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If an animal is hungry enough, he’ll eat that looks like food. Even a $300K sports car. Markus Zahn took his pride and joy, a McLaren 650S Spider, out for a spin last year in Germany. He parked his car in what he assumed was a safe spot. The last thing he wanted was another …
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Ever heard of a gustnado? We haven’t either—but it looks pretty horrifying. A man named Brent Rose drove through this unusual combination of heavy wind, dust, and rain near Buttonwillow, California in early September and posted the harrowing video to YouTube. He said of the freak storm, “I was driving down the highway and noticed …
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A giraffe in Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield, Missouri stuck her neck out for love this week when she helped a man propose to his girlfriend. Makayla Blakey thought she was just there to feed the animals, but her boyfriend Cody Hall had other ideas—she did not see the engagement ring hanging around Mili the …
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Sometimes life doesn’t go the way you want, even if it involves a new baby brother—just ask Daisy Martin. The girl from Cardiff, Wales was left in a puddle of tears when she received the tragic news that her pregnant mom was having a baby boy—not a girl as she had hoped. Her adorable reaction …
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In situations of pending death, there are two possible courses of action for human or beast—either accept fate or fight like hell to survive. This is known as the “fight or flight” response. Neither response is the “correct” course of action, and a person will never know how they’ll react until their backs are against …
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A popular, old expression is “she’s got legs up to here, ” and we still don’t know what the heck it means but we’ve found the woman everyone is referring to. Well, the Guinness World Record people found her, and she’s a 6’9″ Russian model. Ekaterina Lisina is the new title holder for the longest …
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2017 has been a year of hurricanes, earthquakes and devastating brush fires. And now, it’s raining fish. Is it the end of the world? Probably not. But this week, fish did drop from the sky in Tampico, Mexico during a light rain, according to Pedro Granados, the director of civil protection in Tamaulipas state. He …
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Catt Gallinger’s foray into body art ended just as quickly as it started, but not soon enough, as she may have been rendered partially blind by her tattooist. The 24-year-old had requested a scelera tattoo—ink that would tint the whites of her eyes. However, her modification didn’t go as planned. Purple liquid starting seeping from …
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Oh, what a lucky man he was—or rather, is. Paul Baxter, 50, of Preston, Lancashire, visited a doctor after coughing up yellow mucus for over a year. He was a smoker for some 30 years, and after a round of tests, doctors feared the worst. A scan performed to determine the cause of his symptoms …
Continue reading “Man Suspected Of Having Cancer Is Found To Have Traffic Cone Lodged In His Lung”
Every fall, we expect a certain number of things to occur—the start of the school year, a change in hue on tree leaves from green to a multitude of colors, and pumpkin spice everything on store shelves. But have we reached peak pumpkin spice? Some think we have, based on the latest news from New …
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