Doesn't make top 10.

1. Ischaemic heart diseases

2. Dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease

3. Cerebrovascular diseases (e.g. stroke)

4. Lung cancer

5. Chronic lower respiratory diseases

Much like the rest of the world, it's lifestyle diseases and being overweight.

Skin cancer kills about 2000 Australians a year. It's not even in the top 5 cancers for deaths! For context, about 5500 die a year from colon cancer. Or pulling numbers from their arse, much like your statistic.

> get as dark under the sun after a few evolutionary cycles

Roughly 100 generations is the quickest it can happen.

That's 2500 years.

For context, in 500BC the global population was 100 million, the iron age had not yet started, none of the Abrahamic religions would exist for another 4 centuries, Rome had just become a republic but was still just a random unimportant little city, Buddha was born and Pythagoras discovered how to talk about triangles.

Yes, that is how you reclaim land in a swamp.

They dig water channels to lower the water table and drain the swamp. They then backfill with whatever solid material they can find and let it compress over a few years. Because it's still a swamp, any organic material quickly rots away, leaving nice fertile soil behind.

Boston harbor was reclaimed with literal trash. The city dumped all it's garbage into man made dikes to back fill and create the land. What is now the highest property prices in New England.

Not many destination holiday locations with abundant sunshine, Interstate access and cheap land to be found in moderate climates.

Land rights and possession mostly.

Natives Tribes laws in USA. Tribal law existed before time immemorial (USA).

Soda bars and milk bars competition was alcohol.

The modern day equivalent is a coffee shop. You buy an expensive drink and socialise with friends or meet there for a first date.

The intent of the business was to have a location for makes and females to socialise without a chaperone.

• In 1965 women in Australia were finally allowed to drink alcohol at a public bar.

• In 1970 the number of milk bars had halved.

The businesses still had great central locations in town, so they rebranded. They always sold fast moving consumer snacks like candy, chocolate and ice creams. The few that remained started serving take away meals, acting as a mini grocery store, ginger video rental, and more.

Now they are vape stores after 6pm and suffer the rest of the business during day light hours.

The same train model can still be sold anywhere.

It takes a few hours to 1/2 a day in order to change the wheels (bogies) on an entire train and all the carriages.

The cost of ice was roughly equivalent to the cost of cotton, even at the furthest destination (east USA -> Australia).

The journey was 110-120 days, the boats carried 400 tons and the goods sold for not really all that much profit.

The chilled apples on the boats sold for more than the ice.

The ice was a convenient partner because it was also used as ballast.

Ice used to be dirty with soil, sawdust, pollution or poor hygiene.

European ice harvesters would store the ice in in underground pits for insulation. The melting ice water picked up dirt and covered the blocks. Or the blocks were covered in saw dust for insulation.

Americans stored their ice above ground in huts. When the ice water melted it dropped out the base and benefit was creating an evaporative cooling effect.

Both types of harvested ice were good for refrigerators, or cool rooms, making ice cream, but only the American style ice was good for mixed drinks.

Ice and ice boxes almost as soon as invented became about as luxurious as a dishwasher is today.

Imported ice cost about as much as cotton. It was relatively cheap, even transported.

A man with a horse drawn cart would deliver blocks of ice to your house weekly, or you got it from the butcher, fishmonger or chemist. The ice blocks would get placed in the top of your fridge and allow the home owner to store leftovers. Before the ice box, fresh food had to be purchased and eaten same day.

Age 45 for Sisters of Mercy.

The age limit is because after age 40 it is extraordinarily unlikely for most to complete the training and be a productive nun.

It takes about 10 years of training to become a Catholic nun.

Older candidates would be gently pushed into other ways to be involved.