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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”
Whenever something is expensive, somebody will try to steal it. We’ve seen it play out again and again, with criminals pilfering things each more bizarre than the last. From luxury cheese to an entire construction crane, thieves will go after anything if they think they can get good money from re-selling it. Lately, eggs have …
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Administrative bureaucracy can be necessary for doing things by the book, but we all know how infuriatingly slow official processes can be. When the wheels of bureaucracy refuse to turn, you sometimes really wish you could go and take matters into your own hands. Well, that’s what these beavers did. In Czechia, the local government …
Continue reading “Beavers Dam Planned Wetland Area, Save Local Government More Than $1 Million”
There’s nothing like a mother’s love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a human or an animal. However, we’re ready to hand the Mother (Dog) of the Year award to this Turkish stray pooch. Earlier this year, an animal lover in Turkey rescued a sick puppy off the streets. The good Samaritan brought the half-dead dog …
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If you’ve ever had an eye infection, like pink eye, you know it’s a real pain. Your eye may hurt, be unbearably itchy, and get stuck shut with all the gunk oozing out of it. Still, it’s nothing compared to what this Vietnamese man went through. The 24-year-old man had been suffering from an eye …
Some creatures like to munch on leaves, while others consume nothing but meat. Humans, meanwhile, are omnivores. We have the natural ability and need to eat meat and plants. Don’t tell that to this Florida man with a bizarre diet, though. The man had decided to lose weight and get healthier by becoming carnivorous. He …
Continue reading “Florida Man’s Hypercarnivore Diet Causes Cholesterol to Ooze Out of His Hands”
No matter how mundane of a body part it is, at some point along the evolutionary line, it appeared for the first time. Something as basic as eyes, blood, or even brains stop existing if you go far enough back in history. The same goes for the butthole. An animal’s rear passage can be a …
Continue reading “The Strange Story of Comb Jellies and World’s First Butthole”
It’s good to have a hobby. That said, it shouldn’t consume your life to such a degree that it leads to divorce. Or getting your request for alimony struck down by the courts. One Canadian man has been obsessively hunting Bigfoot for years and years. However, his quest for the mythical beast cost him his …
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Many animals do not fare particularly well in captive settings, like zoos or aquariums. The enclosed spaces, lack of activity, and hordes of hairless apes coming to gawk at them can quickly start wearing on their nerves. And then there’s this ocean sunfish who loved it all so much that it got depressed when its …
Continue reading “Cardboard Cutouts Cure Lonely Aquarium Sunfish’s Depression”