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Ah, it’s a perfect day at the beach! Feeling a little peckish, you wander to the food truck and buy yourself your favorite snack. But just before you manage to take the first bite, a seagull swoops down and steals your treat. Day ruined. Thieving seagulls plague beachgoers around the world, but now we may …
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The rules of staying over at someone else’s place are pretty simple. You don’t disturb the neighbors, and you treat the place with greater care than your own home. And you certainly don’t pee over everything to shoot niche kink videos. That’s what Nicolette Keough is alleged to have done at two Airbnbs. The 31-year-old …
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I’m a big KitKat fan. You give me a chance for a free chocolate-coated wafer bar, and I’m very likely to take it. Yet, as much as I like KitKats, this guy sure has me beat. Somebody, who’s quite possibly the world’s biggest KitKat enthusiast, has pulled off a heist worthy of a Hollywood movie. …
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How deep would you be willing to sink? Very deep, if you’re a marathon runner. A group of marathoners recently set an unusual world record. They didn’t run the fastest or the longest. Instead, they ran the deepest. The 55 runners broke the world record for a marathon run at the greatest depth underground on …
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Usually, people avoid going to the hospital as long as they can. And if you’re admitted to a hospital, you’d certainly hope to get out at the first opportunity. A Florida hospital is struggling with the opposite problem. They have a patient who refuses to go away. The Tallahassee Memorial Hospital’s (TMH) room 373 has …
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Maryland police recently got stuck with a strange suspected homicide case. The unusual part isn’t that the suspect allegedly shot a man in his car. It’s that he did it without having arms or legs. And then he drove more than 100 miles away in a seeming attempt to escape the cops. He’s also a …
Continue reading “Quadruple Amputee Shoots a Man, Escapes 150 Miles in a Car”
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And again, and again, and again, and… Just like this New York City bank robber. Gustavo DeJesus Torres, 33, is nothing if not determined. He recently allegedly attempted to rob six banks. And he did it all in the span of less than one week. During …
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Abiqua Falls is a popular natural beauty spot in Oregon. Despite the challenging trail leading up to the falls, hikers love making the trek because the view is just that good. Recently, the falls were sold off in a strange transaction. Not that there’s anything that weird about selling land with a waterfall; it’s real …
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What’s the one thing you need above all others to learn things? You’d think that’d be a brain since it controls all higher intellectual capacities, right? New research has shown that’s not necessarily the case. A completely brainless blob recently demonstrated that it can learn things. Stentor coeruleus is a horn-shaped, single-celled organism that doesn’t …
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If Dracula started lurking around your home, would you sue him for harassment? People have certainly tried. It’s surprisingly common to find laws and court cases involving mythical creatures. In some cases, people try to collect their dues from ghosts and goblins, while in others, they try to protect them. And then there are the …
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