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A couple weeks ago we wrote about the dumbest tourist ever who tried to pet a lion in Tanzania. Now a woman in Romania has proven that you don’t need to travel to Africa to almost get mauled by wild beasts. The incident reportedly happened in Bacau, Romania, in late June. An unnamed woman …
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In a story twist that could’ve popped straight out of a Pixar writers’ brainstorming session, a curious chicken recently went on a journey of a lifetime. And just like the studio’s best animated features, this animal story has a happy ending. Reba is a Rhode Island Red hen living in Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, as …
Continue reading “There and Back Again: A Chicken’s Unexpected Journey to Costco and Beyond”
We all know that father-son rivalries are not only a thing, but are practically a right of passage. But this arm-wrestling match went too far. This is what happened. Curtis Zimmerman was drinking when he challenged his son to an arm-wrestling competition. After losing to his son multiple times, the 55-year-old dad became “agitated,” and …
Continue reading “Kentucky Arm-Wrestling Match Leads to Guns and Cops”
Although the list of COVID symptoms keeps growing, as of now, long-lasting erections are not on it. But for this 62-year-old man, he not only experienced an erection, but a four hour one. Even Viagra commercials tell us that erections lasting longer than 4 hours are bad. At first it may be “an exciting” side …
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Quick, name a food associated with Germany. There’s a pretty good chance you came up with either beer or sausage. It’s a bit of a tired stereotype at this point, but there’s no denying facts: Germans love their beer and sausages. But what are Germans to do when they leave the beer hall late at …
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The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused many popular events to change how they host their activities or to straight up cancel them. Among them is the annual Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest. Hosted each year on the Fourth of July in Coney Island, New York, the Major League Eating (MLE) event has had to …
Continue reading “Reigning Champ Finds Hot Dog Eating Contest’s Corona Measures a Mixed Bag”
Here’s a big fish story to top anything your grandpa has told you: my catch was so dangerous that the army had to get involved. Yeah, right. What could you possibly fish up that warranted military intervention? Try a hand grenade. That is exactly what two schoolboys in southern Finland managed to pull up on …
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It’s a tale older than time. A guy loses someone he loves, keeps searching for them for many years, and just as he’s about to give up, the fates bring him back together with his lost love. A classic feel-good story. Only in this case, the lost love is an ice skate. We couldn’t make …
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Imagine you’re reading the morning newspaper and you hit the classifieds section. Or if you’re too modern for that, maybe you’re on Craigslist. Suddenly, you notice a strange ad. A Wild West town for sale, lightly used, comes with a saloon. Alright, that’s an exaggeration, but it’s not too far from reality. For the meager …
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People will do strange things for money, fame and recognition, from sticking toothpicks into their beard to piercing coconuts with one finger. Being pummeled in the face by the most wet sponges in one minute is definitely one of the more bizarre world records and until recently it stood at 76. Then along came a …
Continue reading “Man Breaks World Record for Getting Hit by Wet Sponges… For Science!”