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22 Cars Were Dropped Into the Ocean to Serve as Man-Made Coral Reefs

Climate change and pollution are tag-teaming to destroy natural coral reefs that clean our oceans and house thousands of sea creatures. Since climate...

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U.S. Woman Shot and Killed an Escaped Lab Monkey to ‘Protect Her Children’

Remember those monkeys from last week? The lab monkeys that escaped a crashed truck that, for a moment, everyone thought were riddled with disease? A...

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Cyclist Trapped in a 130-Foot Ravine for 3 Days Survived on Wine

In the mountains of southern France, a 77-year-old cyclist recently proved that when all else fails, red wine will always be there for you. On his way...

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Doctors Cured Man’s Chronic Nosebleeds by Pulling a Leech Out of His Nose

A 38-year-old man in China who spent ten days wondering why his nose wouldn’t stop bleeding got an answer that he more than likely did not want to...

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It’s Never Been a Better Time to Be a Paranoid Conspiracy Theorist

The United States is currently in the midst of a grand experiment: what happens if we give the cranks, the maniacs, the grifters, the late-night AM...

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AI Chatbots Give You Better Answers When You’re Mean to Them

According to a new Penn State study, you might get better results from ChatGPT if you talk to it like a a—hole boss instead of a friendly coworker....

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Woman Ordered Medicine by Mail, Got a Box of Human Fingers Instead

A woman in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, was waiting for a shipment of medicine and medical supplies. When it finally arrived, she ripped the box open and...

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This Lock Company Tried Suing a Guy for Picking Its Lock. It Backfired.

Florida-based lockmaker Proven Industries posted a video online bragging that its $130 trailer lock could survive anything. YouTuber and former Marine...

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Terminator Got the AI Takeover Wrong, But That Doesn’t Make Me Feel Better

When James Cameron released The Terminator in 1984, it was generally received as a fun, thrilling popcorn flick. Now that artificial intelligence is...

31.10.2025 2

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Brown Rats Filmed Snatching Bats Out of the Air Before Eating Them

It’s been a wild week for bat news. First, we learned that some European giant bats eat birds in mid-air, but not before brutally tearing their...

31.10.2025 3

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Singles Are Swapping Cuffing Season for ‘Hallowmances’

Forget Valentine’s Day—for many daters, Halloween is arguably one of the most romantic holidays. In fact, to describe the love found during this...

31.10.2025 10

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This Freaky Worm Can Clone Itself—and Sometimes Grows 2 Heads

Scientists studying Stenostomum brevipharyngium, a millimeter-long flatworm that reproduces asexually, found that it sometimes totally botches its own...

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Sitting All the Time Is Really Bad for You. Cocoa Can Help.

Sitting is the grand villain of the modern day. It’s the arch nemesis whose enchanting siren song must be ignored unless we want to have an early...

30.10.2025 3

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‘Aggressive’ Lab Monkeys Escaped From a Truck Crash—Are They Actually Diseased?

A truck carrying research monkeys recently flipped on a Mississippi interstate. Crates busted open, and the primates inside fled, scattering into the...

30.10.2025 3

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Hurricane Melissa Is So Powerful, Hurricane Hunter Planes Had To Turn Back

Hurricane Melissa, which slammed into Jamaica as a category five storm, was so powerful that it made the Air Force reserves “Hurricane...

30.10.2025 2

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Scientists Built a Computer Out of Shiitake Mushrooms—and It Works

Scientists have just built working computer components out of shiitake mushrooms. No word yet on whether the computer can be sautéed with some butter...

30.10.2025 2

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Did Nuclear Testing Cause These Mysterious Lights in the Sky?

In the late 1940s, as humans were busy inventing new ways to annihilate ourselves with nuclear weapons, we started noticing that all of our fiddling...

30.10.2025 3

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It Rains on the Sun, and Now We Know How (and Why)

It sounds odd, but it’s true: it rains on the sun. It rains two million-degree plasma. This solar rain falls in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the...

30.10.2025 3

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What’s Up With Those Blue Dogs in Chernobyl?

A pack of blue-furred dogs has been spotted at Chernobyl, the infamous site of a 1986 nuclear meltdown. Pictures of the blue dogs started spreading...

29.10.2025 2

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This AI Chatbot Minister Just Announced It’s ‘Pregnant’. Seriously.

You probably don’t pay much attention to Albanian political news, so let me give you a quick summation of what’s going on over there. The Albanian...

29.10.2025 1

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A 17 Year Comet Is Firing Off Radio Signals. What Does That Mean?

3I/ATLAS may be the current figurative star of the skies at the moment, as researchers debate whether it’s just a bizarre comment or something...

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Robotic Nike Shoes Are Here to Make Runners Feel Like Cyborgs

Nike has officially entered its cyborg era. On Thursday, the company revealed Project Amplify, a sneaker so advanced that it’s really more of a...

29.10.2025 2

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Getting Your COVID Shot Could Protect You From Cancer

COVID was a cataclysmic force that disrupted our lives, killed millions, and contributed to students today not knowing how to read. But, on the bright...

29.10.2025 2

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These North American Bat Species Glow in the Dark

A team of researchers from the University of Georgia, who published their findings in the journal Ecology & Evolution, found that some North...

28.10.2025 1

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New Jersey Cop Charged After Getting Pizza Instead of Investigating a Murder

In Franklin Township, New Jersey, a police sergeant allegedly prioritized his rumbly tumbly over preventing a double murder that also had a police...

