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After a decade of plummeting sales and surging piracy, the music industry in Brazil is roaring back to life, clawing its way back into music’s top markets and ranking No. 10 in terms of revenue in 2018.

Source: Why Brazil’s Music Industry Is Booming Again | Billboard

The apocalypse has a new date: 2048. That’s when the world’s oceans will be empty of fish.

Source: Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048 – Sustainable Human

Brooke Jarvis reports from Vanuatu, where islanders believe in a mystical American named John Frum, and about how, through colonialism, cargo cults became a metaphor for living under capitalism. With photos by Max Pinckers.

Source: The Long, Strange History of Cargo Cults and Colonialism | Topic

This one makes a LOT of sense. What would you do if you see someone being bullied right in front of you? Well, whatever you would or would not do, Bullying really does begin and end with us.

Rapper “Slim Thug” founded “Boss Life Construction” they venture into different cities and restore abandoned homes with no value and turn them into nice homes with value. These brand new homes are given to people with low income and single parents even homeless people for free. This investment improves the community image and brings value back to the hood. Lets make sure we give Slim Thug some love for this while he is living and not wait to embrace this awesome deed when he dies like we did Nipsey Hussle.

Source: Slim Thug’s Boss Life Construction restores abandoned homes giving them to Homeless and single parents for Free – HipHopOverload.com

Portuguese explorers such as Henry the Navigator started sailing to Africa in the early 15th century, bringing both goods and enslaved people back.

Source: Burials of Africans slaves found at the old rubbish dump in Portugal | ARCHAEOLOGY WORLD