Here’s a big fish story to top anything your grandpa has told you: my catch was so dangerous that the army had to get involved. Yeah, right. What could you possibly fish up that warranted military intervention? Try a hand grenade. That is exactly what two schoolboys in southern Finland managed to pull up on …
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It’s a tale older than time. A guy loses someone he loves, keeps searching for them for many years, and just as he’s about to give up, the fates bring him back together with his lost love. A classic feel-good story. Only in this case, the lost love is an ice skate. We couldn’t make …
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How bad do you want off this planet right now? 2020 has become the year that 2012 threatened to be. Everything is uncertain and awful at the same time. If you’re having a chill year, keep it to yourself. For the rest of us, we can finally get off this godforsaken rock. For about six …
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Imagine you’re reading the morning newspaper and you hit the classifieds section. Or if you’re too modern for that, maybe you’re on Craigslist. Suddenly, you notice a strange ad. A Wild West town for sale, lightly used, comes with a saloon. Alright, that’s an exaggeration, but it’s not too far from reality. For the meager …
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People will do strange things for money, fame and recognition, from sticking toothpicks into their beard to piercing coconuts with one finger. Being pummeled in the face by the most wet sponges in one minute is definitely one of the more bizarre world records and until recently it stood at 76. Then along came a …
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What’s your least favorite smell in the world? Maybe it’s something strange, like raw tomatoes, or more typical, like skunk. In this story, the smell was so bad, evacuations were made and people even got a bit sick. Six workers ended up getting hospitalized and 60 workers had to evacuate. Twelve total postal workers received …
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A young and sleepy mountain lion was found napping in a planter along a normally busy street in downtown San Francisco Thursday. Before being released back into the wild, the lion spent time looking at its reflection in the glass of an office tower. It was two days that the lion spent roaming the streets …
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Have you been bemoaning the extra pounds you’ve put on while being in isolation during the coronavirus pandemic? I know I have. But that’s definitely not the situation for Alyssa Clark. Running a marathon – a long-distance race of 26 miles – is for many the ultimate goal in their quest for physical fitness. And …
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If you told someone that a cartoon character wrote you a letter, most people would wonder if you’d hit your head or something. If you then said that you sold the letter for an obscene amount of money, some might start calling the men in white coats. But as it usually goes with these things, …
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The Masaai Sightings channel on YouTube just resurrected a video from 2018 that went viral for a second time. It’s no wonder, given the title is “Still the dumbest tourist ever?” In the video, tourists film themselves in a Jeep in Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. A massive male lion looks for shade right outside the …
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