28.10.2025 1

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A Deaf Woman Survived Being Hit by a Plane While Walking Her Dog

A woman was walking her dog last Tuesday afternoon in Long Beach when a man flying his homemade airplane dropped out of the sky and slammed into her....

28.10.2025 3

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Tesla’s ‘Mad Max’ Mode Is Being Investigated by the Feds. Here’s Why.

Earlier this month, Tesla decided that what the world really needed was cars that drive so recklessly you’ll swear there’s a hidden camera crew...

28.10.2025 2

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Suspects Arrested Over Louvre Crown Jewels Heist

It took less than ten minutes for four people in work vests to pull off what sounds like a daring theft that would have been one of the Ocean’s...

27.10.2025 3

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Do 3I/ATLAS’ Recent Movements Confirm It’s an Alien Spaceship?

Our old friend 3I/ATLAS is up to some odd stuff once again. For those unaware, 3I/ATLAS is either a comet that behaves in ways we’re not used to...

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This Company Wants To Turn the Night Sky Into a Giant Solar Panel

By 2030, a California startup called Reflect Orbital wants to fill the night sky with 4,000 orbiting mirrors that bounce sunlight back to Earth. The...

27.10.2025 10

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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why That $1,000 Poop Coffee Actually Tastes Good

Right now, deep in the forests of South Asia, a small creature known as the Asian palm civet is pooping out what might be the most expensive cup of...

27.10.2025 8

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Elon Musk Says He Wants ‘Strong Influence’ Over the Robot Army He’s Creating

During Tesla’s third-quarter earnings call, Elon Musk once again reminded everyone that his endgame is to become a comic book supervillain. Musk...

27.10.2025 10

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A Nuclear Plant Worker Fell Into a Reactor Pool—and Somehow Survived

Your job might suck, but at least you don’t run the risk of falling into a nuclear reactor cavity. As reported by MLive, on Tuesday morning at the...

25.10.2025 3

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Teen Loses Part of Intestine After Swallowing 200 Magnets

A 13-year-old in New Zealand recently swallowed nearly 200 high-powered neodymium magnets. Unsurprisingly, he didn’t accidentally stumble upon a new...

25.10.2025 3

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What’s a Pornstar Pokémon Card and Why Was Luigi Mangione Talking About Them?

Before Luigi Mangione became a sex symbol after being accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan on December 4, 2024, he...

24.10.2025 5

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Snake Pee Might Hold the Secret to Curing Gout

If you’ve ever been unlucky enough to clean up after a snake, you might’ve noticed that they don’t exactly pee like we do. Instead of liquid...

23.10.2025 4

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Butt Breathing Could Be a Life Saver for People With Lung Disease

Back in September 2024, I wrote about a team of Japanese researchers who were using their brilliance to answer the most pressing question of the...

23.10.2025 2

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Dark Matter May Be Doing Something Strange in the Center of the Galaxy

For over a decade, astronomers have been staring into the center of the Milky Way and seeing something weird: a ghostly gamma-ray glow that...

23.10.2025 2

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Amazon Plans to Replace Over 600,000 Jobs With Robots by 2033

By now, every person in America should know that, in the perfect corporate world that the wealthiest Americans are trying to create, the average...

22.10.2025 4

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Pilot Injured After Mystery Object From ‘Space’ Smashes Into Commercial Plane

On October 16, United Airlines Flight 1093, a Boeing 737 Max 8, was cruising at 30,000 feet on the way to Los Angeles from Denver when it was struck...

22.10.2025 3

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Florida Man Goes on Naked Destruction Spree in Local Neighborhood

Last week, a naked Florida man named Joshua Neal Garrison went on a nude rampage through a neighborhood in Pinellas Park, Florida, which is located in...

22.10.2025 4

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Young People Can’t Sleep Without Getting High

If you count yourself among the many who feel like they can’t get to sleep without getting high first, you’re not alone. According to a new study...

21.10.2025 3

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The Met’s Ancient Egyptian Fertility God Statue Is Going Viral—for Exactly the Reason You Think

The description of the new “Divine Egypt” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art lets me know that this exploration of the most mythologically...

21.10.2025 10

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Weirdo Comet 3I/ATLAS Grew a Tail That Points Toward the Sun

3I/ATLAS, the (possibly) normal comet that could also (maybe) be aliens from deep space, is pumping out gas and dust as it melts in the sunlight....

21.10.2025 5

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Miami Is Making Robocop Real With a Self-Driving, Drone-Launching Cop Car

There is no better summation of the Miami of today than an AI-powered “autonomous” police car. You may not be aware, but Miami has convinced...

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Inside the Wild World of the Lego Black Market

The Santa Rosa Police Department raided a house in Lake County, California, this past week. The house was not filled with drugs, weapons, or humans...

21.10.2025 9

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Beware The ‘AI Homeless Man’ Trend

Creating an AI slot video is tasteless enough. But then the internet denizens convened in secret to devise a use for this technology that lowers the...

21.10.2025 8

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Pickleball Is Exploding in Popularity—and Wrecking Players’ Faces

Pickleball is like if you played ping-pong on the table itself. I realize I just described tennis but I feel like my description is actually quite...

20.10.2025 2

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Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards at an Alarming Rate

Sea otters are adorable surfboard thieves swarming Santa Cruz’s surf scene with their fuzzy, sticky little fingers. And it’s not the first time,...

20.10.2025 3

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The Louvre Jewel Heist Sounds Like a Bad Movie Plot Made Real

A gang of jewel thieves pulled off one of the boldest museum robberies in recent memory. It’s something out of a heist movie, and one that isn’t...

20.10.2025 5

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