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Blindness is a debilitating disability that deprives you of many aspects of everyday life. Nobody would want to bring this condition on themselves. Well, except maybe for this elderly Italian man. To be fair, though, he’s not actually blind. Italian financial authorities recently uncovered a strange, decades-long fraud case involving a man pretending to be …
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Fast food isn’t meant to last. You buy it, the greasy lump of whatever exists in your hands for a fleeting moment, and then it’s gone, taking your hunger with it for a while. But it can last. And in the right conditions, it can last for a long time. Allow us to introduce you …
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If you like Asian food, you’re familiar with the shiitake mushroom. These vaguely baby bella-looking fungi are absolutely delicious, whether you grill them, fry them, or use them to infuse mouthwatering umami flavor into broths. In the future, they might also help power your computer. A research team from the Ohio State University (OSU) has …
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Take a deep breath, hold it in… Exhale. Now do the same thing through your butt. Well, you obviously can’t do that, because your lungs are hooked up to a different orifice. However, a recent scientific breakthrough has demonstrated that breathing through your booty is not only possible, but safe. Butt breathing doesn’t involve drawing …
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Cyprus is a beautiful island in the Mediterranean that’s a tourism hotbed. One of the most significant draws bringing in visitors are the island’s many semi-feral cats that walk freely on its streets. In recent years, however, it has become clear that Cyprus is having too much of a good thing. Although the island has …
You never know what you might find when you start going through your property. There might be all kinds of cool, old stuff buried somewhere. That said, you’d probably expect to find your treasured in the attic or the basement, and not in your backyard. And you certainly wouldn’t expect to find a 2,000-year-old relic …
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What happens if a lethally venomous snake sinks its teeth into your flesh? Well, you’ll either get yourself into a hospital post-haste or you start hanging wings on your back. That is, unless you’re so drunk that you don’t give a hoot or a holler about some extra poison in your body. And you kill …
There are many bizarre reasons why you might get in trouble at work. In fact, we could (and maybe should) write an Oddee article on this topic. If we did, though, this story would definitely appear toward the top of the list. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) maintains a public repository of disciplinary rulings. …
One of the strangest things about life is how easily it can end. Even the most innocuous things can end up killing you. For example, yawning really hard could spell your doom. Hayley Black is lucky in that she lived through her yawn-induced brush with the Grim Reaper. Almost 10 years ago, she woke up, …
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Nobody likes mosquitoes. If anything, there are too many of them in the world. Then why is this Brazilian facility farming endless swarms of mosquitoes? You read that right. A new mosquito farm in Brazil just recently opened its doors and is now working at full capacity. This isn’t just any mosquito farm, either. This …
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