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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 …
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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