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The Earth getting gradually warmer has many strange — and often harmful — effect on plants and wildlife. But here’s one phenomenon that nobody saw coming. It seems last summer’s heatwave in British Columbia, Canada, got the local bees a bit too hot and bothered. In the summer heat, death literally came for male honeybees. …
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Eating leftovers is a great way to save money and cut back on food waste. Some foods, like many curries, actually taste even better after maturing for a bit. But it’s vitally important to store and refrigerate your leftover food properly. Otherwise you might get seriously sick — or lose several limbs. Contaminated leftovers led …
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To many parents, hearing that their child suffers from a rare, incurable syndrome is the worst nightmare imaginable. But for Katelyn Samples from Georgia, it wasn’t all that bad. The worst part of it is that telling her child to comb his hair will be completely pointless in the future. After all, the toddle’s wild …
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It’s difficult enough to buy a car at the moment, what with the computer chip shortage and ridiculous demand ravaging auto makers. And it probably doesn’t help that 4,000 brand-new cars are currently on fire in the middle of the Atlantic. Not only that, the ship they’re on is abandoned. There’s nobody to put out …
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Video games are a lot of fun, and exciting action can really pull you into the gameplay. But you should still keep your surroundings in mind. A Canadian Twitch streamer, going by the name of Vuzby, recently got a reminder of that. His calls for help while playing Apex Legends resulted in police officers suddenly …
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Remember VHS tapes, flip phones, or any other piece of tech that became completely obsolete? It was easy enough to dump your old gadgets and move on to the next technological marvel. But what if you’d implanted a VHS deck into your skull? That’s the situation now facing hundreds of blind people. Second Sight Medical …
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You’re sleeping alone in your bed while a naked man, blood dripping from his body and armed with scissors, is watching you from a dark corner. Sounds like nightmare fuel, doesn’t it? Unfortunately for 80-year-old Denyse Holt from Lincolnwood, Illinois, that disturbing vision wasn’t just a bad dream. A naked intruder that crept into Holt’s …
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Most people wouldn’t tattoo things that disgust them on their bodies. But music producer Michael Amoia doesn’t subscribe to such common logic. The 48-year-old Amoia recently broke the official Guinness world record for most insects tattooed on his body. As confirmed on October 28, 2021, Amoia sports a total of 864 insect all over his …
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Earlier this week, we covered the story of a man who started hearing the voice of God because of a bad reaction to antibiotics. We have here another story of hearing voices, but unlike the earlier one, this doesn’t have a happy ending. Justine Johnson stands accused of stabbing Sutton, her 3-year-old daughter to death. …
If you’re sick, a doctor will generally prescribe you medication. Nine times out of ten, you’ll soon start feeling better. But even the most mundane medicines can have the most unexpected side effects in certain people. A Swiss man found that out the hard way when normal antibiotics caused him to hear the voice of …
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