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An infographic from Newsweek provides terrifying food for thought about the reality of life for Chile’s trapped miners. Imagine if everything that you needed to survive for the next two to three months had to be less than 3.19 inches in diameter. Imagine spending a quarter of a year...

A whale that is stranded and sick is set to leave this world a bang… of explosives that is. The Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation have decided that the unusual step is necessary because the 9.5m aquatic mammal is too big to shoot. When the time comes,...

Okay, this is not the first time that a guy stuck his hand into liquid nitrogen in front of a camera, but the use of high quality cameras and a clear container for the experiment make for some interesting visuals....

Something went wrong when a man went into a hospital in northern Italy for a routine unilateral orchiectomy (removal of one testicle) six years ago. A surgeon accidentally removed the 27-year-old  patient’s healthy right testicle, realized his mistake and then took out the left one as well – it...

It was reported recently that an emergency message was mistakenly activated on-board a British Airways 747, instructing passengers flying from London to Hong Kong to brace for a possible crash into the sea. It was attributed to Pilot error. According to The Sun, the 275 passengers on the British...

In the “Who got the most drunk?” contest, the guy who forgot being shot always wins. The hero of today’s story is an unnamed Polish resident of Herne in western Germany. When the 35-year-old man sought medical treatment for what he thought was a cyst, they discovered just how...

Police and SWAT teams were called into Fort Collins, Colorado to break up a group of approximately 400 rioters who had been attending a music and crafts festival. It has been reported that police were called to the New West Fest at around 1am after receiving three separate calls...

A Russian man was sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security prison after a fortune teller told him something that he didn’t want to hear. On October 8 of last year Gennady Osipovich met a Gypsy fortune teller who told him that he was headed for “kazyonny dom”,...

Of all the things that you might worry about your cellmate doing to you in prison, having him eat your glasses is probably not at the top of the list. It isn’t even something that you would think could happen, but it did – in a North Dakota prison...