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A woman who was suspicious about her father-in-law making frequent visits to her bedroom found out that her fears were not unfounded. When she found out that her father-in-law was indeed going into her room for her cat. To masturbate. Harold Stanley Kenderdine, 66, is facing animal sex charges for the incident, which was caught …
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Do spiders even sleep? Does everyone remember hearing that people swallow like 7 spiders a year or something like that? Or just me? In a study by Daniela Roessler and her colleagues, baby jumping spiders were watched by cameras at night. Footage caught showed sleep cycle-like patterns. During this time, the spiders’ legs twitched and …
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Meta — the company previously known as Facebook — recently went live with its new chatbot. Titled BlenderBot, the robotic chatterbox can supposedly hold a conversation on “nearly any topic.” That it sure can do. And BlenderBot has some opinions. In an embarrassing twist for Meta, BlenderBot doesn’t seem to have a very high opinion …
Like out of a remixed Cinderella horror movie, an escaped hospital patient and the owner of a business said to be previously owned by the Catholic Church, lit a car on fire by way of a spell book, and then fled the scene. She left her shoe. And her cell phone, too. Kristy Lynn Malzi, …
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Even people who don’t care at all about cars know what the deal with a Ferrari is. The Italian luxury cars cost a lot, look fancy, and go fast. But Ferrari’s reputation for quality Italian engineering just took a hit. You see, the company has made a bit of an oopsie. When your car reaches …
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Even the most dedicated dog parents don’t expect people to hand over their hard-earned cash for the sake of their pet’s birthday’s. But apparently, that’s not the case for this dog mom. A woman was slammed after sending her friend’s and family a long birthday list, with acceptable and unacceptable gifts listed, ahead of her …
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Capital punishment is a divisive topic. But in a recent spate of assaults in Japan, the authorities felt the death penalty was warranted. The criminal wasn’t a person, mind you. Instead, it was the potential leader of a rampaging pack of macaques. The monkeys have terrorized the city of Yamaguchi for more than a month. …
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Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts has a haunted history, dating back to 1874. This is also the sight where the Salem Witch Trials judge John Hathorne once lived. The first lobotomy was performed there in 1948, and soon electric shock therapy in the 1950s. Although huge, the Danvers building was once very overcrowded, with original …
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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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