… The swans in the posts regularly appear in the canals of Burano, a small island in the greater Venice metropolitan area, where the photos were taken. The “Venetian” dolphins were filmed at a port in Sardinia, in the Mediterranean Sea, hundreds of miles away. No one has figured out where the drunken elephant photos came from, but a Chinese news report debunked the posts: While elephants did recently come through a village in Yunnan Province, China, their presence isn’t out of the norm, they aren’t the elephants in the photos, and they didn’t get drunk and pass out in a tea field. …
On this day, 17 July 1981, police found two milk crates full of petrol bombs in Bradford, England. They later arrested 12 young Asians, members of the United Black Youth League, and charged them with making and conspiracy to make explosives. All defendants were subsequently acquitted by jury, after arguing they were made to protect their community from racist attacks.
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