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A quarter of a century ago we learnt that one fundamental source of that prosperity the burning the fossil fuels buried under the earth's surface for hundreds of millions of years was threatening to devastate the stable climate in which human civilization had flourished during the Holocene over the past ten thousand years.

But, starting a few decades ago, we learned that preschool intervention programs could help.

Just days ago we learned that CC Sabathia would undergo arthroscopic debridement surgery, meaning he's done for 2014.

Days ago, we learned that the video was an elaborate hoax by the influential liberal activist group MoveOn.org.

Not long ago we learned that Bob Dylan, in his album "Love and Theft," had taken some lines from a Japanese book called "Confessions of a Yakuza," by Junichi Saga.

"Several days ago, we learned that under Governor Bush's leadership, Texas has suddenly gone from its biggest budget surplus ever to a budget shortfall, the most serious budget problem in almost a decade," Mr. Gore said in a speech at the City Council chamber here.

Twelve months after revelations about the scale of the US government's surveillance programs were first published in the Guardian and the Washington Post, Snowden said: "One year ago, we learned that the internet is under surveillance, and our activities are being monitored to create permanent records of our private lives – no matter how innocent or ordinary those lives might be.

Then, a few months ago, we learned that the cast of Jersey Shore (well, most of them) would be taking a family vacation to Miami, after years of depriving us of their drunken antics.

Yet just seven years ago, we learned that Walmart had regularly locked workers inside its stores overnight, claiming it was necessary to prevent theft, heedless of the fact that it prevented critically injured workers from obtaining badly needed medical care.

Worse, a fortnight ago we learned that there are now more than one million young people out of work... On inflation, the CPI has now been 4% or above for the entirety of 2011.

A few days ago we learned that the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport is now the fastest production car on the planet.