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Being the victim of blackmail is a harrowing experience. Having to pay someone to keep your secrets secret can not only drain you financially, but also have a significant negative mental impact. But toward the end of last year, one hacker took the concept of blackmail to a whole new level. They really had their …
Have you ever heard that saying about how gamblers will bet on anything? There’s a major sports book taking bets on aerial drone races and they think gamblers will be lining up. On Friday DraftKings said it was taking bets for the weekend’s championship of the Drone Racing League. Pilots flew aerial drones in the …
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It’s never a laughing matter when a school gets evacuated. That means lives are in danger, and not just any lives – the lives of children. But out of all the reasons for a school to trigger evacuation procedures, we’re ready to bet nobody saw this one coming. The Haddon Township High School – in …
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As anyone who’s ever gotten punched will testify, it’s not fun. Getting served a heaping serving of knuckle sandwich just plain hurts. But imagine if you got pummeled by an assailant with eight arms. It sounds like a nightmare, but now you know what certain tropical fish have to live with. New research has found …
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There have been a lot of weird characters in kids’ cartoons over the years. We have a sponge living in an undersea pineapple, that yellow shapeshifting dog thing from Adventure time, basically everything from Courage the Cowardly Dog… The list goes on. But now they’re joined by someone who’s unlike pretty much anything we’ve seen …
Bad boys, bad boys, what’cha gonna do when they come for you? Law enforcement exists for one reason – to solve crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice. That’s how it should be, but unfortunately it’s not always the case. Some crooks are so devious, their plans so meticulously crafted, that the cops are never …
Continue reading “Man Returns Revolutionary War General’s Stolen Sword After 40 Years”
What is it with all the aliens lately? Towards the end of last year, we brought you the story of the strange monoliths that keep appearing and disappearing around the world. Not only that, we covered an Israeli defense chief’s claim that aliens exist but they’re just media shy. In one of these stories, we …
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I would do anything for love, sang Meatloaf, except that. He never told us what “that” is, but we can assume he was ready to go pretty far. A Mexican man called Alberto has clearly taken a page out of Meatloaf’s songbook, since he too went to some pretty absurd lengths for some loving. No, …
What happens if you scare a small lizard? It’ll likely drop its tail to distract the supposed predator and run off. But as we all know, it doesn’t really hurt the lizard. Before too long, the reptile will have grown a brand new tail. It might look a bit funkier than the original, but it …
Continue reading “Alligators Can Grow Back Lost Limbs, Research Finds”
The president issued a flurry of pardons around the holidays, raising some international eyebrows regarding their legality and morality. On the local level, some pardons just brought back memories of a simpler, pre-2020 time. Back when some people’s greatest aspiration was their very own reality TV show. Those heady pre-TikTok aughts, before you could parlay …
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