote of the Day was accidentally re-shared and misattributed to Ingrid Fetell Lee on Wednesday. The intended quote is shared above; we apologize for the error.
