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There’s been a lot happening in chess lately. This is strange, considering you don’t really ever hear anything about the chess world. A while back, a chess robot broke a 7-year-old player’s finger during a Russian chess tournament. And now, the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis featured a massive surprise. Nobody got injured, but one …
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In case you haven’t heard — Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom, died on September 8 after reigning for 70 years. We’re not sure how you could’ve missed the news, though. After all, even the Queen’s bees have been told about it. There are a lot of old and arcane rituals and traditions …
Continue reading “Royal Beekeeper Informs Buckingham Palace Bees of the Queen’s Death”
Work accidents are always serious business. But they don’t usually send you drifting aimlessly through the skies for days on end. Unless you happen to be a pine nut harvester from China. Then you run a very real risk of taking to the air uncontrollably. That’s just what happened to one nut picker. The hydrogen …
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It’s never nice when somebody leaves garbage all over a public space. But at least in most cases, the trash is just empty drink bottles and cans, food wrappers, takeaway boxes… Stuff that’s fairly easy to clean. But the town of Bolton, Vermont, is struggling with a different kind of waste. Somebody keeps dumping into …
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A teenage boy ended up in the hospital because he had a USB cable stuck inside his penis. The incident was first documented in November 2021 urology case report. The 15-year-old claims that he was “trying to measure the inside of his penis,” which ultimately ended in his needing medical attention at the hospital. As …
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They’re really trying to make self-driving cars the next big thing in automobiles. And in some ways, the artificial intelligence driving the cars really does act mistakably like a real human being. By which we mean that it seems to try to run away from cops. Police officers in San Francisco recently pulled over a …
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You put in a lot of effort and many hours into an important work project — and then your bosses tell you that the whole thing is canceled. You’ve definitely run into this incredibly frustrating situation at least once, wherever you work. In your case, though, the wasted effort probably didn’t involve painstakingly moving something …
When you were on a family road trip as a kid, did one of your parents ever threaten to turn back and go home if you didn’t behave? If they did, you hopefully learned your lesson. But some people clearly didn’t. Recently, a Southwest Airlines pilot had to pull the same trick on his passengers. …
When the school got their shipment, it was a strange delivery, not the supplies and textbooks they thought it would be. Instead, it was a box of guns. The police called the accidental and strange shipment, an “honest mistake.” Chester High School received a delivery from FedEx, but they had made an mistake. Parents say …
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You’d generally expect a bratwurst festival to be a good time. You eat some good sausage, drink a few beers, and pretend to be just a little bit German for a few hours. But the Bucyrus Bratwurst Festival got embroiled in some royal drama this year. Just 10 days before the festivities, the reigning bratwurst …