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Since falling asleep at the wheel, Joe Dimeo, 20 at the time, has not been able to smile for two years. After his accident, a passerby pulled him out of his car before it exploded. Dimeo had third-degree burns over 80% of his body and no eyelids, ears, or all of his fingers. Along with …
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Animals can be surprisingly smart. Mammals, birds, octopuses, and even insects have wowed people with some impressing feats of intelligence. But nobody would ever claim that plants are particularly intelligent forms of life. Or so we thought, until scientist taught spinach how to send emails. You read that right. Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of …
Do you like dogs? Do you really, really like dogs? Are you so completely obsessed with a single dog breed that you erected a giant solid gold statue of it? If you answered no, good news – you’re probably not completely off your marbles. But the same can’t be said about the president of Turkmenistan. …
A salt truck led police on a slow-speed chase in a City of Cincinnati salt truck. The truck dumped its salt all over the police cruisers that pursued it. The incident began around 11:45 p.m. last Thursday in Reading, Ohio. According to an affidavit, the Reading police officer actually pulled a different vehicle over on …
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Far be it for me to question our new social media overloads at TikTok. They’ve got a winning formula for constant scrolling. Using filters, video structure, and trends, everyone on the app seems poised for virality at any moment. Even the most mundane content (repotting plants, morning routines, super-clips of sad girls crying) can easily …
Everybody loves a good mystery. And as far as mysteries go, it doesn’t get much more mysterious than the infamous Dyatlov Pass Incident. In 1959, nine hikers in the former Soviet Union died under strange circumstances. The case has spawned a number of conspiracy theories, with the cause of death attributed to animals, secret military …
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Authorities stopped a 56-year-old man outside baggage claim after he traveled from Tanzania to Austria. The airport x-ray machine had picked up something remarkable. The first sign something was probably amiss? The guy packed all his clothes in Tupperware containers with fresh-lock tops. Hidden among his socks and sundry were 74 chameleons, ranging from newborns …
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Here is more of what happened according to Choundhary. She said Larry and Amanda tied up McGuire, accusing him of being a federal informant, with both Larry and Amanda yelling “and demanding to know who he was.” “John kept telling them, ‘You have the wrong person. I don’t know who you’re looking for, but you …
First there was Valentine’s Day dinner, then they killed the daughter’s boyfriend, and eventually got married. The woman was forced by the two to kill the man Valentine’s dinner was steaks, potatoes, and a bottle of wine, but it wasn’t until after the meal that “things started to get strange,” said Anna Marie Choudhary, a …
Nobody wants to smell bad, right? Most people pride themselves on cleanliness these days, and it’s probably safe to say that a vast majority of cultures consider reeking of body odor offensive. That is despite the fact that sales of deodorant have collapsed due to the COVID-19 containment measures. But have you ever wanted to …
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