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Lightning kills about 58 people a year.
These victims are usually those that are caught outside during thunderstorms. However, lightning has injured--and even killed--those who have been indoors. Lightning strikes into the ground near homes,...
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Google Rents Goats
This one isn’t actually one of Google’s infamous April Fools’ Day jokes: Google rents out goats. Yes you read that right. It rents goats from a company called California Grazing to help cut down the...
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Google Is Dog-Friendly
Google is a super dog-friendly company. It proudly names “company dogs,” like Yoshka (described as a “free-range Leonberger”) pictured above. Yoshka accompanies Urs Holzle, senior VP operations and...
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Apologize on Facebook or Go to Jail
Vent on Facebook today, go to jail tomorrow ... unless you apologize, that is.Cincinnati-based photographer Mark Byron discovered how what he wrote on Facebook came back to haunt him in an unusual...
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Ever wonder what the mystery to the Bermuda Triangle is? It’s not paranormal!
For over fifty years tourists have always been wary of the infamous Bermuda Triangle after dozens of planes and ships have mysteriously disappeared or crashed.Scientists were initially stumped by the...
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Having sex can reduce a fever because of the sweat produced.
Sex is also a pain reliever, ten times more effective than Valium: immediately before orgasm, levels of the hormone oxytocin rise by five times, determining a huge release of endorphins. These...
View ArticleThere are weird similarities between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.Both were...
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A pair of identical twins got away with a jewel heist because it couldn't be...
It was described as an almost perfect crime. In March 2009 identical twins got away with a jewel heist. It was almost perfect, because even though there was DNA evidence, it couldn’t be pinned to...
View ArticleThousands of people live in a Soviet-built city in the middle of the sea!
The city is in the middle of the Caspian Sea. It is the first and largest off shore oil town ever built. It was commissioned by Stalin in 1949. The city is a web of oil platforms and bridges...
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He Knows When You Are Sleeping
On Christmas Eve, the legend goes, Santa Claus travels the globe leaving presents for good little boys and girls, under their Christmas trees and in their ornamental fireplace-hung stockings. Bad...
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Is the Image of Jesus actually the image of Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia Jesus?This is a painting of Cesare Borgia, the man who influenced all European paintings, sculptures and carvings of Jesus. Many scholars believe the image of Jesus has been manipulated,...
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The first Earth song that Aliens will hear will be 'Across the Universe' by...
For the first time ever, NASA beamed a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4.The transmission over NASA's Deep Space Network commemorated the...
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Mount Rushmore was built on land that the US gave to Native Americans, then...
The creation of Mount Rushmore is a story of struggle -- and to some, desecration. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. For...
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Nokia Patents Vibrating Tattoos
A magnetic vibrating tattoo has to be one of the strangest patent applications in quite a while, but Finnish phone giant Nokia has filed a U.S. patent for just that.According to the patent application,...
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An Indiana State Prison lets murderers adopt cats in their cells.
Cats started the Indiana State Prison cat program. One by one, over the years, they arrived, entering the prison through the bars of the North Gate, depositing litters of kittens into the eager arms...
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Woman Accused of Dumping Mayo on Library Books
Idaho police believe they've nabbed Boise's messiest reader.Since May 2009, officials have been on the lookout for a person who has been smearing mustard, mayo and other barbecue staples on more than...
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Iceland is mostly green and grassy, while Greenland is mainly cold and icy.
Dear Straight Dope:I'm curious to know about one of the greatest marketing ploys in history, namely, did Iceland and Greenland at one time switch names to fool invaders? What did the people of old...
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Why Bilinguals Are Smarter..!!
SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism...
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The Youngest Mother Ever Was 5 Years Old!
Peruvian five-year-old Lina Medina, accompanied by her 11-month-old-son Gerardo, and Doctor Lozada who attended her son's birth, are shown in this 1940 file photo taken in Lima's hospital.When her...
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A river in Thailand randomly shoots red fireballs into the air. No one knows...
Weird things are happening some 70 - 100 kilometres downstream from the Vientiane - capital of Laos. In the nights from the muddy waters of Mekong river appear red glowing balls which quickly rise up...
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