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In this video, a cat protects its human subjects from two seemingly hungry alligators. One gets the distinct impression that the cat in question thinks that it is half mountain lion or something, but whatever it thinks, its mind game with the gators appears to work....
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James Blunt had a hand in preventing a major international incident that might have escalated into World War III and it wasn’t because he bored everyone to sleep with one of his saccharine-sweet melodies. Most people who are familiar with Blunt know that the British artist was in the...
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The computer pictured here is one of the 200 original Apple-1 computers built by Steve Jobs in his parents’ garage in 1976. It was the first personal computer that could be purchased fully assembled. With its 8K of memory, 1.0 MHz MOS 6502 processor and cassette type read-write interface,...
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There are no artificial scents involved in these bacon-scented candles. They are all handmade from rendered bacon fat, so the delicious smell that they produce is all real. If a better way of reminding a vegetarian what they are missing exists, I’d like to hear it. Bacon-scented candles made...
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If you want to see a perfect example of how not to bring down a 275-foot concrete smokestack, look no further than this video of a botched demolition job at the Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant in Springfield, Ohio. From what we can see, the explosives failed to...
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Ear piercing is not normally something that is considered dangerous, but it can be, just ask 15-year-old Grace Etherington. Grace developed a rare auto-immune disorder called Guillain-Barré syndrome when her ear became infected after it had been pierced a few days earlier. The first indication that something was wrong...
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A KCBS helicopter near Catalina Island (about 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles) captured some potentially ominous footage – a missile contrail. As of yet, nobody can state what the missile was or where it came from. The North American Aerospace Defense Command confirmed the existence of...
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In order to explore the significance of caloric-reduction as opposed to nutrition in weight-loss, Kansas State University human nutrition professor Mark Haub undertook an interesting challenge – he ate nothing but sugary snacks and Doritos for two months. He reported some interesting findings. For the two-month duration of his...
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The British General Medical Council heard yesterday that a doctor threatened to kill a speed camera operator through the poor practice of medicine. Those present at David Heal’s misconduct hearing heard that he pulled over his Porsche to confront the speed camera operator and knocked his hand when he...