I would do anything for love, sang Meatloaf, except that. He never told us what “that” is, but we can assume he was ready to go pretty far. A Mexican man called Alberto has clearly taken a page out of Meatloaf’s songbook, since he too went to some pretty absurd lengths for some loving. No, …
Anytime there’s a story about a small furry animal going after a person, the answer’s always rabies. What else would make a creature take on someone so much bigger who has opposable thumbs? This story out of Queens is a friendly reminder that victory against wild animals is never assured. A group of squirrels decided …
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What happens if you scare a small lizard? It’ll likely drop its tail to distract the supposed predator and run off. But as we all know, it doesn’t really hurt the lizard. Before too long, the reptile will have grown a brand new tail. It might look a bit funkier than the original, but it …
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The president issued a flurry of pardons around the holidays, raising some international eyebrows regarding their legality and morality. On the local level, some pardons just brought back memories of a simpler, pre-2020 time. Back when some people’s greatest aspiration was their very own reality TV show. Those heady pre-TikTok aughts, before you could parlay …
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The sun comes up during the day, and the moon – in one of its varying phases – replaces it at night. That’s just how things are and nothing will change that. Or so you might think. But around a thousand years ago, something quite unusual happened. There was no moon. Or if it was …
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You might think that fast food is a purely modern phenomenon. And it’s kind of true – quick meals that you can eat on the go have been constantly growing in popularity ever since the Industrial Revolution. But while burgers and sandwiches are undeniably modern inventions, fast food in itself isn’t. City dwellers throughout history …
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Let’s just say that 2020 is unlikely to go down in history as anyone’s favorite year. There’s just so much that has gone wrong this year that many people are counting hours until it’s all finally over. But hey, there’s only a few days left to go! There’s nothing that could possibly go wrong in …
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It was Monday morning when two Delta passengers exited the Atlanta bound plane via the slide while the plane was taxiing down a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport. A large service dog deplaned with them as well. Details about the dog have not surfaced yet but due to the pair’s charges, apparently the dog …
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A woman was raped and got pregnant, all while she was in Hacienda, a healthcare facility in Phoenix, Arizona. No one had any idea that she was pregnant and were stunned when she went into labor last week. Apparently, the patient started moaning and a nurse ended up delivering the baby, who came out a …
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“Do you have any gluten-free options?” has become a bit of a charged question in the past years. Granted, there is a small subset of the people asking it who have subscribed to a fad diet and can be kind of obnoxious about it. Despite that, there are people for whom eating gluten could cause …
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