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“I’m 25.” Simone Biles, at a smaller stature of 4’8’’, was on a plane when a flight attendant offered her a coloring book, and that’s when Biles shared her age, “I’m 25.” She shared the hilarious story on her Instagram recounting tale of the coloring book she was offered to occupy herself during the flight. …
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You can absolutely have too much of a good thing. That stand for everything — even the stuff that’s supposed to make us healthier. A man from the U.K. recently found that out the hard way. For months, he had been struggling with serious health issues and couldn’t figure out why. When he finally ended …
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When you want to do the horizontal mambo without offspring, it’s a simple solution — use a contraceptive. But try telling that to animals. More specifically, gray squirrels. Environmentalists in the U.K. are struggling to deal with an overwhelming onslaught of the tree-climbing rodents. The traditional method of dealing with the squirrels is a rather …
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Sometimes, the rules and regulations about city planning can be frustrating or downright stupid. As a recent example, we brought you the story of Los Angeles removing crosswalks painted by activists. But now the City of San Francisco has topped that case. The Golden City’s latest stunt is so ridiculous it’s hard to believe it’s …
Continue reading “San Francisco Couple Fined $1,500 — For Parking in Their Own Driveway”
Emirates flight EK430 took off from Dubai in the early hours of the morning on June 30. Nearly 14 hours later, the Airbus A380 landed at its destination in Brisbane, Australia, some 20 minutes late. The passengers got out of their seats, grabbed their backs, and started disembarking. But as they got off the plane, …
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Minions — love them or hate them, the yellow little gremlins have become as much of a popular media mainstay as anything else. Moms of Facebook seem to adore these things, and even people who loathe them get a kick out of sharing anti-Minion memes. The latest movie featuring the yellow menaces — Minions: The …
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Remember what your parents taught you — if you’re about to get down and dirty, wrap it up. And if they didn’t give you that talk, let this story serve as an important lesson. Earlier this year, an Austrian man in his 50s went on a trip to Cambodia. When he returned home, he brought …
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There are a lot of unknowns when buying a house, and many nasty surprised can come along during the process. But you wouldn’t imagine getting an internet connection set up in a major U.S. city to be among them. Yet that’s exactly what happened to a couple in Seattle. They discovered that they can’t get …
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When you have a headache, you’ll probably reach for some ibuprofen or aspirin. But in the days long gone, we didn’t know how to make industrial medicines. So, sometimes people turned to imaginative cures for basic illnesses. Like ground-up Egyptian mummies. No, we’re not kidding. The embalmed corpses of Ancient Egyptians were all the rage …
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Have you ever felt desperately lonely? Well, don’t — there’s always someone there with you. That’s not a religious statement or anything. There are literally dozens of creatures who are with you at all hours of the day, wherever you go. Meet Demodex folliculorum, otherwise known as the skin mite. It’s a microscopic mite that …