Rick Ross is the most famous cult deprogrammer and investigator in the country with the most cults on earth. Since 1982, he’s deprogrammed more than 500 people, testified in court cases in 13 states, and lectured at more than 30 colleges and universities. (Bhattacharya, The Telegraph)
Read MoreDivorce rates vary wildly by age, location, occupation, and other factors. A February 2026 data analysis from Tarotoo analyzed divorce rates across the 50 states and found that one state exceeded all the others in terms of divorces. (Gordon, Mental Floss)
Read More“This is not about changing lives through elite performance,” said Valentina Piazza, project manager for CSI for the World, which operates outside Italy to provide sports programs to children in developing countries. “It’s about how sport helps young people learn from being together.” (Hernández, AP News)
Read MoreSingapore is the world’s most religiously diverse country as of 2020, according to a new Pew Research Center study. Buddhists (31%) are Singapore’s largest religious group, but its population also includes substantial shares of religiously unaffiliated people (20%), Christians (19%), Muslims (16%), Hindus (5%) and adherents of all other religions (9%). (Tong, Pew Research Center)
Read MoreA Canadian teen who killed eight people in one of the country’s worst mass shootings frequented the same gory websites that American mass shooters have been known to visit leading up to attacks in the U.S., investigators found. (Loria, USA Today)
Read MoreHundreds of millions of people are traveling to their hometowns or making overseas trips ahead of the Feb. 17 holiday, known in China as Spring Festival, in what is considered the world’s largest annual human migration. (Frayer et al., NBC News)
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