On this day in conspiracies

London's Daily Mail publishes an article headlined "Fish Like A Polar Bear," carrying the Margate story to an international readership and fixing the image of a strange white sea beast in print.

As fresh observations refine its path, Apophis's calculated impact probability for 2029 peaks at about 2.7 percent, roughly 1 in 37, and it reaches level 4 on the 10-point Torino impact-hazard scale, the highest rating any asteroid has ever received. For a few days it is the most closely watched object in the sky.

Leaving a rally at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi, Bhutto stands through the escape hatch of her armored Land Cruiser to wave to supporters. A gunman fires and a suicide bomb detonates beside the vehicle. Bhutto dies; more than twenty others are killed. A 15-year-old attacker is later identified as the bomber.

On an AskReddit thread asking what people did as children that they later learned was not normal, a user (posting as Raregan, a handle also rendered Raregans) replies that his parents never believed in Finland and raised him to think it did not exist. The comment is offered deadpan, as a bit, and draws immediate attention.