Open Mic – TUESDAY 30th JUNE 2026

FACT OF THE DAY: Sharks have been around for over 400 million years, making them older than trees and the rings of Saturn.
POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli,
POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:
One ball, countless dreams.
Nations breathe with every kick-
Earth cheers as one heart.
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