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As you’re probably aware of, the US West Coast is kinda-sorta on fire at the moment. The gender reveal parties they’re throwing aren’t really helping, either. In fact, the gender reveal fire – known officially as the El Dorado fire – has claimed the life of one firefighter, according to Associated Press. With the blazes …
Canadian Federal Police, also known as Alberta RCMP, reported about a strange incident involving a Tesla vehicle on autopilot: “Alberta RCMP received a complaint of a car speeding on Highway 2 near Ponoka. The car appeared to be self-driving, traveling over 140 km/h with both front seats completely reclined and occupants appeared to be asleep.” …
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It’s pretty safe to say that, in general, we as humans like to live long and prosper. To that end, we’re constantly developing new and innovative ways to stave off our eventual demise. We’re pretty good at it, too. The average life expectancy is rising pretty much all around the world. It’s thanks to leaps …
Continue reading “Die and Let Live: Dutch Company Develops Fungus-Powered Green Coffin”
When we start talking about robots and the future, they usually get a bit of a bad rap. On the milder end of the scale, we’re worried about them replacing human workforce and contributing to unemployment. On the other end, we got the full-blown robot uprising. Think about Terminator or The Matrix. That kind of …
Continue reading “Autonomous Talking Robot Helps Old People Feel Less Lonely”
When most people think of museums, they think of places of art and culture. Museums are where you go to see famous paintings and sculptures, or maybe interesting trinkets from human history. But then there are more off-beat museums that also draw a crowd. For example, in Tallinn, Estonia, you can visit the Museum of …
A curious Canadian mouse was caught chomping down cannabis, that is, before he was caught napping, also known as passed out. The mouse was found pinching leaves out back a house in New Brunswick, Canada, two days in a row last week. Colin Sullivan, the owner of said plants was the one who saw …
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I actually like Peeps, the marshmallow candy rolled in sugar in chicken and bunny shapes. But not because of how they taste. Since childhood, I’ve gotten immense satisfaction from microwaving them. I like watching their little bodies bloat and distort, and then collapse in on themselves. Then, right into the trashcan and start over with …
Continue reading “Unexpected Upside of Pandemic: No Peeps for a Year”
If you were to live in a horror story, you might have a vampire spreading fear in your home area. The bloodsucking creature of the night will leave in its wake nothing but blood-drained corpses. That’s already bad enough, but what if it wasn’t just one vampire? What if instead you had teeming clouds of …
Continue reading “Hurricane-Spawned Mosquitoes Are Sucking Livestock Dry in Louisiana”
There’s not much good that’s come out of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But at least it’s giving us new, fascinating insights about the humans. In June, a Swiss study discovered what kind of personality traits fueled the toilet paper hoarding brought on by the initial coronavirus panic. Now, a Brazilian team of researchers has found …
Continue reading “Study: Refusing to Wear a Face Mask Could Mean You’re a Sociopath”
Someone could argue that we at Oddee are suffering from ophidiophobia of late. There’s the story about 100-pound snakes living in a man’s ceiling, and the pure horror of a four-foot snake pulled from a Russian woman’s throat. Now, rounding out a trifecta-of-awful, a snake in a toilet biting a man’s penis and sending him …
Continue reading “Snake Bites Penis in Nightmare Scenario Come True”