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This Gmail Clone Lets You Log In as Jeffrey Epstein and Read His Emails

For as much as corporations and the swarms of AI bots have taken over the internet, there are still small pockets controlled by humans that are...

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Moss Just Survived a Full Year Outside the International Space Station

Moss can grow pretty much anywhere, whether it be in the freezing Arctic or in the midst of hellishly hot volcanic heat. But there’s one environment...

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Modern Life Is Too Stressful And Human Evolution Is Struggling To Keep Up

Welp, turns out life is definitely not all glitter and rainbows. A new study out of the University of Zurich, published in Biological Reviews,...

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Scientists Say Your Pet Might Actually Be Neurodivergent

If you’ve ever been fortunate enough to have a goofy little pet whose behavior sometimes makes you wonder if they have been afflicted with ADHD just...

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Dinosaur Puke Reveals New Flying Reptile Species

Try to wrap your head around this concept: imagine eating something that upset your tummy so badly that you ended up puking it up. And then,...

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Urban Raccoons Show Early Signs of Domestication

The only thing keeping most of us from owning a raccoon is their reputation for being insane, rabid freaks. Other than that, they look tailor-made for...

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Scientists Say Sea Urchins Are Basically Brains With Spikes

If you’ve ever stared at one of the ocean’s more bizarre creatures, like, say, a sea urchin, and wondered where it keeps its brain, and what its...

22.11.2025 10

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Munich’s Iconic Surf Wave Vanishes After Cleanup Mishap

When you imagine surfing, you probably imagine tanned, bleached blonde dudes catching waves in California or in some exotic tropical setting. You...

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Hawaii Just Got Snow Before Denver or Boston

This week, the summit of Maunakea, Hawaii’s nearly 14,000-foot volcano that looms over the Big Island, was coated in fresh snow. In November. Before...

22.11.2025 3

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Wealthy California Town Could Be First in State To Ban Pickleball

As pickleball fever swept the nation, patience with the game’s obnoxious, unceasing sounds quickly wore thin. Communities soon found themselves in...

22.11.2025 3

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NASA Releases Fresh Pics of Weirdo Comet 3I/ATLAS Taken From Multiple Planets

We live in a wondrous age. The notoriously weird comet 3I/ATLAS, which has captured people’s imagination as some astrophysicists out there think it...

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Getting High Makes You Drink Less? Science Says Yes

Researchers at Brown University built a full-on fake bar, stocked it with participants’ favorite booze…and then handed out joints. I assure you,...

21.11.2025 5

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Archaeologists Found a 12,000-Year-Old Figurine of a Woman Hooking Up With a Goose

It’s always fun when archaeologists uncover a horny, mildly disturbing bit of ancient history. In today’s case, it’s a little bit of mythology...

21.11.2025 8

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Ancient Apes May Have Invented Kissing

Planting a big wet smooch on someone you love didn’t start with us. Well, technically it did, just not the version of us around today. According to...

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Wild Wolves Might Be Using Tools Now

The Heiltsuk Nation has been waging an eternal war against an invasive European green crab menace. They set traps to ensnare these little invaders in...

20.11.2025 3

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Dubai Café Just Launched the Most Expensive Cup of Coffee Ever

Coffee is already expensive enough as it is. But Dubai, in its relentless pursuit of gaudy, tasteless tackiness, has somehow turned the mostly...

20.11.2025 4

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10-Year-Old Boy Drives Family Car Home After Argument With Mom

Police in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, say a 10-year-old boy “stole” the family car and drove himself home from elementary school after an argument with...

19.11.2025 20

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Ontario Man Steals Bus, Finishes the Route Anyway

A 36-year-old man in Hamilton, Ontario, stole a city bus and then proceeded to drive it exactly the way you’re supposed to. He continued making...

19.11.2025 3

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A New Study Could Explain Why Long COVID Lingers for So Many

Scientists studying the long-term effects of COVID-19 may have finally found an explanation for the long-lasting effects like brain fog and exhaustion...

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Dog Accidentally Shoots Man, Which Happens More Often Than You’d Think

A Pennsylvania man is recovering in the hospital this week after joining the ever-growing list of people who have been shot by dogs. According to...

18.11.2025 7

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Scientists Just Built an AI That Can Basically Read Your Mind

We are rapidly barreling toward a world where mind-reading will be real. But it won’t be people with Professor X-like telepathy, holding two fingers...

14.11.2025 7

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Nighttime Light Pollution Might Be Doing Serious Damage to Your Heart, Study Finds

The modern world is a 24/7 sensory overload. This could be especially bothersome at night, when we need the utmost darkness to fall asleep and stay in...

14.11.2025 10

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Here’s Why the ‘Freshman 15’ Happens, According to Science

If you packed on the infamous “freshman 15” in college, a new study from George Mason University reveals that you weren’t doing it alone. You...

