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Hair and nail tests on eight frozen Inca mummies sacrificed on Andean volcanoes show every one had chewed coca leaves, four had drunk alcohol, and the famous Juanita mummy had taken a plant used in ayahuasca Researchers surveyed 1,500 km of ancient Arabian desert and checked 125 sites, finding evidence of lakes at 55 but no early human tools; a new study suggests missing toolmaking stone mattered as much as water A New York bank filed to foreclose on a married couple’s home, missed a 2017 court deadline and let its case be dismissed in 2019; after waiting more than six years to revive the case, it lost another appeal Taiwan People’S Communist Party: Taiwan detains communist party leader over alleged links to China ahead of local polls In the 1830s, Americans bought tomato ketchup as medicine after a physician claimed tomatoes could treat indigestion and diarrhoea; pills made from tomato extract were sold across the country before the craze collapsed.