Imagine you’re facing a difficult problem. How would you go about solving it most efficiently? The mature and sophisticated way would be to carefully analyze its root causes and address them with intricately planned measures. Or you could just bomb it until everything in a 100-mile radius around the problem is a lifeless wasteland. Look, …
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What do you know about dolphins? Most people think they’re cute and sweet but these facts will tell you differently! Dolphins may try groping humans and in recorded cases they have touched humans inappropriately. Dolphins hunt for food and for “fun.” They hunt in pairs usually and find new ways to hunt their prey. They …
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Every year, the insurance company Nationwide hands out the Hambone Award. This most distinguished of awards acknowledges the most harebrained pet insurance claims of the year. This year marks the 16th time the Hambone Award has been handed out to a misbehaving or unfortunate pet. Nationwide just announced the results, with the winner being a …
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When you see a lot of animals in one spot, it’s easiest to say you just saw a “bunch of cows” or something. If you want to be more specific, you might say you spotted a “flock of seagulls.” But when you really get down into the nitty gritty, many groups of animals have specific …
In nature, things are often not as they seem. A gluttonous bald eagle in Missouri recently demonstrated that by causing animal conservationists unnecessary worry. The bird was spotted sitting around without doing anything, which isn’t something they usually do. Believing the eagle was injured, they captured it without much resistance. Yup, that sure sounds like …
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It’s World Folklore Day — which means it’s time for us to dive into the world’s strange folk tales and creatures. Last year, we featured a cavalcade of bizarre things from all over the globe. This time, however, we decided to stay closer to home. We recently talked about some curses in U.S. folklore, but …
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An inmate manages to escape the jail by digging a secret tunnel under the facility’s walls. This prison escape story is as old as time, familiar from movies like Shawshank Redemption. Recently, these events played out scene by scene in the Czech Republic. However, there’s a bit of a plot twist — the escapees weren’t …
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The giraffe fun facts we know are that they are the tallest mammals in the world but did you know that they can sprint? Are giraffes your favorite animal, too? Giraffes can go a couple of days without water and actually get most of the liquid from leaves, seed pods, and bark they eat off …
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Blue crabs are generally considered a Maryland specialty, especially when drenched in Old Bay seasoning. Although the Old Line State might be the most famous for them, the crabs also show up in the Carolinas, Delaware, New Jersey, and even Louisiana. The corn fields of Iowa, however, are decidedly crab-less. It’s weird, then, that blue …
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It’s a small world. Somewhere out there is somebody, or likely several people, who share the same name with you (unless your parents cursed you with something like X Æ A-Xii). That’s true even for criminally-minded birds. Two stores in U.K. cities 195 miles apart are struggling with a bizarre issue. At both establishments, a …
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