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Some types of vehicle damage are easier to explain to the insurance company. Somebody backed into your car in the parking lot and owned up to it? Easy. A bear broke into your car and ate the seats? Yeah, good luck with that. That’s what Canadian Kayla Seward had to try and explain to the …
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Not every fisherman is after a catch that swims and breathes through gills. Others chase a much colder and harder haul. They are magnet fishing enthusiast. With strong magnets attached to long lines, they pull up forgotten metal from waterways. Most of the time, their hauls end up being trash, like old shopping carts, twisted …
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Limburg an der Lahn is a picturesque city in the state of Hesse in western Germany. But Limburg has a problem. A problem in the shape of a pigeon. Well, hundreds of pigeons, to be accurate. The birds have become such a nuisance that the locals are reaching the end of their rope. The pigeons …
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We like to think of wolves as these majestic apex predators that rule the natural world. Yet, the cold hard fact is that the life of a wolf is a hard one. Most wolf pups perish before reaching adulthood. Even when a wolf gets to grow up, it’ll be incredibly lucky if it sees its …
Continue reading “Yellowstone’s Ancient One-Eyed Wolf Gives Birth to Her 10th Litter”
Imagine an Amazon package containing a seemingly random item showing up at your door. How nice — someone must’ve bought you a present! But then you check your Amazon account and credit card statement to find that you bought the item. Only, you have zero memory of doing so. What happened? Did you buy the …
Continue reading “British Woman Racks Up Nearly $4K in Credit Card Debt — By Shopping in Her Sleep”
Goats are notoriously stubborn animals. They’ll (at least try) to eat almost anything, occasionally overrun Italian islands, and they climb. Boy, do they climb. In case you didn’t know, goats are basically a bunch of Spider-Men. Some mountain goats can scale nearly perfectly vertical cliffs with ease. Yet, even your regular domestic goats can be …
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When you have a dream, you will do whatever it takes to pursue it. Even if that means quitting your established career. That’s what George Frandsen did. The Arizona man resigned from his successful job at a major healthcare company to open his own museum. At the Poozeum, located in Williams, Arizona, you can see …
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Remember Dennis the Menace? Now that is an aged reference that we might have to explain to our younger readers. Dennis the Menace was originally a comic strip from the 1950s that enjoyed a brief renaissance in the ‘80s and ‘90s thanks to a popular cartoon. It featured a mischievous but ultimately good-hearted young boy, …
Solid, tabby, piebald, calico, Siamese, bald… Our kitty cats come in all kinds of coats and colors. Now, crazy cat ladies and lords can add a whole new type of cat to the list. A Finnish research team has identified a new kind of coat in cats. Called “salmiak,” this never-before-seen coloration is black and …
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If you can make money from it (or it’s an object weird enough to be interesting), people will try to smuggle it. Even Canada, the nicest place on Earth, isn’t immune to smuggling. Case in point, Canada’s border agency and fish and wildlife authorities recently stopped an illegal shipment of baby eels. It was quite …