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Just last week we reported on a dead hamster that saved a Singaporean man from death row. Had it been one of these hamsters, it probably would’ve gnawed the man to death on its own. In what sounds like the plot of a B-class horror movie, scientists were messing with the genome of Syrian hamsters. …
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Help can come from an unexpected direction when you most need it. Like from a dead pet hamster. In an unbelievable series of coincidences, a Singapore man who received a death sentence for drug trafficking has been taken off death row. And it’s all because he made a friend in prison who happened to have …
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Even after all these centuries, we still don’t know what’s behind Mona Lisa’s mysterious smile. But we wouldn’t be surprised if her smile had gotten a bit wider after the latest bizarre attack against the famous painting. Fortunately, the attack didn’t damage Mona Lisa. Instead, it just left the painting’s protective case smeared with cream. …
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A lot of places around the world are gradually starting to legalize cannabis. And as far as psychoactive drugs go, weed is one of the milder ones. But that doesn’t mean that it can’t mess with your brain with unfortunate results. Let this bizarre and gruesome story of an Indian man serve as a cautionary …
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When people go missing, it may seem that Earth has just opened up and swallowed them without a trace. But the truth is that even disappeared folks are always somewhere. Sometimes, they may never have even left home. Construction workers in New York City recently found that out in a horrific way. On April 26, …
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If you don’t know much about Cambodia, you should at least know that its tropical nature is breathtaking. The mountain of Phnom Bokor in the country’s southwest is particularly amazing. There, you can spot many different kinds of fascinating wildlife. You may find the Malayan sun bear, the slow loris, the clouded leopard, the penises… …
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A company threw a man a birthday party, but the man didn’t want one. He turned around and sued them, and the jury sided with him. A $450,000 was awarded to the employee. The Kenton County Circuit Court in Northern Kentucky heard the case and the verdict was given this last week. Court documents said …
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A Texas mother received a notification she wasn’t expecting on Monday. She was rightly confused. Kelsey Golden got a message from DoorDash saying her order would be taking a bit longer due to the unusually high amount of items within the order. What had happened was, her son, Barrett, placed an order at McDonald’s for …
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Does your mother dearest have a habit of reminding you how difficult parenthood is? Tell her what it’s like for an octopus mother and she just might stop. We’ve written quite a lot about strange and unusual reproductive habits animals engage in. But even in this crowd, the octopus takes things to a whole another …
Continue reading “Octopus Mothers Mutilate and Cannibalize Themselves — And We Now Know Why”
There’s a disease spreading amongst scallops in the depths of the oceans. But this isn’t some deadly new virus or anything of the sort. It’s just an outbreak of disco fever. It turns out that scallops are attracted to flashing lights just as a ‘70s boogie fanatic is attracted to the disco ball. The discovery …
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