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Some facts of life should be self-evident. For example, dead people don’t come waltzing out of a mortuary outside of religious texts or horror movies. Recently, though, one Indian man managed to flaunt the laws of nature. He died only so that hospital staff could pull him out of the mortuary freezer seven hours later. …
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If you tried to think about people who live up to their word, lawyers probably wouldn’t be on the top of your list. But sometimes you find a lawyer who really is perfectly honest. Daniel Muessig from Pennsylvania is one of those lawyers, but for all the wrong reasons. In 2014, he released a viral …
Did you catch the first part of Grandma Got Tattooed For Her Birthday: Part One? Here’s the rest of the details. So it was the time for her tat, and she did it family style. Dede went to the tattoo parlor with her family in tow, ready for her new forearm tat. “When I got …
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Have you seen that old episode of The Simpsons where Homer gets banned from a seafood buffet for eating too much? It seems the cartoon predicted the future — once again. To find Homer’s real life equivalent, we’ll have to travel to the city of Changsha in south-central China. There we find a man who …
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Filthy rich millionaires selling their ludicrously expensive mansions to each other isn’t really newsworthy. Except in this case, because the millionaire isn’t a human being. Meet Gunther VI. The German shepherd with an appropriately fancy name is the world’s richest dog — and he’s about to get a whole lot richer. The affluent pooch is …
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Recent intense storms in Egypt in Egypt have caused a deadly flood to plow through several cities in south-central Egypt. But unlike what you might think, this flood isn’t made up of just water. The heavy rains, dust storms, and snow in Aswan have driven possibly thousands of scorpions on the move. And they aren’t …
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Oh, the innocence of a child. Or stupidity. We’re really not sure which of those this story is an example of. A recent study has found that American kids have absolutely no idea where food comes from. Not only do they not know whether food is animal- or plant-based, they think commonly eaten animals aren’t …
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We’ll start with a disclaimer — this story features extreme sexual deviancy. If you’re sensitive to that stuff, we recommend you read about weird spa treatments or something instead. In the UK, the police arrested an enraged mother in early October who walked into Colindale police station in North London. She was wielding a knife …
A New Zealand couple has unwittingly grown a winner in their garden. The green-thumbed gardeners may have unearthed what could be the world’s biggest potato. This really isn’t your regular ‘tater. The roast-turkey-sized potato — affectionately named Dough — weighs nearly a whopping 17.5 pounds. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown, from Waikato in northern New Zealand, …
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It’s been a big story in Washington State, as a father was arrested Friday for allegedly killing his daughter’s boyfriend. It’s said that he found out the boyfriend sold his daughter into sex trafficking and this dad took matters into his own hands. Spokane officers received calls regarding an abandoned car on October 22nd, in …