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Revolver, dagger, rope, lead pipe, wrench, candlestick… There are many implements you can use to commit a murder most foul. Yet, you won’t find a mushroom in a game of Clue — but perhaps you should. Erin Patterson is standing trial in Australia for murder charges. She’s accused of killing her in-laws with a deadly …
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Genetic modification has done a lot to benefit humanity. It has given more plentiful crops, like corn and rice, and even medications, like bacteria-produced insulin. Not every genetic experiment has been a great success. For example, you can look at the one that turned cuddle hamsters into ultraviolent psychos. And then there are those genetic …
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Recycling can be an easy and effective way to help the environment, but people tend to need a bit of incentive to start recycling. To this end, many places have some kind of return-and-earn scheme for drink cans and bottles. The compensation usually isn’t much — a few cents per can — but it’s something. …
Continue reading “Australian Man Buys a House by Recycling Half a Million Cans and Bottles”
If The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit taught us anything, it’s not to judge someone’s abilities based on their size. Even the smallest of us can achieve the greatest things. This tiny dachshund sure did. Valerie the miniature dachshund was recently with her family. She had been missing for a year and a …
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Police officers do not have an easy job. When the duty calls, they have to be prepared to put everything on the line. That includes their dangling buddies down south. A cop from the Sunshine State recently learned the hard way just how dangerous an irate Florida Woman can be. The officer was called to …
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Some animals are shockingly intelligent. They can learn to use tools, solve complex environmental puzzles, and remember stuff for longer than humans can. They can even learn to obey traffic lights — in their own way. Dr. Vladimir Dinets, a zoologist from New Jersey, has discovered a young hawk that has developed a unique hunting …
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Some people can sleep through anything. Nothing can stir them, whether it’s honking cars, screaming children, or quaking ground. Or a gigantic cargo ship running aground mere feet away from their homes. Johan Helberg is one of those people. On a recent morning, the Norwegian irately went to answer the door after being roused by …
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With our phones, computers, and other smart devices always listening, it’s not necessarily paranoia to be cautious about somebody spying on you. Even the birds in the sky may be conspiring against you. Or that’s what the residents of this Ethiopian village thought, anyway. Recently, a bunch of villagers in Ethiopia caught a seagull. On …
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It always sucks when somebody steals something that’s yours. It smarts twice as much, though, when a living being you’re attached to get stolen. For instance, it could be your cat. That’s theft that was at the heart of a recent strange court case in Switzerland. It involves a retired woman who started feeding her …
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Life originated in Earth’s oceans some 4 billion years ago, but it took a hot minute for it to crawl onto dry land. The first creatures started flopping around on land some 400 million years ago, and they didn’t start truly walking until some 318 million years ago. Or that’s what the general understanding has …