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Zootopia, Disney’s 2016 hit animation, introduced the world to rabbit cop Judy Hopps and his reluctant crime-fighting partner, Nick Wilde. Released in late 2025, the sequel Zootopia 2 seems set to repeat the first movie’s success. This film introduced a new character, Gary De’Snake, who is unsurprisingly a snake. Zootopia 2 has done well at …
Continue reading “Zootopia 2 Inspires Chinese to Start Buying Venomous Pit Vipers as Pets”
We’ve all done it. You lose something you really need and accept that it’s gone, only for you to find it years later, exactly where you last left it. Still, there’s a limit to how important a thing you can misplace like this. Nobody could forget where they left their car or, say, airplane. Well, …
Lighting flashes illuminate the dark clouds above a stormy sea. Suddenly, for a brief moment, an enormous red-glowing jellyfish appears floating in the sky before disappearing just as quickly. Oh, that doesn’t seem right at all. It sounds like a tall tale told by old-timey sailors, but the hubbub about red jellyfish is very recent. …
Continue reading “Red Jellyfish Lights: NASA Explains the Truth Behind the Mysterious Phenomenon”
You’re walking along the streets of your home city, when suddenly you notice a very official-looking sign posted on a utility pole. Reading the message, however, makes you do a double-take. “Don’t. —Your Local City Council” Don’t… Don’t what? Don’t walk here? Don’t leave this area? Many citizens of Christchurch in New Zealand have recently …
Continue reading “‘Haunted but Manageable’: Bizarre ‘Government’ Signs Turn Heads in New Zealand”
Space is strange. There are all kinds of bizarre things floating about in there, from planets where razor glass rains sideways to incomprehensibly huge voids where there’s nothing at all. Yet, we know so little about the universe that astronomers discover new surprises all the time. Recently, they found a planet that defies most things …
Continue reading “NASA Finds Weird Lemon-shaped Planet Orbiting a Weird Star”
No homeowner wants the local HOA sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong. In Colorado, one family can thank their neighbors when they came to their support after HOA meddling almost spoiled Christmas. The Flores family in Severance bought a huge inflatable Santa to celebrate the holiday season. And when we say huge, we mean …
Continue reading “Community Support Allows Family to Keep 28-Foot Santa Despite HOA Ban”
In many cases, the death of your mother is a devastating blow. This Italian man appears to have seen an opportunity in the tragedy. The 56-year-old’s mother, Graziella Dall’Oglio died years ago. However, he never reported the death to the authorities. In fact, he continued living as if his mother was still alive. That also …
Continue reading “Man Dresses as Dead Mother in ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Retirement Benefits Scam”
It’s always fun when a bunch of dogs gets together for a play date. Recently, however, Argentina took the concept to a frankly ridiculous level. A group of people, led by social media influencer Fausto Duperré, decided to set a new world record. They wanted to get as many golden retrievers in one place as …
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After World War II, G.I.s returned from the front and got busy building families. That resulted in a baby boom, and that’s how we got today’s Boomers. It turns out that the same thing can also happen with our closest relatives. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a bloody war raged in Uganda. This …
Continue reading “Decade-Long Chimpanzee War Ends in a Baby Boom”
A Danish Zoo has recently stirred up a bit of controversy, to put things mildly. A few months ago, it asked people to donate their pets to the zoo. “Oh, that’s cute,” you might think. However, the donated animals wouldn’t become new attractions. Instead, they’d become food for the zoo’s carnivorous animals. Aalborg Zoo put …
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