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There’s been a lot of talk of potentially fatal alternative medicine lately. Here’s another story to add to the pile. Nobody was intentionally eating toxic amounts of farm animal deworming drugs this time, though. Instead, this Chinese man decided to shove an entire live eel up his ass. But let’s start from the beginning. The …
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It may be 2021 this year, but it sure feels like 2020 part two. People aren’t getting any less weird either, and this story about the chimpanzee and woman illustrates that well. This is a love story between a chimpanzee and woman, if you think you’ve heard it all. The managers of the Belgium store …
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Unfortunately, a customer turning on an employee has been steadily on the rise for a while now. Call it stressed out or just plain rude, we all know how people can be. But this was different. There was still a customer and there was still an employee, but there was also a complaint and it …
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There’s not a single country in the world that doesn’t have some annual traditions. They’re usually cherished events that give people a chance to get together and celebrate or remember something important. The British Isles, too, have their fair share of fun-filled annual traditions. And then there’s this one. Granted, we’re not talking about any …
Continue reading “Britain Prepares for Annual Invasion of Palm-Sized, Sex-Starved Spiders”
Home break ins happen all the time, but the culprit isn’t usually cows. In this case though, it was. In Tasmania, Chelsea Hingston came home to find her own cows had broken into her house and trashed the place. The video shared on TikTok of course went viral. Hingston lives in Sprent Tasmania and said …
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Any port in a storm, goes one famous saying. But the same principle really doesn’t apply to medicine. But tell that to the people who are landing themselves in hospitals with an imaginative cure for COVID-19. They’ve started popping pills that are intended for de-worming livestock. The drug in question is called ivermectin. It’s a …
There’s been a surge in renewed interest in UFOs lately. That’s not in small part thanks to the Pentagon releasing a long-anticipated UFO report in June and the weird appearing and disappearing monoliths at the end of last year. All this just begs the question — how often do people actually spot UFOs? And when’s …
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On the surface, there’s nothing special about Trasmoz. But then again, what would you expect about a tiny, 96-resident town in northern Spain. Sure, there’s the ruined castle of Castillo de Trasmoz, but that can’t explain the crowds of tourists flocking to the village. There are, after all, dozens if not hundreds similar castles in …
Continue reading “The Spanish Witch Town that Turned Church Excommunication into a Tourist Draw”
There’s a whole bunch of fatally venomous animals living somewhere in the wilds. Among the most toxic of them are sea snakes. In case you didn’t know, sea snakes are snakes (oh really?) that breathe air and spend their entire lives in the ocean. And open water really isn’t the kind of place where you …
Continue reading “Sea Snakes Don’t Attack People Because They’re Angry — They’re Just Horny”
We just love to compete. With the Tokyo Olympics having concluded recently, you might be looking for the next big competition to follow. If you are, and want to take a break from sports, we have just the event for you. The 2021 America’s Best Restroom contest is about to finish this week. The 10 …
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