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Last week, acrobatic experts Maxim Laurin of Canada and Ugo Dario of France broke the world record for the most consecutive backflips on a teeter-totter. In front of hundreds of awestruck spectators in at the Bouffe ton Centro festival in Sherbrooke, Quebec, the aerial experts completed a mind-numbing 101 backflips to set the new Guinness …
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As Spinal Tap once taught us, there’s a fine line between stupid and clever. For the past few years, the centuries-old—and disproven—theory that the Earth is flat has been making a comeback. A self-professed flat-Earther, “realist,” and YouTuber known as D Marble has attempted to prove the planet is shaped like a hockey puck by …
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When a brush fire broke out in Black Eagle, Montana, the local fire department was on the scene to contain it before it could do any real damage. It expanded to about 40-acres before it was fully extinguished, and it was then up acting assistant chief Dave Lee to find the cause. An Unlikely Arsonist…Or Two Lee …
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Lightning was once one of the biggest threats to human life but new numbers reveal fewer fatalities via random storms.
The company responsible for the world’s first sex robot, True Companion, revealed that a majority of customers purchase a robot with the sole purpose of replicating a deceased partner.
Turning funerals into full blown parties is just one of the latest weird trends in the funeral services industry.
The best things come to those who wait, and those of us waiting for a new type of chocolate are about to be rewarded for our patience. After 80 long years, the world is finally welcoming a brand new treat. Behold, ruby chocolate. Developed by Barry Callebaut AG, the largest cocoa processor in the world, …
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For over 150 years, speculation has been rampant as to what killed the crew of the H.L. Hunley, a 40-foot Confederate submarine, which sank off the coast of South Carolina on February 17, 1864. The Huntley’s First Battle Was Also Its Last The Hunley sunk a Union warship, the USS Housatonic, and was the first, and only, …
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Newark, New Jersey priest, Father Kevin Gugliotta was once a hell of a poker player. According to The Hendon Mob, he’s racked up $202,365 in live earnings and ranks as 4,530th on the U.S. all time money list. Revenge Against God But when Father Kevin found himself on a losing streak, it wasn’t long before he started …
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Fran and Dan Keller, the couple at the center of the 1991 Oak Hill ritual abuse scandal, has been cleared of all charges and and awarded $3.4 million in a wrongful conviction settlement.