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Your morning start for Tuesday, April 19
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Fun Fact: In 1962, an epidemic of uncontrollable laughter (mass hysteria) broke out in Tanzania. It started on Jan. 31 with three schoolgirls and spread throughout the school. It mostly affected kids from ages 12-18 and the school was forced to close as of March 18th because the kids were unable to focus on their schoolwork or the teachers. It spread to a few neighbourhoods and more than 1,000 people were infected. The symptoms lasted in the range of a few hours to 16 days.

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Hailing from Ladner, B.C., I have been passionate about sports, especially baseball, since I was young. In 2018, I graduated from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops with a Bachelor of Journalism degree
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