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U.S. Adults Love Nicotine Pouches—and Can’t Keep Them Away From Their Babies

For the past several years, American toddlers have been accidentally poisoning themselves with nicotine pouches at an alarming rate. According to a...

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A Mom Posted a Video of Her Large Baby Online. The Internet Went Nuts.

Maci Mugele, a new mom just trying to live her life and post a cute video of her very healthy, huge 4-month-old son, Gunner. It quickly drew the ire...

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Do Dogs Actually Watch TV? Here’s Everything Science Knows.

According to a new study published in Scientific Reports, your dog’s temperament plays a significant role in how they interact with television. Led...

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Astronomers Just Caught a Glimpse of a Baby Planetary System Being Born

About 1,300 light-years away from Earth, a baby star named HOPS-315 is giving us a live glimpse of how solar systems are born. It’s offering us a...

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Your Loneliness Is Literally Killing You

In the most connected era in human history, people are dying of loneliness. Roughly 100 every hour, according to a grim new report from the World...

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Man Dead After Being Sucked Into MRI Machine While Wearing Metal Necklace

You’d think the world’s strongest magnet would inspire a little more respect. But somehow, people keep wandering into MRI rooms clad in metal. The...

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Mites Are Pooping on Your Eyes in Your Sleep

If you’re like me and you suffer from what seems to be year-round allergies, there might be something other than allergens attacking our eyes. It...

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The Squirting Cucumber Can Launch Its Seeds 40 Feet and 30 MPH

One of nature’s most inherently hypersexual plants, Ecballium elaterium, better known as the squirting cucumber, weaponizes its reproductive system....

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Three-Parent Babies Were Just Born in the U.K.

In a breakthrough that sounds like science fiction, eight babies in the UK have been born using DNA from three people. The babies are reportedly...

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The Internet Can’t Stop Laughing at the Cheating Couple From the Coldplay Concert

Some things in life are hilarious and disconcerting at the same time. Like when the CEO of a major tech firm is caught embracing his mistress, who is...

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Volcanic Eruptions Force Popular Icelandic Town To Evacuate. Again.

Poor Grindavik. This small Icelandic town has been assaulted with one volcanic eruption after another. Unfortunately, it is happening again. Early...

18.07.2025 6

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How a Fake Yeti Blood Oath Broke a Seminary in Denver

The Pillar, a journalistic outfit covering the world of Catholicism, recently published a wild story about a group of Denver-based seminarians that,...

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A Mysterious Blue Pool Just Appeared in Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park is home to a huge collection of bubbling geologic cauldrons, one of which boiled a bison alive in front of tourists earlier...

17.07.2025 8

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U.S. Civil War Reenactors Are Going Into Battle Against AI Data Centers

Once, cannon fire thundered across the fields of Manassas, Virginia, echoing through one of the bloodiest chapters in American history. Today, the...

17.07.2025 3

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Proposed Law Would Give Cognitive Fitness Tests to Elderly U.S. Lawmakers

A recent New York Times feature highlighted just how bad the age problem is in Congress. When this new Congress convened in January, almost 120 of its...

17.07.2025 4

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The Historic Grand Canyon Lodge Just Burned Down. Again.

The Grand Canyon Lodge, a crown jewel of America’s national park system and the North Rim’s only in-park lodging, has burned to the ground. Again....

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Now Includes a Pornographic Waifu Chatbot

Elon Musk, whose chatbot Grok recently went so far to the right that it became a full-on Hitler-loving Nazi that spouted blatant anti-Semitism, has...

16.07.2025 5

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Scientists Found a 24-Million-Year-Old Rhino Tooth. Here’s Why That’s a Really Big Deal.

A team of scientists from the University of Copenhagen says they’ve recovered ancient proteins from a 24-million-year-old rhinoceros tooth dug out...

16.07.2025 3

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Add Testosterone Booster to the List of Uses for Ozempic

It seems like Ozempic and its GLP-1 brethren Wegovy and Mounjaro are prescription Swiss Army knives that can do a little bit of everything, from...

16.07.2025 10

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‘Human Skin’ Teddy Bear Caused a Panic at a California Gas Station

If you happened to be cruising through Victorville, California, this past Sunday, you may have noticed a whole lot of cops gathered around a teddy...

16.07.2025 4

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Lonely Kids Are Giving Up on Real Friends for AI Chatbots

Silicon Valley is your kid’s new best friend. That is, if your kid is abnormally lonely and using an AI chatbot to fill the emotional void left by...

15.07.2025 4

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Farmer Bought 2 Water Buffalo at Auction. They Killed Him the Next Day.

45-year-old Brad McMichael bought two water buffaloes at auction. Those newly acquired water buffaloes fatally attacked him on his property just a day...

15.07.2025 3

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The Weather Is Giving You Migraines. Here’s How to Avoid That.

The weather suddenly shifts a little, from sunny to a little gloomy, and with it comes a gradual but steady throbbing in your head — a migraine....

15.07.2025 6

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Earth’s Airports Are Basically Lighthouses for Aliens

According to researchers from the University of Manchester, for several decades now, we may have been accidentally blasting directions into space that...

15.07.2025 10

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This Phone Case Imitates Human Skin So Well It Can Even Get Sunburns

Every time I pick up my phone, I wonder why I don’t encase it in human flesh for maximum grossness. Thankfully, someone out there thinks the way I...

