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Some time ago, we wrote about an adventurous British dog who got rescued from a swamp with sausages. Clearly, this Michigan pup heard the story and thought she could do better. Maehem, a three-year-old Kai Ken escaped from her owners and went missing for nearly a week. After an exhaustive search, rescuers finally picked her …
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Have you ever seen a Tasmanian tiger? Unless you’re nearly 100 years old, you haven’t — the animal went extinct in 1936. Still, Australians still occasionally claim to have seen the long dead creature prowling the wilds. Well, in the future, they actually might spot it again. The Thylacine Integrated Genetic Restoration Research (TIGRR) Lab …
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Most recreational drugs are illegal, but that hasn’t stopped criminal organizations trading in them. To get the narcotics to their target markets, they often have to smuggle them across national borders. Of course, the border guards are constantly on alert to stop any obvious drug smuggling attempts. That’s why the drug gangs have had to …
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The Earth getting gradually warmer has many strange — and often harmful — effect on plants and wildlife. But here’s one phenomenon that nobody saw coming. It seems last summer’s heatwave in British Columbia, Canada, got the local bees a bit too hot and bothered. In the summer heat, death literally came for male honeybees. …
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Eating leftovers is a great way to save money and cut back on food waste. Some foods, like many curries, actually taste even better after maturing for a bit. But it’s vitally important to store and refrigerate your leftover food properly. Otherwise you might get seriously sick — or lose several limbs. Contaminated leftovers led …
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To many parents, hearing that their child suffers from a rare, incurable syndrome is the worst nightmare imaginable. But for Katelyn Samples from Georgia, it wasn’t all that bad. The worst part of it is that telling her child to comb his hair will be completely pointless in the future. After all, the toddle’s wild …
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It’s difficult enough to buy a car at the moment, what with the computer chip shortage and ridiculous demand ravaging auto makers. And it probably doesn’t help that 4,000 brand-new cars are currently on fire in the middle of the Atlantic. Not only that, the ship they’re on is abandoned. There’s nobody to put out …
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Video games are a lot of fun, and exciting action can really pull you into the gameplay. But you should still keep your surroundings in mind. A Canadian Twitch streamer, going by the name of Vuzby, recently got a reminder of that. His calls for help while playing Apex Legends resulted in police officers suddenly …
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Remember VHS tapes, flip phones, or any other piece of tech that became completely obsolete? It was easy enough to dump your old gadgets and move on to the next technological marvel. But what if you’d implanted a VHS deck into your skull? That’s the situation now facing hundreds of blind people. Second Sight Medical …
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You’re sleeping alone in your bed while a naked man, blood dripping from his body and armed with scissors, is watching you from a dark corner. Sounds like nightmare fuel, doesn’t it? Unfortunately for 80-year-old Denyse Holt from Lincolnwood, Illinois, that disturbing vision wasn’t just a bad dream. A naked intruder that crept into Holt’s …
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