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In a healthy relationship, it’s good to share in each other’s unique perspectives as experiences. It can help you understand one another better and add extra depth to your bond. Or it could almost kill you if you take it too far. That’s what happened with this Chinese couple. As part of their engagement, the …
Yawning is famously contagious. If you see someone yawn, you’re more likely than not to do so yourself, as is everyone else around you. Now imagine if the same went for other bodily functions — like emptying your bladder. That’s how it apparently works with chimpanzees. A new study has found that chimps like to …
Continue reading “Study: Taking a Leak is Contagious Among Chimps (Just Like Yawning)”
Life always finds a way. Even if it has to violently create a new opening to make new life happen. For some creatures, that’s just part of their horrendous procreation ritual. For others, though, it’s something that happens by freak accident. Like this teenage girl. A teen girl in Lesotho showed up at a hospital …
Continue reading “Oral Sex Got Teen Girl Pregnant — After She Was Stabbed in the Stomach”
Flying can be nerve-wracking enough as it is. You don’t need something equally unexpected and horrendous to go down during the hours you’ll be trapped in the airborne tube. Something like a person dying during the flight. Unfortunately, that’s what happened to Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin. The couple had boarded a 14-hour flight from …
Continue reading “Couple Forced to Sit with Corpse for 4 Hours After Woman Dies During Flight”
Modern computers have immense processing power that allows them to crunch numbers faster than a human being could ever hope to. However, that doesn’t make computers smart. Despite what the smart gadget and artificial intelligence gurus would have you believe, computers and computer programs are so particular that they border on being complete idiots. A …
Continue reading “Meet the People Whose Last Name Wrecks Computer Systems”
Millennia-old poop can tell archeologists a lot about the person or animal that squeezed it out. The fossilized feces can reveal facts about their creator’s diet, health, and other conditions. However, the place where the dump was dropped can be no less important. That’s the case with a recent archeological discovery in Korea. In the …
Going to the doctor is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re going to get. The human body is weird in the sense that an issue with one part of it might stem from something that seems utterly unrelated. For a perfect example, just take a look at this Frenchman’s case. …
Continue reading “Insult to Injury: Leg Weakness Reveals Frenchman’s Tiny Brain”
Imagine walking by a dark, foreboding forest late at night. Suddenly, in the blackness, you see something chilling. The light of a single, faint lantern floats in the distance. Yet you can’t see the lantern or its carrier. This spooky phenomenon, alongside other seemingly related hauntings, has taken place around a South Carolina town for …
Continue reading “South Carolina’s Creepy Ghost Lanterns May Have An (Equally Strange) Explanation”
Google, or more specifically the search engine’s parent company Alphabet Inc., is in some legal hot water all around the world. The company is accused of monopolizing the search engine market place, using illegal practices in its digital advertising, and so on. But perhaps the largest lawsuit facing Google comes from Russia, at least if …
Continue reading “Google Owes More Money to Russia in Fines Than There is on Earth”
Have you ever eaten so much sweet stuff that you felt sick afterward? Of course you have — we’ve all been there. Most of us, fortunately, get over it with a couple of hours of discomfort. There’s usually no need to rush anybody to a hospital for a little tummy ache. You can’t say the …
Continue reading “Opossum Taken to Hospital After Gorging Itself on an Entire Chocolate Cake”