14.11.2025 20

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Turns Out TikTok Before Bed Might Not Be Wrecking Your Sleep After All

Growing up, science couldn’t agree if eggs were good for you or if they were a direct ticket to the afterlife. One study would claim they were they...

14.11.2025 6

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Scientists Finally Figured Out Why Chameleons’ Eyes Look Like That

Let’s be honest, chameleons have weird eyes. They can dart in any direction, unlike most animal eyes, and they’re just odd to look at. The reason...

13.11.2025 4

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The Universe Might Be Slowing Down. What Does That Mean?

It’s a common refrain in the scientific community. The universe is expanding and accelerating. A study from Yonsei University suggests that the...

12.11.2025 5

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Did Mysterious Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Explode?

Ah, yeah, so, you know that comet we’ve all been thinking is either 100 percent for sure aliens or maybe just a slightly more interesting space...

12.11.2025 4

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The Universe Is Officially Past Its Prime, According to Astronomers

Earlier this year, the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope began sending home tons of data from billions of light-years away. Astronomers...

11.11.2025 2

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Lourve ‘Fedora Man’ Revealed to Be Teenage Detective Enthusiast

In the aftermath of the Louvre’s crown jewel heist, the internet became obsessed with a well-dressed mystery boy in a fedora standing outside the...

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Rapper Drops New Song the Same Day He’s Named ‘Person of Interest’ in Death of OnlyFans Model

Namewee, a controversial rapper from Malaysia, has been remanded into police custody over the death of Taiwanese OnlyFans model Iris Hsieh. The post...

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Man Digging Backyard Pool Finds $800,000 in Gold

Home renovations are usually a money sink. It’s not often that you end up profiting from one, let alone before it’s even truly begun. That’s...

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Auburn University Accidentally Sent Every Emergency Alert Imaginable All at Once

Auburn University’s alert system went bonkers. Students and faculty must have thought the world was ending as they were hit with three separate...

10.11.2025 1

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Purdue’s Famous Peanut Butter Man Was Actually Covered in Sunflower Butter

The news has been a bit chaotic lately. And depressing. And disheartening. Life is miserable. Anyway, you may not have even been paying attention to...

10.11.2025 3

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Could This Be the Secret Weapon Against Hair Loss? Scientists Think So.

For centuries, mankind—particularly the “man” part of the word—has been fighting a losing battle against hair loss. Well, it seems like the...

09.11.2025 6

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Father and Son Killed After Getting Stung by Over 100 Hornets While Ziplining

A father and son’s vacation in Southeast Asia ended tragically last month when they were fatally attacked by a swarm of giant hornets during a...

07.11.2025 7

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Japan Just Deployed Troops to Deal With a Surge in Bear Attacks

Japan is at war. Not literally. But kind of. Japan has essentially declared war on bears, Reuters reports. On Wednesday, the country’s Self-Defense...

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Lake Tahoe Billionaires Might Be Drinking Poop Water

Incline Village, an area of Lake Tahoe filled with extremely conservative billionaires, is drowning in poop. As reported by SFGate, the village has a...

06.11.2025 1

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Meta Says the 2,400 ‘Adult Movies’ They Torrented Were for Personal Use, Not Training AI

Two adult entertainment companies say Meta’s appetite for information has gotten a little kinky. Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media have filed...

06.11.2025 5

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This Volcanic Crater in the Sahara Looks Like a Giant Skull

Halloween may be over, but high in the desolate heart of the Sahara Desert, nature has provided us with one last naturally occurring spook in the form...

05.11.2025 3

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France Says It Will Ban Shein Over Sales of ‘Childlike’ Sex Dolls

French authorities discovered that Chinese fast-fashion giant Shein was selling “childlike” sex dolls on its French site, and are now threatening...

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Louvre Heist Fallout Reveals Museum’s Video Security Password Was ‘Louvre’

You might’ve heard the Louvre, the most famous art museum on Earth, was robbed, and in a way that was riddled with cinematic clichés. Some suspects...

05.11.2025 3

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Skipping Breakfast Doesn’t Actually Make Your Brain Foggy, Study Finds

“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day!” was a lie. Or, at least, the scientific community is beginning to understand that maybe we...

05.11.2025 10

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Are We Living in a Simulation? This Study Has Answers.

For years now, science fiction writers and Silicon Valley billionaires who want to seem really deep, man, have theorized that we’re all just NPCs in...

05.11.2025 4

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There’s a New Portuguese Man O’ War Species Named After a Samurai Warrior

In the cold waters off northeast Japan, a group of students found a Portuguese man o’ war. It shouldn’t have been there. It doesn’t make any...

05.11.2025 4

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Tourist Stole a Skull From a Cathedral 60 Years Ago—and Just Returned It

Do this news blogging stuff for long enough and you’ll notice patterns emerge. For instance, you think that someone receiving a delivery of a human...

05.11.2025 10

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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...

04.11.2025 2

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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...

04.11.2025 20

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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...

04.11.2025 20

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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...

04.11.2025 4

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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...

03.11.2025 4

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