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Getting hit in the head is generally not very good for your health. Yet, many sports from boxing to football put the athletes at serious risk of getting bonked on the noggin. That’s why the athletes and contestants wear protective gear. Football players take to the field while fairly heavily armored and even boxers use …
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A bright full moon shining in the night sky is one of the most beautiful sights in nature. So imagine how much more beautiful it would be if there were two moons. Soon, you won’t have to imagine that. Earth is just about to get a second moon. Sort of. For a little while. An …
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We all love otters. The slippery water weasels are so adorable when they play around, stack rocks, or crack clams with a stone balanced on their little bellies. But they get a lot less cute once they start pulling your child to a watery grave. That strange yet horrific scenario recently played out in Washington …
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The early fall is the perfect time for a little road trip. The weather is still warm but not too hot, summer crowds have dispersed and autumn tourists haven’t arrived yet, and nature is still gorgeous. That’s what the British friends Neil Cox and J. Antic also thought. So, they decided to hop on a …
Continue reading “UK Duo Goes on 260-Mile Tandem Ride — Buck Naked”
“Enough is enough! I’ve had it with these mother***ing snakes in this mother***ing snake!” bellowed Samuel L. Jackson in the famous movie Snakes in a Snake. Wait, that doesn’t seem right. Oh yeah, it’s not movie. It’s just what Georgia wildlife authorities discovered by complete chance. Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently shared a …
Continue reading “Snakeception: Four-Foot Snake Throws Up Two Smaller Snakes”
Are you familiar with the term “never event?” It’s medical jargon used to describe events that should never, ever happen during professionally performed surgeries. You know, things like performing surgery with filthy hands or losing your watch in the patient’s chest cavity. Or perhaps cutting out the wrong organ. That latter “never event” is what …
Continue reading “Alabama Man Dies After Florida Doctor Accidentally Removes His Liver”
A seemingly harmless, even popular and well-liked person turns out to be some diabolical criminal mastermind. It’s a plot line that you’ve seen in TV shows, movies, and books again and again. If you’re a Kansas City Chiefs fan, though, there’s a good chance you’ve been following just such a double-life case for the past …
Devastating wildfires have unfortunately become annual (and often year-long) problems almost all over the country. With the way the climate’s going, we sure don’t need anything additional, like gender-reveal parties, to set things on fire. Oh, look, the undergrowth just caught fire because a flaming bird fell in there. That sounds like a comedy routine, …
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It’s happened plenty of times in science fiction novels and movies. Scientists put something in a robot body — whether an AI or some seemingly innocuous creature — and it promptly uses its newfound power to annihilate humanity. Well, now they’ve gone and done it for real. A U.S.-Italian research team has placed a fungus …
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Some parents might tell children that a big bad wolf will come and eat them if they don’t behave. In northern India, they wouldn’t have to bother. They could just point at the wolf and go: “See that?” The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has a serious problem with the biggest and baddest kind of …
Continue reading “India Fights Man-Eating Wolves with Dolls Soaked in Children’s Pee”