15.07.2025 2

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Rare Pokémon Cards Worth Over $100K Stolen in Massachusetts

Pokémon cards have always been big ticket items, even back on the playground as kids when we demanded our fellow 9-year-olds up their offer for our...

15.07.2025 6

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Was the ‘Full Raw’ Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Actually Modified?

Imagine you’re handed 11 hours of supposedly untouched security camera footage that could clarify whether one of the most high-profile sex criminals...

14.07.2025 6

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Deepfake AI Applicants Are Stealing Jobs From You

One of the many reasons sending your application to a company is like tossing it directly into the garbage nowadays is that the job landscape has...

14.07.2025 4

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Woman’s Home Overrun With Hundreds of Unwanted Amazon Packages

For a whole year, a woman from San Jose, who goes by the pseudonym “Kay,” woke up every morning with her front porch overrun with giant packages...

14.07.2025 6

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Astronauts Could Soon Be Growing and Eating Moon Rice

If humanity wants to plant flags on the Moon, followed by research facilities, housing, neighborhoods, and then strip malls, we’re first going to...

14.07.2025 3

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Stop Calling Donald Trump a Clown, Beg Actual Clowns

Ever since Donald Trump first slouched his way down that escalator to announce his candidacy for president, what feels like 10,000 years ago now,...

12.07.2025 10

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People Are Losing Billions to Celebrity Romance Scammers

By the time Margaret checked into a hotel room to finally meet Kevin Costner—the Yellowstone star she thought had fallen in love with her...

12.07.2025 10

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Your Vape Pen Might Be Full of Lead

Yeah, yeah, we get it—cigarettes are bad. But the more we find out about the absurd chemical concoctions that people are vaping, the more we might...

12.07.2025 10

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Is This the End of Youth Sports?

Private equity firms ruin damn near every business they snatch up. That’s by design. It’s the entire point. They recently did it with Party City....

12.07.2025 10

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Someone Inserted Accurate Velociraptors Into ‘Jurassic Park’, and the Video Is Horrifying

Someone who really knows their way around the 3D rendering software Blender has produced a scientifically accurate version of the velociraptors from...

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Mice Bodies Can Make Their Own Ozempic Now. Are Humans Next?

Pharmaceutical GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy have thus far proven to help regulate blood sugar and curb appetites. They are helping people shed...

10.07.2025 3

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Pope Leo Blessed and Signed a Holographic Popplio Pokémon Card

There isn’t a whole lot of precedent for how valuable a Pokémon card can be after it’s been blessed by the Pope. We’re about to find out now...

10.07.2025 3

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America’s Beaches Are Full of Poop and It Might Be Getting Worse

It’s not just New York City pools that are drowning in poop. According to a new report by Environment America’s Research & Policy Center, over 60...

10.07.2025 20

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The U.S. Is Having Its Worst Measles Outbreak in Over 30 Years

Back in the year 2000, the United States had done such a spectacular job of vaccinating against measles that it was essentially eradicated. What...

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot Is Making Antisemitic Comments on X

Elon Musk is once again back in the news following a controversy, this time centering around Grok, his AI chatbot. If you want to understand what’s...

10.07.2025 10

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RFK Jr. Is Making Americans ‘Healthy’—With Ultraprocessed Microwave Dinners

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is trying to take America back to a time when food ingredient lists didn’t read like a chemistry set. That’s what he says,...

10.07.2025 10

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TSA Is Changing the Rules at Airport Security

In a move that feels way overdue, the TSA has officially dropped one of its most hated post-9/11 rules: travelers no longer have to remove their shoes...

09.07.2025 2

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Please Stop Leaving Us Jars of Pee, Scottish Clinics Beg

A medical clinic in Fraserburgh, Scotland, has had enough. Locals have a nasty habit of just casually dropping off bags and jars of their own pee...

09.07.2025 3

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It’s About to Rain Flies in Texas, but Only to Stop the Flesh-Eating Maggots

The U.S. government is reviving an old Cold War-style tactic to combat a tiny but terrifying threat: the New World screwworm fly, a small tropical...

09.07.2025 10

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Jeffrey Epstein Had No ‘Client List’ After All, Says US Justice Department

After months of hyping up Jeffrey Epstein’s supposed “client list” and promising bombshell disclosures that would topple some of the most...

09.07.2025 7

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Are ‘Killer Bees’ Invading Georgia?

Africanized honeybees, more commonly known as “killer bees,” have been spotted in Barbour County, Alabama, and experts believe they might be...

09.07.2025 10

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Japan’s Tokara Islands Were Hit by 900 Earthquakes in 2 Weeks. Did a Manga Predict It?

Over the past two weeks, more than 900 earthquakes have rocked a remote island chain in southern Japan that’s home to about 700 people. The quakes...

08.07.2025 10

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People Are Taking Psychedelics and Using AI Chatbots as Tripsitters

You used to have to pay your dorm’s resident white guy with dreadlocks a wad of crumpled bills to be your psychedelic Sherpa. Now, even that guy’s...

08.07.2025 30

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Science Measures the Obvious: Guys Love Sex Dolls With Unrealistic Proportions

By now, we’ve all made peace with the fact that sex dolls exist and that some people are really into them. Like, all up in them silicone guts. What...

08.07.2025 10

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This Guy’s Throat Get Frostbite After Doing Whippets

Frostbite usually strikes the extremities. It doesn’t usually take over a person’s mouth and throat, unless that person, for some dumb reason,...

08.07.2025 7

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