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As anyone with a taste for chicken wings knows, those little morsels can be pretty darn expensive. Looking at how much some restaurants charge for a plate of wings, you’d imagine they’re made of gold instead of meat. That said, it’s no wonder they’ve ended up at the center of a bizarre fraud case. Vera …
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Nuclear fusion is something of a Holy Grail of energy production. Harnessing fusion reactions would allow us to produce immense amounts of emissions-free power that can’t blow up in a chain reaction and only produces a small amount of low-intensity radioactive waste. However, it’s not easy to make nuclear fusion happen on Earth. It requires …
Continue reading “How Mayonnaise May Help Physicists Unlock Nuclear Fusion”
Do you know Bluey? That’s a trick question — of course you do. Even if you wouldn’t give a flying fluffernutter about cartoons for little kids, you can’t have missed seeing the blue dog somewhere. The Australian animated TV show has taken the world by storm, becoming more popular than anyone could’ve expected. To celebrate …
Continue reading “Australian Man Arrested After Allegedly Stealing $400,000 Worth of ‘Bluey’ Coins”
Blue crabs are generally considered a Maryland specialty, especially when drenched in Old Bay seasoning. Although the Old Line State might be the most famous for them, the crabs also show up in the Carolinas, Delaware, New Jersey, and even Louisiana. The corn fields of Iowa, however, are decidedly crab-less. It’s weird, then, that blue …
Continue reading “Crabs Are Showing Up in Weird Places in Sioux City”
Few things taste better than some cold ice cream on a hot day on the beach. The treat is so refreshing that you’d go to great lengths for it. You’d even drag the ice cream truck out of the sea to save its precious cargo. At least that’s what tourists on a beach in Cornwall, …
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The laws about food can get seriously weird. For instance, Subway can’t legally say it serves “bread” in Ireland because it contains too much sugar, while pizza sauce in the U.S. can legally contain 15 fly eggs and a maggot per 100 grams. Well, we now have a new, utterly mind-boggling ruling to add to …
Continue reading “Ohio Supreme Court: Boneless Chicken Wings Don’t Have to Be Boneless”
It’s a small world. Somewhere out there is somebody, or likely several people, who share the same name with you (unless your parents cursed you with something like X Æ A-Xii). That’s true even for criminally-minded birds. Two stores in U.K. cities 195 miles apart are struggling with a bizarre issue. At both establishments, a …
Continue reading “Two Thieving Seagulls, Both Dubbed ‘Steven Seagull’, Are Harassing UK Stores”
Practice is the key to mastery. Those who want to become successful at something should practice it over and over again to build their skills. Unless what you’re trying to learn is incredibly stupid, in which case it’d be better to direct your efforts elsewhere. The questionable hero of today’s story should’ve probably done that. …
Continue reading “Same Man Caught at Same Airport Smuggling Same Drug Twice in One Week”
Today, there are 8.1 billion people on the planet and the number just keeps growing. There are scant few places on planet Earth where you won’t find any humans. Things were a little bit different roughly a million years ago. At the time, humanity wasn’t doing so well. In fact, we were teetering on the …
Continue reading “That One Time a Million Years Ago When Humanity Almost Went Extinct”
The year 2023 was a weird one when it comes to animals and cocaine. First came the movie Cocaine Bear, loosely based on the real story of a black bear that devoured a discarded cocaine shipment. A few months later, the Discovery Channel broadcast the documentary Cocaine Sharks. It speculated that sharks could be in …
Continue reading “Brazilian Scientists Prove the Existence of Cocaine Sharks”