"Habits (Stay High)" is a song recorded by Swedish singer Tove Lo, self-
released as a single in March 2013, and re-released on 6 December 2013
by Universal Music. It appeared on her debut extended play, Truth Serum,
and was the lead single from her debut studio album, Queen of the
Clouds. Written by Lo and its producers, Ludvig Söderberg and Jakob
Jerlström, it is an electropop song featuring a minimal and upbeat
electronic instrumentation. The lyrics describe the singer's attempts to
forget her previous boyfriend through substance abuse, drinking and
other hedonistic practices. The song was well received by most critics,
who commended its lyrics and production. It sold over 2.6 million copies
in the United States and peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot
100, the highest position on that chart by a Swedish artist since "The
Sign" by Ace of Base (1994). The track topped the charts in Poland and
Romania, and peaked within the top ten in many countries. The single was
named Song of the Year at the 2015 Grammis Awards in Sweden.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habits_(Stay_High)>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1904:
Comparative trials began between HMS Spiteful, the first
warship powered solely by fuel oil, and a similar Royal Navy ship
burning coal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Spiteful_(1899)>
1941:
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy made a surprise attack
on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, intending to neutralize the United States
Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in
Southeast Asia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor>
1975:
The Indonesian military invaded East Timor under the pretext of
anti-colonialism and began a 25-year occupation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_occupation_of_East_Timor>
1987:
A disgruntled airline ex-employee on Pacific Southwest Airlines
Flight 1771 shot his former boss, two pilots, and himself, causing the
plane to crash near Cayucos, California, leaving no survivors.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_1771>
2007:
A crane barge that had broken free from a tugboat crashed into
an oil tanker near Daesan, South Korea, causing the country's worst-ever
oil spill.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_South_Korea_oil_spill>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
afflatus:
A sudden rush of creative impulse or inspiration, often attributed to
divine influence.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/afflatus>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
This guarded mode of existence was like living under a tyranny.
People's speech, their voices, their very glances, became furtive and
repressed. Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled
by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live
like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no
trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
--Willa Cather
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather>
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