The end of the world is getting nearer and nearer, hurling towards us at over 25,000 miles an hour. The current assumption is there is a 10% chance per century of a dangerous, life destroying space object striking the earth.

Apophis is small by asteroid standards, perhaps 300 meters across, but it could hit with about 60,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb– enough to destroy an area the size of France.
Quotation from The Atlantic, The Sky is Falling by Gregg Easterbrook

If Apophis is a RETROGRADE rotator on the small, less-massive end of what is possible, the measurement uncertainty region will get pushed back such that the center of the distribution encounters the Earth’s orbit. This would result in an impact probability much higher than computed with the Standard Dynamical Model.
Quotation from U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Near Earth Object Program, Predicting Apophis’ Earth Encounters in 2029 and 2036.

Today is “National Kick a Ginger Day” in Canada. Ginger is, of course, a slang expression for people with red hair. Redheads account for only four percent of the world’s population. It’s thought that within 100 years, redheads will become an endangered species along with polar bears, manatees and certain species of armadillos.

‘Kick a Ginger’ day has redheads running scared (CTV News BC)
Redhead facts & myths (Restless Cynicism Blog)

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
Quotation from Philip Andrew Adams