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The latest craze in healthcare seems to be setting up GoFundMe pages just so people can pay their doctors. It’s a sorry state of affairs that such donation drives are needed in the first place, but at least they help people. Unfortunately, wherever there’s money, there will always be unscrupulous characters looking to make an …
Continue reading “Woman Fakes Cancer for Donations, Goes to Jail”
If you were to murder someone, how would you cover your tracks? Should you be devious and immoral enough, you might try assuming your victim’s identity and picking up their life where they left off. Nobody would ever suspect that the person is missing if people kept getting, say, text messages from them. Right? Well, …
Continue reading “Texting with Emojis Gets Son Arrested for Father’s Murder”
Have you ever wanted to be someone you’re not? Even if you don’t, we all have some parts of our personalities that we could stand to improve. Now, a new kind of a smartphone has shown that it is indeed possible to change for the better as a person. And you can do it pretty …
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Yesterday we covered the story of a guitarist turning his dead uncle’s remains into an instrument. We’re continuing in more or less the same vein today, but this time we’re exploiting a living human body. Turning a person into a battery sounds like something out of The Matrix movies. If you haven’t seen them, in …
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As you no doubt know, poop comes in all shapes and sizes. Without going into the filthy details, it’s easy to identify animals by their droppings, and you could probably even tell some people apart from their leavings. But among all the strangely shaped poops in the world, one must inevitably stand above the rest. …
Continue reading “Wombats Have Cube-Shaped Poop – Scientists Now Know Why”
Ever heard it said about someone who’s metaphorically living under rock that it’s a rock worth living under? Here’s a great example of that saying taken to the extreme. In a disastrous accident, a British teen was hit by a car in early 2020 and slipped into a coma. He has finally regained consciousness but …
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Of all the things you could smuggle in, you would think you wouldn’t choose something uncomfortable, you know? Not this lady though, nope, she smuggled cacti. New Zealand authorities have sentenced this woman for the smuggling. Wenqing Li, 38, pleaded guilty to violating biosecurity laws after getting caught, twice, with plants and seeds at the …
The country is well on its way making preparations for the greatest battle of the year. No, we’re not talking about any military conflict – this is all about the big game, the Super Bowl. And what pops to your mind when you think about the Super Bowl? Probably football, of course, together with ridiculously …
Continue reading “Americans to Consume 20 Million Pounds of Cheese During Super Bowl”
Lately, smugglers have been making headlines more than usual. Just last week we brought you a story of a man who tried to bring 74 chameleons to Austria in his suitcase. Now, New Zealand judges have handed out a sentence to another would-be smuggler. But this time, it was a much pricklier case. Answer us …
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If you didn’t read the first part of this story, you can here Man Receives First Successful Hands and Face Transplant: Part One “We always begin the operation with a moment of silence to honor the donor family, to respect their great loss, to never forget the donations that have been made,” Rodriguez said. “In …
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