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Mullets have been quite the hairdo over time, and are often loved or hated. But this Texas boy was praised for his good looks and took thee top prize in Mullet Champ USA’s 2020 Kids Mullet Championship. At 8 years old, Jax received over 20,000 votes and over 50,000 social media reactions, winning first place …
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When it comes to picking a baby name, everyone has their own ideas. But apparently this babies full name was terrible, so terrible, it’s making people laugh. “My brother and his girlfriend had a baby girl two months ago,” Shared a new auntie. “I didn’t visit her in the hospital due to the restrictions,” she explained. …
Continue reading “SIL Laughs at and Refuses to Use New Niece’s Full Name”
If you don’t have at least one “smart” device these days, you can consider yourself a bit of an oddity. Most of us have our smartphones, and smart watches are also becoming ever more common. But it seems that in the last decade or so, the tech industry has decided to smart-ify everything. Smart technology …
Continue reading “Amazon Outage Takes Out Internet – And People’s Vacuum Cleaners”
Happy Turkey Day, everybody! Or Thanksgiving, whichever you want to call it. It’s a day for getting together with family (with appropriate pandemic precautions, mind you), eating and drinking well, and all around having a good time. Well, except for the 46 million turkeys that are eaten on this day every year. But not every …
Continue reading “Thank You, Turkey: Ancient Feather Blanket Sheds Light on American History”
We usually associate animal behavior with cuteness. Whether they’re running, jumping, bouncing, nibbling, or anything else, it’s usually adorable, right? But if you’re read Oddee at all – or paid any attention to nature for that matter – you’ll know that just as often animals aren’t quite as innocent as we make them out to …
Continue reading “Banded Mongoose Females Send Their Pack to War… And Then Have Sex with the Enemy”
Are we alone in the universe? Or do alien creatures occasionally – or maybe even regularly – descend from the skies to walk on Earth? Some people certainly think so, and not all of them are UFO-hunting crackpots either. For example, you could go read our story of the ex-U.S. military boss who thinks we …
Who doesn’t like a good conspiracy theory? Even if you don’t believe in them, they’re entertaining stories to read – the more outlandish the theory, the better! Conspiracy theories are usually spawned by significant historical events, especially ones where someone important dies under murky circumstances. One of the most significant of such in – at …
Continue reading “50-year-old Newspapers Debunk JFK Conspiracy Theory”
The mom was found under a pile of clothes and an autopsy determined that she had been decomposing there for at least a year. An officer showed up to the residence and while talking to the residents, the following conversation was overheard over the call to the dispatcher: “Who is this upstairs?” the deputy questioned. …
Meat has become a bit of a controversial food in the past couple of decades, at least in some circles. Packed as it is with protein, there are some actual concerns surrounding our hunger for flesh. Without even mentioning any ethical and animal welfare issues, meat production presents some serious issues. Producing the amounts of …
Continue reading “Go Eat Yourself: Steak Grown from Human Cells Borders on Cannibalism”
We rely on somethings in life to remain constant so we can know the world is right. Grass grows, birds fly, the sun shines, and the normal human body temperature is about 98.6°F. For you Europeans, that’s 37°C, precise. This measurement – first measured by German physician Carl Wunderlich some 200 years ago – is …
Continue reading “Cold, So Cold… Universal Drop in Human Body Temperature Stumps Scientists”