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Imagine what it would be like if you woke up dead tomorrow. We know, we know — that can’t actually happen and it’s just stupid wordplay. Except that it did happen to Nicole Paulino. The Maryland woman was somewhat shocked when the state’s Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) refused to renew her driver’s license. They told …
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Divorces take place all the time (unfortunately), but annulments are somewhat rarer. After all, you need to show that the entire marriage process was somehow invalid for courts to declare the marriage null and void. One woman from Australia had a very good reason to seek an annulment, however. She didn’t even know she was …
Continue reading “Woman Scammed into Real Marriage in Fake Wedding for Social Media”
No matter how much experience you have or how good you are at your job, eventually everybody makes a mistake. And that’s okay — admit your slip-up, make amends, and move on. You certainly shouldn’t try to covertly sweep your mistakes under the rug. Otherwise, you might end up like Major General Artur Kepczynski. In …
Continue reading “Poland Fires Army General After Missing Anti-Tank Mines Found in IKEA”
Do you still have your Christmas tree up in your living room? If so, we’re sorry, but it’s high time you got rid of it. That said, it’s kind of a waste to throw a nice tree away. We’re not the only ones thinking that, and recycling Christmas trees in various ways has become something …
Continue reading “Belgian Food Agency: Please Do Not Eat Your Christmas Trees”
Losing your child, especially in their infancy, is the worst tragedy a parent can experience. Faced with such tremendous grief, it can be almost impossible to let go of your dearest. That doesn’t go just for humans, either. An orca pod living off the U.S.-Canadian coast in the Pacific got a welcome Christmas present this …
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The North Korean government is notorious for restricting the lives of its subjects, but not everything is banned in the country. For instance, divorce and hot dogs were legal in North Korea. Were. In his latest crackdown against insidious Western influence, Kim Jong-Un has set his sights on two wildly different things. As a New …
In general, drugs are not good for you. But they’re even worse if you’re not even a human being that’s supposedly meant to consume them. That’s why vets are quite concerned over an alarming trend — more and more pets are ingesting drugs. A recent study examined the rates at which pet owners were calling …
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Whether they cultivate their muscles or minds, people have always sought to be faster, stronger, better. To achieve the peak of excellence, athletes and great thinkers both have resorted to various performance boosters, from anabolic steroids to gladiator sweat. However, you don’t need to take anything to do better, whether it’s in sports or academia. …
Continue reading “Study: Pooping Makes You Smarter and Better at Sports”
How do you plan to spend New Years Eve? Do you think you’ll enjoy one of the activities from this list? Fireworks There is never a bad time for fireworks and New Years is as great of a time to celebrate as any! Do you love fireworks enough to want to see them for New …
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Our oceans are delicate things. Their ecosystems are immensely complex, and even a small change in a single thing can cause a ripple effect that reverberates through the entire ocean. Such as the lack of whale poop. Indeed, whales’ gastrointestinal systems produce more than just precious (and revolting) ambergris. They also produce — surprise, surprise …
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