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It’s one thing to have burglars break into your home and steal your stuff. But to have them steal the entire house? That’s just too much. But that’s what happened to a British clergyman from the U.K. He returned home from a work assignment only to find that someone had stolen his house. Reverend Mike …
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The pandemic has driven people to try just about anything to stay healthy, including those horse de-wormers. Others have even decided that only the supernatural can help them. Catholic priests have seen a massive upsurge in faithful calling on them to perform exorcisms to drive out the coronavirus. But the Church has now dashed the …
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Halloween isn’t exactly a holiday that makes you think of flowers. But if it did, you could imagine that the flowers smell like corpses. In that sense, the blooming of Leiden University’s corpse flower is very Halloween-appropriate. It smells exactly like a mound of rotting flesh, but that’s not all. It also looks like an …
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You wouldn’t think faking a discount coupon is that big of a deal. Sure, it’s illegal, but saving an illegitimate dollar on toothpaste seems like a victimless crime. But start stacking those small savings up and you could end up with significant savings. It was the sheer scale of her coupon fraud operation that caused …
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For Mom Will Nurse Sons, 5 and 6, ‘Until They’re Ready’: Part One, read here. That being said, here’s the rest of the story. After a difficult birth, Wynne had trouble nursing Riley, making her more determined than ever to breastfeed Mylo. “Before Mylo went into preschool he was asking for mummy milk in the …
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It’s fantastic for both mom and baby when breastfeeding works out. Some people think that there should be an age constraint, while others like Wynne, don’t really see it that way. “It’s never felt right to end it unnecessarily. It’s what they’re asking for and it’s biologically normal even if it’s not in society.” She …
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When we’re faced with difficult moral dilemmas, we often turn to others for advice. But you might want to be careful about who you ask — or at least take their guidance with a grain of salt. Meet Delphi. Delphi is an artificial intelligence, or AI, designed as a scientific demonstration project by researchers from …
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If you enjoyed the story we published in January about Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar’s cocaine hippos, we have good news for you. The animals’ saga continues with a groundbreaking court ruling. The roughly 80 hippos, all descendants of the four beasts the infamous drug lord bought for his illegal personal zoo, have been declared …
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The U.S. often gets bad rap when it comes to frivolous lawsuits. However, this case proves that suing people for ridiculous reasons isn’t an exclusively American phenomenon. In the UK, a nurse lost the lawsuit she filed against the National Health Service (NHS) hospital that let her go in December 2019. Xanda Samson sued the …
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There are plenty of weird jobs out there, like we’ve previously told you. But even us Oddee authors didn’t think New Zealand had an official wizard. Emphasis on the word “had.” The Pacific island country has told its state magician thank you and good luck after 23 years of faithful service. The Wizard of New …
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