France, Despite Coronavirus Concerns, Breaks Smurf Gathering Record
Code Blue! We have a strange story about thousands of people who dressed as smurfs and gathered in a tiny French village despite the risk of spreading COVID-19.
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Pig Poops Pedometer, Ignites Fire
Pigs are often viewed through food-colored glasses, but they're more than just the other white meat. Sweet, loyal, and with remarkably human-like intelligence, they make great pets. And when danger strikes, pigs go ham, protecting people they care about from becoming the other dead meat.
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A Weird 'Hypernucleus' Confirms Universal Supersymmetry
Even the strange world of subatomic particles isn't above the aesthetic allure of symmetry.
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The Reason Opening An Umbrella Indoors Is Considered Bad Luck
Umbrellas. They just kind of go with the word "dapper." Occasionally, umbrellas get repurposed, but for some reason, society has long held the opinion that opening one indoors is bad luck. Why?
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Why Is It Called The Dragon's Triangle?
There's no doubt most people have heard of the Bermuda Triangle, that deadly swath of sea in the Caribbean known for the ships and planes that have vanished there without a trace. But it's not the only oceanic area known for strange disappearances. There's also the Devil's Triangle.
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The Real Reason Steve Perry Is Getting Paid Not To Sing For Journey
Life is a journey, not a destination. But the band Journey always seemed destined to succeed with Steve Perry at the helm. Until they started paying him not to sing...
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The Bizarre Life Of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
What goes into the wild life of a microblogging kingpin and serial entrepreneur? If you're Twitter's Jack Dorsey, those fast times include dating supermodels, chastising presidents and limiting yourself to one meal per day.
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The Truth About The Happy Face Killer
Melissa Moore always sensed that there was something off about her father, Keith Jesperson. Now we know just how off he was.
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The Dangerous Truth Of Jacob's Well
Located in Hays County, Texas, is a submerged sinkhole fed by a natural spring known as Jacob's Well. Things look bucolic on the surface, but if you dive deep into the sinkhole, you'll find an underwater cave system whose siren song has led multiple divers to their deaths.
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New, Uncharted Island Discovered In Antarctica
In late February, 2020, a group of researchers with the international Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research project stumbled upon the discovery when they were sailing near the Pine Island Glacier's ice shelf.
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Pita Taufatofua: The Untold Truth Of The 'Shirtless Tongan'
Looks like there's about to be a run on coconut oil in Tokyo. The famed "shirtless Tongan" from 2018 is heading back to the Olympics for the third straight cycle, and we can only assume his recent qualification includes plans to lube up and wave that Tongan flag.
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Scientists Claim To Discover Extraterrestrial Protein In Meteorite
Turns out, scientists don't even have to go into outer space to search for extraterrestrial life. Sometimes outer space just comes to them in the form of meteorites.
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The Untold Truth Of The Birdman Of Alcatraz
"Alcatraz," said Thomas E. Gaddis, was the federal prison "with a name like the blare of a trombone ... a black molar in the jawbone of the nation's prison system." And he should know, because he's the author who gave us the 1955 book The Birdman of Alcatraz.
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Naomi Seibt: The Truth About The Anti-Greta Thunberg
For every activist there is an equal and opposite re-activist. In the case of Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, that opposite is 19-year-old German Naomi Seibt.
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The Untold Truth Of Jackie, The Baboon Who Fought In WWI
In World War I, the 3rd South African Infantry Regiment's had an iconic member: Jackie, the lovable Chacma baboon who witnessed more trench warfare savagery than the snowflake, iPhone-loving primates of today could ever fathom. This is the untold truth of Jackie, the baboon who fought in WWI.
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Why Are One Way Flights So Expensive?
Sinatra invited us to come fly with him, back in the '50s, and later asked us to fly him to the moon. Were those round-trip tickets? He never said. Maybe we assumed he could afford one-way fares, because one-way fares are more expensive than round trips, right?
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The Most Expensive Sneakers Ever Sold
Decent shoes can set you back a pretty penny, but in June 2019, one collector shelled out a whole lot of cash to buy the most expensive sneakers ever sold.
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The Bizarre History Of Goldfish Swallowing
Young people have always enjoyed pulling crazy stunts, and that’s definitely true for college students back in 1939, who were all about swallowing live goldfish.
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China Considered Enlisting 100,000 Ducks In War On Locusts
Apocalyptic locust swarms aren't just a plague from biblical antiquity. NPR writes that in 2020, the already poverty-plagued Horn of Africa is under assault from swarms three times the size of New York City. Nothing can stop them... except ducks?
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What Causes Manholes To Explode?
New York City sees an average of six manhole explosions a day, and they are doozies. What causes this cartoon-like phenomena to take place?
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The Truth About Ranked-Choice Voting
An alternative voting method has been making huge strides in the past few years, which combines the benefits of caucuses and traditional voting in one bright, shiny package: it's called ranked-choice voting. Here's how it works.
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The Untold Truth Of The Real Spartacus
"I am Spartacus." It's a rallying cry to this day, people together for a common cause, acting as one. But whether or not the moment actually happened in history, we're still asking: Who was Spartacus?
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The Bizarre Truth About The All-Beer Lent Diet
For Catholics, fasting during the Lenten season (Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday) is a way to practice spiritual discipline and penance leading up to their holiest day of the year. In 17th century Bavaria, however, some very clever monks spent their Lent living off of nothing but beer.
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The Untold Truth Of Bruce Lee's Final Film
Just one month before the release of Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee died in Hong Kong, where he had been working on what was his final, uncompleted film, Game of Death. But it was never fully realized.
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Jif Peanut Butter Teams Up With GIPHY To Settle Pronunciation Debate
The J.M. Smucker Company, manufacturers of Jif peanut butter, have teamed up with popular GIF database Giphy to produce limited edition peanut butter jars that may settle the pronunciation debate.
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Weird Things About Pocahontas You Didn't Know
Pretty much everyone who grew up in the '90s knows who Pocahontas is. Disney Princess, love interest of the great explorer John Smith, Native American nobility. Yes, Disney taught us many things about the Powhatan heroine, and they're all wrong. Mostly. Here's the truth about Pocahontas.
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Bizarre Coincidences Of Events Happening On The Same Day
Sometimes, coincidences just kind of ... happen, and don't really mean anything. Other times, they might be signs of a vast global conspiracy, a magic spell, or extraterrestrial surveillance, depending on who sees them. These bizarre coincidences all happened on the same date.
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