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Lately, smugglers have been making headlines more than usual. Just last week we brought you a story of a man who tried to bring 74 chameleons to Austria in his suitcase. Now, New Zealand judges have handed out a sentence to another would-be smuggler. But this time, it was a much pricklier case. Answer us …
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If you didn’t read the first part of this story, you can here Man Receives First Successful Hands and Face Transplant: Part One “We always begin the operation with a moment of silence to honor the donor family, to respect their great loss, to never forget the donations that have been made,” Rodriguez said. “In …
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Since falling asleep at the wheel, Joe Dimeo, 20 at the time, has not been able to smile for two years. After his accident, a passerby pulled him out of his car before it exploded. Dimeo had third-degree burns over 80% of his body and no eyelids, ears, or all of his fingers. Along with …
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Animals can be surprisingly smart. Mammals, birds, octopuses, and even insects have wowed people with some impressing feats of intelligence. But nobody would ever claim that plants are particularly intelligent forms of life. Or so we thought, until scientist taught spinach how to send emails. You read that right. Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of …
Do you like dogs? Do you really, really like dogs? Are you so completely obsessed with a single dog breed that you erected a giant solid gold statue of it? If you answered no, good news – you’re probably not completely off your marbles. But the same can’t be said about the president of Turkmenistan. …
A salt truck led police on a slow-speed chase in a City of Cincinnati salt truck. The truck dumped its salt all over the police cruisers that pursued it. The incident began around 11:45 p.m. last Thursday in Reading, Ohio. According to an affidavit, the Reading police officer actually pulled a different vehicle over on …
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Far be it for me to question our new social media overloads at TikTok. They’ve got a winning formula for constant scrolling. Using filters, video structure, and trends, everyone on the app seems poised for virality at any moment. Even the most mundane content (repotting plants, morning routines, super-clips of sad girls crying) can easily …
Everybody loves a good mystery. And as far as mysteries go, it doesn’t get much more mysterious than the infamous Dyatlov Pass Incident. In 1959, nine hikers in the former Soviet Union died under strange circumstances. The case has spawned a number of conspiracy theories, with the cause of death attributed to animals, secret military …
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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 is more of what happened according to Choundhary. She said Larry and Amanda tied up McGuire, accusing him of being a federal informant, with both Larry and Amanda yelling “and demanding to know who he was.” “John kept telling them, ‘You have the wrong person. I don’t know who you’re looking for, but you …