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Times are tough. With everything seemingly getting more expensive by the day, some folks are having to turn to desperate measures to get by. Take these Colorado marmots, for instance. To make ends meet, they’ve resorted to posting their pictures on OnlyFans. Perhaps I should explain. The Marmot Project is a decades-spanning scientific research effort …
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Vacations are all fun and games until you disturb an ancient spirit and come home with a terrible curse. There are places around the world where that could conceivably happen. Many popular tourist sites and locations reportedly carry curses or are haunted in one way or another. Often, the rumors about supernatural goings-on only add …
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Remember Google Glass? If not, I can’t blame you. It was a short-lived, futuristic device in the mid-2010s that was supposed to integrate a computer into eyeglasses, allowing you to perform searches and such wherever you went. The Glass died, partially because the technology just wasn’t there yet. Now, it is – and that’s becoming …
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Egads! The bride said no and left the groom standing confounded at the altar. What a dramatic turn of events! This Utah groom-to-be probably wishes his beloved had just walked away like that instead of setting fire to the wedding venue. Lenita “Tessa” Joy Moreno, 25, has been arrested following a strange attempt to sabotage …
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Life can get so difficult that it makes you feel like faking your death and running away from it all. Maybe you’re stuck in a horrible relationship, struggling with insurmountable financial problems, or facing another kind of life-changing calamity. That, or you just can’t help getting behind the wheel drunk, like this Chinese man. A …
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Picture a future where a robot would come to rescue people caught in a disaster. What would the robot look like? Maybe it could be soft and cuddly, like the Baymax robot from Disney’s Big Hero 6. Or maybe it could look like a caprine emissary of Satan. Californian robotics company Satyress has gone for …
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It really stinks when people make a mess and leave it for others to clean. In the case of St. Mary’s, it really, really stinks. This picturesque little Canadian town has struggled with a bizarre issue for the past two decades. At all times, St. Mary’s has reeked of putrid fish. The culprit behind the …
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Black holes, supervoids, galaxies you can’t even see because they’re made from dark matter, oh my! Things get really weird once you leave the solar system and venture into the abyss of space. That said, astronomers and other science nerds have done an admirable job of identifying and cataloging the universe. Yet they’ve only scratched …
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Where does your mind go if you think about the phrase “human refrigerator?” If you thought of a morgue, I wouldn’t blame you, but that’s not what this story is about. Instead, allow me to introduce you to Japan’s latest achievement in keeping yourself cool: the Do Hiemon Box personal refrigerator. This summer has been …
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The phrase “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” has become something of an internet meme in the past decade or so. When it was introduced in the ‘80s, though, it highlighted a real life-threatening situation for old folks. A situation this North Carolina woman found herself in. Joan Rivet is an 82-year-old lady who …
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