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Passengers of a British Airline flight experienced a roller coaster ride on Monday when strong winds caused the aircraft to sway drastically as it attempted its landing. The flight was from London to Gibraltar International Airport but it had been diverted to nearby Malaga, Spain. It was able to land there safely. “As we approached …
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The smallest baby from Keio University Hospital in Tokyo went home weighing a whopping 268 grams. That’s just under 10 ounces. The newborn stopped growing in the womb at 24 weeks. He was deemed healthy enough to go home even though he is as small as a large onion. After 5 months of treatment by …
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When you work in a crematorium you expect a certain amount of occupational hazards. Excessive heat, exhaust, even mercury in the metals added to a person’s body. Maybe even the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. But what you might not think about as a hazard would be exposure to radiation. A 69-year-old Arizona man …
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You know those old men you cannot help but love? You know, the ones that are sweet and remind you of your grandpa? Well this guy was not one of them. He was a creepy old guy who wasn’t even that old, but when you’re 37 and hitting on a 16 year old barista, you’ll …
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Want a hippopotamus for Christmas? Might wanna think again. A region of Colombia is figuring that out the hard way. Pablo Escobar, the notorious cocaine drug lord, was shot dead in 1993. The government took control of his huge estate, including hundreds of exotic animals. But somehow, the hippos were missed. Escobar housed 4 hippos …
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Philip K. Dick wrote Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep. Which spawned the loose adaptation Blade Runner. In turn, he launched the Cyberpunk genre of a dystopian future. I wonder if he ever considered this might be the reality so soon. Japanese company Cyber Agent in collaboration with tech giant Sharp has developed tiny robots …
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Celebrities do some really strange things in the name of health and beauty. They stick things in places things weren’t meant to be stuck. They use creams made from the cells of parts of bodies don’t sound like they should be rubbed into your face. But twins Tia and Tamera Mowry have taken a …
Rodeos have some people up in arms, but it had these two cowboys up in the air. This bull flipped two people and charged a third on Saturday night as if it were playing “cowboy pinball.” An event dubbed Bull Bash featured players standing in designated spots on the rodeo ring as a loose bull …
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Now this is odd news, but amazing news, too! Someone making tons of money wants to try and help save the earth by buying land up, so that it cannot be cut down. #win Tim Sweeney is known for founding the video and 3-D software company Epic Games in the 1990s. From there we got …
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What the heck is wrong with people? Sometimes, you just have to ask yourself that question. In this case, a man smashed in a NYC lingerie store window just so that he could destroy an Obama mannequin Rewell Altunaga, 41, was arrested on January 26th after a surveillance video allegedly showed him breaking into the …