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The Tan Hill Inn, built in the 17th century, is the highest pub in the UK at 1,732 feet. On Friday, November 26, a crowd of 61 people had gathered at the pub to listen to an Oasis tribute band. And then the storm hit. Storm Arwen, one of the worst blizzards to hit the …
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Bees — you know ‘em, you love ‘em. They’re good little guys, always buzzing around, slurping up nectar from flowers, and making honey. Unless they’re vulture bees. Then they’ll prefer a nice chunk of flesh to a colorful flower. Jessica Maccaro is a PhD student in entomology at University of California, Riverside (UCR), who recently …
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Remember that American ex-military boss who said UFOs are real and we need to prepare for them? Well, it turns out that the Pentagon was listening. On November 23, Deputy Secretary of Defense launched a new investigative force. It has one purpose, and one purpose only — to observe, track, and identify UFOs (or unidentified …
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Some facts of life should be self-evident. For example, dead people don’t come waltzing out of a mortuary outside of religious texts or horror movies. Recently, though, one Indian man managed to flaunt the laws of nature. He died only so that hospital staff could pull him out of the mortuary freezer seven hours later. …
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If you tried to think about people who live up to their word, lawyers probably wouldn’t be on the top of your list. But sometimes you find a lawyer who really is perfectly honest. Daniel Muessig from Pennsylvania is one of those lawyers, but for all the wrong reasons. In 2014, he released a viral …
Did you catch the first part of Grandma Got Tattooed For Her Birthday: Part One? Here’s the rest of the details. So it was the time for her tat, and she did it family style. Dede went to the tattoo parlor with her family in tow, ready for her new forearm tat. “When I got …
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Have you seen that old episode of The Simpsons where Homer gets banned from a seafood buffet for eating too much? It seems the cartoon predicted the future — once again. To find Homer’s real life equivalent, we’ll have to travel to the city of Changsha in south-central China. There we find a man who …
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Filthy rich millionaires selling their ludicrously expensive mansions to each other isn’t really newsworthy. Except in this case, because the millionaire isn’t a human being. Meet Gunther VI. The German shepherd with an appropriately fancy name is the world’s richest dog — and he’s about to get a whole lot richer. The affluent pooch is …
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Recent intense storms in Egypt in Egypt have caused a deadly flood to plow through several cities in south-central Egypt. But unlike what you might think, this flood isn’t made up of just water. The heavy rains, dust storms, and snow in Aswan have driven possibly thousands of scorpions on the move. And they aren’t …
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Oh, the innocence of a child. Or stupidity. We’re really not sure which of those this story is an example of. A recent study has found that American kids have absolutely no idea where food comes from. Not only do they not know whether food is animal- or plant-based, they think commonly eaten animals aren’t …
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