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No two people are the same, but you’d be hard-pressed not to hit the nail on the head, when noticing her nails. “I was really shocked about it because to me, I didn’t think they were that long. But to other people they were long. But I didn’t think so at the time,” Armstrong says. …
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Did you happen to have been in the square this week? If so, you may have noticed something a little weird. That being a large billboard advertising a single Black Diamond Cheese String- for trade. The buyer of the advertising space, Angel Domingo, said the cheese string was found in the refrigerator of his new …
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You should never blindly trust anyone, no matter what kind of an authority figure they are. We just got an important reminder of that. Étienne Klein is a respected physicist, with particular expertise in the behavior of time. He’s received a whole slew of awards for his academic work, participated in designing the Large Hadron …
It’s not easy being an exorcist. You have to meet the strangest people, battle the forces of evil, and all you get as a reward is a little girl spitting split pea soup in your face. And then you do that up to 50 times a day. Anybody would get tired from that kind of …
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It’s always important to check local regulations when you’re traveling. You might otherwise accidentally end up committing an expensive violation. One globetrotter on their way from Bali, Indonesia, to Australia recently found that out the hard way. They got slapped with a nearly $2,000 fine for accidentally smuggling contraband items to Australia. The unidentified person …
It can take a long time to get the justice you deserve. We’d say 329 years is way too long, though. But that’s the time it took for Elizabeth Johnson, Jr., to get her name cleared of crimes she didn’t commit. Johnson was the last of the Salem “witches” who hadn’t been exonerated for making …
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Playing chess requires cool, composed thinking. Even in the face of the most difficult situation, you have to remain calm if you want to win. You simply can’t let your emotions get the best of you, and you definitely can’t get violent. At least, if you’re a human. But nobody apparently told a Russian chess …
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Maybe cancel culture can help cancel these challenges, sesh. A legal resource for the relatives of children harmed by social media, the Social Victims Law Center, announced it had filed two wrongful death lawsuits on behalf of the parents. Lalani Erika, 8, and Arriana Jaileen Arroyo, 9, both from Wisconsin, took part in the deadly …
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At the Moscow Open last week, as reported by Russian news outlets. The chess-playing android was apparently “unsettled” by the seven-year-olds fast moves during their July 19th game. The robot grabbed the child’s finger, and broke it. Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, spoke of the incident saying, “The robot broke the child’s …
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There are children in the world right now who’ve never had a chance to know their father. And it’s not because they had a deadbeat dad. It’s because their father died before the child was ever conceived. Thanks to modern medical technology, it’s possible for dead men to become fathers after they’ve left this mortal …
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