Want a hippopotamus for Christmas? Might wanna think again. A region of Colombia is figuring that out the hard way. Pablo Escobar, the notorious cocaine drug lord, was shot dead in 1993. The government took control of his huge estate, including hundreds of exotic animals. But somehow, the hippos were missed. Escobar housed 4 hippos …
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Philip K. Dick wrote Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep. Which spawned the loose adaptation Blade Runner. In turn, he launched the Cyberpunk genre of a dystopian future. I wonder if he ever considered this might be the reality so soon. Japanese company Cyber Agent in collaboration with tech giant Sharp has developed tiny robots …
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Celebrities do some really strange things in the name of health and beauty. They stick things in places things weren’t meant to be stuck. They use creams made from the cells of parts of bodies don’t sound like they should be rubbed into your face. But twins Tia and Tamera Mowry have taken a …
Rodeos have some people up in arms, but it had these two cowboys up in the air. This bull flipped two people and charged a third on Saturday night as if it were playing “cowboy pinball.” An event dubbed Bull Bash featured players standing in designated spots on the rodeo ring as a loose bull …
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Now this is odd news, but amazing news, too! Someone making tons of money wants to try and help save the earth by buying land up, so that it cannot be cut down. #win Tim Sweeney is known for founding the video and 3-D software company Epic Games in the 1990s. From there we got …
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What the heck is wrong with people? Sometimes, you just have to ask yourself that question. In this case, a man smashed in a NYC lingerie store window just so that he could destroy an Obama mannequin Rewell Altunaga, 41, was arrested on January 26th after a surveillance video allegedly showed him breaking into the …
If you’re known as the “Dine and Dash Dater,” it probably hasn’t helped your dating life any. At least that was the case for this guy. Paul Guadalupe Gonzales, 45, pleasded no contest when he was charged with three counts of defrauding an innkeeper by non-payment and one count of petty theft in November. The …
It’s a tale as old as time. You log into an app on your phone. To put it in all the right data, all the information someone would need to match. You wait anxiously for that notification ding with bated breath. You start to wonder if it will ever happen. Maybe it just wasn’t meant …
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We’ve brought you people who are in love with their blankets, airplanes, and even a pirate ghost. But taking it just one step further on the creepy scale is Felicity Kadlec, who has fallen in love, publicly declared this love, and in fact, even married her childhood zombie doll. Let me go by that …
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Does your ex bug you? Do they keep coming back, over and over again like an impossibly hard to kill cockroach? Do you wish you could feed them to a mob of hungry animals but don’t want to go to prison for murder? You’re in luck. The El Paso Zoo is holding an event where …
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