We’ve brought you stories about the dangers of toilets before, from using them in outer space to snakes lurking inside to bite penises. Today, it’s a butt and a bear at the center of the story. The toilet in question was an outhouse – how else would the bear have fit in there – located …
There’s a Part I to the richest pets in the world, but you don’t need to read it first. The only context you need to know is that sometimes, the 1% like their pets more than their family (rich people–they’re just like us!). When that happens, they leave their fortune to their animal. Or, more …
When people have a massive amount of wealth and no family – or at least, no family they like – they have to get creative about what to do with it when they die. There’s always donating to charity, or building libraries to honor yourself or getting buried nestled amongst your millions. But why not …
If you haven’t read Part One yet, about chimpanzee kidneys and baboon livers, which kept patients alive for weeks or even months, check it out first. In Part Two, we’re diving into more dramatic transplants, including testes, skin, and hearts. Goat Testicles in Kansas John R. Brinkley was not a doctor. But that didn’t stop …
As a society, we’ve sort of just decided that animals are here for our benefit. In some ways, this capitalist attitude is harmless, like sheep farmers dotting the pastoral countryside of the UK or alpaca farmers who lovingly sheer their stock for making hats and mittens and things. In other ways, it’s taken on a …
Authorities stopped a 56-year-old man outside baggage claim after he traveled from Tanzania to Austria. The airport x-ray machine had picked up something remarkable. The first sign something was probably amiss? The guy packed all his clothes in Tupperware containers with fresh-lock tops. Hidden among his socks and sundry were 74 chameleons, ranging from newborns …
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Here’s some good news for a change. Scientists discovered a perfectly preserved dinosaur butthole on the fossilized remains of a Psittacosaurus in China. The Labrador-sized dinosaur was a distant relative of the Triceratops. Both lived during the Cretaceous period. That means this particular butthole has been around for about a hundred million years. You take …
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You hear about the global extinction rate of 150 species disappearing every day, and you figure most of those are probably just gnats and weeds. But then you learn about a single insect who does stuff that’s exceptionally gross/cool, and you have to wonder how much we’re missing out on by trashing the earth. Burying …
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was not a nice man. Although he did use his dirty money to build houses and community projects in poor areas of his country, he was also directly responsible for hundreds, if not thousands of murders. Although Escobar has by now been dead for almost two decades, his legacy lives …
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It’s not every day that a state issues a national death warrant on a single bird. But Australia is a place where rules of normal life don’t apply. Meet Joe, a pigeon named after the U.S. President-elect Joe Biden. Yesterday, on January 14, Joe was sentenced to death. Joe had done nothing wrong – he …
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