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Julia Hawkins is a 103-year-old runner. No, that is not a typo. This run, she didn’t surpass her record-setting 100-meter dash from two years ago. She is still living up to her nickname, the “Hurricane.” This year when Hawkins competed at the 2019 Senior Games in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she won gold medals in both …
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Only the most hardcore true crime fans know about the Hwaseong serial killings. The killing spree from 1986 to 1991 took the lives of 9 women, with details gruesome enough to capture international attention. The case eventually went cold in the 90s, but police never stopped investigating the deaths of the women, who ranged in …
Bitcoin – the poster child of cryptocurrency – is the largest digital coin in existence today. With several hundred billion dollars in market capitalization, the coin is still an enigma for people around the globe. Even regulators have a tough time wrapping their heads around the concept of digital currencies and blockchain. But there is …
Have you seen the billboards these days? Some are funny, and others more serious, like, “Pills Kill.” But this billboard is something you have never seen before, unless of course you saw it briefly in Michigan. Police say it may be the work of a hacker responsible for the billboard images seen this past Saturday …
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Yes, you read that right. If you want to spend 30 hours laying with your honey in a coffin, you can. And Six Flags will pay you to do it. They will leave the lid open though, so it isn’t as hard or spooky as it seems. (Or as it could be.) The fright-loving couples …
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When an Arizona grandmother went to the chain with her granddaughter, she realized there was something very wrong with the chicken sandwich she had ordered. It was raw. When the two visited the well known chain, Charlotte Parker purchased the sandwich for her 13-year-old granddaughter. The girl took a few bites and said there was …
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We all know someone who has gotten a DUI, and it may even be that we ourselves have gotten one. But if you can believe it, even with all the fines and associated penalties, some people have gotten a couple, and others, even more than that. But of all the people you know with a …
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You know back in the day when you were underage and you used a fake so that you could drink or get into a club? Well, this story is just like that. Or is it? A Utah mom decided that she was going to impersonate her daughter, or at least try to. She wanted to …
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The runaway pigs from Vermont caused $80K in damage. Then, they were corralled back to the Sugar Mountain Farm. All of this happened in the small town of Orange, Vermont. It was farm workers and volunteers who heard about the escaped pigs and they trudged up and down the dirt road hill trying to get …
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Bielefeld is just home to more than 300,000 residents. PSYCHE! Not really. It’s an illusion, at least according to the conspiracy theory… Who’d A Thunk It? What’s Bielefeld? It’s just an almost 800-year-old city, home to 300,000 people, a Germany state university and a castle unless – you believe the joke made by Achim Held …
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