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New England gardeners and farmers are buckling under a not-quite-biblical but still irritating plague. A chittering horde is taking over the northeastern states, digging up plants and destroying flower beds. It’s chipmunks! The critters’ population has exploded this summer due to favorable food conditions and they’re unleashing their wrath upon New England gardens. The region …
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find an actual buried treasure? Just like those that the pirates in Hollywood swashbuckling blockbusters bury all over the place? Thanks to a jeweler from Michigan, you now have a chance to do just that. And out of all things, you can thank the coronavirus …
As the old saying goes, kids will do the darndest things. But using a global health crisis as a cover to get your booze on is pretty scummy even by those standards. It has been difficult enough to get people to wear masks in the face of the raging COVID-19 pandemic. But now that stores …
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We hope you’ve eaten already, because this will get gross. A Japanese woman recently found herself living in a real-life horror story after having a meal of sashimi. The Japanese delicacies of sushi and sashimi have absolutely exploded in popularity worldwide over the past couple of decades. While once a niche dish for the adventurous, …
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It’s the time of your life, again, for Dirty Dancing fans that is. Visitors have frequented this famous site at the Mountain Lake Lodge in Pembroke VA to see the spot where Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) and dance partner Baby (Jennifer Grey) were practicing lifts, but were greeted with a dry bed, where the lake …
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Sharks are often considered ferocious man-eating apex predators of the sea. While their infamy is actually mostly unwarranted, stories and movies of shark attacks have cemented their reputation in our collective subconscious. At least we can all breathe a sigh of relief with the fact that sharks are confined to the seas. On hard, dry …
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Apparently, this ‘new’ Karen isn’t the only one. There has been an increasing number of instances of middle-aged women who’ve acted out in regards to complying to the safety guidelines and store policies. People across America are acting out as such, just asking some to wear a mask to help stop the spread of the …
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From the snarling feral beasts of Aliens to a kind wrinkled raisin that just wants to phone home, some kinds of extraterrestrials have fascinated people pretty much ever since stories were a thing. Maybe we just like to think that we’re not so utterly alone in the universe. Now a U.S. ex-military boss is saying …
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We’ve covered events that resembled famous movie scenes before. This is one more of those, but this time the genre has switched to horror. On July 7, Dutch police officers raiding a criminal gang’s hideout made a bloodcurdling discovery. The gang had constructed a torture chamber that could just as well have been a set …
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Have you ever seen The NeverEnding Story? If you have, then you will remember the horse in the swamp scene. It’s one of the most heartbreaking moments in film history and seeing it as a child scarred many of us for life. An incident very reminiscent of the infamous clip played out near Bognor Regis …
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