It might be easy to think that UFO sightings are a modern phenomenon, born mostly after WWII. After all, that’s when we developed proper flying machines ourselves, and mass media grew to the point that potential UFO encounters could be reported worldwide. But the fact is that people have seen unexplainable things in the sky …
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If you can make money from it (or it’s an object weird enough to be interesting), people will try to smuggle it. Even Canada, the nicest place on Earth, isn’t immune to smuggling. Case in point, Canada’s border agency and fish and wildlife authorities recently stopped an illegal shipment of baby eels. It was quite …
A rare steak or a few pieces of sushi can be a real treat. But eating undercooked meat always carries with it the risk of catching something nasty. The family of our story found that out the hard way. Eight members of the family had gathered in South Dakota for a get-together. One of them …
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This is the end of the most googled things of 2023 and it’s the most googled recipes. It’s surprising that sourdough wasn’t on the list but it probably will be this year. Espeto When you look it up it’s called espetos or espetada which is basically grilled sardines. With sardines as the star of the …
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As you get older, you might find yourself getting irritated by the way the young’uns speak. That’s normal and most people simply grumble about it to themselves. Not William Barnes, though. This 19th-century poet and linguist from England hated that the English language was borrowing words from other languages. He set out on a campaign …
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Did you read Things To Know About Endangered Species In The United States? Because this is part two. Beluga Whale Beluga whales have a developed and acute sense of hearing and their auditory cortex is highly developed. They can swim 2 to 6 miles an hour but the fastest observed whale was at 17 miles …
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Crickets to the left of me, cicadas to the right — here I am, stuck in the middle with you. This could be Midwesterners’ theme song for the early summer of 2024. After all, they’re about to be crushed between two apocalyptic insect swarms. The one in the West has already emerged. Thousands upon thousands …
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Do you know about all the endangered species in our nation? There are more than 1,300 endangered and threatened species in the United States and these are some of them. Red Wolf Red wolves are known as shy and elusive but are considered top predators. Red wolves can only be found in the wild in …
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Did you know that Idaho has more than 2,000 lakes? Here are more Idaho facts for National Idaho day. The largest lake in Idaho is Lake Pend Oreille and is 180 square miles. The “center” of the state is the Settlement of Custer on the Yankee Fork River in Custer County. The population in 2010 …
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Sharks are fascinating, ancient creatures. Over the hundreds of millions of years they’ve existed, they often developed into incredibly strange forms. It’s not like bizarre sharks are all extinct, though. We’ve previously written about a few of them, but we couldn’t have possibly covered all of them in one article. So, we figured it might …
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